Brachland: Urban utopias in Weißensee
by brachland_projekt · Berlin · 6 stations · 35:11 min · 2.65 km · Walk
1. “Why am I here now anyway?” (Heinersdorfer Str. 58)
4:25 min · The journey begins at the overgrown space behind Brotfabrik, where the “Brache Zukunft” festival took place in 2021. Although there is hardly anyth...
201 m
2. “In the beginning, it was just a pile of rubbish here” (Langhanstraße 71)
3:20 min · The residents in the neighbourhood around the streets Heinersdorfer-, Jacobsohn-, and Langhansstraße decided not to wait until the official constru...
1159 m
3. “It seemed like this urban fantasy would last forever.” (Mirbachplatz)
6:24 min · One day, tiny houses and a yurt appeared next to the bombed-out church on Mirbachplatz. Who were these strangers? Zoja Landmana, who lives on the s...
821 m
4. “While we were building a wall in the yard, the other Wall fell” (Streustraße 44)
7:42 min · Artist and “King of Weißensee” Micha Koch leads us through an industrial wasteland and shares his story from the 90s, about how he and his friends ...
311 m
5. “We were attracted by the ruins of the bombed houses” (Lehderstraße 73)
6:27 min · In this telephone conversation, a former cabaret artist Arno Kiehl, one of the oldest residents of Weißensee, tells us how he had to rediscover the...
158 m
6. “Should empty spaces remain empty?” (Ostseestraße 25)
6:53 min · We go to an imaginary local pub on the border between Prenzlauer Berg and Weißensee. There we listen to the conversations of regular customers, who...
2. “In the beginning, it was just a pile of rubbish here” (Langhanstraße 71)
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“In the beginning, it was just a pile of rubbish here” (Langhanstraße 71)
The residents in the neighbourhood around the streets Heinersdorfer-, Jacobsohn-, and Langhansstraße decided not to wait until the official construction of a municipal playground close to their houses and joined forces with other neighbours to make an adventure playground here. The 10-year-old Nora Feldman shares her views on this utopian – yet real – place called HeiJaLa-Land, right at her doorstep.
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