Berlin is becoming more and more a fast changing city. The old squat communities are closed, the rents are rising sharp and finding a room is becoming increasingly difficult, new buildings are built at a really fast pace and the old ones are emptied and modernised. “The Last WG”, from the word "Wohngemeinschaft" (that identifies an apartment where more than two persons live), tells the story of one of these aparments in Berlin. A community building, a place of creativity and friendship, now is going to be forced to close down.
Lawyers, angry letters and everyday life mix together, creating a surreal atmosphere,
while the city keeps growing, breathing and changing, maybe too fast.
The staircase inside the building are full of posters and paintings.
In the apartment live many people and other come and go, everybody shares the same spaces.
An entire wall is full of thank you notes from guests and people that lived there and then left.
Bikes are often kept inside, to avoid theft and the bad weather.
The internal courtyard, where often children go to play.
One of the rooms, with view on the internatl courtyard. The light coming inside is quite scarce, expecially during the winter months.
The inside of one of the sleepin rooms.
Contracts, sub-contracts and any kind of document of the apartment. In Germany there is always a huge amount of paperwork to be taken care of.
Part of the Livingroom, decorated by previous flatmates.
The rooms vary considerably in size, and some look like small livingrooms.
Documents and various paperwork that came from different lawyers, for and against the people living in the aparment.
The livingroom and the small window going to the kitchen.
The main corridor of the aparment with the wall full of pictures and written messages.
View from one of the windows, to the second internal courtyard.
Friends talking in one of the rooms.
A letter from one of the past guests of the aparment, on one of the walls.
A free sharing guardrobe, on the staircase of the bullding.
View of the livingroom with a section built as an open bar.
One of the smaller rooms.
The courtyard entrance, decorated with some paintings.
The first of the two big trees growing in the couryards.
Installing a motion sensor in the corridor, to save energy in the house.
The first section of this building was recently demolished, to make space for a highway coming right next to it.
Meeting at breakfast in the aparment.
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