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Artist Bisky in his studio:
Forget yourself for a while
Photo: René Lohse / DER SPIEGEL
Bisky's studio is located near Boxhagener Platz in Berlin's Friedrichshain district, usually a center of night life.
But even if many of the pubs and cafés in the area are open: At night there is now a strange calm in the streets.
Bisky, 50, grew up in Leipzig and East Berlin, his father Lothar Bisky was rector of the Babelsberg film school from 1986 and an influential politician of the Left Party after reunification.
Norbert Bisky studied art with Georg Baselitz and is one of the most important German painters.
SPIEGEL:
Mr. Bisky, alcohol has not been sold or served in Berlin after 11 p.m. for two weeks, for the first time since 1949. Do you still recognize your city?
Bisky:
To be honest, no.
Actually there is always something going on here in the Kiez.
Now the barricaded Spätis and empty streets are more reminiscent of Magnitogorsk than Berlin.
I miss the people.
SPIEGEL:
When was the last time you went out?
Bisky:
On the weekend.
I was in a bar there.
SPIEGEL:
That sounds rather moderate.
Bisky:
You mean when I was really partying?
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