Kotti…As part of Josefine in the danger zone we visited Kottbusser Tor. Now many of you will have forced to watch/ or read the book “The children of Bahnhof Zoo” which describes the Heroin drug scene around Berlin Zoo in the late seventies. A very impressive film which should scare the shit out of anyone entertaining the idea of drugs are cool.
Well these days the train station at Zoo is a sleeping tablet in comparison to “Kotti” as it is locally known. This place is the epicenter of social under class and its associated problems. It is however still one of the lively places in Berlin and multi-cultural to the hilt. The easiest way to get there from the Circus is to take the U8 to Kottbusser Tor.
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