Mr Wowereit, a Social Democrat, strives to channel the city's edginess while reassuring Berliners weary of change.
ECONOMIST: To stay sexy, must the German capital remain poor?
Yes, says Klaus Wowereit, who has been mayor of Berlin in alliance with the former communists for several years.
The challenge for Mr Wowereit is to balance the interests of Berlin's new elite with those of ordinary folk.
Despite Mr Wowereit's cuts, Berlin is still far from being an efficient state.
So the Bundesrat's chairman, Klaus Wowereit, a Social Democrat, asked Manfred Stolpe, Brandenburg's Social Democratic premier, to clarify his state's position.
Despite Mr Wowereit's win, the election in Berlin was also a warning.
Wowereit declined to name a date for the beginning of flight operations.
By contrast Berlin, described by Mayor Klaus Wowereit as poor but sexy, was the tech hub that happened despite state support, and continues to grow organically.
Addressing the ceremony on Bernauer Street, famously divided by the Wall and now site of a memorial, Mayor Wowereit said the capital was remembering the "saddest day in its recent history".
Speaking at a news conference in Berlin Monday, Wowereit said he would hand over his duties as head of the project's supervisory board to Matthias Platzeck, the governor of the state of Brandenburg.
Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit stood down as head of the supervisory board overseeing the project on Monday, as he acknowledged the airport would still not be ready for its latest scheduled opening on October 27.
While Wowereit talked from the stage, his shirt unbuttoned and his jacket open, people lined up at the sausage booth, where three SPD members sold the charred wurst stuffed into rolls for 1.50 euro each (at least one German complained that they were too charred).
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