Reactivated in the winter of 2019/20 at the nGbK, the Spielclub Oranienstraße 25 offered Berlin school classes the opportunity to play in a model of Kreuzberg’s Oranienstraße. The focus remained on pressing issues of urban development, including rental policy and participation in social change. With money always playing a central role.

Some of the children’s questions were:
“So what’s the hotel owner up to with the mayor?”
“Who owns the wasteland?”
“What’s missing here, on our street?”
“Can anyone actually win the game in the play club?”

This publication locates the historical play club within both the trajectory of ideas of self-governed children’s republics and in the context of artistic-activist projects of the 1970s. Spielclub. Kinder Stadt Geld reflects on the relationship between children and artists, play and reality and shows the differences between the projects realised 50 years apart.

The e-book is supplemented by a film excerpt on the Spielstadt in the Märkisches Viertel, a temporary extension of the Schöneberg Spielklub from June 1971, as well as two audio contributions.

Produced on the occasion of Spielclub Oranienstraße 25, nGbK, 2019/20

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