Bernd never trouble with its neighbors and will not get it too. No one argues with a rusty diesel locomotive lying on its side and a brontosaurus made of fiberglass.
Bernd has a lot of space. He is the last inhabitants of the Spree River Park in the deserted theme park. Here once growled the largest amusement machine of the GDR. With the roller coaster, Ferris wheel and up to 1.7 million visitors a year.
The excitement has given way to an almost eerie silence. In the mini-railway tunnel foxes live in the oak tree-tops above the artificial mountain nesting herons. Since 2001, the quiet rides. An administrator handles the former Wonderland from his unfinished whitewater course. Ex-owner Norbert Witte is sitting in jail because he had tried in the mast of a carousel 167 kilos of cocaine from Peru to smuggle into Germany. A few people still waiting out in the neighboring ex-Western village on the edge of the park. All the others are gone. Only one will not budge: Bernd, the wild man, the hermit with the bad Teeth and the cap. Earlier, when the carousel is still running, one of the children gathered Bernd the chips. Today he gets a few euros from the state and collecting deposit bottles, which he sold. His orange container is hidden next to the old props Hall, has no running water, Bernd living without electricity. "I need this here so just to sleep."
If the 66-year-old wants to wash times, he knocks on the old Western saloon of the village. There's even running water. "I'm satisfied. I do not want to get away," he said shortly.
In an oak tree in front of his house as a bank. The grass that proliferates everywhere else here is lush, ripped out. A stone circle with fresh flowers, shows the place where his beloved dog is buried. "14 years he has grown old. All of a sudden he was dead '
's now two years ago. Bernd has not yet got over the death. The cats still living in the park, because its old inhabitants have left behind them, are no substitute. Gerd Emge (57) and Bernd know fleeting. "A nice guy. They greet one," said Emge. He heads the security guards of the park, go with hunting dog Brisko " regularly patrol. His job: Take care that no one steals, and intruders ask you to leave the premises. Emge reserve officer does so politely but firmly. Recently he has copper thieves caught in the act. The only one he endures in the park is - Bernd. The Berlin property fund, which manages the park ruins, has experienced some time ago by the eccentric recluse. "We were not going to find an apartment. But he did not want to get out of the park," says a spokeswoman.
Then they have the real estate funds, the matter can 'rest first. " Bernd is permissible. "He does not make any trouble."
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