Berlin-Bücher / "WITH HAT AND HEELS" - To be on the right side of history
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Beschreibung
The 750th anniversary of West Berlin: Why did Alexander die? Was it suicide or cold-blooded murder? The starting point is the cool seventies, with its rock festivals, drug parties and free love.
Why did Alexander die? Was it suicide or cold-blooded murder? The starting point is the cool seventies, with its rock festivals, drug parties and free love. A fateful paternity case, involving Alexander's friend Arnfinn, has its origins there. The trail continues to West Berlin in the 1980s, the former walled city. There Alexander encounters Louise's parallel world, that of a drug-addicted prostitute. Berlin's squatter scene becomes the focus of Arnfinn and Alexander's story. Berlin prepares for its billion-dollar 750th anniversary celebrations in the east and west of the city, while funding for alternative projects is cut. Pastor Klitsch warns of this imbalance, but falls on deaf ears. After the Mehringhof alternative cultural center was raided in a night and fog operation, social contradictions clashed at the Kreuzberg Festival on May 1st. In the midst of the May riots and Reagan's visit, Alexander's trail is lost. Did Alexander involuntarily get caught up in the wheels of the frontline city of Berlin?
Autor*in
Jean-George Charbonnier
I studied "performative art" in Berlin and later as a guest student
in Hildesheim, worked at the municipal theatres in Berlin and
Dortmund and in the film business, the last six years in television,
and lived in Berlin for a long time.
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