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Apr 2024
31m 28s

Bye-bye, Berlin – Are artists and others...

Common Ground Berlin
About this episode

Berlin has been referred to as a “creative utopia,” where the arts and cultural scene exploded after the fall of the Berlin Wall. 


Nowadays, the city’s draw as an artist hub is fading and its spaces are being displaced, thanks to skyrocketing real estate prices and limited space, among other things.


But does this mean Berlin’s artists are leaving? And how are Berliners in creative fields coping with the changes to what then German mayor Klaus Wowereit our “poor but sexy” city? Host Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson and Eden Brockman talk to:


BBK Studio Commissioner Julia Brodauf


Visual Artist Ulf Saupe


The Berliner
Art Editor Duncan Ballantyne-Way


Music: “The last ones” by Jahzzar and “modum” by Kai Engel  (Source: FMA)  


This episode was produced by Axel Scheele and Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

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