Seilwinder lived on the streets of the German capital from 2002 to 2009, battling with alcoholism. Seilwinder's tour takes his visitors through different parts of his life on the streets. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he worked as a seasonal agricultural labourer and received unemployment benefit. Some 2,000 homeless people were registered on the city's streets during Berlin's first census of the homeless in Jan 2020. The true number is probably far higher, says Barbara Breuer, spokesperson for the Berlin City Mission.
