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I just finished rewatching wkbz. No idea how many times I've seen it by now ... but this was the first time again after so. many. years. Damn, the feelings. Especially the first few episodes felt like revisiting an old friend, like coming home, like reconnecting with a peculiar part of myself.

#this show is literally part of my dna #obviously next thing i did was log into my old tumblr account #anyone from 2021 still here?#i miss y'all and the good old times #wir kinder vom bahnhof zoo #wkbz

emil-und-oskar

Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (2021)

#michi x benno #wir kinder vom bahnhof zoo

emil-und-oskar

Michi in Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (2021)

#wir kinder vom bahnhof zoo #bruno alexander #i still love you michi <3

So I randomly decided to check out the show on Amazon Prime again to see if any bonus material (I'm still craving those deleted scenes) was added and I found out that there is this whole trivia section with little fun facts or just interesting side notes written by someone who worked on the show. These were some of my favourites:

At Christiane's home the broken kitchen light flickered when "Zoologischer Garten" was first mentioned, foreshadowing the harrowing future meaning of this place.

It was Dijan who cut Axel's hair. I can't, help, whyyyy.

Axel was really stalked by the Stasi. It wasn't in his head. Wtf.

Christiane waited for Benno at the station for 8 fucking hours.

The other old lady living with Babsi and the grandma was the grandma's sister and she doesn't talk because the grandma is so extravagant and powerful and just a bitch.

The necklaces of Christiane and Benno are supposed to reference Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, somehow.

The last scene zoomes out from the heroin the same way it did when heroin first came up in the show with Axel injecting it.

When Michi can't open the bottle it's because he grew up, lost his child-like marveling and lost faith in himself :(

When Benno and Christiane meet in Gropiusstadt (where Axel sees them) she was supposed to be on her way back from school, but the production team forgot to give her a backpack in the scene.

There were also lots of facts about production background and costume choices. Very interesting.

#wir kinder vom bahnhof zoo #wkbz #we children from bahnhof zoo

wormboytism

hey i miss my wkbz/christiane f hyperfixation and back when my feed was only my wkbz mutuals :(

#same :(#i have so many good memories of back then #i still love y'all <3

Last week I was on a bus telling my friend about wkbz and an old lady who sat next to us randomly started participating in the conversation. She said she used to live in Berlin when the book and movie came out, so she told us about how accurate it was and what impact it had on politics and stuff. It was super interesting.

#Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo #wkbz #at this point i'm using this acount mostly to document interesting conversations i had regarding wkbz irl lol

babsi-and-stella

Detlef R. and Frank H. (1981)

#i watched the interview on youtube yesterday #and considering how badly detlef talked about the book and movie back then already #i understand even better that there is a fictional replacement for him in the show #gotta appreciate that the show runners made that decision in his favour #yes i still occasionally watch wkbz related things #also happy belated second anniversary of the show <3

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miss him so much

Wir kinder vom bahnhof Zoo (2021)

#axel

wormboytism

It's december which means the two year anniversary since I watched Christiane F (1981) for the first time. (The 14th is the actual date.)

Since then, Christiane F has become one of my biggest hyperfixations. I've seen the movie and tv show several times, I've bought and read the book. I've been to Berlin and Gropiusstadt as well!

Even if I have moved onto other special interests, anything related to Christiane F or Berlin in the 70's, will always have a special place in my heart. <3 Her story forever changed my brain chemistry.

yourssincerelyann

Me when i see post about Babsi or Axel

Coming back to this account right now because today someone said my looks reminded them of Babsi and although I’m not as deep in the wkbz matter as I used to it still made me very happy to hear that and find someone irl who knows the show. :)

#hope you're all doing well in your lives #wkbz #Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo #We Children from Bahnhof Zoo #nostalgia for the time when i was obsessed with the show ;(#babsi #random

wormboytism

still sad i couldn't get in there because they were doing construction work :((

grizeldanyx

So sad. When I went to Berlin for the first time in november, I could still access the place at Jebensstraße where real life Detlef was standing in that famous picture, right next to the exit. I wasn't able to walk along the entire way, but much of the parts that are mostly shown in the movie. Then when I happened to be in Berlin again in June, there was already so much more construction work and now it looks like it got even more :(.