Tempodrom
Circular concert arena with a tent-shaped steel roof, rebuilt on the ruins of a bombed rail station.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Tempodrom in Berlin follows Irene Moessinger, a nurse who spent an inheritance from her father on a circus tent and pitched it beside the Berlin Wall in 1980, drawing crowds for punk shows, theatre and circus acts. It traces the tent's repeated evictions through the 1980s and 90s, and its eventual move onto the rubble of Anhalter Bahnhof, once one of Europe's busiest railway stations, gutted by wartime bombing. Picture the battered canvas roof that once stood a few steps from the death strip.
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