Landmark Berlin Squat Battles Eviction
By Rachel Nolan in Berlin
It is a classic Berlin faceoff: the squatters against the investors. Usually the latter win, but property at the landmark Berlin art squat Tacheles is under receivership and the fate of the site is uncertain.
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The future of the Tacheles squat in central Berlin is uncertain.
The artists at Tacheles, an iconic squat in central Berlin, have been waiting for the other shoe to drop for a decade. "We knew the lease would be up. It was hardly a surprise," says Martin Reiter, the long-haired Austrian who heads the co-op that runs Tacheles. After all, the existence of the bombed-out warren of 31 ateliers, a cinema, theater, bar, restaurant and back garden, has always felt a bit tenuous. And with their current deal set to expire at the end of
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