Last stand of Berlin’s bohemians

The fight between developers and the defenders of a counterculture landmark is coming to a head.

Khaled Kenawi leans out of the window and surveys the battered concrete, the graffiti-daubed walls, the peeling posters and the teenagers lounging on the ripped-up sofas surrounded by beer bottles. ‘Shutting down all this would be a huge loss,’ he says. ‘There is a difference between the art market and art, and we are that difference.’

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