Kollwitzplatz: Protocol of an exclusive Berlin market

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Kollwitzplatz in Berlin is a scene of social life, where rich parents drive around every Saturday and face the market feeders and self -proclaimed “könern”. Here you meet people with a pronounced need for humiliation, which can be regularly challenged by stand operators. It almost seems like a ritual in which the well-known Prenzlingers fulfill their wish for punishment in a kind of masked ball tradition. You get your "portion of Berlin snouts" and recommend this as an authentic experience to friends.

A special copy The market feeders is the Grumpy Crêpes seller, a merciless and incorruptible contemporary who confronts its customers with unexpected reactions. Nevertheless, or maybe because of this, people from distant cities are coming to get griesses from their relentless nature. The interaction between customers and this seller is a mixture of humor and confrontation that penetrates the bizarre atmosphere of the market.

The morning scene on Kollwitzplatz is very different from what is happening in the afternoon. While the parents still romp around with their bottles of Grauburgunder and try to maintain an illusion of prosperity and superiority, their children are unattended and reckless. On the playground, the idyll quickly passes when the small descendants treat each other with shovels. Despite all the absurdity and bizarre, the hustle and bustle at the Kollwitzmarkt remains its own universe, which develops again every week.