When in November 2019 Elon Musk, the chairman of the USA e-car enterprise Tesla, announced the construction of the fourth Tesla-“Gigafactory” in Grünheide at the Eastern periphery of Berlin, the German capital region suddenly seemed to experience a sensational come-back as one of the capitals of modern global industries. Just a year before, in late October 2018, Berlin s press and politicians had enthusiastically cheered the proclamation of “Siemenstadt 2.0”, another megaproject by which the Siemens group promised to develop until 2030 a major hub of innovation and a large new urban quarter at its founding place Berlin-Spandau by an investment of 600 million Euro. The two engagements clearly showed, as the vast majority of observers unanimously commented, that a long period of economic decline and political stagnation would now definitively come to an end and the region would face a splendid renaissance of its golden age in the early twentieth century. According to this narrative, Musk, Siemens as a symbol of this golden age

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柏林冷战时期的城市汽车：跨国视角

2019年11月，当美国电动汽车企业特斯拉董事长埃隆·马斯克宣布在柏林东部外围的格伦海德建造第四家特斯拉——“超级工厂”时，德国首都地区突然仿佛经历了一场轰动——重新成为现代全球工业的首都之一。就在一年前，即 2018 年 10 月下旬，柏林的新闻界和政界人士热情地为“西门子 2.0”的宣布欢呼雀跃，这是西门子集团承诺在 2030 年之前发展成为主要创新中心和大型新城区的另一个大型项目。其创始地柏林-施潘道投资 6 亿欧元。正如绝大多数观察家一致评论的那样，这两次接触清楚地表明，长期的经济衰退和政治停滞现在将最终结束，该地区将在二十世纪初迎来其黄金时代的辉煌复兴。按照这样的说法，马斯克、西门子是这个黄金时代的象征