The fossil of the Jewish past in the middle of Mitte.
It is fashionable to rebuke, deny and rebuke again what has been done with the most commercial areas of mitte . And this reaction is best understood when entering the market for Rosen and Hackenschen Höfe and see how such a mythical patio has been plasticized and colored. In the 90s they sold them the motorcycle that it was going to be a space for the dialogue of art and others. Consequence? Starbucks to cascoporro. Fortunately, his neighbor Haus Schwarzenberg yes, it was preserved as such under the excuse that it was a fossil of the Jewish past of the neighborhood. The contrast is sudden and radical : from the shine to the chipped stone, from the aluminum to the wooden bench, graffiti walls, the narrow alleys, a place where a German businessman hid entire families of Jews in his factory and that today maintains all the flavor of the most artistic Berlin .
But how does the business area of Berlin stay underground? It all started with the transfer of this space (empty since the fall of the wall) to a group of artists in 1995, the 'Dead Chickens'. Today the artists' studios are still maintained, making the alley a kind of Berlin underground art factory with regular collaborations (and exhibitions) of international artists . Within this 'little' alley there is also an independent cinema, a bar and three museums: Anne-Frank Zentrum (a review of the history of the famous Jewish girl); Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt (in honor of the businessman who hid and helped Jewish families during World War II in his factory, installed in this place and where you can still visit the secret room where they hid); Gedenkstatte Stille Helden (the story of the local Jews who lived in the vicinity of Haus Schwarzenberg and who tried to help other Jews escape Nazism).
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Address: Rosenthaler Str. 39. Mitte. 10178 Berlin See map
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