page_title: Berlin Homeless Shelter Association
section_title: Cultural activities
hierarchical_section_title: Berlin Homeless Shelter Association / Cultural activities
caption_attribution_description: English: men's hall with Schlöndorff window
context_page_description: The Berlin Homeless Shelter Association is a charity for the homeless based in Berlin, Germany.
context_section_description: Many figures from the literary and political worlds visited the Wiesenburg during the Weimar Republic to familiarise themselves with the association and become acquainted with the milieu. These visitors included Hans Fallada, whose character, Rieke Busch, a Wedding street urchin, described it as "Where the tramps and vagabonds sleep when they don’t have anywhere else to stay", in his book, Ein Mann will nach oben.
  The Wiesenburg was used as the setting for numerous films. Amongst others, Fritz Lang shot scenes from M and Fritz Weiss from Der Vagabund (1929). In November 1978, the men's reception hall served as the setting for the fire at the Danzig synagogue (also designed by Georg Toebelmann) during the Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht) in Volker Schlöndorff’s The Tin Drum. In the same year, scenes from Hans Fallada's Ein Mann will nach oben and in 1981, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lili Marleen were filmed here.
caption: Entrance to the men's shelter with converted round window for the Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht) scene in Schlöndorff's 'The Tin Drum'
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