Sankt Oberholz-Berlin-Venue of the digital Bohéme

St. Oberholz in Berlin from Yollarda on Vimeo.

Franz Bieberkopf was here
Drank his beer
Go to the ladiesrooms in St. Oberholz
Refresh your lipstick

Listening to Hans Paetsch
Reading Hui Buh
The story of Balduin, the knight
Transformed to the ghost of a castle

Once upon a time in the 1970th
When we were watching Hitparade
And listening to the Radio
Of the British Military Forces in Germany

The Aischinger brothers August and Carl opened the first public venues for drinking beer in Berlin 1892. The building at Rosenthaler Platz was the ninth place, built in 1898, where you could have snacks and a beer for 10 Pfennig (5 Cent). Alfred Döblin describes the place in his novel “Berlin Alexanderplatz”. Aischinger lost their good name with taking over the “”Haus Vaterland” from the jewish Kempinski Family. In 1947 when the building was in the Sowjet ruled sector it got part of the state owned gastronomy HO. After the reunification 1989 Burger King owned the beautiful building, later it got a table dance bar. In 2005 Ansgar Oberholz opened a venue for the digital Bohéme. Young Creatives from Germany and from all over the world come to live and work here and around Rosenthaler Platz.