Berlin : expulsion du collectif « Yorckstr. 59 »
FreakOut 09 Jun 2005 00:01 GMT (translated by FreakOut)Le collectif alternatif d’habitation « Yorckstrasse 59 » qui existait à Berlin depuis 1989 a été expulsé par la police très tôt le 6 juin (photos 1 | 2 | 3 ). Un certain nombre de personnes ont été arrêtées, certaines gravement blessées, quand la police refoula plusieurs centaines de manifestant(e)s qui bloquaient l’accès au bâtiment (vidéo) ainsi que 150 qui se trouvaient à l’intérieur du bâtiment. Plusieurs actions eurent lieu durant la journée : une radio locale fut piratée pendant 4 minutes pour rendre public l’expulsion, une maison fut squattée et une manifestation de 3000 personnes eut lieu dans la soirée. Toute la journée, des personnes se rassemblèrent à différents endroits pour bloquer la circulation, casser des vitrines ou faire des manifestations spontanées (aperçu). Des manifestations de solidarité eurent également lieu dans d’autres villes allemandes : Göttingen, Cologne, Hambourg, Pforzheim. Vidéo 60 personnes dont 10 enfants vivaient dans cette ancienne fabrique. Différentes initiatives politiques résidaient dans ce bâtiment comme, par exemple, l’« Initiative Antirassiste », « Poonal » − un service d’informations sur l’Amérique Latine −, un grand espace pour de nombreuses fêtes/conférences/rencontres et le družbaR − un bar bi-hebdomadaire. Le nouveau propriétaire du bâtiment, Marc Walter, avait acheté cette maison en décembre 2003 et aussitôt commencé d’harceler les locataires (audio [de]). Des affiches furent retirées des murs, l’accès à la cours fut interdit, des pièces furent murées et des travaux de rénovations furent annoncés accouplés à l’augmentation des loyers. Les locataires refusèrent de payer. Depuis le début des problèmes avec le nouveau propriétaire, de nombreuses actions de soutien du collectif « Yorckstr. 59 » eurent lieu un peu partout, certaines même à Varsovie, Vienne, Malte ou en Uruguay.
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alexzapa 09.Jun.2005 00:12
ae, as aspas são as palavras q tive dificuldades em traduzir...
Algo q nao ta legal, so da o toque...
After the eviction is before the What? - a short update in 07.
xy 04.Jan.2007 17:01
The New Yorck in the Bethanien in Berlin Kreuzberg.
There is little to be found in English about the history after the eviction of the Y. Here is a poorly translated self description of one follow up of the Yorck59 - translated from the site
http://www.yorck59.net - where also much more information about the last years can be found.
http://bethanien.info). The politicians had to stop the privatization of the building and agreed to the development of the building towards a cultural, artistic, political and social centre.
What's the New Yorck59 in the Bethanien? (10/2006)
We as the NewYorck59 emerged from the Yorck59, a house project in motion.
The Yorck59 existed since 1988 in the Yorck street 59 in the west of Berlin Kreuzberg, and accommodated in 8 living groups more than 60 persons, among them 11 children - in self-reconstructed factory floors. At a project floor worked political groups and initiatives, at an open event space happened meetings, exhibitions, concerts, and exercises for sports and childrens' theater groups, as well as a regular bar with an open kitchen (Vokue). In 2003, the business man Marc Walter bought the house in the Yorck str. No. 59 and demanded the double rent. As a consequence of our NO, many chicaneries followed from the side of the new owner, and a long house fight from our side started - with a lot of solidarity from many people and other projects.
On the 6th of June 2005, the residents of the Yorck59 were violently evicted from their house - on the 11th of June, they and many supporters of the Yorck59 squatted the left wing of the Bethanien at the Mariannenplatz in Kreuzberg - the location, where
until the end of 2004 there was the social welfare office.
Nowadays, former inhabitants of the Yorck59 and many new people live and work together in the NewYorck59, again with many children and adults, many groups and projects. The offices in the project space are used by the documentation group of the Anti-Racist Initiative (ARI), the citizens' initiative "Initiative Zukunft Bethanien", the Collective for Art, Culture and Communication (KUKKUK), the Kolumbien Kampagne and the internationalist group Libertad!. Political groups and networks, initiatives from the neighbourhood, refugees' groups, campaigns, theatre groups and more use the meeting rooms in the first floor as a meeting point. Every 1st, 3rd and 5th monday in each month the DružBar is happening - with tasty food and drinks for little money. Regularly there are readings, cultural and political evenings, theatre and movie evenings, concerts and solidarity parties.
The Bethanien is a former hospital, which was built in 1846. Its demolition in the beginning of the 70ies was prevented with a lot of pressure from the people, also by one of the first squattings in Berlin, the squat of the Georg-von-Rauch-Haus. Since then, the Bethanien is used by cultural, art and social institutions. In 2002, the responsible politicians decided to sell the poorly managed house to a private cultural investor. With the squatting of the southern wing of the building in June 2005, these plans were stopped. In September 2006, the politicians had to agree with the demands of about 14,000 people that supported a petition for a referendum run by the "Initiative Zukunft Bethanien" (
As "New Yorck im Bethanien" we see the future of the Bethanien as an open, self-organized meeting point for people from the neighbourhood, with affordable rooms for initiatives and groups and a lively culture of exchange and self-determination.
Bethanien für Alle!