Shaky video recordings of the BVG employees, the lattice doors to the subway to complete stations. Thereafter, sequences in which cloaked figures those open again. “People freeze to death in the open, under bridges, on Park benches, in doorways, in the demolition of houses,” says a woman’s voice.
Every year, the number of cold, dead walks, and now you should not sleep stations in the metro, it says in the Video of the artist collective “Rocco and his brothers” that Sunday evening was published on the video platform Vimeo. It bears the title “key to the city”.
Because of the “alleged security reasons” were closed, the train stations at night, the painstakingly negotiated compromise between the Senate and the BVG, to keep two stations as cooling stations open (Lichtenberg and Moritzplatz), will be referred to as “pathetic”.
The activists have therefore probably the key to the U-train stations do it, the doors opened and packages with Blankets, rolls, coffee-coupons, and safety vests for the homeless to leave. Among other things, the U-Bahn to Leopoldplatz in Wedding, at Kottbusser Tor and Hermannplatz, Boddinstraße, Hansaplatz, and Schönleinstraße. Overall, you’ve opened 50 stations, some several times, over the period of about a week, it is the artists ‘ collective. Against the BVG had not addressed the action but in the first line, even if they are criticising the attitude to the subject.
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The calm of the BVG spokeswoman Petra cloves. She is audibly upset, as she speaks about the action. It was a “vain self-representation” and have nothing to do with the help for the homeless. Instead, the activists would have preferred to the cold station Lichtenberg and Moritz to stations in place to help, says clove. And that was only a stopgap, because nobody wanted to a subway station to sleep, says clove. “But if they think that is so great, I allow you to happy times,” she says.
Because the power will not shut off on the tracks at night, it is dangerous in the U-to-sleep stations. “And a vest won’t help against a strong current,” says clove.
the Fact that the people of “Rocco and his brothers” had a key, responsive cloves a little surprised. “To come to a key is not difficult,” she says. Many people need night access to the train stations. To make clean or to shunting trains.
“Rocco and his brothers” are noticed it three years ago with an action. To established the beginning of the year 2016, a furnished room in a subway station.
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Melanie Berger
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