The Prenzlauer Berg Underground: Orderly Anarchism, Anarchic Order and Simulated Anarchism

Abstract

There are many periods of Berlin’s history that we associate with anarchy and anarchism, and many political and artistic movements. The most recent is the decade immediately following the fall of the Wall, which saw the rise to Berlin’s legendary culture of raves and techno clubs. Yet, Berlin’s “wonderful years of anarchy” of the 1990s are unthinkable without the subcultures of Berlin before unification.