After losing his apartment in Thuringia, Dieter Bichler ended up at Berlin's Zoo station in the fall of 2012. Together with a group of other homeless people, he wandered along Kantstraße to get food, warm up, and find a suitable place to sleep. Dieter's tour is about day-to-day survival on the streets, about being poor in the affluent Charlottenburg district, and about the kind of friendships that you probably can only find on the streets.
Life on the streets has its own rules: everything is public; nothing is private. Inevitably, your perspective on the city changes when you become homeless, when streets, parks, and train stations become the focal points of your life.
Our city tours sharpen your senses to perceive this different side of Berlin. People who have personally experienced homelessness provide information about housing and homelessness in the capital and share accounts of their lives on the streets. Our city tours are all about individual perspectives. Here, the people who are otherwise frequently and readily talked about take the floor. They invite you to engage in dialogue and to see the city from a different perspective.
