Being 20 years old in Berlin-Ouest
We devote a summer series to figures of Berlin cultural life, young people in the time of the Cold War, which helped make the history of the city before it becomes a redeeer from Germany.
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Kempinski has not changed. Or so little. In Berlin, where so many old big hotels are renovated, when they are not destroyed, this one is still there, in the very bourgeois district of Charlottenburg, with his salons and his carpets which made it a place of elite of Berlin-West. Going there today is to come back to the weather of the wall, for whom he knew him. And that’s what Karin Wieland does, in the cozy light of an afternoon.
Today, she is a sociologist and her blondr blends into the decor. She talks to us about an era when she had red hair, she tells us about her Berlin-West, light years from the Kempinski opulence: that of squats in the districts of Schöneberg-Fief of David Bowie, from 1976 to 1979-or Kreuzberg-the center of the Turkish community.
