STORIES FROM SCHÖNEBERG

AND SURROUNDINGS



This Zine is a collection of

pictures and texts on 20 of
Schöneberg's most famous buildings.
10 buildings where famous people
lived and 10 buildings where famous
events happened.

The pictures from 2019 are shot by

Liviu Bulea.
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood

used to live on Nollendorfstraße 17 in

Schöneberg.
(26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an
English-American novelist.
His best-known works include The Berlin
Stories (1935–39), two semi-autobiographical
novellas inspired by Isherwood's time
in Weimar Republic Germany.
The house in the Schöneberg district of
Berlin where Isherwood lived bears a
memorial plaque to mark his stay there
between 1929 and 1933.

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David Bowie

used to live on Haupstrasse 155 in

Schöneberg. He shared his flat with Iggy
Pop, and both of them spent a load of time
on a beautiful gay-friendly cafe next
door. Anderes Ufer back in the day and Neues
Ufer now.
There is a memorial plaque in front of the
house where David Bowie lived. It was there
that Bowie wrote his Berlin Trilogy, the way
that critics and fans called the albums Low,
Heroes and Lodger.

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Berlin Trilogy
Marlene Dietrich

The 20th century was just two years old when

Maria Magdalene Dietrich was born at
Leberstraße 65, then known as Sedanstraße,
on December 27th 1901, but it was only the
first of many apartments around Schöneberg
the family would live in over the next three
decades.
She made her film debut in 1922 and later
that year met and married the young film
director Rudolf Sieber. In 1924 they had a
daughter, Maria.
On the day ‘The Blue Angel’ opened in Berlin
in 1930, Marlene was due to leave for
Hollywood to begin her contract with
Paramount. She attended the opening, took a
bow at the end to thunderous applause and
caught the train out of Berlin.
Marlene Dietrich Burial Site is located in
Friedhof Schöneberg III, Berlin.

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Helmut Newton

was born as Helmut Neustdter to Klara and

Max Neustdter in Berlin. His father, a Jew,
was a wealthy owner of a factory that
manufactured buttons. Helmut studied at the
‘Heinrich-von-Treitschke-Realgymnasium’ and
the ‘American School’ in Berlin, from where
he was expelled for bad performance.
Helmut’s interest in photography began at
the age of twelve, when he obtained his
first camera. 1936 onwards, he worked for
renowned fashion photographer Else Simon,
also known as ‘Yva’.
After the implementation of the Nuremberg
Laws, his father had to relinquish the
ownership of his factory and was even
confined to concentration camp in 1938. The
same year, Newton’s parents fled to South
America and they managed to arrange for
Newton to travel to China.

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Photography by Helmut Newton

Günter Grass

For more than 30 years, with interruptions

from 1966, the writer, graphic artist and
sculptor Günter Grass lived and worked in
his beautiful, small country house in the
Friedenauer Niedstraße 13. Here in Friedenau
his children grew up too.
After the first exhibitions of sculptures
and graphics in Stuttgart and Berlin, Grass
began writing in 1956. The great success was
his 1959 published book "The Tin Drum", a
novel playing during the Second World War in
his hometown, Gdansk. Grass had found his
style with a surreal-grotesque imagery. Soon
appeared "Cat And Mouse" and "Dog Years",
the so-called Gdansk trilogy. He was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999 for
his literary oeuvre.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

used to live on Fridenauer Hundekehlestraße

11.
He is a poet, art writer, author and
translator. In his poems he sees the unity
of fine art with poetry .
In 1897 he makes his first trip to Venice
here Rilke meets Lou Andreas-Salomé.
Towards the autumn of 1897 , Rilke moved to
Berlin. His apartment was in the immediate
vicinity of Lou Andreas-Salomé. In Berlin
there was also a first meeting with the
siblings and Mathilde Karl Gustav
Vollmoeller, whom he met in the house of
artists Sabine and Reinhold Lepsius. H i s
relationship with the married Lou Andreas-
Salomé lasted three years, until the year
1900. Also beyond the love relationship, Lou
was a close friend later in life, which gave
him support and support.
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The Brothers Grimm

Jacob Ludwig Karl (1785–1863) and Wilhelm

Carl (1786–1859), were German
academics, philologists, cultural
researchers, lexicographers and authors who
together collected and
published folklore during the 19th century.
They were among the first and best-known
collectors of German and European folk
tales, and popularized traditional oral tale
types such as "Cinderella", "The Frog
Prince", "The Goose-Girl", "Hansel and
Gretel", "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin",
"Sleeping Beauty", and "Snow White".
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm only spent the years
from 1840 until their deaths in 1859 and
1863 in Berlin, working at the University
and their bodies are buried at the Alter St-
Matthäus-Kirchhof in Schöneberg.

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Alter St-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Schöneberg

Alte Potsdamer Straße 5, Berlin-Tiergarten

Albert Einstein

Swabian physicist Albert Einstein (14 March

1879 – 18 April 1955) was a true celebrity,
renowned for his intellect to the point that
his name is now synonymous with the very
concept of genius.
He came to Berlin in 1914 after accepting an
invitation from Max Planck to join the
Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Einstein’s time in Berlin is commemorated in
several modest ways, from the small memorial
in front of his former building on
Haberlandstraße 8A to a small, quiet park in
Prenzlauer Berg. A more notable tribute lies
further south in Potsdam, in the shape of
the Albert Einstein Science Park; inside
sits the uniquely expressionist Einstein
Tower astrophysical observatory, one of the
first major projects of prominent architect
Erich Mendelsohn and a structure Einstein
himself judged, with shrewd diplomacy, as
“organic”.

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Einstein in Berlin, a few days before his
final departure, December 1932.

Photograph by Charles Holdt, Courtesy the Albert Einstein

Archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
BLIXA BARGELD

was born Christian Emmerich on 12 January

1959 in Berlin the Tempelhof area and he
moved out of his parents' home in the late
1970s. In 1980 he formed the group
EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN as lead vocalist.
From 1984 to 2003 he was co-founder sideman
and guitarist of Nick Cave and The Bad
Seeds. He has performed numerous concert
tours through europe, north and south
america, australia and japan. He works as
composer, singer, musician, performer,
author, actor, director and lecturer in
almost any field of interpretative art.

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Nick Cave & Blixa Bargeld

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Kollaps was the first

official LP
by Einstürzende
Neubauten, released in
1981 on German
label ZickZack as #ZZ 65.



Ion Luca Caragiale

was a Romanian writer . He is considered the

most important dramatist of Romania.
In 1901, Caragiale was accused of
plagiarism in the magazine Revista
literară . The magazine published two
articles under the pseudonym Caion , in
which the claim was made, Caragiales play
Mishap was a plagiarism of the play
Misfortune of the Hungarian writer István
Kemény . Caragiale found that writer C.
Al. Ionescu stood behind the defamatory
articles, went to court with him, won the
trial without any problems, but was so hurt
that he decided to move abroad. However,
this was only made possible for him in 1904
and he moved to Berlin .
Caragiale lived in Berlin until his death.
After his death, he was transferred
to Bucharest and buried there on the Bellu
cemetery on November 22, 1912, during a
large memorial service .
In his honor, a memorial plaque was
erected at Hohenzollerndamm 201 in Berlin-
Wilmersdorf .

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Dschungel

On October 15, 1978, the DSCHUNGEL opened

its door on Nürnberger Straße 53 in West
Berlin for the first time. Until May 31,
1993, the legendary club met the hippest
artists, performers and partygoers of the
Wall City and the rest of the world.
The makers and their guests created a myth
that was known far beyond the city.
Fall of the Berlin Wall and jungle fatigue
put the shop in dire straits. The caravan
moved to the new techno clubs in the east of
Berlin, the older regulars stayed at home
and watched the turn of the TV.
With the closure in 1993 not only
disappeared a disco institution, but also a
very special attitude to life. But in the
minds and hearts of those who have been part
of the staging for years, the JUNGLE lives
on.
Prominent regulars included Zazie de
Paris, Nick Cave, Romy Haag, Claudia
Skoda, Salomé and Martin Kippenberger, Blixa
Bargeld, Jürgen Vogel, Christoph M. Ohrt,
Richy Müller, Ben and Meret Becker, Benno
Fürmann, Inga, Annette Humpe, Iggy
Pop and David Bowie .

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Zazie de Paris
The Eldorado

has had a complicated history in and around

Schöneberg with several establishments
claiming the name right up to to the present
day.
In 1919, a bar called Eldorado-Diele opened
at Alte Jakobstraße 60, in the Kreuzberg
district of the city, and advertised itself
as a cosy bar-restaurant for older gay men.
It was only to last two years.
By 1927, Konjetschni was looking to move
into the main entertainment district in
Schöneberg and found suitable premises at
the former August-Victoria-Säle dance hall
at Lutherstrasse 30, directly opposite the
famous Scala Variety Theatre.
By the end of 1930, the success of The
Eldorado sent Ludwig Konjetschni in search
of even larger premises and he found the
Grand Cafe Luitpold on Motzstrasse, opening
the brand new Eldorado early in 1931.
It featured regular performances by the
likes of Marlene Dietrich, Claire Waldoff
and the Weintraub Syncopators, and was
widely known to be a regular venue for
transvestites and transexuals. Customers
could buy ‘chips’ to exchange for dances
with the regular transvestite hostesses.
The Lutherstrasse venue closed its doors in
mid 1931.

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Ex’n’Pop

was a club in Berlin. Founded in 1984, the

club moved several times within the city and
was last on Potsdamer Strasse 157 in Berlin-
Schöneberg. It became known primarily as the
club in which the Einstürzende
Neubauten and Nick Cave held court. Here the
first German poetry slam took place under
this name and Ben Becker staged his play Sid
& Nancy in the Ex'n'Pop. He was operated
since 2001 by an association.

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Kumpelnest3000

Rattled, loud, wicked and smoky - the

Kumpelnest3000 is the classic among the
Berlin crash shops. There are no
inhibitions, everyone comes in contact with
everyone immediately.
The interior is cheesy and trashy, her
patina carries the shrill old box with pride
and dignity.
The rock-erotic ambience has already
inspired Karl Lagerfeld and Claudia Schiffer
to take a photo session.
It all started in 1987 with the idea of Mark
Ernestus to design a bar as an art space, as
a thesis for the Hochschule der Künste.
Supported by the artist group "The Deadly
Doris" and their environment, the daring
concept in the West Berlin of the late 80s
hit like a bomb. The crowds in front of the
store are just as legendary as the eccentric
bar-keepers.
The combination of the guests was just as
new and exciting: shemale and deaf,
heterosexuals and gays, hustlers, artists
and business people, to the alcoholic next
door.

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Off The Record (1994) by Karl Lagerfeld

Claudia Schiffer in the bar Kumpelnest

3000 in Berlin. On the cover of the
book is the bartender, Gunter, dressed
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The Metropolitan

also known as the Theater am

Nollendorfplatz , Neues
Schauspielhaus and Goya, is adjacent to
the high station of the subway is the most
prominent building on Nollendorfplatz 5
in Berlin district of Schöneberg . It was
built in 1905/1906 as Neues
Schauspielhaus with auditorium and concert
hall by the company Boswau & Knauer . The
author and theater director Herman Haller
led the theater on Nollendorfplatz from
1914 to 1923. Erwin Piscator conducted in
it from September 1927 to September 1928
thePiscator stage . In the postwar
period , it housed a long movie theater
and the discotheque Metropol , before it
was converted in 2005 to the noble dining
and dance club Goya.

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Goya , 20 November 2009

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Rathaus Schöneberg

The village of Schöneberg was granted town

privileges in 1898. After 1920, when
Schöneberg and Friedenau merged and became
part of Greater Berlin, Schöneberg Town
Hall also served as district town hall for
these two districts. During the division
of Berlin from 1949 on, Schöneberg Town
Hallwas also the official seat of the
Governing Mayor, the West Berlin Senate,
and the Berlin House of Representatives.
President John F. Kennedy’s speech in
front of the town hall on June 26, 1963,
has become legendary. He famously affirmed
his allegiance to Berlin, its bond with
Western Europe, and his commitment to the
transatlantic alliance with the words:
“Ich bin ein Berliner”.
In 2014, Schöneberg Town Hall will
celebrate its centennial.

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Summer 1945, the town hall badly damaged

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Risiko

was a legendary bar & club in the West

Berlin of 1980’s, and Uli M.
Schueppel did a short film about its last
morning, all the way back in 1986. The
footage captures and documents a little
piece of Berlin history with a cover of
Lost in Music by Anita Lane and Alex
Harvey as the soundtrack of this movie
shot in Super8.
Risiko used to exist at Yorckstrasse 48,
from 1981 to 1986.
Nick Cave, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch,
Christiane F. were some of the people
that used to frequent the bar and, on its
prime, Blixa Bargeld of Einstürzenden
Neubauten worked behind the counter. If
you have watched B-Movie: Lust and Sound
in West Berlin, Mark Reeder shows the
bar, and you can get a glimpse of how it
used to be.

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B. Movie. Lust and sound in west Berlin

Mark Reeder & Christiane F

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The Scala

was built in 1920 by a consortium of 9

wealthy Jewish business people, including
the Dutch aviation pioneer Anton Fokker.
It was situated at Lutherstraße 22-24 on
the corner of Augsburgerstraße , now
Martin-Luther Straße 12 – 14 at the corner
of Fuggerstraße.
It was hugely successful and rapidly
became the most famous Vaudeville stage in
Germany and by 1941 the country’s largest.
It survived surprisingly well during the
early years of National Socialism but it
was the realities of the 2nd World War
that brought an end to the militaristic
‘kick-lines’ of the Hiller Girls, as they
were deemed “frivolous and tasteless
entertainment” at a time of national
crisis.

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The Neues Ufer

café, bar and exhibition space opened in

1977 under the name Anderes Ufer. With its
large windows open to the street, it was
the first gay and lesbian café in
Europe which could be looked in by
passers-by – offering a new, self-
confident visibility. Tom of Finland and
Ulrike Ottinger had exhibitions here, and
David Bowie was a regular guest who
enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere.

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The Silhouette

was one of the very few Weimar-era clubs

where both male and female cross-dressing
was accepted and, indeed, encouraged.
It opened in 1926, on the corner of
Geisbergstraße and Kulmbachstraße at the
border of Schöneberg and Charlottenburg.
Seemingly always under a blue haze of
cigarette and cigar smoke, the club
attracted film stars, cabaret artists and
some very wealthy nobility. Conrad Veidt,
Maria Orska, Anita Berber, Hilde
Hildebrand and a young Marlene Dietrich
were regulars alongside Princes, Counts
and Barons.
t was here, one night early in 1929, that
the composer Friedrich Holländer went
looking for Marlene Dietrich.
He found her in one of the booths near the
dance floor with a large group of friends
and broke the news that she had been cast
in the lead role in ‘The Blue Angel’.

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Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel 1930

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