Gasteig, Elbphilharmonie, BER: Does everything always have to be more expensive on construction? No, there are enough examples in the cultural sector that show how things can be done differently. Especially when politics stays out.
Luckily, you don’t always have to reinvent everything, and that also applies to the explosion in costs. In a “Monaco Franze” episode from the early 1980s, which is called “Just keep it up”, which immediately brings to mind a dozen contemporary construction cost scandals, the grandiose Erni Singerl goes shopping at the market. The letschert salad has become more expensive, she notes, the tomatoes smaller – and the “breezy bunch of parsley” even costs two marks. As I said: in the 1980s, the Teuro didn’t even exist back then. Inflation during the First Gulf War was similar to today’s. For similar reasons: energy crisis and war.