The little world lantern

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Former small world lantern in Kohlfurter Strasse , today: Kreuzberg world lantern
The little world lantern in Nestorstrasse
Counter of the small world lantern
Jazz in the small world lantern

The Small World Lantern is an original in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg located pub developed nationwide as an artist pub in the 1960s and 1970s attraction.

Together with the artist pub Der Leierkasten , the small world lantern became known outside of the established cultural scene during this time. Both pubs were the main meeting point for the Berlin painter-poets (Kreuzberger Bohème ). Socially critical artists and intellectuals frequented here, many of whom later became prominent, such as Karl Dall , Ingeborg Bachmann , Günter Grass , Insterburg & Co. , Ulrich Schamoni , Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern , Günter Bruno Fuchs , Robert Wolfgang Schnell , Nicolas Born and Friedrich Christian Delius .

Also Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Henry Miller , Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Hildegard Knef visited the Small Weltlaterne . Many other artists and celebrities came to the Little World Lantern over the years . Among them Ernst Fuchs , Markus Lüpertz , Peter Maffay , Udo Jürgens , Harald Juhnke , Heinz Schenk , Caterina Valente , Harald Schmidt and Rolf Eden .

In the early 1960s, Kurt Mühlenhaupt set the trend towards so-called “bulky waste bars” that consisted of art and junk. The Small World Lantern was opened in September 1961 by Hertha Fiedler , who had come to West Berlin from Karl-Marx-Stadt shortly before the Wall was built. She had taken over the former Berliner-Kindl- Kneipe and offered her place to a neighboring artist who wanted to put on an exhibition. Fiedler organized readings and gathered parts of the West Berlin literary scene around him. She increasingly became a gallery owner and manager of the Kreuzberg cultural scene. For example, she poured out “Beer for Pictures”. At first, painters and sculptors from the neighborhood came here , later also from other districts. A nationwide attraction developed. Since 1967, the publisher and writer VauO Stomps , who returned to Berlin, was a frequent guest in the Kleine Weltlaterne and developed new projects for his small publishing house Neue Rabenpresse .

The Small World Lantern and the barrel organ were the prototypes of the West Berlin artists pubs, although they were in the midst of the old workers' districts, but also lived by bourgeois guests. The Kreuzberg bohemians came together in the artist pubs , which, in contrast to the abstract art of the Charlottenburg scene, emphasized critical realism. In the 1960s, a social milieu established itself in Kreuzberg that produced an unorthodox cultural scene and also presented itself as unconventional and anti-bourgeois in terms of the world of life. Many different forms of art were tried out and disseminated from here. In the early 1960s, for example, Günter Grass sat on an elephant on behalf of Fiedler, read from the tin drum and auctioned art for the Circus Renz . Fiedler and Kurt Mühlenhaupt initiated two carriages a day for the first Kreuzberg picture market, which left the Zoo train station and, after visiting the gallery on Schöneberger Ufer , drove to the picture market. Then the coachman directed the visitors to some artist bars.

The Small Weltlaterne defined itself in contrast to the organ grinder yet total bourgeois. The Blattuß brothers set a musical monument to the nightlife of the district at that time with their hit Kreuzberger Nights .

Today, there is little Weltlaterne in Nestorstraße in Berlin-Halensee and Bernd Fiedler, son of Hertha Fiedler, farmed. There are also exhibitions by painters such as Matthias Koeppel and jazz evenings. In 2019 there was a film shoot with Roberto Blanco in the pub .

In 1978 Hertha Fiedler received the Federal Cross of Merit for her commitment .

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Web links

Commons : The Small World Lantern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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