Places of (Pop)ular Music in Berlin(West)

I was born in the summer of 1952 at the St. Joseph-Krankenhaus in Berlin-Tempelhof. I lived in Berlin-Kreuzberg during my childhood, where I started school at the 6th Grundschule in the Bergmannstraße. In January 1973 I finished my school education at the Leibniz-Gymnasium, also in Kreuzberg, with the Abitur. My interest in music led to writing record reviews for school newspaper. After that, I started studying mathematics and information technology at the TU Berlin. 1974 I began working for the the 'Deutsche Reichsbahn', at that time administrated by official GDR institutions. After three years I quit and started working for the Kant Kino and the local promoter Albatros. I had the chance to attend lots of concerts. Next came some years as an employee with the advertising agency Uniconsult. I left Berlin and to become a self-employed IT consultant near Frankfurt for several companies. In 2001 I returned to Berlin and started an internet forum on rock music and its history in Berlin www.rockinberlin.de. This book is meant to save my research.