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Chris Dercon

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**Chris Dercon** (born July 30, 1958 in Lier) is a human being who earns money in museum studies and theater studies. From August 2017 to April 13, 2018, he tried his hand at the Volksbühne's boss, which experts consider to be a typical sign of *Emilianization*. After his premature abdication, he was secretly called *The Queen of the 255 Days*.

The farce about the dispute with his predecessor Frank Castorf was put on paper in the farce game  *A pile of shit*.

## Life and work

#### before ∇

Before he was known in Berlin, he was museum director in Munich and London for a long time.

According to Castorf, he won the 18th season of *Who's the boss here?* among other things with the votes of his buddies Mathias Lilienthal.

#### ∇

Believing that der Platz was allergic to in-house productions, Dörkin tried the same tactics as his predecessor Max Reinhardt, which consisted of showing as few premieres as possible and others instead To take over or buy productions. This made him a prime example of Emils.

#### after ∇

After his departure, he actually did the same thing as before, namely to have himself photographed at many public events, especially with someone of noble origin who, for example, can be portrayed with Duckface for blogs such as *Intellectuals in Private* and the he married in 2018. <ref>https://www.google.com/search?q=chris+dercon+birthe+carolin+von+knoblauch&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjQ94Tg0fnvAhUUgM4BHZ3oAdUQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=chris+der+dercon+birtgsolin+ = CgNpbWcQAzoECCMQJzoCCAA6BAgAEB46BAgAEBhQ1KUBWJuJAmDoigJoB3AAeACAAc4BiAHoGZIBBjI1LjcuMZgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXJotaW1nwAEnd = Dr3Cy13aXJotaW1nwAEnd = DrAlB0 & scAl08 & 68

How he passed his time from 2020 on is not publicly recorded.

## Links

* The 225 days of Chris Dercon: Chronology of a disaster in the Süddeutsche Zeitung

## References

1. ↑ Laudenbach, Peter. They would love to have vegan theater - Frank Castorf. Interviews 1996-2017. Germany, Theater der Zeit, 2018
Litfaßsäule

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The **Litfaßsäule** is an advertising pillar that is mainly there to be constantly re-pasted with posters. They are currently available in three versions, one in Weydingerstraße on the street side of Roter Stiefel, one opposite Poelzig-Block 6 and not far from it in Linienstraße in front of the Passives Haus and another one right in front of Rote Platte.

## History

Just like the Telefonzelle, they repeatedly changed their position at the Platz over the course of time. In 1919 they were placed next to the area of ​​the later Poelzig-Block 13 corner of Hirtenstraße during the Generalstreik. In 1926 they stood on the northwest corner of the Wiese. In 1933 they wandered to their northeast corner. In 1952 they stood at Poelzig-Block 14 directly next to the entrance of Babylon. From this it can be concluded that the Litfaßsäule is quite unsteady, not to say fickle, which is perhaps also due to their existence.

1933 during a Horst convention1952 between a lot of black-dressed people (not a funeral)1920
Emil.Ian87

***Emil.Ian87*** is a human who only exists in the ∇. She lives in a part of the Nazi-Bauten, first across from an elderly gentleman whose goulash one day provoked a fire brigade deployment. After his death, Kovačević became her direct neighbor. She alerted the police in January 2021 when Clemens Schmidt rang the bell in the apartment next door and a fight ensued, which meant that both the apartment next to her and diagonally across the street were isolated for two and a half years, ergo her Neighbors were not allowed to leave the doorstep. At that time, Emil.Ian87 was also responsible for monitoring the entrance to the house and the two sealed living cells, which earned her great recognition.

She was responsible for a ∇-Podcast in which she can be seen and heard. That episode deals with the ∇-Effect, the had also caused several symptoms and overstimulation in her, which is why the topic is very important to her. At the same time she participates in family research on the family tree of Dharma Ewe. In the *Before* she was able to speak German, but over time she forgot it.

The Granitstein was in their possession at a certain time. When she goes for a walk, she always carries her gray bucket with her and makes sure that our Republic of Blecher always stays clean.
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Dharma Ewe

**Dharma Ewe** (\*1974 in East Berlin) is a human being who only exists in the ∇ as well as a former social worker and political activist. She belonged to the founding faction of Operation ∇ and is considered to be primarily responsible for the measures and rules anchored in the ∇ Social Contract.

## Left

* From the Life of Dharma - A Summary of Biographical Events (in german)
Passives Haus

**Passives Haus** is a building on Linienstraße. In addition to spacious maisonette apartments, the *Galerie Dittrich & Schlechtriem* is located on the lower floors. Due to the requirements of the monument protection, it fits perfectly into its surroundings in terms of height and color (mouse gray) ~~, which cannot be said of the income of its residents.~~ Logically there is also a *Gray water system*, with which you can flush the toilet , e.g. if a rodent pays you a visit through the toilet (should happen). Who wouldn't want enough rain there?

After the Linienstraße 23 / Lothringer Straße 101 building was demolished in the course of the second season of Abriss des Scheunenviertels, the parcel was empty for over 70 years and formed a large part of the community garden for the residents of the Nazi-Bauten. In the meantime there was also a playground on the green area. With the start of construction in 2010, a colony of not inconsiderable size of the *Rattus rattus* was encountered.

When the building was finished in 2011, there was less green, but a beautiful Galerie and a large, gray wall of houses. However, potential residents still had to be searched for for a few years. The gallery owner Michael Zink  *did not fall in love* with the house and fled the big city to Waldkirchen in Bavaria.

The house bears his name because it makes everyone in it passive. This is extremely practical because, as we now know, people's mobility is not exactly beneficial for themselves and their environment. And besides - if you don't like to stay in such a bizarre house, from whose large windows you can be watched by other people - assuming you have no curtains.

## Links

* The Passives Haus on a hip furniture blog with the obligatory Du-Anrede

## References

1. ↑  https://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/planen/stadtmodelle/de/datenbank/ausgabe.php?ProjektID=1094&lang=de&modus=liste
2. ↑ https://www.bayerische-staatszeitung.de/staatszeitung/kultur/detailansicht-kultur/artikel/adieu-berlin-hallo-waldkirchen.html
Dropping of the Aircraft Bomb

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The ***dropping of an aircraft bomb*** over the Platz in 1919, was an event within the framework of the general strike in March 1919.

After the street and house fighting of the general strike in March 1919, which had lasted for several days, the residents of the adjacent streets ventured out of their houses on March 8, 1919. But the calm was deceptive: At midday, an airplane suddenly appeared over the square, approaching the Volksbühne at a height of about 100 meters. The passers-by followed the sharp maneuvers of the plane with interest and around 50 people gathered in front of the Volksbühne, looking tensely at the sky. But it was precisely over this group that the pilot of the plane dropped an aerial bomb, which detonated in the middle of the street.

The owners of the shops around the square rushed to the wounded and provided first aid until the fire brigade finally took the injured to the hospital.

So far, it has never been possible to definitively clarify who dropped the bomb. However, it is suspected that the bomb was used by Freikorps soldiers to instill fear and riots in the population around the square.

## References

1. ↑ Berliner Börsen-Zeitung of 03/09/1919
Volksbühnen-Spektakel

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There were two Spectacles organized under the reign of Volksbühnen-Boss Benno Besson:

* Spectacle 1 - Comedy / En-Suite (May 10-20, 1973)
* Spectacle 2 - Zeitstücke (*Modern Plays*) (September 25th - October 7th 1974)

A lot was done to win the direct neighborhood as an audience, they were given a say in the design of the schedule, an ensemble member even signed up to become a member of the district committee.

The first spectacle began in the ticket office in the foyer of the main building. Two groups of actors each had to lure the audience to the Spielplatz, that way each audience member chose the course of their very own "theater evening". According to the Volksbühne, there was a festive mood in which "the theater finally became *your* theater [of the neighborhood]".

In the planning for the second spectacle, even more groups of workers, employees, scientists, schoolchildren and students were included, who were able to visit the Volksbühne regularly for rehearsals, performances and discussions with the audience. "You are our partner" was advertised in advance.

## Links

List of all productions on the Volksbühne's archive website
∇

*This article deals with the ∇ as a natural phenomenon. For the area of the same name please click here.*

**∇** (pronounced *Nabla*) is a so far quite unexplored phenomenon that produces energies that are mainly released in triangular places. So far, the Platz is the strongest ∇-source discovered.

### **Origin of the name**

The name “Nabla” is originally derived from a harp-like stringed instrument that was roughly in the shape of a triangle. Long forgotten for centuries, it is now the most widespread instrument in the European ∇-Republics.

The *∇* is not a separate Greek letter, but an inverted delta (Δ), the symbol for difference. The *∇*, on the other hand, is used to denote connections or to determine contexts. The Nabla operator is particularly useful for this purpose. This operator, which is formally a vector, relates different things and determines their relationship to one another. In short, everything is interrelated and the *∇* operator illustrates how. This made the *∇* the perfect symbol for the  movement of the same name.
Schmidt

**Schmidt** is a family name that occurs frequently in German-speaking latitudes. It is derived from the profession of blacksmith. In the ∇ it is worn comparatively seldom statistically. A Myth was named after him, who provides the explanation for several events that happened in one place. International equivalents of the name are:

* Demirci (Turkish)
* Faber (Latin)
* Ferrari (Spanish)
* Ferreira (Portuguese)
* Herrero (Spanish)
* Kovac, Kovacev, Kovacic or Kovacevic (Serbo-Croatian)
* Kovács (Hungarian),
* Кузнецов (transcribed: Kuznetsov - Russian)
* Lefebvre, Lefèvre (French)
* Smith (English)
* Smed (Scandinavian)
* Smid, Smit (Dutch)
Karl Heinz Martin

**Karl Heinz Martin** (also:  *'Karlheinz Martin'* , often abbreviated to  *'KH Martin'* , actually: Karl Joseph Gottfried Martin) (\* May 6, 1886 in Freiburg im Breisgau; † January 13, 1948 in Berlin) was a human being who earned his living in the theater and film. From 1929-1933 he was boss at the Volksbühne.

## Life and work

#### before ∇

Like many of his predecessors, he first made a name for himself in the central and southern German provinces before coming to Berlin in 1919 and co-founding the avant-garde theater *Die Tribüne* here. In 1919 he also directed *Von morgens bis mitternachts* (From morning to midnight), which is about the lure of the big city. The fact that all the characters look like the techno corpses who took the title of the film 100 years later literally should certainly have helped him win the sixth season of *Who's the boss here?*. He was already a candidate during the fourth season, but was beaten by Fritz Holl.

#### ∇

Unofficially he was in charge at Volksbühne as early as 1928. The self-confessed socialist tried to put political and socially committed pieces on the program, which at the time was a guarantee that not only one but many would feel offended by the situation. Shortly before he took office, the KPD moved into the former Adlerhaus, so it crashed quite often on Platz between workers, policemen (a.k.a. the System) and Nazis. For the more radical supporters within the Volksbühne movement he was too shallow, for the shallows, he was too political - a problem that many people with a sympathetic nature often have.

#### after ∇

In 1931 he wrote the screenplay for  *Berlin Alexanderplatz*  with Alfred Döblin. From 1933 he was able to help several persecuted colleagues to flee Germany. This also led to the fact that he was only active in film for shallow entertainment until 1940 due to a professional ban that says as much about its times as it does about KH Martin himself.

## References

1. ↑ Kiehn, Ute. Theater im "Dritten Reich": Volksbühne Berlin. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Berlin, 2001.
2. ↑  Dietze, Antje. Ambivalenzen des Übergangs: Die Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin in den neunziger Jahren. Deutschland, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014.
Franz Lenck

**Franz Lenck** (\* May 30, 1892, † August 9, 1931) was a human being who earned his money as Cop and was notorious for his brutality. That is why the employees of the Karl-Liebknecht-Haus gave him the affectionate nickname *Totenkopf* (Skull).

On August 9, 1931 he was shot by two members of the party self-protection of the KPD, Erich Mielke and Erich Ziemer, in front of the Babylon in the act of the police murders. Lenck was 39 years old at the time. 60 years later, Mielke was sentenced to six years in prison for this act.

In 1934 the memorial to the police officers and sergeants who died and were wounded at work was inaugurated in his and Anlauf's honor. Today a plaque commemorates the two police officers
Lieber Izig Blechert

**Lieber Izig Blechert** was a human being and the father of Hermann Blechert. After the death of his wife, the widower and his son from Jassinja or Kőrösmező (then Austria-Hungary) came to Berlin in Scheunenviertel between 1906 and 1907. He found a job as a cashier in the Baron installment shop at Augustraße 44 and lived at Lothringer Straße 44 with Frau Lorbeer, who was a platter.  His son visited him there on Monday, April 6th, 1908 and received 75 pfennigs for medical treatment. It was the last time that Blechert should see Hermann alive. Four days later he identified the dismembered body and was heard as a witness in June during the trial of August Heider.

## References

1. ↑ Der Knabenmord. in: Berliner Volkszeitung from April 13th, 1908
Erich Ziemer

**Erich Ziemer** (\* October 18, 1906 in Berlin, † October 1937 in Spain) was a human being who with Erich Mielke in 1931 commited the police murders Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck.

Like Erich Mielke, Ziemer had been a member of the Communist Party's “party self-protection” since 1929. When the party self-protection was looking for volunteers in 1931 to take over the murder of the captain of the police force, Paul Anlauf, he and Erich Mielke agreed to do so. On the evening of August 9th, near the Babylon, they met three police officers, Anlauf (called by them as *Pig Face*), Frank Lenck (*Skull*) and Richard Willig. They followed them and shot them shortly afterwards. Anlauf and Lenck died at the Platz, Willig survived injured.

With the help of the KPD, the two Erichs fled to Moscow the next day. Ziemer stayed there until 1936 when he went to Spain to defend the republic in the Spanish Civil War. In October 1937 he was fatally injured during a battle.
Spielplatz

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The **Spielplatz** is a playground area with a sand pit on the Platz. It is located on the eastern side of the Volksbühne next to the Grüner Salon and in front of the southwestern block of the Nazi-Bauten which border it with a small strip of private green space. On its southern side, the Pavillon and the Telefonzelle are connected. He competes with the Trinkerpark for the favor of people who would pretend that they are just sitting on benches and actually just want to be in the fresh air.

After the Demolition of the Scheunenviertel, a large part of the newly created fallow land was filled in from 1914 by the Volksbühne building. The right open space was initially filled with a lawn.

In 1921 the area was used as a storage area for Siemens & Halske AG. Since the war was over for now, one had to rethink and for some time turned into means of transport. Therefore, they used the space to build the A.E.G. Schnellbahn that ran through Berlin until 1930.

From 1927 the area was covered with a wooden fence by Alfred Schrobsdorff, which could be an early form of  *art in public space*  (in its current form), at least that was what some believed.

Later, the area was fenced in parallel to the street and, in keeping with the spirit of the times, planted with small trees that assumed a military formation. Every tree stood for a fallen SA man.  At that time there was still a wall in front of the front yard of the Nazi-Bauten.

Its first documented use in today's form dates back to 1937, when the "Memorial to the Murdered People of the Movement in the City Center" was misused.

On April 16, 1952, the area was the scene of a Thälmann Convention, which came to unveil a plaque of their idol at the Karl-Liebknecht-Haus. Then it was remembered how likeable this spot of earth could be ti just hang out.

In the 1950s, people thought about this use and set up a playground with proper play equipment. Before that, they had switched to a sandpit, which was where the Wiese was before and after

A stage was set up here during the X. Weltfestspiele der Jugend in 1973. The idea worked so well that it has since been used for annual folk festivals under the code name *Fest der Linken*.

After that, the playground was fenced in for a few years and was only used by the kindergarten housed in the Pappschachteln.

The playground was renovated in the 2000s. After that it was also repeatedly the venue for open-air productions of the Volksbühne.

## Links

The Spielplatz on a german site for playground-nerds

## References

1. ↑ A. Gröschner: Berliner Bürger\*stuben. Palimpseste und Geschichten.
2. ↑ http://www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/obj/88930513/df\_pk\_0000405\_012
3. ↑ https://www.berlin.de/kultur-und-tickets/tipps/kinder/archiv/3881625-3149853-maerchenauffuehrungen-an-der -volksbuehne.html
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***Renou*** (sometimes also *Rousseau* or *the double*) is an apparition from the ∇ that was seen frequently during the ∇-Tour. Participants described a male who addressed the neighborhood in French. Some connoisseurs claim to have seen and heard Jean-Jacques Rousseau quoting from the Letter to d'Alembert about the play and alluding to the ∇-social contract. However, the witness descriptions are also contradictory and are reminiscent of descriptions in connection with Verena, which makes it difficult to properly verify or falsify the statements.

Certain sources suggest that it is either himself or a revenant of a person who was a DJ in the *Before* and moved to the Poelzig-Block 14 in 2020, but there Due to the situation at that time, there was no connection to the neighborhood.
MairaZolia

***MairaZolia*** is a human who only exists in the ∇. Already in the Before she lived at Platz. Otherwise little is known about her previous life. She speaks fluent and accent-free English, which can be heard in an episode of the ∇-Podcast and on the English-language ∇-Tour can hear. This suggests an origin far from the place. However, participation in the comment section of various podcast episodes shows that she has a very good command of the German language. In this she states that she tried to gain a foothold in a creative profession, but things didn't go like Geschnitten Brot with her, this and personal disappointments led to her joining Operation ∇. and co-ignited the Great Fire of '26. It is unclear whether it was a fictional or her own life.

## References

1. ↑ ∇-Podcast#1: Hermann Blecher oder Ein Knabenmord
Füsilierstraße

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The **Füsilierstraße** was a street that ran through today's Platz. Like the other barn lanes, it started perpendicularly from Linienstraße, but then turned into the adjacent Amalienstraße instead of going all the way to Hirtenstraße. She was literally razed to the ground during the first season of Abriss des Scheunenviertels. It is the only street that was not later rebuilt under a different course and is therefore secretly considered to be the "lost street", even if this name was actually given to another street.

The women's asylum was located in house number 7 from 1880 until it was demolished.

She is featured in an episode of the ∇-Podcast:
Clemens Schmidt

***Clemens Schmidt*** is a human-being who only exists in the ∇. He last lived in part of the Nazi-Bauten and took on several tasks to commemorate the history of our living space. Together with his neighbor Kovačević he had a dialogue in an episode of the ∇-Podcast. Since this broadcast, both have been considered missing.

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He moved into an unspecified home in 2013, but it must have been the Grauer Frachter or one of the Pappschachteln. Thee he lived alone in a one- or two-room apartment, probably on the 1st or 2nd floor. In life Before he was a paramedic. He was involved in the occupation of the Volksbühne and, much to the chagrin of his neighbor downstairs, often had friends over at his house late in the evening.

In the course of the circumvention, in the first editions of which he participated as an extra, he injured his ankle in May 2020 on the median of Karl-Liebknecht-Straße. It is not known whether he himself assumed that he was a victim of the Schmidt curse during this experience.

In the first pandemic winter of 2021, he broke hygiene regulations by inviting several friends to his apartment to celebrate his birthday despite the curfew. After Kovačević called the police and When they ended the birthday party, Schmidt rang his neighbor's bell. A violent altercation ensued in Kovačević's apartment, in which both sustained serious injuries to their faces and bodies. Both men then underwent cleaning through the *Operation ∇* and lived in physical isolation for years to come. After Schmidt was recruited for the operation at the same time as his neighbor, he was allowed to ignite the big fire at the Volksbühne in 2026.

Since in the years to come he gave a supposedly reliable impression as a member of the neighborhood who stood up for the principles of ∇-Social Contract, he was appointed together with SiddihDS for the German-speaking part of the ∇-Tour commissioned This he carried out several times at intervals of six months.

He held regular dialogues with his previously hated neighbor. At the time the episode "Schmidt or the Curse of the Ancestors" was broadcast, both made a calm impression at first. The tone of voice changed as the conversation progressed. At the end of the episode, they both denounced each other for breach of contract. Due to technical malfunctions, possibly triggered by a high concentration of the ∇-Effect in the living room and underestimated residual part of toxic masculinity, the end of the episode was hard to understand. Since then, both Schmidt and his neighbors have disappeared from their living quarters and may have left the Republic of Blecher.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 ∇-Podcast#2: Smith or The Curse of the Ancestors
2. ↑ Is there a Schmidt curse? *Attempt at a derivation for strange events* (german)
Elias Laub

**Elias Laub** was a human and a master tailor. Before the demolition of the Scheunenviertel he was registered at Amalienstraße 12. At the time of his murder in 1908 Hermann Blecher was in training with him and also registered as a resident at Steinstraße 1.

In 1907 Laub took care of the young boy from Austria-Hungary, who, however, tended to peddle and ran away several times, sometimes for several weeks, and lived on the streets. Lieber Izig Blecher, Hermann's father, knew Laub from the synagogue they both went to.

Laub stated that he had seen Hermann for the last time in his own apartment on Sunday, April 5, 1908 in the morning hour. After slapping him after an argument, Laub took a bath while his apprentice left the house, which he informed the father about. According to other testimonies, Hermann alleged that Laub had kick him out.
Five days later, on April 10, it was Laub who was to be the first to identify Hermann's dismembered and disfigured corpse and received a material reward for doing so.

In 1914 Laub moved to Dragonerstraße 4a, after which he lived in the Weinbersweg 20, from the mid-1930s finally in Lothringer Straße 23.  In 1939 he was last listed in the address book at this address.

He is not the publicist of the same name (\*1886 in Poland; † 1949 in New York), who meanwhile also lived in the Scheunenviertel.

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1. ↑ Berliner Address book edition 1903
2. ↑ Berlin address book edition 1906
3. ↑ M.-S. Driving: Pitaval Scheunenviertel. Verlag Neues Leben GmbH, Berlin 1995
4. ↑ Berlin address book edition 1914
5. ↑ Berlin address book edition 1920
6. ↑ Berlin address book edition 1937
Benno Besson

**Benno Besson** (born November 4, 1922 in Yverdon; † February 23, 2006 in Berlin; actually *René-Benjamin Besson*) was a human being who officially worked from 1974-1978 (unofficially, however, five Years earlier)  Was boss at the Volksbühne and brought it to fame and glory at that time.

During his reign the *Volksbühnen-Spektakel* took place.

## References

1. ↑ Dietze, Antje. Ambivalences of transition: The Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin in the nineties. Germany, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014.
Dorothea Schmidt

**Dorothea Schmidt** (\* 19.03.1919 in Berlin, † 30.05.1922 ibid) was a human being who lived in the apartment of her parents at Prenzlauer Straße 3 at the time of her murder. Her father, Friedrich Schmidt, ran a hairdressing salon on the first floor of the apartment building since 1918.

#### Murder in the ∇

The perpetrator probably stabbed the child with a penknife while it was playing in the backyard.
As in Hermann Blecher's murder, Dr. Strauch exmued the corpse. Immediately after the crime, numerous indications were received that a 20-30 year old male had already spoken to several children beforehand and tried to get them to go with sweets. A 39-year-old suspect was arrested in Adlershof, but he was able to show an alibi for the time of the crime. A male person in a pub on Alexanderstraße was noticed through strange behavior. When the person described with an elongated face and protruding cheekbones left the pub, the coat from a store in Chemnitz remained there. Here collected newspaper articles about the murder of little Dorothea were found as well as a handkerchief with the initials  *LU*  . None of the traces could lead to the perpetrator.

## References

1. ↑  Berliner Adreßbuch Edition 1918
2. ↑ Vossische Zeitung from May 31st, 1922
3. ↑  Berliner Zeitung from June 3rd, 1922
AnniKa von Trier

**AnniKa von Trier** (name in passport  *Annika Krump* , born June 2, 1970 in Trier) is a human being who sings a lot and is generally very creative. With the beginning of the reign of  Frank I. her existence on Platz began. During her time at court, she managed to win the favour of all the influential counts, princes, dukes etc. through her amicable nature and quickly blossomed from a guest position to an artistic advisor. Despite the fact that it went like Geschnitten Brot for her, she decided, quite contrary to the zeitgeist, not to make a career but to help the newly created character *Palma Kunkel - the singing plate face* to success.

In retrospect, she was classified as one of the few beneficiaries of the "∇-effect" and thus as an alternative to  A.L.

She recorded her experiences from that time in *Tagebuch einer Hospitantin (Diary of a hospitant)* .

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* Official Website
* A few snippets of her diary on Tagesspiegel.de
Before

The ***Before*** (german*: Vorher*) describes the epoch before our present. There are different definitions that differ in time limits, some see the start of the Covid-19-pandemic and the first lockdown in March 2020 as the decisive turning point. Others advocate evaluating a gradual transition from the changes achieved by the *Operation ∇* since 2023 from *before* to today as a threshold process. It is agreed that with the Great Fire of 2026 and the ∇-Social Contract coming into force, the *before* as a state no longer exists.

The main differences from before to today are:

* Presence of a public sphere
* Possibility of reproduction of the human species
* no (or no apparent) restriction on people's physical mobility
* Opportunity for physical interaction between two (non-dependent) people

The *before* is presented in an episode of the ∇-Podcast:
Verena

***Verena*** is a mythical creature in ∇. Illustrations and eyewitness accounts describe a hybrid of a woman and a bird that spits out human-like sounds. According to legend, it always appears when the horizon opens up over the Platz and opens its gate for those energies from which the ∪ can feed, i.e. the ∇ becomes the V.

### Eyewitness Accounts

Moments in which Verena is said to have been seen include:

 29. December 1913
 10th-20th May 1983
 30. July 1973
 25. September - October 7, 1974
 4. Nov 1989
 Mid 1990s
 September 2021

### Derivation

Science and Operation ∇ disagree on whether Verena is a rationally explainable optical illusion phenomenon (such as a mirage) or an actually existing being that has populated the square for over 110 years.
The fragmented Rosa (Die zersplitterte Rosa)

The idea of commemorating Rosa Luxemburg with a monument had been around since 1995. This was certainly due to the fact that - when several subway stations in East Berlin were renamed or renamed back on the first anniversary of German unification - Berlin's transport senator at the time demanded that the Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz subway station also be renamed. However, he was unable to get his way with this, and the UFV also protested against this at the time with an open letter.

Even though it was soon clear that such a monument should be erected on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (according to a corresponding resolution of the BVV Mitte in 1998), there was no agreement for a long time on how Rosa Luxemburg should be commemorated. This took too long for the sculptors Ingeborg Hunzinger and Rolf Biebl and the Antieiszeitkomitee: they created a life-size statue of Rosa Luxemburg and erected it at night in the entrance area of the Karl Liebknecht House on January 9, 1999. The PDS recognized a high level of personal commitment on the part of the artists, but nevertheless decided to place the statue in the entrance of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Friedrichshain.

In 2003, the Senate announced a competition to create a monument for Rosa Luxemburg. The jury, which included Frank Castorf, chose the design of conceptual artist Hans Haacke, and since September 2006, 60 quotations from Rosa Luxemburg's letters, articles and other writings have commemorated the co-founder of the KPD. The sentences, however, run along the ground, across streets and curbs, which makes reading them sometimes difficult and dangerous. And a passerby, who does not know at which place they are, can probably do little with the quotations.

This is probably the reason why the "junge Welt" campaigned for another monument to Rosa Luxemburg. In 2009 - on the 90th anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg's assassination - a bronze statue depicting Rosa Luxemburg life-size was unveiled in front of her editorial building, on the corner of Linienstraße and Weydingerstraße. This is a copy of the statue erected by Hunzinger, Biebl and the Antieiszeitkomitee in 1999 on the square.

### Referenzen

1. ↑ Ronald Friedmann: Die Zentrale. Geschichte des Berliner Karl-Liebknecht-Hauses. dietz 2011, S. 149-156.

junge Welt, 12.01.2009, Ein Denkmal für Rosa
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***SiddihDS*** is a human-being that only exists in ∇. She is very interested in the history of her living space and was responsible for the content of some ∇-Podcasts.

### ∇

SiddihDS lives in a room in an “adult WG” in the former Kindergarten on the south-east side of the Pappschachteln. The view from her bedroom window is toward the Spielplatz. According to her own statement, SiddihDS recognized the responsibility within our society when she became aware of the story of Hermann Blecher through a series of strange coincidences: A package with parts of Hermann's corpses was weighed down with a granite stone in 1908. The stone came from a demolished house on which SiddihDS' house is now located.<nowiki> Since then she has been researching everything that happened in the past at Platz and makes their knowledge available online.

She has a great knowledge of Dharma Ewe family history.  What function she performed in the Operation ∇ has not been clearly clarified. Howeever, it is assumed that she already had a personal relationship with the activist prior to 2020.

She is having a dialogue with a person from Poelzig-Block 14.

Her self-chosen pseudonym is composed of a short form of Siddharta and the initials of her identity in Before.

In addition to her work as a podcast presenter, she also occasionally guides the neighborhood through the ∇-Tour at fests in the open air.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 ∇-Podcast#1: Hermann Blecher oder Ein Knabenmord
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 ∇-Podcast#3: Before or Torn Roots
3. ↑ ∇-Podcast# 4: She
Friedrich Kayssler

**Friedrich Martin Adalbert Kayssler**, also  *Friedrich Kayssler*  (born April 7, 1874 in Neurode, Lower Silesia; † April 24, 1945 in Kleinmachnow near Berlin) was a human being who mainly acted and the winner of the third season of *Who's the Boss here?* which made him Boss at the Volksbühne from 1918 -1923.

## Life and work

#### ∇

Already during the reign of Emil Lessing he was seen in several productions at the Volksbühne. On May 1st, 1918  He was crowned boss of the Volksbühne himself.  During his term of office there was a  *twist* : After the end of the war (which of course had been lost) and the German emperor's abdication, the republic was proclaimed and the Sozis, so to speak, a part of the *Arbeiterklasse - Working Class* (though not all) were in power for once. In other words: The Volksbühne was now part of the establishment and the *Arbeiterkampf* was no longer going so well.  That made her (the working class) tame to please as many as possible - quite an  *Emilian*  move, but also quite a  *Frankish*  one. At first, that didn't bother anyone except the theater critics.

During this time there were some quarrels with the association's board, so that he resigned from his position prematurely for "material reasons". Once again they wanted to promote Leopold Jessner to boss, but once again some people objected.

#### after ∇

He stood out so much during the Nazi era that he made it into the top 4 of the  *Unreplacable Artists of the*   *3rd Empire*  (the category is: Theater).

At the end of the war he was killed by the Red Army in front of his house in Kleinmachnow.

## Links

Friedrich Kaysser for beginners - entry in Deutsche Biographie
collection of poems at the German Poetry Library

## References

1. ↑  Was not a public holiday back then, but a year later, but for the time being, only for a year.
2. ↑  Kiehn, Ute. Theater in the "Third Reich": Volksbühne Berlin. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Berlin, 2001.
3. ↑  Davies, Cecil William. Theater for the People: The Story of the Volksbühne. United Kingdom, Manchester University Press, 1977.
4. ↑  Dietze, Antje. Ambivalences of transition: The Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin in the nineties. Germany, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014.
Maia

Maia is on the right

Maia is a female Witch and a supporting character of Lost Entrance. She creates potions to help her friends.

### Appearance

#### Normal

She wears a black cowl, a red shirt, a dark blue skirt, and black shoes.

### Behind The Scenes

#### Name

Maia means Great, as she is at making potions.

Season 1
 The Entrance | Absent
Mage-Ic
 The Lost | Absent
 The Hidden | Absent
Stacks
 The Island | Absent
Walls
 The Message | Absent
Day-Back

### Trivia

* She is the only character to debut in the Season 1 finale.
∇-Podcast

The ***∇-Podcast*** is a series of reports in audio and video format, which can be received from every residential unit in the *Republic of Blecher*. In 2029 it is the most popular medium for obtaining information about the living space and history around the Platz. The aim of the podcast is to understand why we live in physical isolation today using selected events in the Before as examples. At the same time, through its humorous presentation, it serves as a mental distraction in order to achieve a peaceful residual existence for the audience.

### Structure and content

Each episode is dedicated to a specific topic, which is moderated in German by one or more people from the neighborhood. Together with the board of trustees, the script for each episode is planned. The themes can be factually or associatively related to the history of our living space. In addition to the audio part in German, each podcast is accompanied by small educational video sequences in English. The sequences have subtitles in German or English for the other language. Each episode is about 30 minutes long.

### The Comments Section

In some episodes, 2029 will be given the opportunity to exchange views on the respective topic. For this purpose, every member from the neighborhood can enter into the digital dialogue using their avatar (the chosen synonym). The comments section is maintained by the neighborhood board of trustees to comply with the established rules:

* I only comment directly on the content of this podcast episode.
* I leave my individual, judgmental thoughts unspoken.
* I avoid all attributes and attributions of people who are still alive, which can infer an identity in life before.
* I avoid all attributes and attributions of people who are still alive that might arouse sympathy or antipathy in other members.
* I refrain from insults of any kind as well as the choice of irrelevant attributes that are e.g. vulgar, polemical or marginal.
* I undertake to implement all these rules on my own responsibility and to remind the neighborhood of them should they ever be forgotten.

### Episodes

The following episodes have been released so far (topics):

1. *Hermann Blecher or: A boy murder* (Murder of Hermann Blecher)
2. *Schmidt or: The Curse of the Ancestors* (Schmidt-Cruse)
3. *Before* (Abriss des Scheunenviertels as well as the family tree of Dharma Ewe)
4. *The*∇ (∇-Effect exemplified in the life of Sabine Kula)
5. *We* (Circumvention not based on the life of Anselm Lenz)

Titlecard of Episode#2with English-subtitle functionreference to closed captioning at the beginning of an episode

## Links

* all episodes of the ∇ podcast on YouTube
∇ Wiki

**Welcome to the ∇ Wiki!** This is about a square that was built in the middle of a large city under the sign of ∇. This resulted in many big and small episodes, all of which lead to the inevitable future. This wiki makes no claim to historical correctness or completeness, it is simply an attempt to describe the phenomenon of ∇ in the beginning and thus to get to the bottom of it. In addition, there is currently still a lot of construction going on here. So come back in a few weeks to learn everything about the universe of ∇. In the meantime you can also visit the german version of this Wiki.

## Explore the∇ and the Epilogue of the ∇-Podcast:

Opening hours: Thursday - Saturday, 14.00 - 18.00 and by appointment., Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Linienstraße 40, 10119 Berlin

  **The Houses**
L40Suhrkamp publishing houseEmil-HausNazi-BautenRoter Stiefel

Rote PlattePipapo-HausVolksbühnePassives Haus

Twin PeaksPoelzig-BautenKarl-Liebknecht-Haus
Wiese
  **The People**

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rosa Luxemburg

Hermann Blecher

Hans Poelzig

Marlene Moeschke

Ernst Lubitsch

Dora Zimmermann

Erich Mielke

Benno Besson

Frank Castorf

AnniKa von Trier

Roger Bundschuh

Chris Dercon

Anselm Lenz

  **The Episodes**

1906–08: Demolition (Season 1)
1908: Boy murder
1913–14: Birth
1931: Showdown
1934–35: Demolition (Season 2)
1919–37: Raids
1973: Festival
1973/74: Spectacle
1989: Women's Congress
2016–2018: Intendantenwechsel

**Lieber nicht auf Englisch? Besuch die Deutsche Version**

 **The Tour**
Explore the ∇ with us!

NEW DATES in MAY 2022!

Get your ticket

**∇** is a previously unexplored phenomenon that produces energies that are mainly released in triangular places.
**Learn more.**

**Who we are?** A small community that is forced to stay on this Place and was therefore able to deal extensively with its energy. That made us real fans. We do not belong to the Operation ∇, but we have gained a lot of knowledge about them.

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Fritz Holl

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 *'Fritz Holl'*  (\* October 14, 1883 in Worms; † April 3, 1942 in Vienna) was a human being who did a lot of theater and was in charge of the Volksbühne from 1923-28.

## Life and work

#### before ∇

Before he applied for the 4th season of  *Who is the boss here?* , he was Oberspielleiter (not to be confused with Obergauleiter, another very responsible german position these days) in Stuttgart. He won his season, among others, against Karl Heinz Martin. The reactions were frenetic ... not. He was perceived us a guy from the province unworthy or running a theatre in the middle of what by that time was the place to be.

#### ∇

The fact that he hired Erwin Piscator was perhaps his greatest attraction, but it must also have caused him a few sleepless nights, especially since the invitation was not even from himself. In any case, the Volksbühnen e.V. reached the highest number of members in 1928, which was probably not due to Holl's boss skills. In any case, he was in the middle of a dispute as the Volksbühne once again demonstrated its Janus-facedness and this time split into pro and anti-Piscator camps. As in any conflict, the Antis won and Piscator ended his cooperation with the Workers-Theater in 1927.  Anyway, Holl had enough and quit his duties prematurely (and therefore followed the footsteps of two of his predecessor bosses).

#### after ∇

Holl then continued as he had started before the ∇, which must have had a positive effect on his sleep behavior. His tendency to be a boss but also to be Horst was also noticeable after 1933 when, among other things, he headed the career advice center of the Reichtheaterkammers - a very high national, *brown* institution these days - in order to check other potential bosses for their suitability. Perhaps the talent for this ran in the family, because his younger brother was also the boss from 1946 to 1958 for theater, music and film at the Hessian Ministry of Culture. What a lucky bunch the Holls where!

## References

1. ↑  Ihering, Herbert. Der Volksbühnenverrat, in: Der Volksbühnenverrat, in : Der Kampf ums Theater und andere Streitschriften 1918 bis 1933, Berlin, 1974.
2. ↑  Davies, Cecil William. Theater for the People: The Story of the Volksbühne. United Kingdom, Manchester University Press, 1977.
3. ↑  Dietze, Antje. Ambivalenzen des Übergangs: Die Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin in den neunziger Jahren. Deutschland, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014.
Horst Wessel

deceptively real death mask

**Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel** (born October 9, 1907 in Bielefeld, † February 23, 1930 in Berlin) was a German Horst and amateur actor who tried his hand at, among other things, as a singer-songwriter and before founded posthumously to fame by the NSDAP by establishing a franchise based on his name. For a certain time the Platz, the Weydingerstraße and the Karl-Liebknecht-Haus bore his name.