11 EN The years directly after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the quickly executed German reuni fication were adventurous times especially in Prenzlauer Berg Many of the flats and houses in the area were abandoned and were quickly discovered by young people from all over Germany and Europe One simply set up house with or without a lease In terms of local administration times were confusing to say the least And confusing would be a benign word to describe the ownership structu res The legal owners of many of the Wilhelminian era buildings could no longer be established War and expulsion dispossessions during the GDR period and natu rally also unsettled inheritance claims led to a situation in which entire blocks of houses were neit her renovated nor sold for years on end In particular young people were attracted to the romantically di lapidated quarter around Koll witzplatz Helmholtzplatz and the area surrounding the Eberswalder Strasse metro station It was an exciting period of time in which a new Berlin youth culture was coming to the fore the roots of which were finely intertwined with Prenzlberg as the area came to be known in Berlin Small stores sprang up as well as bars and restaurants still on a highly improvisational level but amiable and typical for the new spirit of optimism By the second half of the 1990s Prenzlauer Berg had achieved a cult status which extended far beyond German bor ders It was not only legendary in Europe but also overseas The lifestyle industry in particular sent trend scouts to the area to investigate the budding art and gastronomy scenes Prenzlberg was suddenly hip it was featured on the front covers of national and international magazines No wonder its adventurous be ginnings steeped in youth cul ture had meanwhile grown into very adult commercial structures though in many places the charm of the early years was maintained In reality the district still offered room for new developments which could not be found in other areas of Berlin As a young entrepreneu rial tier had established itself in novative service ideas were born here and continue to assert them selves But it was the fast spreading party and music scene with its network of bars and trendy locations that continued to lend glamour to the legend of Prenzlauer Berg PRENZLAUER BERG VOM SPATZ ZUM PARADIESVOGEL PRENZLAUER BERG FROM SPARROW TO BIRD OF PARADISE tic Friedel Kantaut ODERBERGER STRASSE tic Friedel Kantaut HINTERHOF SCHÖNHAUSER ALLEE tic Friedel Kantaut KASTANIENALLEE

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