In this article, I explore the interplay of abjection, space and resistance at the example of a protest intervention that reclaims a highly policed urban space in the city of Leipzig (Saxony, Eastern Germany)—the Main Station. Methodologically, I combine ethnographic material collected throughout the process of a performative counter-action attempting to reclaim and re-imagine Leipzig Main Station as a venue and politicized space with a contextual analysis regarding the discursive landscape evolving around and shaping this urban locale. My empirical analysis is structured along the theoretical discussion of abjection: While Butler's theorization (Butler in Bodies that matter, Routledge, New York, 1993) allows me to focus on the formative power of spatial exclusion and the disruptive potential of protest, theoretical accounts in which abjection is conceived as a “threshold zone” or “overlap space” (Sharkey and Shields in Child Geogr 6:239–256, 2008; Vighi et al. in Between urban topographies and political spaces. Threshold experiences, Lexington Books, Lanham, 2014) help me to outline ‘abject space’ as a space of negotiation and contradiction.

在这篇文章中，我以抗议干预为例探讨了落魄、空间和抵抗之间的相互作用，该干预行动在莱比锡市（德国东部萨克森州）——主站——重新获得了高度监管的城市空间。在方法论上，我结合了在试图收回和重新想象莱比锡主站作为场地和政治化空间的表演性反行动过程中收集的民族志材料，以及关于围绕这个城市场所演变和塑造的话语景观的背景分析。我的实证分析是基于对堕落的理论讨论而构建的：虽然巴特勒的理论化（巴特勒在重要的身体，劳特利奇，纽约，1993 年）让我能够专注于空间排斥的形成力​​量和抗议的破坏性潜力，