Lettekiez liest! Lesung und Gespräch mit Michael Angele: “Ein deutscher Platz”

In the organizer's words:

Reading and talk with Michael Angele: "A German square"

German history in one place:

Stuttgarter Platz in West Berlin is where the entire German history of the 20th century took place: from the nightlife of the Weimar years to the black market of the post-war period to a place of refuge for those lost in the war. From the red light district to the nucleus of the student movement - and finally to the underground meeting place of the 1980s.

Michael Angele follows the traces of this place.

He talks about the legendary "Babalu" and the filming of "Die Halbstarken" with Karin Baal and Horst Buchholz. His stories also include the "Elefant", run by concentration camp survivor Leo Fischmann, and Rainer Langhans, who moved into a large old apartment on the square.

Michael Angele, born in 1964, is a Swiss journalist and author. He studied general and comparative literature at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate with a thesis on conspiracy theories in German literature of the 1920s.