Raw Tempel

Berlin is contrast a paradox. Europe's progressive locality, emulating with life. Berlin is also Germany's capital, hosting thousands of Germans in the capital for jobs-not life. The latter is best characterised through Simon Dach Strasse in Friederischain, a street lined up with the same cocktail bars you find in every other capital city. Raw Tempel is a couple blocks away but world's away from the Simon Dach Strasse crowd. This old raiway station and mainenance yard is now what is commonly (especially in Berlin) reffered to as a squat bar or a "non profit community organization" to state their words. What it is has no importance. The effect it produced on body and soul as you enter is experienced nowhere else. A screen projecting berlin's most progressive contemporary art, short films or music, couches of all sizes and shapes throughout the old station. Wander through the space and make new acquaintances... all different but with one common point : they've necer been to Simon Dach Strasse. In the wee hours in the morning, a local can show you the last piece of the Berlin wall, a few blocks away. Who you know and who you don't makes no difference. We all live once and appreciate what we have...at least in the raw tempel.
Raw tempel // Revaler Strasse 99 // Berlin