“Berlin. Brunnenstrasse” – Stories from a former border area, twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Jürgen has been living in Brunnenstrasse for 35 years. Now the landlord wants to tear down his beloved house. Gerd has to close his bookstore because of rising rents. Dorothea is preparing an exhibition in one of the many newly opened galleries. The music students of the former GDR school are rehearsing for a concert and the Beth Zion synagogue has re-opened for the first time since the second world war.
The development of the area around the street Brunnenstrasse is symptomatic of the transformation of former East Berlin after the fall of the wall, where gentrification rapidly ensued. “Berlin. Brunnenstrasse” was shot during winter 2009, showing the changes and the contrasts of an area at the former inner-German border. 45min film.