‘Yes, we’ve lived this apartment dry, so to speak’, Christa Betz says with a smile. She moved here from Zehlendorf with her husband and daughter in 1966. ‘We were very happy about the new flat and even the school was just around the corner’, she adds. In fact, the school took on a special meaning in their lives. Their daughter studied there and she established the school library herself. Her husband, the late art teacher, painter and graphic artist Rainer Betz, also helped to shape the school and worked with the students on art projects. In the neighbouring Protestant parish in Gropiusstadt, a picture of him also hangs in the church. His works were exhibited in many galleries and he also painted in front of his own front door, in the former wash house, which he shared with a friend. His pictures are stored here, too, and it is also where readings, for example, are privately held. These are organised by Christa Betz with friends and for friends on a small scale. Christa Betz remained working with books in the neighbouring town library, which she later went on to manage.
