Repperbahn
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Dates2009 - 2012
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Author
Germany, Hamburg.
Germany, Hamburg. The Reeperbahn, the red-light district of Hamburg, is a mile famous for its sin. Sex-for-cash, alcohol, violence and freedom were precisely the elements on which a whole generation based their lives. As an effect and product of the economic rise after the German post war Era, the Reeperbahn began to mold the identity of the town. The gentrification is turning the district into the new tourist and business area of the town and the Reeperbahn with its characters is dying out. The few, who are left over after a life in excesses, and hard work are living today in extreme poverty, old lonely and forgotten. They are the last once of its kind.