Housing is a human right, but who owns the home you live in? Who owns your city? While rents are rising in Europe's economic centres, large companies are buying up more and more apartments. What do you do, when your home suddenly appears on Immoscout24 as an office space for sale? What if your neighbours are being evicted and you know that you will probably be next? What if you decide to resist and take legal action?

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On Thursday 25.04.2024 we will watch two short films about gentrification and precarious living and we will take a closer look at the prominent case of @h48bleibt (Hermannstrasse 48) in Berlin-Neukölln.

Together with Eli Börnicke and Simon Duncker (inhabitants of H48) and anthropologist Sabrina Stallone (University of Bern) we will discuss, criticise and imagine our living and housing here and there and we will ask questions such as: «Who owns the city?» or «Wie wollen wir gewohnt haben?»

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Work in progress: «Von linken, senilen Chaoten (collective process with Eli Börnicke and others)», DE 2024, ca. 30 Min.

We are showing individual fragments that have been produced during the work on the long-term documentary "Von linken, senilen Chaoten": It portrays life in the houses at Hermannstrasse 48 in Berlin and the mobilization of collective energies against displacement from one's own home.

Small everyday stories, portraits of individual residents, collective moments of struggle alongside making music together or working on internal solidarity structures show how it is possible to live and rebel in a constantly shaky state of threat and instability.

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«Wem Gehört die Stadt?» by Jennifer Mallmann, Julia Cantuária, Germany, 2021, 21 Min.

The essay film captures the impacts and consequences of gentrification in Berlin and allows for the pain of the people affected by their housing struggle. It addresses the essential right to a home - and criticizes the economic and political conditions by which our housing conditions are determined in reality.

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