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Messages against gentrification started proliferating throughout Neukölln in 2011. - by SL Wong

Yuppies – Out!

Yuppies – Raus!

The first street demonstration in Berlin we attended in 2009 was against gentrification, especially in Kreuzberg and Mitte. But it wasn't until 2011 that our neighbourhood of Neukölln came under…

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Spizahorn in Autumn - by SL Wong

Dawn II

Die Morgendämmerung II

Jetlag gets me up at dawn. It is autumn and the bedroom is suffused with a light yellow. The yellow is from the maple leaves shading my bedroom window. Which…

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Dawn in Berlin - by SL Wong

Dawn I

Die Morgendämmerung I

A plus point about jetlag whenever I returned to Berlin from Malaysia was the quiet joy of seeing dawn break among scudding clouds. The only thing was that these clouds…

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Joseph and Helene Haase and their sister-in law, Margarete lived at No. 100. - by SL Wong

Stumbling Stone Memorials

Stolpersteine Denkmäler

It was drizzly, gray and wintery when we headed out to the Rathaus Neukölln. The heavily-pedestrianised Karl-Marx Strasse sidewalks had been narrowed by mounds of gray ice that had earlier…

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My Kiez

Mein Kiez

An audio slideshow about living in Neukölln, part of my series on my Kiez (neighbourhood), Neukölln, which explores notions of belonging.

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Autumn in Neukoelln

Blue Sky

Blaue Himmel

When the weather behaves, the intense blue of cloudless Berlin skies inspires a favourite indulgence: lying on my back and making shapes with leaf fringes.

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Take My Photo II

Foto Machen II

It was Spring and I was at it again in Körner Park, aiming my zoom lens at Ver the statue. Suddenly, I spotted ..

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Take my Photo I

Foto Machen I

"Entschuldigung! Bitte, Foto!" The high-pitched calls gradually broke through my focus.

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