Berliner Zimmer

Wöchentliche Kolumne im Tagesspiegel
2000 bis 2002

One hundred Berlin interiors were presented in this weekly column in one of Berlin's major newspapers. There was a loft with integrated lobster pool; a living room where, looking up, you discovered that the lamps were set in antlers; a villa in which removing the wallpaper revealed socialist frescoes. One hundred times readers were amazed at the wealth of ideas springing from the brains of otherwise not particularly wealthy people who could easily be their neighbours. “More often than not it is the little defects in a house or flat that inspire people,” Natascha Meuser says. Thus inspired they turn narrow slits into tall French windows to flood a dark kitchen with sunlight. While the interiors presented in her earlier columns mainly belonged to the author's friends, she was soon inundated with offers and inquiries. When location scouts got in touch, some of Natascha's discoveries even made it onto the television screen. The architect who designed the German Chancellery Office, Axel Schultes, contacted her to find out more about a specific type of rendering mentioned in one of her articles. Today Natascha has invited us to her period apartment in the district of Charlottenburg. The bookshelves fashioned from MDF are her own design, as is the ten-foot table of old French oak beams. “I can invite up to twenty people to eat fried sausages,” says Natascha. Fried sausages are a specialty in her Franconian home town.

Der Tagesspiegel, 1.12.2002