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The Kunsthaus Tacheles (''Art House Tacheles'') was an art center in Berlin, Germany, a large () building and sculpture park on Oranienburger Straße in the district known as Mitte. Huge, colorful graffiti-style murals are painted on the exterior walls, and modern art sculptures are featured inside. The building houses an artists collective which is threatened with eviction. Originally called "Friedrichsstadtpassagen", it was built as a department store in the Jewish quarter (Scheunenviertel) of Berlin, next to the synagogue.〔(Tacheles Art House battles with banks for survival )〕 Serving as a Nazi prison for a short while, it was later partially demolished. After the Berlin Wall had come down, it was taken over by artists, who called it ''Tacheles'', Yiddish for "straight talking."〔 The building contained studios and workshops, a nightclub, and a cinema. Outside, the garden featured an open air exhibition of metal sculptures as well as galleries and studios for sculptors and painters. A part of the garden still remains open to the public. ==History== The house was finally closed on September 4, 2012. Tacheles Metallwerkstatt, the sculpture park, was open until March 2013, when the financial group Nordbank decided to make money out of it. A developer called the Fundus Group bought the site from the Berlin government in the mid-1990s. Because it was in no hurry to do anything with the building, it gave the artists a 10-year lease in 1998 at a nominal rent of 1 DM (about 0.50 EUR). This contract was then extended but expired at the end of 2009, at which point the artists again became squatters. By this time, the Fundus Group had become insolvent, so the Hamburg-based HSH Nordbank, to which the Fundus Group owed money, decided to sell the property. There was a division inside the Tacheles. ‘Upstairs’ lived the artists from the coterie around organizer Martin Reiter, chairman of Tacheles e.V., the association that was formed in 1994 but went bankrupt in 2010. ‘Downstairs’ around 20 businesses like High End Kino 54 and Café Zapata, together with the Johannishof artists not represented by the e.V., formed Gruppe Tacheles. The Nordbank offered 1 million euros to the ‘downstairs’ group in order to leave, and they accepted it on 5 April 2011. Tim Africa, the spokesman of the ‘downstairs' group, said they planned to use the money to settle outstanding costs such as legal fees and, with the money left over, hopefully start a new art project. However, he refused to say which individuals had actually received the money. Furthermore, he said the money had come via a Berlin law firm from an anonymous source. A spokeswoman for HSH Nordbank said it had not paid the 1 million euros to the downstairs group and did not know who — if anyone — was behind the money. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kunsthaus Tacheles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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