cealck | hc. krempels

I had been trying to visit this abandoned site in Berlin since a cineaste friend had told me there was a listening tower on top of World War II rubble, and that David Lynch had once tried to convert it into a transcendental meditation centre (to be known as the Tower of Invincibility). It’s a matryoshka doll of German history. But, my friend said, it’s also patrolled meticulously by large men with crew-cuts who secure the damaged parts of the patchwork fence. He’d once heard about a group of students who had cut through the mesh to explore the listening towers, but returned to find they’d already been sealed back in. It is high security for a supposedly forgotten compound. 

Read full piece here: https://thejunket.org/2013/07/issue-eight/over-the-wires/