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benkaden · 3 months

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Berlin Hauptstadt der DDR Strausberger Platz 1952 Blick zur Karl-Marx-Allee 1963

Berlin: Graphokopie H. Sander K.G Berlin N 113 (B 8/64 Best.-Nr. F 1911)

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dothob · 11 months

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berlin friedrichshain(!), 2023

#berlin #photographers on tumblr #original photographers #friedrichshain #strausberger platz #urban #graphical #clouds #street #karl-marx-allee

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renest · 10 months

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Der Sonntag am Strausberger Platz. / 02.07.2023

#Berlin #Friedrichshain #Stadtfotografie #FritzKühn #DDRKunst #GDRArt #SocialistArt #Strausberger Platz #2023 #2023Juli #2023Juli02

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sigalrm · 2 years

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Karl by Pascal Volk Via Flickr: Was macht eigentlich Berlins Hipster-Szene?

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scavengedluxury · 1 year

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Karl-Marx-Allee at Strausberger Platz, East Berlin, 1962. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

#berlin #east berlin #ddr #socmod #1960s

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brutgroup · 1 year

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Berlin Strausberger Platz Karl Marx Allee 1968 #brutgroup https://www.instagram.com/p/CZXkoRasrCu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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wedoartblog · 9 months

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Interview with photographer Vassilis Konstantinou

"Eros & Thanatos" August & September 2023, Kaffeemitte

We are very happy to have Vassilis Konstantinou come to Berlin for the opening of his show. Besides the pictures, the artist himself has a lot of interesting things to tell. The understanding and the detailed exploration of the great stories of ancient Greek mythology are encoded in the 14 prints of the exhibition - but become vivid when Vassilis tells us about the ideas and images that lie in the cradle of European art and culture. During a walk through Berlin, we talked about examples in which we may recognize archetypes and universally valid human behaviours, as described by Greek mythology, between Alexanderplatz and Ostkreuz.

2. August 2023 10:00 Kaffeemitte / Weinmeisterstrasse

Gregor Welcome to Kaffeemitte, Vassilis Konstantinou! What is this show all about? Can you describe the concept of Eros and Thanatos?

Vassilis I started delving into this topic after reading Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”. It got me thinking that Eros (Love) and Thanatos (Death) aren’t opposites but two sides of the same coin. What really grabbed my attention were those moments when they fused, becoming one. There are plenty of examples that hint at this connection. Take, for instance, the fleeting loss of consciousness during orgasm, which echoes the permanence of death. It’s intriguing that the French even call the orgasm “Petite Mort”. Additionally, the myths of Orpheus and Eurydice and Romeo and Juliet, in which love passes through death. Beyond that, I found myself drawn to the power of Greek myths that weave Eros and Thanatos into their stories. So, I tried to capture these moments by creating a series of symbolic and perhaps enigmatic pictures.

11:00 / Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse

We left Kaffeemitte and walked in the direction of Alexanderplatz. We stopped below the “Pressecafé” and looked from Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse across the intersection, towards the East. It’s the centre of former GDR, the huge mosaic on the walls still shows the aesthetics of those years.

Gregor We passed some hip stores and we saw teenagers waiting in a long queue, trying to buy a pair of limited edition sneakers. Can these people be a link to one of your pictures? In the photo “The Bacchae” there is a head with an iconic leaf garland. The title comes from the eponymous Greek drama. Why are people so dedicated to a pair of shoes that they run after them like a group of Bacchae?

Vassilis Euripides tells us about the organized cult of Dionysus. And as with all great myths, the drama is about universally valid principles. In the case of the Bacchae it’s about an extreme appearance of trance. The Maenads, that is, the “followers of Dionysus,” run into the mountains at night, go hunting and eat raw meat. The ecstasy that arises when you get hold of a pair of sneakers is properly not so much the spiritual, anarchic energy described in the Myth. But there are parallels nonetheless. People still gather in groups today and these groups have their symbols, their cult objects. According to the description, there was ecstatic trace, even perversion and this led to the implicit rejection of state practice and state values in general.

Gregor Alternative life - the rejection of state practice for some - and the desire for ecstasy have certainly attracted several people to the city. How does the drama by Euripides end? Is there anything contemporary followers of Dionysus should know?

Vassilis Certainly, individuals often try to go beyond what we call “just being themselves.” Some people use conventional methods like meditation, while others, like the Bacchae, go for something a bit more unconventional. During my time in Berlin, I got the feeling that the city is a haven of freedom. People come here expecting to find a way to break free from their usual selves and they are accepted by being themselves.

12:00 / Karl-Marx-Allee

We walk on towards Strausberger Platz. We pass more examples of GDR design, passing Haus des Lehrers. Opposite, at the Haus der Statistik, we see scaffolding. Vassilis is surprised that decades after the fall of the Wall, construction is still going on in such a prominent place. We walk by the Kino International and Cafe Moskau. In Karl Marx Allee we move into one of the building entrances because it started to rain. Vassilis notices the columns that decorate many of the houses in the street. They are buildings in the so-called “Zuckerbäcker” style - an example of socialist classicism from the 1950s.

Vassilis These are typical Doric columns, you can see them similarly in Metapont and on many other temples in Greece and Italy. The materials, and the whole feel of this street, are based on the beauty ideal from the ancient Greeks and Romans. One finds this principle in the symbols too, i.e. in the themes depicted on the mosaics - even if implemented in a more modern way. A beautiful harmonious world with workers like Demeter, scholars like Prometheus and of course Apollo, the god of the arts. In quite an organized manner Dionysus, the god of wine and ecstasy has his place. The oversized proportions of this road suggest that something epic was planned.

15:00 / Warschauer Straße

It has stopped raining and we reach Friedrichshain. We walk past a squatted house and I tell Vassilis about the punk culture that was once at home in the area.

Gregor Around 2005, when I moved here, these houses were grey and many stores were closed. Punks and their dogs, squatted buildings and open-air parties made the atmosphere - a district with an aura of great freedom. The downside was that in winter we had to heat with a coal oven. The streets were poorly lit at night and large bushes grew along the sidewalks. When my aunt from Munich visited me once, she was scrounged for a cigarette by two punks. When my aunt politely said she didn’t have one, the punks shouted at her to fuck off! It felt a bit like a lawless space here.

Vassilis A famous rebel, Princess Antigone struggled with the question to what extent people should follow the law. She defied King Creon by demanding to give her brother Polyneikes a proper burial. Antigone is committed to divine law, while Creon embodies state law. The author Sophocles addresses the friction between morality and law. An inner voice can lead us to violate state order. Sophocles also addressed the fact that man can act not only good but also evil. However, if he does so within the framework of the law, he is still respected. The drama “Antigone” ends in a catastrophe: Antigone hangs herself.

Gregor If Friedrichshain used to be Antigone 20 years ago and now Creon is getting stronger, will it end as a drama?

Vassilis The play is more complex than that. Creon sees that Antigone was right with her rebellion! But unfortunately too late! What we can learn from this for a city is perhaps that neither one nor the other should become too dominant. A police state is not worth living in, but if safety is no longer ensured by the state, for example, your aunt feels threatened, then it is also not right.

We end our walk at the Warschauer Brücke. The general theme of the exhibition - and our conversation - is a concept that can still be inspiring to us today: harmony between the different pairs of opposites. Rebellion and conformity, chaos and order, emotional and rational. Eros & Thanatos.

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nonedhudla · 4 months

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Prequels finde ich doof, hier waren acht Jahre vergangen und die Erinnerung verblasst, von daher; recht unterhaltsam, der Strausberger Platz unverkennbar: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

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benkaden · 9 months

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Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR Karl-Marx-Allee, Blick zu Strausberger Platz mit UKW- u. Fernsehturm der Deutschen Post

Erlbach i.V.: Dick-Foto-Verlag, 9934 Erlbach i.V. (III/18/197 K 1/71 Nr. 9706)

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playitagin · 10 months

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1953–East Germany Workers Uprising

Following Semyonov's decision, Soviet troops entered the environs of East Berlin in the early morning of 17 June. Meanwhile, crowds of workers began to gather at Strausberger Platz and other public places, and began marching towards the city centre. En route, they encountered GDR security forces – regular and Kasernierte Volkspolizei ('Barracked People's Police', KVP) units – who, apparently lacking instructions, did not initially intervene.

Then, suddenly, Soviet military vehicles appeared, followed by tanks, to repel what appeared to be an immiment takeover. Within an hour, Soviet troops had cleared and isolated the area around the government headquarters. At noon, Soviet authorities terminated all tram and metro traffic into the Eastern sector and all but closed the sector borders to West Berlin to prevent more demonstrators from reaching the city centre. An hour later, they declared martial law in East Berlin.[20]

Outside East Berlin police headquarters, Soviet tanks opened fire on "the insurgents". Fighting between the Soviet Army (and later GDR police) and the demonstrators persisted into the afternoon and night – with, in some cases, tanks and troops firing directly into the crowds. Executions, most prominently of West Berlin worker Willi Gottling, and mass arrests followed.

#Jun.17.1953 #East Germany Workers Uprising #history today

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renest · 9 months

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Am Strausberger Platz. / 29.07.2023

#Berlin #Friedrichshain #Strausberger Platz #Street Photography #2023 #2023Juli #2023Juli29

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sigalrm · 2 years

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Auto im Kreisverkehr by Pascal Volk

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scavengedluxury · 2 years

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Strausberger Platz, East Berlin, 1976. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

#berlin #ostberlin #ddr #gdr #1970s

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mistermixmania · 1 year

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Torky Tork | 3. Single Strausberger Platz mit Josi Miller & Goldroger + Album Release Konzert 📣 https://mister-mixmania.com/de/news/musik-news/torky-tork-3-single-strausberger-platz-mit-josi-miller-goldroger-album-release-konzert/ Tagged as Goldroger, Josi Miller, Torky Tork Wie ihr seht hat Torky Tork – wie ein guter Coach es nun mal macht – einen unglaublichen Kader zusammengestellt und im Zuge seines kommenden Albums »AKA DER COACH II« nur die Crème de ..... : #musiknews #musik #Goldroger #JosiMiller #TorkyTork Foto Credits: ROBERT WINTER

#Musik News #NEWS FLASH – MISTER MIXMANIA

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agatha-abstinent · 2 years

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Tag 2662 / Das ist mein Berlin-Gefühl

Die Fahrradwege sind frei, die Straßen auch sehr leer. Die Luft ist frisch. Es ist so leise, du kannst den Wind hören. Die Letzten kommen vom Feiern und ich fahr zum Schwimmen. Sag mir: Wer ist jetzt freier?

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Das ist halt dieses Besondere, dieses Antizyklische, vor allem am Wochenende. Ich bin vor acht aus dem Haus raus und ich fahr zum Schwimmen. Dafür ist dann die Energie da, dafür komme ich aus dem Bett.

Im Schwimmbecken war es leider voller als auf der Straße.

Der Wind weht so stark jetzt am Nachmittag, dass nicht nur das Wasser vom Nilpferdbrunnen am Forckenbeckplatz auf die Eldenaer Straße spritzt, naja, ein kleiner Sprühnebel, sondern auch das Wasser vom Brunnen am Strausberger Platz ist in kleinen Nebelportiönchen auf der Karl-Marx-Allee zu spüren.

Total erfülltes Wochenende! Liegt bestimmt auch am Homeofficefreitag. Aber auch an mehr Zeit zu Hause. Samstag AA-Meeting ganz, heute auch.

#OnlineAbstinenzTagebuch #sobercleanfree #abstinentamWochenende #freischwimmen #Routine #Struktur

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itskollektivmir · 2 years

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Reinhold Franz Habisch, genannt "Krücke"

Reinhold Franz Habisch, genannt “Krücke”

Fast hätte es für Reinhold Franz Habisch zu einer Jahres-Runde gereicht. Am 8. Januar 1889 in Berlin am Strausberger Platz geboren, verstarb er einen Tag vor seinem 75. Geburtstag am 7. Januar 1964. Damals, 1889, war die Gegend um den Strausberger Platz nicht das Viertel mit den Arbeiterpaläste des Arbeiter- und Bauernstaats, angefüllt mit systemtreuen Mieterinnen und Mietern, sondern eher ein…

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#Berlin #Radrennbahn #Radrennen #Rennrad #Sport

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