10,143 Little Proofs of Passage: Wedding Man’s U-Bahn Ticket Archive Outgrows His Living Room
Neighbors on Gerichtstraße report “paper drift” as a 52-year-old former ticket inspector insists the collection is “history, not hoarding.” BVG calls it “emotionally understandable, operationally confusing.”.
In a one-bedroom near Nauener Platz, Mehmet Kaya has sorted more than 10,000 U-Bahn tickets into binders, jars, and a repurposed shoe cabinet. The archive has become a neighborhood attraction—and an awkward mirror for a city addicted to documentation.