Oct 25, 2026 · 52 min · 13 segments
On location in Dortmund, in Germany's Ruhr region, historian and author Katja Hoyer reports on the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the city in the last 20 years. Once known for its…
Katja HoyerHost
Christa ReicherGuest
Alexander KaloutiGuestKai BandermannGuest
Rasmus BeckGuestFabianGuestJens SpitzkopfGuestMatthias KoskaGuestMarkus RöserGuestRegina SelterGuestMichael KarpovGuestPeter GlaunerGuestBoris StarodowskiGuestLaurent BöhmannGuestSebastian HeinzkiGuest
Okay, how can we use this area? How about creating an artificial lake with new houses and build a new lake? quarter where people can live and work because now it's also quite fancy and and quite expensive a lot of footballers from the bvb are living there because they can't afford to live there and it's actually really trendy and this is a really really clear example how dortmund changed
I was involved in this project, developing the Phoenix Sea and transforming, let's say, the whole region into a post-industrial region for more than 16
Christina Reicher was Head of Planning and Chair of Urban Design at the University of Dortmund.
When I first saw the area, it looked a little bit like an empty, desolate landscape.
Then somehow a first wonderful sketch appeared with a lake and a lake which was surrounded with buildings, with landscape.
And then the moment came and the city of Dortmund got financial support from the European Union and the former mayor went with this sketch to the public and said...
This is the first idea to transform this useless brownfield into a new vision of Dortmund.
Though Alexander Kaluti is the first mayor from the CDU party for 80 years, he pays tribute to the vision of his social democrat political opponents.
And I think they were absolutely intelligent, and I have to say they were social democrats, but we really owe them a lot, because they were starting in focusing on education and science.
Dortmund Universities, the Technical University and the University of Applied Science,
Okay, how can we use this area? How about creating an artificial lake with new houses and build a new lake? quarter where people can live and work because now it's also quite fancy and and quite expensive a lot of footballers from the bvb are living there because they can't afford to live there and it's actually really trendy and this is a really really clear example how dortmund changed
I was involved in this project, developing the Phoenix Sea and transforming, let's say, the whole region into a post-industrial region for more than 16
Christina Reicher was Head of Planning and Chair of Urban Design at the University of Dortmund.
When I first saw the area, it looked a little bit like an empty, desolate landscape.
Then somehow a first wonderful sketch appeared with a lake and a lake which was surrounded with buildings, with landscape.
And then the moment came and the city of Dortmund got financial support from the European Union and the former mayor went with this sketch to the public and said...
This is the first idea to transform this useless brownfield into a new vision of Dortmund.
Though Alexander Kaluti is the first mayor from the CDU party for 80 years, he pays tribute to the vision of his social democrat political opponents.
And I think they were absolutely intelligent, and I have to say they were social democrats, but we really owe them a lot, because they were starting in focusing on education and science.
Dortmund Universities, the Technical University and the University of Applied Science,
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