Communist space, surreal commodification: in mourning for the former Communist East? Go to Kochstrasse, Wilhelmstrasse, and Friedrichstrasse in the Mitte, and nearby Potsdamer Platz. Locals seem indifferent to, if not invaded by, tourists blanketing the streets.
Instruction guide: make a border crossing from West to East under surveillance of the border patrol guard, venture into the Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, and read about the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall next to the geriatric men selling communist kitsch. The afterlife of traumatic histories.
