...Anne Röhrborn Abstract Stephan Geene’s film Umsonst premiered in the Forum program at the 2014 Berlinale. A portrait of postmillennial Berlin-Kreuzberg, the film in crucial ways takes its inspiration from the French New Wave and the Situationist International. It focuses on members of a young...

... Jewish Museum also needs to be understood in the context of this period in Brenner’s mind, as well as its location in the city. The design competition was organized as part of the International Building Exhibition 1984/87 (IBA), an urban reconstruction and repair program for Kreuzberg...

... Blicke , 2009), is a summer sketch set in Görlitzer Park, in the Kreuzberg neighborhood. A film team that includes Linz as a director is shooting a film whose content is neither clear nor particularly important. The film’s basic gesture is to level the distinction between the profilmic reality...

... the way things actually work. Suspending the distinction between filmmaking and criticism, and between doing and learning, is also a central impetus in the early Filmkritik essay presented here. In the Wannseeheim in Berlin West, in a villa on the lake and in a former school building in Kreuzberg...

.... The difference between what exists and what is necessary is abolished, if only verbally. The abyss between what happens in Kreuzberg and what happens in Calcutta is supposed to be filled by six words: “It is, in principle, the same.” To save the “socialist world,” though, ten are needed: “Here, however...

... a lively conversance with the history of film and philosophy as well as a wide range of contemporary theory. Similarly, Anne Röhrborn’s examination of Stephan Geene’s Umsonst (2014) views Geene’s contemporary portrait of life in Kreuzberg as a self-conscious metareflection. Unlike most Berlin School...

...). Simon Ward  121 Building Exhibition in Kreuzberg; and Mehringplatz as an example of 1960s planning for the “car-friendly city” with its ubiquitous urban freeways. While this itinerary focuses on still-functional parts of the built environ- ment, it does take in material remnants of the past...

... management in Berlin-Kreuzberg, which has hosted or cohosted the annual festival Beyond Belonging. The festival not only brings interna- tional productions on migration-related themes to the German capital but also has striven for a sustained cross-fertilization of the visual, musical, literary...

... and Kreuzberg before the Vopos flushed them out with tear gas.16 Unlike specially excavated tunnels, which permitted a straight sprint from entrance to exit, the sewers required expert knowledge to negoti- ate the subterranean labyrinth. The student leader in Das Versprechen paints the sewer map...

... of paraly- sis and ontological crisis and not, as was frequently claimed, a liberating new beginning for the city. Set in November 1989, the fi lm tropes the comfortable existence of the West, metonymically represented through the former West Ber lin district of Kreuzberg, and confronts...