‘A symbol of resistance’: the fight to save treehouse built on no man’s land next to Berlin Wall
‘Perhaps he wasn’t the perfect artist, but he created something artistic,’ one supporter said of Osman Kalin’s treehouse. Photograph: Gordon Welters/The GuardianView image in fullscreen‘Perhaps he wasn’t the perfect artist, but he created something artistic,’ one supporter said of Osman Kalin’s treehouse. Virtually on his doorstep in the Kreuzberg district was a slice of no man’s land next to the concrete barrier and barbed wire.
- ▪‘Perhaps he wasn’t the perfect artist, but he created something artistic,’ one supporter said of Osman Kalin’s treehouse.
- ▪Photograph: Gordon Welters/The GuardianView image in fullscreen‘Perhaps he wasn’t the perfect artist, but he created something artistic,’ one supporter said of Osman Kalin’s treehouse.
- ▪Virtually on his doorstep in the Kreuzberg district was a slice of no man’s land next to the concrete barrier and barbed wire.
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‘Perhaps he wasn’t the perfect artist, but he created something artistic,’ one supporter said of Osman Kalin’s treehouse. Photograph: Gordon Welters/The GuardianView image in fullscreen‘Perhaps he wasn’t the perfect artist, but he created something artistic,’ one supporter said of Osman Kalin’s treehouse. Photograph: Gordon Welters/The GuardianGermany‘A symbol of resistance’: the fight to save treehouse built on no man’s land next to Berlin WallSupporters fear structure could be torn down as safety hazard and want it to become memorial to postwar foreign labourers in honour of its Turkish creatorDeborah Cole in BerlinSat 1 Aug 2026 02.00 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleSometimes the currents of history converge in a single spot.
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