here & now

Today Prenzlauer Berg is often referred to as the place where gentrification eradicated original local life, where and yoga studios wiped out the corner stores, where foreigners (or: simply Swabians) shut down night-life. 1990, in the legal dawn of the German reunification, East-German documentary maker Petra Tschörner investigated the old Prenzlauer Berg and asked how they feel about new time coming. It’s from a time when hardly anyone spoke English, so it’s in German only.

Petra Tschörner: Berlin – Prenzlauer Berg – Begegnungen zwischen dem 1. Mai und dem 1. Juli 1990, Dokumentarfilm von Petra Tschörtner, 75 Minuten, DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme GmbH