History

Where once the Romanisches Café had stood as a meeting place of the literary world, after the war, as a local newspaper put it, the "eyesore on Berlin's calling card" spread. "I too walked past it often enough," Karl Heinz Pepper recalled - "I got annoyed like all Berliners." So in 1961 he finally decided to remedy the situation, and he actually succeeded in convincing the individual property owners and a number of investors of his plan.