The bunker of a millionaire
Many shared reunified Berlin extravagances of the air random and what emerged provisional no money and no man's land. Techno clubs out like mushrooms in areas abandoned by the proximity of Wall. Art centers, among which disappeared was the most famous Tacheles proliferated without customers. Among the many vagaries of reunified Berlin, the little-known Railway Bunker concrete embodies 70 years of horrors, revelry, shortages, oppression and relief and later after returning to Berlin in a display that seemed banished since Hitler blew his brains out.
Near the tyrant underground shelter, now dismantled, the Nazis built this five-story outer fortification to preserve the constant air hell neighbors from the central Reinhardtstrasse. It was the type M1200. The number indicates its ability to host, but it is known that crowd reached over 4,000 people. Its walls are about two feet thick to support a tremendous horizontal plate of 3.2 meters.
On it built the Polish-born billionaire Christian Boros five years ago a luxurious penthouse with large windows and steel structure. He had bought the bunker in 2003. He lives there with his second wife and the younger of his two sons. Three meters of concrete below, Boros shows small groups of visitors a portion of his private art collection.
Groundwater in the area prevented digging an underground shelter. The Nazis were fond of classical models. The institutional architect Karl Bonatz posed a noble building despite the brutality of the materials and the strength to demand a bunker. The square and its four symmetrical porches reminiscent of the Villa Rotonda by Andrea Palladio, north of Venice. He got up with the intention of covering it after the war with distinguished materials that become a kind of monument to the victory that never came. Bonatz overcame defeat and was responsible from 1947 to coordinate the reconstruction of Berlin. His bunker became a detention center Stalin's secret services, the fearsome Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD).
Soviet forces assigned it to the authorities of the German Democratic Republic in 1949. What to do with a concrete impregnable fortress in the heart of Berlin? Some ingenious officer noticed its thermal and proposed use of storage for tropical fruit. A public company was responsible for bringing them from friendly countries like Cuba. The bananas were a luxury item in the Eastern bloc. The fascist mole Palladian, built in 1942 by prisoners enslaved, became-vicissitudes of real socialism in a refrigerator orchard known as Bananenbunker.
Wall fell in 1989, the West came from Lidl or Aldi with cheap bananas and the bunker again lost its usefulness. Passed to the federal government, not knowing what to do with him and left him at the mercy of ephemeral posmuro Berlin lords partygoers, artists and quirky looking for places for their social and cultural events. The Bunker opened in 1992 as one of the toughest techno clubs in the world. He offered four years of electronic beats and delirious sex parties until it closed in 1996 under pressure from the authorities, who did not see met minimum safety standards.
What had been the scene of panic Berliners under the bombs, black hole for reprisals at the hands of Stalin, bananas cellar of the Cold War and then trembled inside with techno, now contains the second temporary exhibition Boros Collection, that welcomes visitors with a ticking installation.
The sample is neat and observe the courtesy of showing the works as they want their creators. Back and large pieces and installations downstairs, waiting up some pictures of Dirk Bell, who works without a trace of irony on contingencies like love. From Thomas Zipp's an excellent compilation of objects and paintings. Wolfgang Tillmans images evoke the Berlin 20 years ago. It has, of course, a picture of him from when he was the club bunker Bunker, where he was a regular customer.
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