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Photo: Willem-Jan Beeren
Klinke #011 is located in the second office of berlinHistory e.V., which has created a participatory digital museum with the smartphone app of the same name. The office is located in a house steeped in history, former Wall property in the immediate vicinity of the death strip - the Hinterland wall ran directly along the backyard.
The house was built in 1912 by August Jaschinsky, who ran his piano factory "Hoepfner" (since 1908) in the Mengerzeile next door, and lived there with his family and employees. Johanna Jaschinksy, widow of his son Oskar, made it to the Western Sector on August 13, 1961 with a courageous leap over the barbed wire at the last moment, without ever returning home.
In GDR times, the former piano factory mutates into a sales outlet and warehouse for VEB Deutsche Schallplatten. After the fall of the wall, the studio house "Mengerzeile e.V." is founded there with artists' studios, art and exhibition house and "Amiga" club. Despite the sale of the house by the Jaschinsky heirs and the subsequent renovation, the artists manage to stay.
From 2014 to 2019, the former death strip on Bouchéstrasse and Harzerstrasse will be a major construction site: more than 200 condominiums will be built where travelling circuses have been staging events, rescue helicopters have landed and dogs and their owners have stayed.
More information online (in german):
www.hdg.de/lemo/zeitzeugen/dietrich-schwanke-errichtung-der-berliner-mauer.html
www.berlin.de/ba-treptow-koepenick/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2019/pressemitteilung.842390.php
www.berliner-woche.de/alt-treptow/c-bildung/ausstellung-erinnert-an-ein-areal-zwischen-zwei-welten_a231862
