My long term project "TRABANTEN" deals with the large housing estate Gropiusstadt A district in Berlin which is known for its Bauhaus history and its reputation as social conflict area that’s high-rise buildings for 45,000 people with lawns and shopping centers in between That came from the many dogs and the many children who lived in Gropiusstadt It stank the most in the stairwells." (quote from the book by Christian F "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" from 1978) I myself grew up on the other side of the Wall in the 1980s During my first trips to the “golden west” we were warned as children about the place that was synonymous with drugs and violence Gropiusstadt is still fighting against this bad reputation My work “Trabanten“ is the attempt to approach the myth of Gropiusstadt a portrait along the photographic border between documentary realism and subjective poetry What does reality look like beyond the promise of more “light the ambivalent attitude to life of this architectural utopia on the edge of the city once proudly cast in concrete and now thought to have failed Since the 50th anniversary of Gropiusstadt I have been portraying the place and its residents I hope that something is revealed in the pictures I took even if it might be just a glimmer of all the contradictions between light In the satellite town on the outskirts of Berlin where the hopes of modern life border on the sewage fields of Brandenburg By Metro Report International2024-08-23T05:00:00+01:00 GERMANY: Berlin transport operator BVG has called tenders for the provision of planning services to support the development of a proposed extension of tram Route M17 from Johannisthal to Gropiusstadt in the southeast of the capital Preliminary feasibility and economic viability studies were completed in 2023 and the cost was estimated at €119m at 2022 prices The 6·1 km preferred route would branch from the existing network at the Sterndamm/Königsheideweg road junction and run via Sterndamm Neuköllner Straße and Fritz-Erler-Allee to end at a turning loop at Johannisthaler Chaussee U-Bahn station in the Gropiusstadt area GERMANY: A project to build a tram line running north from Aachen to Alsdorf has been allocated €5·5m by federal and state governments to continue with planning a feasibility study reported positively in 2022 with follow-up research in July 2023 by Transport .. INNOTRANS: Alstom is showing a nine-section version of the Flexity Berlin family which with a length of 50·89 m – or 10 elephants – is the longest tram ordered by the capital’s public transport operator BVG GERMANY: The first of the longest trams ever ordered for Berlin has been unveiled by operator BVG The nine-section trams will be used to increase capacity on Route M4 from Hackescher Markt to Falkenberg and Zingster Strasse which carries up to 18 trams/direction/h and around 100 .. 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(Data protection) remadeThe 1981 film shocked with its portrayal of child drug addicts in the heart of West Berlin A new remake's director and producer explain why they took it on The new Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo: Lena Urzendowsky (Stella) Lea Drinda (Babsi) and Bruno Alexander (Michi).dpa/Amazon Prime/Constantin Television/Mike KrausBerlin-It's been 40 years since Uli Edel's iconic film "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" hit West German screens a dramatisation of the non-fiction 1978 book about protagonist Christiane F.'s descent into drug addiction and prostitution at just 13 Now an eight-part remake of the story of Christiane her friends and the shady underworld at Zoologischer Garten station is coming to Amazon Prime on 19 February The new series revisits the notorious locations from the original book and film: the concrete jungle of Christiane's neighbourhood in Gropiusstadt Neukölln; Genthiner Straße's Sound nightclub where David Bowie brought the original film's soundtrack to life; and Kurfürstenstraße where the protagonists enter child prostitution to pay for their next hit Previews have praised the performances of the series' young cast Lead author on the new adaptation was Annette Hess known for her work on the popular shows Weissensee and Ku'damm 56 which is still widely read today and has been taught in schools Producer Sophie von Uslar and director Philipp Kadelbach explain why they agreed to retell it now Berliner Zeitung: "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" influenced a lot of people and shaped them too Sophie von Uslar: I read the book when I was 18 or 19 I made a conscious decision not to watch it at first Just so that I wouldn't have it as a reference point in my head - as the only reference point There was always a point where we would ask ourselves: what was the story that was told then I thought it was important to take a different view of it Philipp Kadelbach: I saw the film as a teenager Back then I was one of these arrogant types that just rejected German films per se So I didn't think it was particularly great Now I see it completely differently - Uli Edel's film is really magnificent But I only came back to it when I was offered this project It's amazing that you dared to take it on - these are iconic film images you're going up against Philipp Kadelbach: At first I said I wouldn't do it There's a whole legion of people who grew up with this film and see it as a monument and can't separate themselves from it And they condemned our series within the first few minutes Philipp Kadelbach: The subject matter is still highly topical But it's one that's still with us today More people are taking drugs than ever before (Jana McKinnon) and Benno (Michelangelo Fortuzzi) prepare heroin in a scene from the new series.Mike Kraus/Constantin Television/Amazon Prime/dpaHow are they Philipp Kadelbach: Many factors play a role in these times when everything is just getting faster and faster and we have to achieve more and more perhaps people take drugs because they're trying to cope and because of this pressure they take drugs I think a lot of young people can't cope without using substances to help themselves but I can do without dressing it up in 70s garb because that creates a distance from the viewer But the drug in your series is still heroin Aren't there other drugs in the foreground today that people take to function It's used more now than it was in the 70s and they told us that it depends on how you take heroin They inject themselves with just enough so they don't go shooting backwards but the main thing is that people feel they don't have any problems anymore when they've taken it And it's better than the alternatives It's in your system within 30 seconds Did you try to find visual images for the highs What about the falling into the bottomless pit Or the scene where Christiane's friend Babsi floats underwater with the DJ she idolises Otherwise there's no visualisation of being high on drugs What we do see are the exaggerations of the dreams the kids have when they haven't taken drugs Sophie von Uslar: And the scene with Babsi has a second layer to it With her it's always about longing for death This floating in the water isn't just about being high but also the moment when she lets herself fall into another element She also encounters her dead father outside of her intoxification - that's us playing with levels of reality when the needle hits the vein and the blood mixes with the cooked up heroin inside the syringe You've blown that up to the full size of the screen in part Philipp Kadelbach: We freed ourselves a bit from Christiane - we're telling the story of the children at Bahnhof Zoo It wasn't about celebrating the heroin experience for us And you don't see any close up injections after episode four The iconic Sound club as portrayed in the remake.Mike Kraus/Constantin Television/Amazon Prime/dpaLet's talk about other visuals: the disco where they all meet Philipp Kadelbach: I've already had to hear people tell me I've betrayed Berlin and all the iconic motifs That is all because we were trying to translate the kids' emotional state into images If we had filmed this club on Genthiner Straße as it was in the 70s with this low-ceilinged basement atmosphere the most modern club in Europe at the time with kids lining up in front of it and being euphoric - it wouldn't have worked In your series we sometimes hear techno in Sound Philipp Kadelbach: Because we wanted this feeling of timelessness - and a connection to today If we had "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd playing that would have been a very authentic choice of music for the club at the time but it wouldn't have had the identification potential for a teenager in "our" version of Sound (Jana McKinnon) in Zoo station - reconstructed in Prague.Mike Kraus/Constantin Television/Amazon Prime/dpaBut the Zoo station looks exactly as it did then We reconstructed the interiors in a hall in Prague we filmed at Christiane F.'s original front door in Gropiusstadt Your lead characters often look incredibly cool but at the same time you can't glorify them as drug users Philipp Kadelbach: That's largely because we wanted to represent our characters' inner lives externally and we're walking on a knife edge there But by episode five or six they don't look as good as they do in episode one with their first cigarettes in their hands Sophie von Uslar: We go in relatively innocently and create an emotional closeness to our characters We develop an attitude towards drugs together with them that at some point heroin becomes more important to them than friendship Philipp Kadelbach: We're telling a story over eight hours and people shouldn't just throw in the towel after two hours and say we're aestheticising drugs and glorifying it all Neukölln.Mike Kraus/Constantin Television/Amazon Prime/dpaAt one point Christiane's friend Stella stops prostituting herself They set her up in a fur coat on an office chair on the curb-crawling area at Kurfürstenstraße "I'm a capitalist." Is that a social parody Sophie von Uslar: It's just brutally hard Many years ago I produced "Operation Sugar" a film about forced child prostitution in Germany We did a lot of research and it's simply the case that the few women in this scene are usually victims themselves and know no other world beside one of systematic abuse Often they can only save themselves by becoming perpetrators Have you actually spoken with Christiane Felscherinow [the real life teenager whose story was told in the 1978 book] Sophie von Uslar: We were able to get hold of the original recordings of the conversations the journalists had with her These 50 tapes were the nucleus that we built our interpretation of the events on A lot of it didn't even make it into the book And it was just great to hear Christiane speaking.