7EN During the second half of the 19th century the name Prenzlau er Berg gradually came to stand for a city district In less than 50 years the former landmark had been transformed into a housing and industrial zone The buildings to the front of the tenement blocks generally housed white collar workers with higher salaries while the side and rear courtyard buildings housed workers from the near by industrial compounds Often small businesses or craftsman s workshops that were responsible for finishing industrial products settled into the courtyards After all only a few steps were needed to go from one s bed to the work place It was in this time that the or dinary Joes were born whom the Berlin based painter and poet Heinrich Zille so poignantly depicted for posterity What ap peared as highly poetic from the outside however could not con ceal the squalor in living stan dards and the lack of comfort of those forced to live here Even well into the 1980s over half of the residents of Prenzlauer Berg shared an outside or stair well toilet PRENZLAUER BERG VOM SPATZ ZUM PARADIESVOGEL PRENZLAUER BERG FROM SPARROW TO BIRD OF PARADISE tic Friedel Kantaut HUSEMANNSTRASSE tic Friedel Kantaut SÜDLICH DER DER DANZIGER STRASSE tic Friedel Kantaut HISTORISCHE FASSADE UNSANIERT

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