Planning of the “Friedrichstrasse Imperial Railway Bunker” by Karl Bonatz under supervision of Albert Speer, “General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital” .

Construction of the bunker as an air-raid shelter for the civilian population, built by forced labourers.

Bunker occupied by the Red Army and used for prisoners of war.

Converted into warehouse for imported tropical fruit from Cuba, managed by state-owned company “Fruit Vegetables Potatoes”. Known locally as the “banana bunker”.

After German Reunification, the building becomes the property of the federal government.

Techno music and fetish parties mean that the bunker gains a reputation as the hardest club in the world.

The Deutsches Theater stages Simon Donald’s Lebenstoff (“Stuff of Life”) on the bunker’s fourth floor.

1995