The organ organ

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The organ was from 1960 to 1977 an artist's pub for the Berlin painter-poets (Kreuzberger Bohème ). It was located at Zossener Strasse 1 at the corner of Baruther Strasse in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg .

The organ organ was founded by Kurt Mühlenhaupt . It was known throughout Germany as an artist and bohemian pub. The regulars included Hellmut Kotschenreuther , Artur Märchen , Gerhard Kerfin and Kiez originals such as Oskar Huth . Also Brigitte Horney visited the restaurant and bought pictures of Mühlenhaupt. It was the most important forerunner of the later Kreuzberg bar scene.

The organ barrel saw itself as a “start and end station for painters”, optionally as a “reservoir for bums , drunkards, artists of all kinds”, as the founder, artist boss and main operator Kurt Mühlenhaupt put it in a poster draft.

The trend was followed by other so-called “bulky waste bars”, which consisted of art and junk, following the pattern of the organ grinder. Since 1963 Mühlenhaupt has been giving out his beer drinker sheets from the organ organ with texts and drawings by his guests and friends. The third edition, in which Karl-Heinz Herwig satirically taken up the sexuality of God in human imagination , was confiscated on charges of blasphemy . The beer drinker leaves were an important forerunner of many later pub postils in Kreuzberg.

Former small world lantern in Kohlfurter Strasse , today: Kreuzberg world lantern

In addition to the organ grinder was little Weltlaterne in the Kreuzberg Bohème a reputation beyond the established cultural scene during the 1960s. Hertha Fiedler gave the pub her name in 1961, organized exhibitions and readings here and served “beer for pictures”.

Both bars were frequented by artists and intellectuals, some of whom later became prominent, such as Insterburg and Co. , Karl Dall , Günter Grass or Ulrich Schamoni . The Blattuß brothers set a musical monument to the nightlife of the district at that time with their hit Kreuzberger Nights .

They formed the prototypes of the West Berlin artist pubs, which were located in the middle of the old working-class districts, but lived off of middle-class guests. Kreuzberg was soon known as the “Berlin Montmartre ”. Mühlenhaupt gave up the organ in 1967, heavily in debt. After that it served as a jazz bar. This is also where the Blattuß brothers performed.

In October 1980 the building was demolished.

literature

  • Hanno Hochmuth: Neighborhood history. Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg in divided Berlin . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3092-4 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Barbara Lang: The Myth of Kreuzberg. Ethnography of a district (1961–1995) . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt (Main) / New York 1998, ISBN 3-593-36106-X ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Horst Rudolph, Robert Wolfgang Schnell , Heinz Ohff et al. : Handpicked. The tradition of making books in small Berlin publishers and workshops . Ed .: Kunstamt Kreuzberg. Argon, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-87024-160-8 .
  • Aldona Gustas : Berlin painter-poet . Introduction by Karl Krolow . Nicolai, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-87584-039-9 . (2nd edition 1978, ISBN 3-87584-074-7 .)
  • Aldona Gustas (Ed.): 10 years of Berlin painter-poets . Catalog for the exhibition from 13.9.-24. October 1982, gallery in the Tempelhof town hall. Nicolai, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-87584-110-7 .
  • Günter Bruno Fuchs , Aldona Gustas (Ed.): 20 years of Berlin painter-poets . Catalog for the exhibition from October 18 to December 6, 1992, gallery in Tempelhof Town Hall. Berlin-Tempelhof Art Office 1992.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hanno Hochmuth: Kiezgeschichte. Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg in divided Berlin . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3092-4 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ^ Gregor Eisenhauer : fate jokes. Obituary for Gerhard Kerfin. In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 16, 2016, accessed January 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Christian Däufel: Ingeborg Bachmanns 'A Place for Coincidences': An interpretive commentary . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-028056-2 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ Barbara Lang: Myth of Kreuzberg. Ethnography of a district (1961–1995) . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt (Main) / New York 1998, ISBN 3-593-36106-X ( limited preview in Google book search).

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 39.7 "  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 42"  E