Kreuzberg

This guide to Kreuzberg in Berlin centers on the night of May 1st, 1987, when police pulled back from a raid on a street festival and let this squatters' paradise neighborhood erupt. You'll hear how decades hemmed in by the Berlin Wall shaped Kreuzberg into a cheap, crowded refuge for squatters, students and Turkish guest-worker families, and how that night's barricades ended with a supermarket burning near Görlitzer station. Listen for how the neighborhood's rebellious streak has carried into the May Day marches held here every year since.