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The Möbel Olfe bar in the Zentrum Kreuzberg (NZK), Berlin-Kreuzberg, opened in 2002. The idea came about during the preliminary planning phase for a “Kreuzberg Kaufhaus” (English: Kreuzberg department store) which was to offer space for “young creative people”. The creative department store was never realized by its planners. The bar, on the other hand, is popular to this day.

The name “Möbel Olfe” is a reference to a neon sign for a furniture department store on Dresdner Straße in Kreuzberg that had gone out of business some some time before the bar first opened in 2002. The neon sign on the roof of the Kreuzberg Center (NZK) remained there long after the furniture store had closed, and helped visitors to find their way to the bar through the unconventional street numbering created by the architecture of the NZK.

The bar was initially run jointly by Richard Stein and Wolf Maack, who, according to the Berliner Zeitung, previously organized events and shows in Berlin clubs such as SO36 and Café Anal (opened February 1990 until circa 2000, Muskauer Str. 15, 10997 Berlin). Richard Stein is listed as the owner on the Möbel Olfe website today (Last viewed September 2023).

Möbel Olfe is open from Tuesday to Friday starting at 6:00 p.m., regularly holding so called “Soli-Events”, (solidarity events) often including a fundraiser for grassroots democratic, social and emancipatory projects.