Films by Christoph Dreher

Germany 2015, 54 min
by Angelika Levi

Rent Eats the Soul" documents during two years neighborly organizing and protest on the southern Kottbusser Tor. The film portrays movingly the protagonists of the protest. It links the housing problem to the history of migration and emphasizes a connection between racism and urban displacement.During the night of May 26 in 2012, some residents of social housing at Kottbusser Tor, a majority ethnic Turkish neighbors, built a protest house. They called it "Gecekondu", translated from Turkish mean

Germany 2009, 52 min
by Christoph Dreher

New York and Western Berlin were economically run-down in the early 80ies. Against this backdrop, in both cities emerges an underground culture that radically breaks with the pop cultural tedium which the 70s hat left behind. A wild and uncompromising scene of artists working in film, music, painting and theatre trigger off a unique exchange between the subcultures in NY and Berlin and create one of the most inspired and exciting artistic movements of the late 20th century. As a member of the ba