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She is the secret queen of the Prinzenbad: For over 25 years, Dagmar Keuenhof in Berlin’s most popular summer pool in the Outdoor pool cafeteriashe has been running the shop with her colleague Mathias Kutcha since 2008. Together, the two ensure that hundreds of thousands of bathers are provided with everything they need: chips, rolls, rubber and swimming toys, and sometimes just a little bit of company.
For the summer series of „Checkpoint“-Podcasts Ann-Kathrin Hipp met Dagmar Keuenhof at her workplace and talked to her about her work, the way people work together and the changes in the district. “There used to be more of a community here,” says Keuenhof. And: “There used to be more Kreuzberg here.” Many people of Turkish origin no longer come these days, “for whatever reason”. High rents have also led to hipsters “populating” the district. There are “many competitive swimmers”, a tendency towards “elitist swimming”, and also “many young people”.
Die ID checksKeuenhof cannot understand the measures that the swimming pool operators introduced last year to ensure greater safety. “I cannot understand why people who come from abroad are turned away because they do not have the original papers with them. I would never think of with my original passport to New York in the Bronx to be able to show my ID at a swimming pool,” she says. She thinks the public debate about the riots is exaggerated, even though “it is of course terrible when someone is seriously injured.” “The more these things are hyped up and made into the press, the worse the situation becomes.”
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Also on the podcast: The always positive Heiner, the Sekt-Utes and Berlin’s latest culinary hype: Onion minced meat rolls“There was a time when nobody ate meat anymore,” says Keuenhof. That is different now: “Here, people are free. Nobody sees them here. Here they eat their onion minced meat.”
