From Red Light District to cream situation.

Top locations instead Eckkneipen, lounge bars instead Rotlichtspelunken: "Empire St. Pauli" documents how the lifestyle industry at the expense of the old inhabitants of an entire neighborhood over - a bitter Agitprop film city against political cynicism.

 

Yellow curtains, Resopaltische, pennants and Zierteller on the walls. The air is for cutting. Pensioners, and toothless Transen drinkers make Polonaise and swirl beer tubers. Light garlands holzvertäfelten dangle from ceilings.

In Tippel Inn celebrated the last evening. "There's only the demolition once" Fidele johlt the housewife with the top shirt. One of the last of St. Pauli Eckkneipen a new building must be soft, after the municipal housing company building the ensemble has to neglect. "We will be expelled, Hermann," says the lady with Mopfrisur to their weißhaarigen companion.

Five years is the farewell party of her Tippel Inn. A film about the Hamburger Kiez have them back to life. "Empire St. Pauli" is the documentation, the change in the world famous district narrates. The district, which like no other in Germany for cheap fun, is to expensive plaster. Rotlichtspelunken make lounge bars competition, instead of booze coma, there's the three-course lunch for 24 euros. In funkelnagelneuen office and residential block on the grounds of the former brewery Bavaria cavort agencies and homeowners to the wild Kiez only know from hearsay.

"I've heard earlier was a little alternative here," says the young man in a black slim-fit shirt, because of the harbor panorama hergezogen is. When grapefruit prosecco cocktail extols the developer of the project "Design Ready concept" of the proposed Marco Polo Towers on: "Here you can find his desires of individuality, freedom, luxury and flexibility to meet." Top Locations, Hotspots and cream layers - marketing-speech is recovered between geiler Mile and River Elbe. In the hop, where previously the prostitutes were sitting in the windows are now condominiums for 250,000 to 350,000 euros for sale.

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The whores get now in trouble with the police, if they participate in the show windows. Reports a stunned residents, previously happy with neighbors on the house stairs verdrückt a beer, that he is aware of the recent law enforcement for a "place reference" has been issued to him entering the forbidden city. St. Pauli, what's become of you?

"Empire St. Pauli", the documentation provided by all told, is a citizens' initiative filmgewordene. From displeasure over rent increases and displacement, the St. Pauli plenary - a round table of local residents - the low-budget production was initiated. "We wanted to document what happens here every day," says Jörg Steffen, social and producer of the film. "We wanted those who live here, a voice."

Has always been live in the shadow of the hordes of tourists, the neighborhood the week rolls on, many immigrants, the poor and the elderly, the entertainment industry has dismissed as a pensioner. And because St. Paulianer know, not on the mouth fallen, scold them in the film neatly against the Lattemacchiatisierung in their neighborhood. "The cut in all their pockets full and we are the poor ghost," says the mature blonde from the Holsten Schwemme - nor a settled Eckkneipe.

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The Turkish kids by Hein-square-Köllisch dry conclude that what the German Leitkultur commonly accuses them: unsuccessful integration. "When you live here, you should also settle in the neighborhood," they say. "But they've got their own little world." A parallel world, which in the original St. Pauli goutieren can be wordy. "Pikobello clean, hearty good people because we never expected something else to make of it," says the spokesman for the Empire Riverside Hotel tower, the "sharp corner" directly vis-à-vis. "The business travelers want, finally, the typical flair of St. Pauli see." In order for the clientele of the bronze-colored "Live Style Hotels" to make accessible, the hotel investor Pinte rehabilitated.

But you can Freaks and David drunkard on the street from the lounge bar on the ground floor of view. Shielded behind dark panorama windows in Lederfauteuils to chillout music, finger food for Eurasian. St. Pauli behind glass. "We believe that we are here to be positioning itself as a colorful, sassy, versatile District can realize" schwadroniert the lady of the Hamburg Tourist Board on the location, as it is located politician dreaming: abgefahren demarcated, with a few quaint Hartz IV recipients as color. A neighborhood is on the theme park.

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"St. Pauli Empire" is not a cinematic masterpiece. But a bitter evil Agitprop film city against political cynicism, as it not only gives St. Pauli. Rebuke it has the documentary Hamburger won. On Thursday premiere is in a former bowling alley at the entrance to the Reeperbahn, the - how should it be otherwise - including the demolition of blooms: Where once the legendary Mojo Club resided, are almost two 85-meter glass teeth grow in height. 33,000 square meters of new office space in a city where already one million square meters unvermietet are, to a four-star hotel. "But on the ground floor are sure St. Pauli affine uses his" promises of the project developer. Whatever the still hot mag.

A documentary by Irene Bude and Olaf Sobczak, Germany 2009, 85 min