The history of a city does not run in straight lines. There is Berlin not unlike normal people, in whose lives the stages of ease alternating with tough times, in which the problems of the bale, and luck has turned away. Success is not a law of nature and of luck, not foresight have replaced the end of politics. Opportunities don’t last forever; there is a window of opportunity that will close again.
This is a viewer significantly, if you are sitting in front of the Torso of the Anhalter train station, next to the publishing house of the Tagesspiegel. A space, beaten down by the war. The growing city, can see with views of the large construction site next door, a touch, soon this empty space. Whether the high-priced apartments, which are really a Symbol for a straight path to a bright future of Berlin, you can doubt.
In the summer of 1998, when I started at the daily mirror, it was, however, glad to have any newcomers to Berlin. It just wanted to come no one. On The Contrary. Bitter the optimistic forecasts came across a few years earlier in Berlin as the fruit of the wall if there is a boom on a staggering scale had predicted.
the Back of the daily mirror-in a Central, front of the Torso of the Anhalter Bahnhof, in the middle of it: Gerd Nowakowski.Photo: Kitty Kleist-Heinrich
Instead of growth, there was Depression. The industry went off in two halves collapsed in the harsh Wind of competition, the suddenly over Berlin. In the Eastern part of the farms were managed by the state socialism and in the Western part broke after the abolition of the Berlin-to promote those companies, which were degenerated in the time of the Wall to outsourced work benches without the depth of production and creative value creation.
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in 1998, the Berlin moved – in search of perspectives
The unemployment rate has increased enormously, and the population at the same time, because Berlin tended to migrate in search of prospects. The demand for housing collapsed so abruptly, that in the year 1998, only half as many flats were built as a year earlier.
the move of the Bundestag and of the Federal government in 1999, with thousands of employees, according to Berlin, could not change that. So in 2010, it was reached the population figure of 1991.
In an alarming way, the debt of Berlin increased, because the Senate issued, in spite of the removal of the Bonner billion undaunted the money like there’s no Tomorrow.
Courageous – and right, although it meant more debt – was, of course, the governing mayor Eberhard Diepgen (CDU) had, as of 1996, a Salary adjustment for the employees in the public service – against the resolute Protest of all the provinces. Previously, bus drivers or teachers were in the Eastern part of the city significantly less money than their colleagues in the West. To change that would have a Berlin torn apart even more.
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Nevertheless, also shared ten years after the exhilarating experience of the open border is still a invisible wall in the city. Ostkiez remained Ostkiez and the people in the Western part of us just wanted to have the right to do anything with the Ossis.
no one could have guessed then that in the city on the edge of the abandoned factories, basements, or backyards, where a colorful cultural scene, was able to try out, those global charisma would grow, which today attracts millions of travelers and ensures that, annually, tens of thousands of New-Berlin in the hip metropolis.
The Bank scandal was a healthy shock to the system
It fit to the gray location in that year, in 1998, Klaus-Rüdiger a script, then the most powerful puppet masters of the ruling, Berlin’s CDU, in that summer of afflictions called for the demolition of the Kreuzberger Zentrum at Kottbusser Tor and the schönberger social Palace – as a cleaning medium against social problems.
Because history is revealed only in the rear-view mirror, no one could have foreseen, the omnipresent multi-functionary of a script and plunge soon because of the Berlin Bank scandal and his party into the abyss.
The banking scandal, so hard to say it was a healthy shock to the system. Only a policy of self-deception and hollow slogans ended. The of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, made an Alliance with the left party pacified the inner division of Berlin.
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The brutal cashier fall 2001 brought Berlin to a new path. The effort will be Wowereits, the reduced the expenditure brachial and tens of thousands of Places in the bloated public service line’, is the Basis for a change in the city and the small economic miracle that Berlin experienced in years.
Yes, with many many problems we fight today, because for years nothing was invested in schools, roads, or mass transit. Would have, could have, desire range: The threat of a country bankrupt, left with no other choice.
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this Chapter also, that in Berlin, thousands of homes were demolished because no one wanted them to obtain, and in great style urban apartments were sold at a loss, the Berlin of today is urgently needed. The journalists, by the way, so much for honesty, found at the time quite correctly.
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