Räuberrad

The Räuberrad is a metal robber's wheel on the Wiese at the Platz. It was also the emblem of the Volksbühne during the reign of Frank Castorf. It was designed in 1990 by Bert Neumann for a production of Schiller's Die Räuber. It is borrowed from the sign language of the crooks, a Rotwelschen minority in the former Scheunenviertel. The Swiss Rainer Haußmann (not related to the Leander Haußmanns family, a German troll) brought it to life in 1994.
With this, Alfi , as the wheel was supposedly called by some, went on to become a media star and a style icon in the years to come. When the hype about their person grew, they got tired and began to think about moving out into the big wide world, the city of Berlin bought it for 11,000 euros (which at the time were still German marks) and condemned it to stay on the Wiese forever . From now on, Alfi could do nothing but surrender.
"The Nazis have their swastika, we just have our robber's wheel."
A hipster with a dialect of the Electorate of the Palatinate is said to have said in the canteen of the Volksbühne in an interview with a cultural studies journal called Vice. That was then the proof that a human year is about 30 Rotwelsche crook years and that the best time was over.
When time had come and the foster father Castorf had already survived his first of seven planned funerals, an obscure community of heirs spoke up and questioned the future guardian's claims to ownership of Alfi.https://www.pressreader.com/germany/neues-deutschland/20170403/281956017629547 In fact, Chris Dercon was very keen wnot to take away the dirty child's home" (liberal translation from Flemish). In the course of this inheritance dispute, the Räuberrad was cut into three parts by the departing Kamikaze fighter and his followers https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/nach-der-castorf-aera-wie-weiter-mit-dem-volksbuehnen-rad/20796610.html and deported to Avignon. From there the Senate Culture Department bought it again for 25,000 euros https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/berlin-das-raeuberrad-kehrt-an-die-volksbuehne-zurueck/23057420.htmlhttps://www.volksstimme.de/kultur/theater-raeuberrad-wieder-vor-berliner-volksbuehne It was then given a makeover and exhibited it again on September 24, 2018 on the Wiese. So that it couldn't escape, its feet were rewelded. The incontinence of some of the four-legged residents of the square were blamed for it, because you always needed someone to blame. 
In 2020 it was veiled as part of the Zirkumvention.
Since his return, Alfi has become relatively mute. Some people rumor that it is not the original robber's wheel and that it was either forgotten in a factory in Oberschweineöde or just acidified in some catacombs of the L40.
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