Source: El País
The building 'squatted' most famous in the world located in Berlin, lost half its tenants
In Peter and the Wolf , A pastor so often jokes about fake animal attacks when it is launched in earnest, no one believes her cries for help. The flagship Wolf Tacheles arrived Tuesday with overflowing checkbook: a million euros for the squatters who had the cafeteria and bars of the ruined building. After 21 years, countless evacuation alarms, threats of eviction and auction frustrated, the old stronghold of the movement immediately squat the Wall lose half of their tenants. Nobody knows for sure who makes a million euros to pocket the exokupas and the firm hand Schultz & Seldeneck. Among employees of local organizers, about 80 people go. It is unclear how the money has been distributed. Berlin tabloid BZ points today to the owner of Café Zapata keep a half .
it comes from, the one million euro changed hands this week managed to leave not only the cafeteria Zapata, but also the the last film floor (less and less movies and more bar) as well as those with the restaurant and gallery. The bulldozers arrived this weekend to destroy some outdoor sculptures and what remained of the biotope of the backyard. But not all gone: other occupants try to stay in the building to preserve its crumbling architecture of the combined onslaught of investors, creditors and institutions. At the same time, announce that mass tourism will rescue the original idea of \u200b\u200bsquatting : a space for the work of various artists without means to pay his own studio. In the heart of Berlin.
The squatters years ago split into two irreconcilable factions: EV Tacheles one hand. The association was drowned a year ago in its own debts and no longer exists, but they are staying. On the other side was the Tacheles Gruppe. Are the ones pocketing a million euros and go, with some exceptions, such as the Madrid artist Txus Parras. The first, led by Martin Reiter, keep throwing proclamations of resistance. Undaunted to the attempted forced sale with the bank HSH Nordbank tried to sell the property on Monday, spokeswoman Linda Cerna said that the situation "has not changed at all." The "70 artists" working there will continue. Cerna explains that "there was a divorce of objectives" between the Tacheles EV and "of gastronomy." That is, the Tacheles Gruppe. Go, "but we will continue with art." Once again, the EV Tacheles requests the State of Berlin that "falls short" and protect the project.
spokesman Tim was estranged Africa Gruppe Tacheles until its recent dissolution. He says he also wanted to stay and talk of a "very difficult step." Calmly reels off the reasons that led them to conclude that "there was no choice but to leave": the confrontation with the EV, to begin with. In addition to the "overwhelming difficulties economic and legal "that led to his lawyers left the case. Finally, the artist recalls the reactions of officials to requests for aid:" We were told that we only quarrel with each other and discuss ... we are no longer what we were and we're just a tourist attraction. "Laughing slightly to the phone, recognizes that" that was very true. "The failure, which labeled a" painful ", is that they were unable to counteract . Ensures that will use the money to "community art projects and" far from the "continual scuffles" with the other group. The artist showed a relationship between early and leaving Tacheles yesterday. At first, artists sought Tacheles spaces of freedom "in the current situation, money is freedom."
Emblem of Anarchy
The building in the central Oranienburger Strasse in the German capital, is the penultimate symbol of the anarchist movement that flourished in some large German cities in the 80 and 90 of the last century. Before that, the area of \u200b\u200b25,000 square feet housed a big mall. After suffering severe damage in World War II, had various uses in the German Democratic Republic (RDA). Their poor condition led to its partial demolition. In 1990, a group of artists occupying the large space that remained. After the purchase of land by a property group, the tenants hired a nominal rent that expired in 2008.
Now the bank HSH Nordbank manages the property, which enforced auction was canceled Monday. Probably it was they who put a million in the account of lawyers. Speculates on the future of the property, which the sensational and often well-informed Bild daily could be in the crosshairs of a chain of budget hotels called Motel One
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