FREE ON YOUTUBE Miete Essen Seele Auf - Kotti & Co

(YOU FIND THE WHOLE FILM FREE ON YOUTUBE) During the documentary Week in Sputnik and fsk- The documentary will probably not be released on DVD. - It was one night in 2012 when some people living in social housing around the Kottbusser Tor built a hut called Gecekondu (set up at night). This is the name of informal Turkish settlements. Here, the neighbours met to develop a new direction. A focal point of debates on gentrification and repression, but also on migration and racism. Frustrated contemporaries would now claim that this is no use at all. They ignore a simple fact: even in the now legendary 90s, when Kreuzberg actually stood on the sidelines, the topic of "gentrification" existed. If you don't believe that, rent the Kreuzberg movie Trouble (1993) (DVD5091) or stream it free on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7Jt_V9SqU&t=24s). Conversely, this means that the subject of repression already existed after the fall of communism, can't all have been repressed, can it? Someone must have stopped them! That's enough: Resistance does make sense! But it has to be added; in the early 00s, friends of mine rented studios directly at the Kotti (on top of the Cafe Kottis level) for ONE euro per square meter. Thus it was tried to make a rotten neighborhood accessible again. Today that would be unthinkable. Anyone who wants to stand up for the issue at the moment helps our neighbours from the mutiny. They have to leave in a year and then we would have one less institution in Reichenberg: The "autonomous" pub! So: Just go there at four on Mondays and do something about it.