Lausi

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In Utopian Tours, the site at Lausitzer Straße 8-10 in Berlin-Kreuzberg recalls the city’s struggles against displacement at the turn of the millennium. In 2013, the eviction of the Gülbol family became a symbol of resistance, when hundreds of neighbors protested soaring rents and police repression. The building’s owner, Tækker, had bought it from the municipality in 2007 for just 2.3 million euros, later profiting massively from Berlin’s privatization wave as tenants faced rent hikes of up to 100 percent and a language school for asylum-seeking children was forced out. This site stands among the monuments from which lightning emerges—brief flashes of memory and defiance that illuminate the city’s ongoing struggle for belonging and justice.