Monday, January 11, 2016

Hundreds of fans mourning in Schöneberg to David Bowie – Berliner Morgenpost

  01.11.2016, 10:17
 

  After the artist’s death
  Hundreds of fans mourning in Schöneberg to David Bowie
 

 

From Heidi Senska

 In the 1970s David Bowie lived in Berlin. He still has many supporters in the capital, who now grieve for him.

“He was like a family member “says, for example, artists Dyko, who was in the morning one of the first who came to the former House Bowie on the main road 155 to Schöneberg. On the stairs to burn candles. Fans have laid flowers.



Berlin mourn David Bowie

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The Australian singer Dyko had Bowie met in person and shows to commemorate a shared photo on Facebook.

The news of the death of the pop star Bowie surprised on Monday morning many fans. Only last week the Briton had become 69 years old. For my birthday came a new album on the market.




 Bowie’s Berlin home: In the old building on the main road 155, he lived 1976-1978

 Photo: Schoening Berlin / pa / Arco Images

David Bowie lived first in the Bavarian district from 1976 to 1978, where the main road 155 in Schöneberg. Here he lived for a short time along with Iggy Pop.

The Governing Mayor of Berlin, Michael Müller, Bowie tribute importance for the capital. “.. At Bowie was not only musically a special connection the artist belonged to us we are very proud,” it says in a press release

Heroes -. A hymn of divided Berlin

In his time in Berlin originated Berlin trilogy with the albums Low, Heroes and Lodger. “The title song of the album Heroes is one of the Bowie-Werke and became the anthem of our time divided city and their longing for freedom,” said Müller.

The three albums “Low,” “Lodger” and “Heroes” were influenced by the city and its subcultural scene and were partly completed in the Hansa studios at Potsdamer Platz. In Berlin turned the avant-garde artist who was born as David Robert Jones, also the movie “Beautiful Gigolo, armer Gigolo” with Marlene Dietrich.

“I’d prefer now on the Reverse way to work, lock myself at home and its panels to hear, “wrote Berlin’s Culture Secretary on Facebook.

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He tensed in a press release also a wide berth for the classification of the British pop musician “. Since Herbert von Karajan is David Bowie probably the most important associated with Berlin musicians, we have lost” Bowie had “celebrated city of opportunity” later with the song “Heroes” or more than three decades with “Where Are We Now” Berlin as.



Until the evening hundreds of fans came to the House in the Schöneberg Hauptstraße 155, lay down flowers, playing the music of Bowie , bade farewell to their idol.

(with AP)

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