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unusual facts about Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg



Akhavan

Navíd Akhavan (born 1980), Iranian-German actor; plays Hakan in the German comedy TV series König von Kreuzberg

Chip Hanna

Hanna currently has a project called Chip Hanna & The Berlin Three, which is a country/western/rockabilly/psychobilly/bluegrass band based out of Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.

Frank the Baptist

In November 2006, the band went into Studio Wong in Berlin-Kreuzberg and recorded the band's latest album, The New Colossus.

Friedrichshain

Stalinallee (previously Große Frankfurter Straße) was built in Friedrichshain in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a prestige project; the architecture of its 'workers' palaces' is strongly reminiscent of the ostentatious Soviet-era Moscow boulevards and is sometimes mockinlgy described as Zuckerbäckerstil ('wedding cake style').

During World War II Friedrichshain was one of the most badly damaged parts of Berlin, as Allied strategic bombers specifically targeted its industries.

Georg von Rauch

The squatters of the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin-Kreuzberg renamed it to Georg-von-Rauch-Haus to his honour.

Gillis Grafström

He trained on the Bornstedter See (Bornstedt Lake) when it was frozen or in Berlin on the artificial ice rink at the Volkspark Friedrichshain.

Gustav Stresemann

His gravesite is situated in the Luisenstadt Cemetery at Südstern in Berlin Kreuzberg, and includes work by the German sculptor Hugo Lederer.

Hermann, Freiherr von Soden

His grave is preserved in the Protestant Friedhof II der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde (Cemetery No. II of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church and New Church) in Berlin-Kreuzberg, south of Hallesches Tor.

Liebling Kreuzberg

The scripts of seasons one through three and five were written by Jurek Becker, who tailor-made the role of idiosyncratic Berlin Kreuzberg attorney Robert Liebling for his friend Manfred Krug, the fourth season was written by Ulrich Plenzdorf.

Micha Ullman

In 1997, Ullman completed a synagogue memorial in collaboration with Zvi Hecker and Eyal Weizmann, commemorating the former Lindenstraße synagogue in Kreuzberg.

Mosik

Mosik is the acronym for the international collective of talents More Strangers in Kreuzberg.

In its origins the collective started as the title of the amateur shortfilm "Mosik", that depicted the history and potentials of the Kreuzberg area from an urban and social standpoint.

When the man, presumably drunk, heard the conversation in English of the future founders of Mosik, he shouted in German the phrase that eventually will give name to the collective: "Gosh! There is even more strangers in Kreuzberg!".

Kreuzberg is worldwide known for the diversity of its population and the cohabitation of what are considered "marginal groups".

Founded in Berlin, Kreuzberg in the Summer of 2003, it is an active circle of young artists, musicians, architects, film makers and writers of diverse extract.

Navid

Navíd Akhavan, is an Iranian-German actor best known for his role as Hakan in the German comedy television series König von Kreuzberg

Neco Celik

In June 2009, at the "Almancı Festivali" in İstanbul, he put on stage the Brechtian musical Gazino Arabesk set in Kreuzberg and in which Turkish arabesk songs were performed with German lyrics, and he was inspired by hip hop.

Paul Fürbringer

From 1886 to 1903 he was director of the city hospital at Friedrichshain-Berlin.

Reiner Lemoine

During his studies of aerospace engineering he co-founded Wuseltronik, a socialistic collective for engineering based in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Reinhard Lettau

III of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church and New Church (Friedhof III der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde) at Mehringdamm No. 21 in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Rimini Protokoll

"Call Cutta", one of their recent works, was based on outsourcing: The performers or 'experts', who were employees of a call center, were located in Salt Lake, Calcutta, India, providing the audience in Berlin, Germany with individual cell phone performances, with each call center agent guiding just one spectator solely through the remote maze of lanes of Kreuzberg, Berlin, narrating the story of Subhas Chandra Bose, an Indian revolutionarist freedom fighter.

Sabine Bergmann-Pohl

From 1980 to 1985, she was medical director of the polyclinic department for lung diseases, and tuberculosis in Berlin-Friedrichshain.

Schwandorf

Kreuzberg Church: Catholic parish, monastic and pilgrimage church of Mary Help of Christians on the Kreuzberg

Sociotope

The German historian Hasso Spode spoke of a "sociotope" (Soziotop) in 1994 in order to analyze the special sociocultural composition of the Berlin district of Kreuzberg.

Tabor Church

The church building is located in Berlin, borough Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, in the quarter Outer Luisenstadt or colloquially SO 36.

Tauentzienstraße

The broad street was laid out during the 19th century Wilhelmine era in the manner of a Parisian boulevard, then part of a larger road link from Charlottenburg through Schöneberg to the Berlin district of Kreuzberg named after victorious Prussian generals (therefore colloquially called Generalszug in German).

Thomas Welz

As head of the information department, he was editor and author of several illegal samizdat publications with Rainer Eppelmann of the peace circle of the East Berlin Samariterkirche (Church of the Good Samaritan) in Berlin-Friedrichshain.


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