The Berlin of the 1990's and early 2000's with its small theaters, techno clubs in abandoned factories, groups of percussionists jamming away at 5 AM outside of Warschauer Strasse station, Doener stands where you can get a kebab for less than 2 euros and of course the ubiquitous remnants of the Wall at random places - that is all fading away. It is being replaced by all the hallmarks of a modern city and just as Germany has become more confident as a unified nation as the years have passed by so has Berlin grown into its role as the capital of unified Germany. So it should be perhaps and yet I think I will always have a certain sense of longing for the city as it was before. I am glad that I will be going back in December in search of what still remains of that other Berlin.
Tacheles at Night