Capital B - Wem gehört Berlin?

EPISODE 4: “I'm gay and I'm proud of it!” After the Berlin bank scandal in 2001 swept away the somewhat dusty power duo of Eberhard Diepgen and Klaus Rüdiger Landowski and lifted the lid off of Berlin, a new style of politics emerged in the form of the charming and power-conscious Klaus Wowereit: relaxed on the outside, but tough on the issues. The lost bets of the 90s and the dubious business of his predecessors and the Berliner Bankgesellschaft have plunged the city into a deep financial crisis. Berlin has to “save until it squeaks!” Wowereit is wonderfully adept at packaging his policies into concise slogans. For saving, the smart mayor looks for and finds an ice-cold executor, who at the time is hardly known: his name: Tilo Sarrazin. Again, a duo at the top of the city: the friendly party mayor and the iron savings commissioner. The radical austerity measures they set in motion dramatically intensified social conflicts in the poor city. This was particularly evident in the poor and problematic districts of Kreuzberg and Neukölln. The rough and poor image of the hard city of Berlin has long been exploited by young Berlin hip-hop artists around Kool Savas and his buddy Sido. They transform it into hard-hitting and often adult Berlin battle rap and make it their trademark, which conquers the youth rooms of all of Germany from the Kreuzberg basement where a small crew regularly meets for battles. And the Berlin techno and party scene is also experiencing a renaissance and moving from the cramped Berlin Mitte to a new location full of industrial wastelands that had previously been in a deep slumber: with 5,000 marks in start-up capital, the Bar 25 is opened and awakens the fallow banks of the Spree. It quickly became famous worldwide and contributed significantly to Berlin's new image. “Berlin is poor but sexy.”