Somehow in the Heart of It. Life in the Badstrasse
Landesarchiv Berlin
Horst Siegmann: Petticoathandel in der Badstraße
1961 © Landesarchiv Berlin
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City life is street life. And every street has its own history as does the Badstrasse, a commercial street in Wedding. Once it was a place of recreation for high society; today it has stalls selling kebabs and the usual chain stores. After 1945 it was known as the Boulevard of the Border Walkers, while local dialect also called it Petticoat Lane. After the wall was built, it experienced declining custom and economic collapse. Buildings decayed, or were torn down to make way for municipal planning projects. Still the little people lived, worked and sauntered on the boulevard of the north. Today the Badstrasse belongs to the large district of Berlin Mitte [Berlin Central]. This means that it is once more approximately in the thick of things, though less sought after than the neighbouring Brunnenstrasse, where the creative spirits of todays Mitte district like to disport themselves.
The Federal State Archive is showing photographs of the Badstrasse from 1950 to the present a set of vivid momentary shots of daily life. The pictures were taken by photographers of Landesbildstelle Berlin (the Berlin film and picture archive).
Theme
Urban Lifestyles
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Artist(s)
Barbara Esch-Marowski, Stefane Jacob, Edmund Kasperski, Thomas Platow, Horst Siegmann
Curator(s)
Bianca Welzing-Bräutigam
Duration of the exhibition
18.11.2010 - 28.01.2011
Vernissage
17.11.2010, 17 h
Opening times
Mo-Fr 10-17 h
Location
Landesarchiv Berlin
Eichborndamm 115-121
13403 Berlin
T 0049 30 902640
Public transport connections
U8 Rathaus Reinickendorf
S1 Wittenau
S25 Eichborndamm
Bus 221
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