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191MARCH 2020 | €3.90 | WHO OWNS BERLIN? RENT REVOLUTION TEMPELHOF DILEMMA CLUBSTERBEN Sharks, crime and big bucks: How the Mietendeckel came Building on the Feld is back Griessmuehle and KitKat welcome to the anonymous about and what it means on the table. Have Berliners are fighting for the survival property swamp. for you. changed their minds? of Berlin club culture. | 100% MADE IN BERLIN | PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER | | »An icon of Berlin nightlife »Absolutely perfect! »A GIGANTIC Hit! Bravo!!! Broadway World BERLIN’S MOST SUCCESSFUL GRAND SHOW EVER! ONLY UNTIL 11 JULY 2020.02_ET28.02_Exberliner_230x305mm.indd 1 11.02.20 16:16 CC-EXB.qxp_CC-115x305 claim 11.03.19 16:41 Seite 1 CONTENTS EXB191 March 2020 REGULARS SPECIAL — — 03 Real estate Political Notebook The CDU’s AfD undercurrent 08 Clärchens’ new boss 04 Yoram Roth reveals Best of Berlin his plans Power tool empowerment, moo-free protein and a 12 queer Wedding update Your business, our house Lefty house projects vs 49 real estate speculation Comic #Instabunnies have apartment 14 envy Gentrification on the dancefloor Griessmuehle and KitKat 50 are fighting for survival The Gay Berliner Jens Spahn and the crystal ceiling young 16 The Green knight 50 spontaneous of public housing Berlin Bites everywhere Florian Schmidt’s legacy The hype queens as city councillor of Reichenberger Straße 18 52 sit at the front for a year Who owns Berlin? The Berlinoscope opera and ballets for 10 EURO Meet the researcher unmasking What the stars hold for you concerts for 8 EURO the hidden profiteers this March all advantages for 15 EURO per year 21 Frozen! The Berlin rent revolution WHAT’S ON > 030-20 35 45 55 The story behind the Mietendeckel — and how it affects you Film 28 Deutsche Oper Berlin Music 32 Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin 24 Stage 36 Komische Oper Berlin An egalitarian estate Art 40 Konzerthaus Berlin Prenzlauer Berg’s RIAS Kammerchor World Heritage Site 44 Rundfunkchor Berlin Events calendar 26 Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin The Tempelhof dilemma 46 Staatsballett Berlin Urban nature vs The Berlin guide Staatsoper Unter den Linden affordable housing www.ClassicCard.de > for all under 30s EXBERLINER 191 1 EN Berliner Festspiele # maerzmusik # thelongnow ExBerliner 230 × 305 mm + 5 mm, 4c full page PSO Unocated v3 Fogra 52 300 dpi minimum Maerz The Long Bleed 5mm on all sides make sure all artwork extends to the full bleed full page: 230 x 305 30 Hours Kraftwerk Berlin — no crop marks Musik Now — no bleed marks Concerts, Installations, — no registration marks Festival Electronic Live-Acts — no color bars — no page information for — Please leave a safety margin of 3mm from the trim edge for type and logos Time Issues that are not meant to bleed 20.3. – 28.3. – 29.3.20 29.3.20 Éliane Radigue Les Percussions de Strasbourg Halim El-Dabh Orquesta Experimental Gérard Grisey de Instrumentos Nativos Younghi Pagh-Paan PHØNIX16 Marisol Jimenez Quatuor Bozzini Carlos Gutiérrez Quiroga Myriam Van Imschoot Mark Andre Iannis Xenakis Pierluigi Billone Phill Niblock Myriam Van Imschoot Cassandra Miller & and many more Juliet Fraser Ensemble Resonanz Ensemble Modern Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and many more Funded by Media partners The Long Now in cooperation with Media partner COLUMN— Political Notebook 191MARCH 2020 | €3.90 | WHO OWNS BERLIN? RENT REVOLUTION TEMPELHOF DILEMMA CLUBSTERBEN Sharks, crime and big bucks: How the Mietendeckel came Building on the Feld is back Griessmuehle and KitKat welcome to the anonymous about and what it means on the table. Have Berliners are fi ghting for the survival property swamp. for you. changed their minds? of Berlin club culture. The CDU’s AfD undercurrent Why the outrage over last month’s Thuringia election isn’t as comforting as it ought to be. | 100% MADE IN BERLIN | PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER | | U1 Cover 191.indd 1 24.02.20 03:15 ome things that happen just look im- vative politicians, like Markus Söder, head of Xenia Latii and René Blixer portant. Events crash into a stream of the CSU, agreed with Merkel with an unusual S mingling causes and consequences and passion. It felt like Germany’s conscience had Publishers make a noise that can’t be ignored. But the awoken, as if somewhere buried deep in their Martin Frank Nadja Vancauwenberghe stream is still there all the time anyway, and all weary bodies, politicians had finally located its many strands are impossible to tell apart, a backbone. But then older truths began to Editorial much less understand. Last month, Annegret filter out from the lower reaches of the party Editor-in-chief Music Kramp-Karrenbauer quit the leadership of the structure. People remembered that Söder has Nadja Vancauwenberghe Damien Cummings CDU because she couldn’t stop the Thuringia been aping the AfD’s policies and rhetoric in Deputy editor Art section of her party from voting Bavaria in an effort to stem its Franziska Helms Anna Larkin with the Alternative for Germany influence, for example. And others Web editor Stage (AfD) to install a centre-right-ish remembered that last September, Beth Cherryman Nicholas Potter candidate, the Free Democrats’ the ARD’s investigative show Film Food Thomas Kemmerich, as the new Report Mainz had uncovered at David Mouriquand Jane Silver state premier. It didn’t look good least 18 local district authorities Design for AKK: Angela Merkel had to where the AfD and the CDU were step in by saying the vote was already working together. One Art director Graphic design Martin N. Hinze Larissa Matheus “unforgivable”, even though the CDU leader in a small town in main reason that the chancellor Konrad Werner Saxony-Anhalt, where the CDU Copy editing gave up the party leadership was had allowed an AfD councillor Benjamin Haughton, Alex Pichaloff explains German so her chosen successor could into their parliamentary group, Junior contributors get the CDU under control ahead politics admitted during a meeting they Matthew Berks, Liliana Guerreiro, of the next election. And Merkel would have to end the cooperation Sarah Ollivier, Michael O’Ryan, John Mark Shorack, Marcelina Wellmer meant it: within a week, not only “as soon as a press circus starts.” had AKK resigned, but so had Kemmerich, Yeah, it turns out that press circuses, along Ad sales / Marketing Thuringian CDU leader Mike Mohring, and, with Twitter storms and spontaneous demos – Julia Belyaeva, Frieder Schmid (advertising), just for the hell of it even though no one knew like those that happened in Thuringia and Berlin Fanny Zschau (partnerships) who he was or his job even existed, Christian on the evening after Kemmerich was elected To discuss advertising please contact us: Hirte, the German government commissioner in parliament – do at least sometimes remind Tel 030 2576 0874, [email protected] for the eastern German states. Thuringia might some political leaders about the whispers in Distribution / Subscriptions now be heading for new elections. their conscience. But the other scary truth is Stefanie Gilissen In short, everyone agreed it was a big deal. that the vote in the Thuringian parliament and www.exberliner.com/subscribe Any politician or journalist anywhere near a the revelations from the local councils show Iomauna Media GmbH microphone said a taboo and/or a “dam” had that, in fact, the centre-right parties are already Max-Beer-Straße 48, 10119 Berlin-Mitte been broken, that any kind of cooperation with conceiving of the possibility of one day form- Tel 030 2463 2563, Fax 030 4737 2963 the AfD (whose leader in Thuringia, Björn Höcke, ing coalitions with the AfD, because they agree www.exberliner.com, Issn 1610-9015 can legally be called a fascist, according to one about a lot of stuff. The outrage was big enough Exberliner was founded in 2002 by Maurice Frank, court ruling) is beyond the German political this time – thanks, as ever, to the people who Ioana Veleanu and Nadja Vancauwenberghe pale. 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