アンダーグラウンドのインスタグラム(resul80k2) - 8月7日 23時43分

Of course here at Underground, we're a fans of scenes and cultures that thrive underground. Today is the 40th birthday of one our favourite, one of the best, and one of the longest running: SO36 club in Berlin.
Berlin as a city itself has always been a hotbed for underground culture. Post-war and still walled, the division that became West Berlin was cut off and deprived of much. Though, like in all times of despair and decline, the district became a hub for covert music, arts and theatre. Seedy vaudeville, political factions and defiant subcultures cultivated sub-level. One particularly charged neighborhood was- and still is- Kreuzberg. An area gentrified now, it was one of the lowest income areas closest to the wall, and was often likened to New York's Lower East Side. Kreuzberg is still home to many of Berlin's best-known clubs, and you can still find S036 on Oranienstraße today. Due to the areas restricted and oppressive past, the community puts in a lot of work to ensure that the area is a diverse, creative and open neighborhood- SO36 operates well within this effort.

The site itself has long battled under ownership for more than a century; though it's earliest roots can be traced to a pub in the 1860's. From there it struggled as a cinema- one of the first in Berlin and even survived WW2- and as an unsuccessful supermarket in a proximity struggling with severe poverty. It wasn't until 40 years ago today that Punk reached Berlin, and the building found it's famed cause as an underground Punk venue.
Three young immigrants living in the area hoping to open a music space adopted the lease. They asked painter Martin Kippenberger to join the following year, and as the manager/business director he transformed the building into the iconic subcultural hub we know it to be today.
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