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The Georg von Rauch House
An occupied building (Jugendhaus Stuttgart-Degerloch) with a banner with the slogan "... this is OUR house" (top right) attached.

The Rauch-Haus-Song is a song by the Berlin political rock band Ton Steine ​​Scherben from their second studio album Kein Macht für Nobody (1972).

The song addresses the occupation of the former Bethanien Hospital on Mariannenplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg on December 8, 1971, whose nurses' home the occupiers called " Georg-von-Rauch-Haus " - after the one on December 4, 1971 during an exchange of fire with the police shot Georg von Rauch .

The band was active in the squatting movement and directly involved in the occupation of the Rauch House - the second squatting in Berlin; Rio Reiser wrote the song during the cast.

In the squatter scene, the song is because of the lines “You can't get us out of here! This is our house! ” Has become an evergreen and is covered again and again by punk bands in particular ( see below ). “This is our house” is also the title of a “Story of the Squatting” published in 2017 by the shard bassist Kai Sichtermann and his sister, the journalist Barbara Sichtermann .

In the line "This is our house / are finally throwing Schmidt and Press and Mosch out of Kreuzberg", "Schmidt and Press" refers to the "Schmidt & Press GmbH & Co. KG" of real estate agent Günter Schmidt as the owner of the New Kreuzberg Center , "Mosch" to the building contractor involved, Heinz Mosch , who was the largest private building contractor in Germany in the early 1970s. Schmidt and Mosch were symbolic of real estate speculation .

Cover versions

  • In 2000 the German punk band released the album Rip Off on May 1, 1987, including the title Rauch-Haus-Song.
  • The DJ WestBam released a remix on the 2001 album Pop 2001 - History is Made .
  • In 2006 the singer and actor Jan Plewka released the film Jan Plewka sings Rio Reiser - A Reminiscence of the King of Germany including the Rauch-Haus song.
  • Brigade S released the song on their fifth album Turbobuben in 2009 .
  • In 2013 the Hamburg band Rantanplan published a cover version on the occasion of the evacuation of the Esso houses , the conflict over the Rote Flora and the protests against it that took place in Hamburg at the turn of the year 2013/2014.
  • On the second album by Swiss and Die Andern , Missglückte Welt , the Rauchhaus song is track number 9.
  • The crossover band KAFVKA released a cover of the song in 2016, the repositioned text of which addresses increasing gentrification. (" Throw everyone out of Kreuzberg without cash" ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lyrics / Tabs: Rauch-Haus-Song . In: RioLyrics.de . ( riolyrics.de [accessed February 11, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b Barbara Sichtermann , Kai Sichtermann : This is our house: A story of squatting . Structure Digital , Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8412-1164-4 ( google.de ).
  3. ^ Anne Lena Mösken: Center Kreuzberg at the Kottbusser Tor: From the ugly Kotti colossus to the popular residential center . In: Berliner Zeitung . November 21, 2014 ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed February 11, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Construction industry: Whether it's even enough . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1974 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Jens Friedemann: Last Act of the Mosch Drama . In: The time . No. 46 , 1974 ( zeit.de [accessed February 11, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Rauch House Song. In: RioLyrics.de. Robert Kneschke (Ed.), Accessed June 5, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Berlin funding: So excessive and shameless . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1973 ( online - there it says among other things: “At Kottbusser Tor, real estate agent Günter Schmidt wanted to pull up commercial and residential buildings in a semicircular arch for 80 million marks. But there were still houses on the site from which the tenants could not leave. Client Schmidt saw his' New Kreuzberg Center 'in danger and decided to force the' dementing 'of the old buildings: Without warning, he had the doors and windows of the still partially inhabited house at 131 Dresdener Strasse broken out and thrown into the courtyard. Reason:' We don't want to that guest workers and other rabble settle in. '").
  8. ↑ a b c d e Cover PR. In: schorbencover.de. Christian Noller (Ed.), Accessed June 5, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Open your mouth! In: fluter.de . ( fluter.de [accessed on August 12, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Kafvka - Rauch-Haus-Song. Retrieved August 12, 2018 .