The Bellevue di Monaco social cooperative saved houses in Munich from demolition and turned them into refugee accommodation – which has now earned them an invitation to the Architecture Biennale. But what are they doing there? Our author, cooperative member no. 352, traveled with us.
Franz Josef Strauss was certainly not overly modest when it came to his own importance. But the fact that his likeness would one day hang in the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale would certainly have surprised even him. But it is. To the right of the main entrance, in the next room, it hangs, unmistakably the grand chairman of the CSU in Mao’s garb, framed by the words in capital letters: “With us, everyone becomes a comrade!”