Schanzenviertel
Ornate former theatre turned squatted social centre, its wartime bunker and boxing rings still folded into the walls.
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This guide to the Schanzenviertel in Hamburg starts in April 1988, when wreckers arrived at an old concert hall on Schulterblatt with a grand musical in mind for the site. It follows the neighbours who wanted something else, and the squat that grew out of the argument, the Rote Flora. Best heard standing on Schulterblatt, facing the banner-draped front.
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