Neukölln
Dense Berlin district reborn from a stigmatized old town into a scrappy, immigrant-shaped neighborhood.
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This guide to Neukölln in Berlin opens with a 2006 letter from teachers at the Rütli school, warning they could no longer control their classrooms, and the television footage of a student riot that made international headlines. It follows the twist journalists later admitted to, and reaches back a century to Rixdorf, the neighborhood's earlier name, notorious enough for its taverns and dance halls that it inspired a mocking song across Germany. Walk the same stairwells and corner shops the guide describes as you listen.
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