Berghain Concepts

Health and Safety: A Breakdown

by Emily Witt · 16 Sep 2024 · 242pp · 85,783 words

online, where he appeared in photographs picnicking and drinking dry sparkling wine on the banks of the Landwehr Canal. He celebrated his thirtieth birthday at Berghain with coke, ketamine, GHB, ecstasy, and speed. He texted me from the club, where he honored the requests of the urine fetishist who crouched near

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. Of course, I thought, as I stopped hearing from him. The night he came back I went over to his apartment. He had gone from Berghain to the airport and was now only half-aware of his surroundings. He passed out after we had sex and I tried not to be

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sense that we were entering a portal out of the sweltering city, and the bar served the sparkling wine dry and cold, just like at Berghain. Andrew’s friends, whose jobs in computer programming or media or bartending were secondary to their ambitions as DJs or producers, started to become my

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experiencing something of a higher order. It wasn’t that I hadn’t been paying attention to the music before, when I’d gone to Berghain or danced at Bossa, but maybe I was initially drawn to the scene for other reasons. Now the speakers held every detail, the dancers were

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appeared to be black and white, and on Saturday they were in full color, a subtle little mindfuck. This was all in the tradition of Berghain and Panorama Bar in Berlin. The most crowd-pleasing party trick in Panorama Bar was opening and closing the shutters of the windows once the

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myself my own capacity for freedom, to remind myself that I was not a needy, clingy girlfriend. And I wanted to go to Berghain. Does Berghain need an explanation? Berghain had its roots in a gay club called Ostgut that opened in the late 1990s in a former railcar repair station in Friedrichshain

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, its promoters found a new venue in an enormous former power station, installed a Funktion-One sound system, and made a giant techno club. When Berghain opened in 2004 it was after a property bubble in Berlin had burst, and the nightlife culture that had started after the fall of the

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wall in 1989, and peaked with clubs like Tresor and E-Werk, had collapsed in on itself. Berghain was symbolic of a second wave of post-reunification Berlin club life, one populated by a pan-European jet set who took advantage of open

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borders and cheap easyJet and Ryanair flights. But to call Berghain a tourist destination would diminish something of what it stood for and what it offered, which was also a refuge for people from cities where

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parties, and spacious real estate in which to dance had been outlawed or priced out of accessibility, including other cities in Europe. When it opened, Berghain was more of a gay club; as time went on it gained broader appeal for a wide range of people who needed a place to

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to music that is best played extremely loud without the cops rolling in, laws regarding opening and closing times, and handsy or homophobic heterosexual men. Berghain ascended during a time when in the United States, underground rave and club scenes had become marginal to nonexistent in places where they had been

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popular in the 1990s, including New York. This would change within a few years, but in 2010, when I went to Berghain for the first time on a New Year’s visit to Berlin without having any idea of what it was or what it stood for

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as something that happened inside a club, and had been confused at first when Andrew, texting me from Germany, had referred to the people at Berghain as “ravers.” Only later would I understand the contortions and erasure by which music that had an epicenter in the upper Midwest filtered its way

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roots of techno had been mediated through Europe, where the culture had continued to develop while in America it had passed through a moribund decade. Berghain was the shared referent, a place where we had all gone and experienced a maximal version of the hedonism that interested us, a standard to

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which we collectively referred. Berghain was one reason Bossa had a postcard from Berlin on the liquor shelves behind the bar, and why it served Club-Mate. It had taught

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had since become the basis of a shared understanding for a global scene. By the time of what I considered my first real experiences in Berghain, when I was staying in Berlin in 2015, the club had become both a symbol of the post-reunification Berlin of artistic and sexual freedom

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rising rents and gentrification that threatened to homogenize the city into one like any other in Europe, and Berghain into a place for exchange students to put on S&M costumes and take ecstasy. Berghain, like Berlin itself, had to struggle with its success and popularity, and what protected it was no

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vibe while also keeping the club porous enough for the unexpected to happen. Like any institution with status and longevity, people would often pronounce that Berghain’s best days were over. What had started as a gay club had gotten too hetero (the arguments began), there were too many tourists, the

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never being such a giant patch of available real estate, but also that so much freedom simply would not have been allowed. For a DJ, Berghain was a credential that held the promise of attracting the attention of festival and club bookers and could launch an international career. The club’s

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was the problem: there was nothing else like it in the world. I texted Otto, a German Nigerian journalist friend who was then in his Berghain phase. This was how it would go for people, Germans and foreigners, that some would arrive in the city and have a

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Berghain phase where they would go almost every weekend for six months or a year, then eventually get…not bored, exactly, but reminded of other responsibilities.

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sometime on Monday morning, thirtysomething hours of party. The longest I’ve ever stayed there was fifteen hours. The club has multiple dance floors: In Berghain, the main hall, the music is usually harder techno. Upstairs is Panorama Bar, where the DJs often play happier music—house, disco, electro—although these

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over ice, shots of peppermint schnapps, beers. For water most people would refill an empty beer bottle in the bathroom to save money. Everything about Berghain has been pored over: the phallic light fixtures in Panorama Bar, the louvered blinds that snapped open spontaneously during the day to let in sudden

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cubicles on the edge of P-Bar, the Eisbar that served ice cream during the day, the dark room. Then the bathrooms. The bathrooms at Berghain were designed for maximum utility. The toilets were stainless steel and had no seats. The doors of the stalls were saloon style, two panels that

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paper towels, for the mess they would have made and the toilets they would have clogged, just hand dryers. It was code of conduct in Berghain that you did not snort your drugs in the open, which meant that the toilet stalls were like clown cars, friends all going in at

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. The bathrooms were places to buy, sell, trade, and share drugs, but also where you tended to make friends. One thing that was nice about Berghain, when it was at its best, was that it is a generous place. People were friendly to one another. Otto and I did our first

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. Otto went to the bathroom to try to source us a pill. I waited for him and watched people walking in and out. On Sundays, Berghain was a funnel that brought together familiar faces. I saw one of my yoga teachers from Jivamukti Berlin, the one who would always play the

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. His friends tried to keep him conscious. “We don’t like to see that,” said Otto, so we turned and walked away. The bouncers at Berghain will kick you out if you fall asleep. We sat in a concrete cubicle and I drank my gin and tonic and Otto drank his

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of me. I hadn’t eaten for more than twelve hours. I sat down and drank an orange juice and felt better. More hours passed. Berghain had certain built-in strategies for eventually making people leave. One was that nobody was allowed to fall asleep. Another obstacle was cash. It was

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hemispheres of your brain meld and start levitating. Time passes. The music is so loud it vibrates your organs. The times I have gone to Berghain compress into a single experience, I can’t sort out the different images. When you first arrive it fits in the order of the outside

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on a couch. The faces at the club become familiar, then they become your friends. By the time I finally left I had been at Berghain for fourteen hours. I biked home across the Spree. The sun was pink on the TV tower. I went home to my window and the

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went back to Anna’s. She fortified me with pasta, and then, because I was still too high to go to bed, I went to Berghain. All the fun was at Cocktail, I should have just gone back. Panorama Bar was populated by European tourists in goth costumes, and I missed

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advertising agency for a single client, that was more about creating the appearance of fun rather than the fun itself. But while I danced at Berghain, I thought about how when a party in New York was good I liked it better than any European counterpart, because it was my home

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excuse to look “zany,” to wear novelty sunglasses or put glitter on their faces. At UNTER you would never, just as you would never at Berghain. One of the offices, a corner room with windows that looked out on the East River, was the de facto smoking room, crowded with people

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their friends, and merely sucking on a weed pen on the dance floor could get you kicked out. Their “no photos” policy, which gestured toward Berghain, seemed aspirational, since it was more likely to be a place where someone from New Jersey kept hitting on your friends than one where anything

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day meet each other. He came with me to literary festivals in Norway and Amsterdam. We went to Berlin and spent our first night in Berghain together, consummating it with a sex act in a dark booth in Panorama Bar. I alternated between jet lag and hangovers and colds picked up

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. Some young promoters had bought a sound system. The rumor was that the speakers had come from DVS1, the Russia-born midwestern party organizer and Berghain resident who had spent the mid-1990s throwing raves around Minneapolis and who I had just seen at Sustain. I had never gone to Club

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, I went out to dinner in Manhattan for what turned out to be the last time. On the train home I read the news that Berghain had canceled all events until late April. I didn’t go out again. We could have, that last weekend. The bars were still open, but

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cave of sound by DJ Holographic at UNTER High Tea, I forgot. The months went on and I forgot to Regis and Kyle Geiger at Berghain. I forgot to DJ Nobu, to Wata Igarashi, to Kush Jones, to DJ Python, to Blake Baxter, to Livwutang, to Roza Terenzi, to DJ Fart

Berlin

by Andrea Schulte-Peevers · 20 Oct 2010 · 638pp · 156,653 words

its Deutsche Grammophon classical music label – and it works. The sold-out cult concerts pack some of the hottest clubs in town, including Weekend and Berghain. Resident DJ David Canisius, himself a violinist with the Deutsches Kammerorchester, treats mostly youthful ears to musical jewels from past centuries. The evenings’ highlights, though

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one of the top electro albums of 2007, followed in 2008 by the remix compil-ation Things to Be Frickled. Places to catch him include Berghain and Watergate. Apparat has also been involved in various collaborations, for instance with his former main squeeze Ellen Allien, but also with Modeselektor who are

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-Allee, a postcollege crowd gets liquefied on martinis – pinkie raised, and all – at swish GDR vintage bars before drifting off into the utopia of the Berghain/Panoramabar techno temple. Right next door, the gleaming O2 World Arena signals that not even Friedrichshain will forever remain immune to gentrification. When the East

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’s great at night, but daytime can be slow. Return to beginning of chapter NIGHTLIFE * * * CLUBBING LIVE MUSIC CABARET & VARIETÉ CASINOS * * * * * * top picks Bar 25 Berghain/Panorama Bar Clärchens Ballhaus Magnet Weekend * * * What’s your recommendation? www.lonelyplanet.com/berlin Berliners sure know how to party and you better pack some

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, there are few finer places to chill than the beach bars along the Spree River south of Ostbahnhof, while dedicated ravers steer towards the legendary Berghain/Panorama Bar. Kreuzberg is happening in all sorts of ways and places. For the most part, the district defiantly retains the punky-funky alt feel

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, scan the listings magazines (opposite) and sift through the myriad flyers in shops, cafés and bars. Doors are getting tougher, especially at top clubs like Berghain/Panorama Bar, Watergate and Tape Club, but overall making it past the bouncer is still easier in Berlin than other European cities. Individual style beats

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night’s sleep only to hit the dance floor when other people head for Sunday church. We’ve seen queues in the morning sun outside Berghain/Panorama Bar as we dragged our bleary-eyed selves home at 9am. Since the definition of club, bar, DJ lounge and so on can get

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disappearing trashy charm of the 1990s. On Thursdays, drag queen Chantal brings her House of Shame gay party to this den of darkness. BERGHAIN/PANORAMA BAR Map www.berghain.de, in German; Am Wriezener Bahnhof, Friedrichshain; cover €12; from midnight Fri & Sat; Ostbahnhof Metropolis meets Blade Runner at Berlin’s legendary electro

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buddies, trash drags and wild tourists. The upper floor (Panorama Bar, aka ‘Pannebar’; open both days) is all about house; the big factory hall below (Berghain) goes hardcore techno. The pounding beats streaming from the enormous bass are so powerful, it feels as though god himself is barking orders. Strict door

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perfect for an extended beach-bar hop with stops at Yaam (opposite), Bar 25 (opposite) and Strandgut as a warm-up for hardcore partying at Berghain/Panorama Bar (above). Oranienburger Strasse (Map, Mitte) Major tourist zone where you have to hopscotch around sex workers and pub crawlers to drown your sorrows

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Tresor made Berlin the techno capital of the world. So when Dimitri Hegemann opened Tresor 2.0 in a former power station, it seemed that Berghain/Panorama Bar was finally to get some competition. The sound is great and so is the space – a dark industrial maze – and even the namesake

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vault has found a new home. But the lines at Berghain aren’t getting any shorter… WATERGATE Map 6128 0394; www.water-gate.de; Falckensteinstrasse 49a; cover €10-12; Fri & Sat; Schlesisches Tor A cornerstone of

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Lounge downstairs. * * * top picks LET THE DJ SAVE YOUR LIFE ON… Monday SO36 Click here Tuesday Cookies Wednesday Watergate Thursday Weekend Friday Clärchens Ballhaus Saturday Berghain/Panorama Bar Sunday Club der Visionäre Click here * * * WILD AT HEART Map 611 9231; www.wildatheartberlin.de; Wiener Strasse 20, Kreuzberg; cover €5-8; from

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GAY & LESBIAN BERLIN * * * SIGHTS SHOPPING DRINKING SCHÖNEBERG KREUZBERG FRIEDRICHSHAIN PRENZLAUER BERG NIGHTLIFE CLUBBING CINEMAS FESTIVALS & EVENTS SLEEPING FURTHER RESOURCES MEDIA ORGANISATIONS TOURS WEBSITES * * * * * * top picks Berghain Connection GMF @ Weekend Greifbar Heile Welt Klub International Propaganda @ Goya SchwuZ Zum Schmutzigen Hobby * * * What’s your recommendation? www.lonelyplanet.com/berlin Berlin’s legendary

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Cookies Wednesday Marietta, Berlin Hilton @ nbi and Zum Schmutzigen Hobby (right) Thursday Chantals House of Shame Friday Connection (opposite) or SchwuZ (opposite) Saturday SchwuZ (opposite), Berghain, also see the boxed text Sunday GMF * * * Return to beginning of chapter FRIEDRICHSHAIN HIMMELREICH Map Bar 7072 8306; www.himmelreich-berlin.de, in German; Simon

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the dance floor grooving. Party themes include Busenfreundin (gals only), Clean Party (no booze, no drugs) and Morrisseylicious (mope rock). Best day is Tuesday. BERGHAIN Map www.berghain.de, in German; Am Wriezener Bahnhof, Friedrichshain; cover €12; Sat; Ostbahnhof Take off your shirt and head to this vast post-industrial techno-electro

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mirrored dance floor and blaring music. LAB.ORATORY Map www.lab-oratory.de, in German; Am Wriezener Bahnhof, Friedrichshain; Thu-Sun; Ostbahnhof Part of the Berghain complex, this is a ‘lab’ for advanced sexual experimentation in what looks like the engine room of a U-boat. Party names like Yellow Facts

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stay in a pioneer-room dorm, a ‘70s holiday apartment, a prefab flat or the bugged Stasi suite. Tip for clubbers: it’s close to Berghain/Panorama Bar. Free wi-fi in lobby. EASTERN COMFORT HOSTELBOAT Map Hostel € 6676 3806; www.eastern-comfort.com; Mühlenstrasse 73-77; dm €16, 1st-/2nd

Berlin Now: The City After the Wall

by Peter Schneider and Sophie Schlondorff · 4 Aug 2014 · 313pp · 100,317 words

Museum Island. They’re interested in the clubs, and the clubs is where they go. An article in The New York Times in 2009 touted Berghain as the best club in the world. There probably isn’t another famous club out there located in such absurd surroundings

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. Berghain opens at midnight and can be reached only by S-Bahn—that said, the S-Bahn runs all night long. The building is in the

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drove through dark, completely empty streets, past buildings without so much as a single light still on. Eventually, a dark colossus we assumed must be Berghain rose up to our right, floating in the sky like the enormous domino in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. When you go clubbing

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in Paris or New York, you expect and encounter urban density, traffic jams, honking horns, boisterous groups of people, excited chattering. Berghain sits there like a dark castle on an island. To reach it, you have to swim across a black ocean. In June, we trudged past

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sumac shrubs, the vegetation of Berlin’s ruins, doing our best to avoid the many puddles left behind by the soggy summer. Berghain is an offshoot of the techno club Ostgut, which closed in 2003. Its operators, Norbert Thormann and Michael Teufele, had succeeded in acquiring a former

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building from the early years of the German Democratic Republic appealed to them. The fact that not everyone can get into the club adds to Berghain’s mythical status. Since I’m no longer of suitable clubbing age and was worried I would be turned away, I’d had myself put

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companion and I decided to get on the line outside the entrance, which was still short at midnight. We wanted to get an idea of Berghain’s clientele and the bouncer’s selection criteria. It seemed like almost everyone trying to get in had read the comments online and followed the

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let them in even though their names weren’t actually on the list. One of them had told Marquardt he was the cook at KaterHolzig—Berghain’s biggest competition. Another member of the group, however, was asked to leave after being frisked and caught with a bag of cocaine. According to

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out potential thugs and troublemakers. But the main point of the procedure is probably just to create a barrier that separates the inner temple of Berghain from the outside world. Visitors must pass a test before being granted admission to the mysterious, dark cement mountain—a test for which they cannot

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this place—a composite of the names of two Berlin neighborhoods, Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain—to assume a mythical quality. Anyone standing at the threshold of Berghain can’t help but think of Kafka’s castle, to which poor K. was denied access—also entirely without justification, as it happens. “You don

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’t really look like someone who goes to Berghain every other day,” Sven Marquardt told my companion as he subjected her to his visual test. There was no way of knowing whether he was

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dark rooms on the ground floor that, in the early morning hours, the orgylike excesses take place that, together with its bouncers, have contributed to Berghain’s mythical status around the world. And, as is often the case with such myths, fantasy considerably outstrips reality: a single instance of excess is

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a lasting legend. As the case may be, in walking around the club, we didn’t notice anything that might have corroborated this aspect of Berghain’s reputation. On the other hand, the owner of another club told me that the liberality in some Berlin clubs actually far surpasses the rumors

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cigarette in one hand, beer bottle in the other, the sleeves of their jackets—if they have one—tied around their waists. The concept behind Berghain doesn’t reward the urge to stand out. Since my early days in Berlin, I’ve never cared for the tradition of generational culture, strictly

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twenties, forties, or fifties. It’s not that I felt in any way sharply cut off from or excluded by the under-thirty-fivers in Berghain. But I couldn’t help but feel like someone who didn’t belong there. “Come on, let’s dance,” I prompted my girlfriend. “No point

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. Active standing in place is a necessary part of the strategy for survival at Kumpelnest. Techno music also dictates people’s movements here, but, unlike Berghain, Kumpelnest doesn’t live off the charisma of its architecture or reputation as Berlin’s hottest nightspot—it lives off the charisma and extroversion of

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crazy hat, absurd scarf, unprecedented socks. I am me, and the rest of you are different—that is the message. Sven Marquardt, the bouncer at Berghain, would fit in perfectly here, come to think of it. Instead though, he keeps watch at the entrance to his club to make sure that

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one who might try to compete with him and his outfit crosses the threshold. I had heard a number of languages other than German at Berghain and KaterHolzig—mostly English, Italian, French, and Japanese. The patrons we were crushed up against at Kumpelnest on this particular morning looked like they came

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of thousands of civilians, now became a playground for the Berlin underground. The organizers who later went on to found successful clubs like Ostgut and Berghain practiced throwing their first parties here. One of the last to do so hit on the strange idea of presenting the Bunker as the Red

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of steles, which from the outside looks like a wind-tossed sea of dark gray stone, you may and can think about anything: partying at Berghain last night, your impending wedding or divorce, or the genocide of the Jews—and of all the other victims of the Holocaust. * * * According to data

Lonely Planet Pocket Berlin

by Lonely Planet and Andrea Schulte-Peevers · 31 Aug 2012 · 277pp · 41,815 words

Sights East Side Gallery (Click here) Best of Berlin Eating Schwarzer Hahn (Click here) Bars Strandgut Berlin (Click here) Süss War Gestern (Click here) Clubs Berghain/Panorama Bar (Click here) ://about blank (Click here) Live Music Astra Kulturhaus (Click here) Gay & Lesbian Zum Schmutzigen Hobby (Click here) Himmelreich (Click here

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) Berghain (Click here) Getting There S-Bahn Warschauer Strasse (S3, S5, S7/75, S9) is the most central stop. Tram The M13 goes from Warschauer Strasse

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F3 Drinking 7 Hops & Barley G3 8 Kptn A Müller F3 9 Place Clichy E3 10 Süss War Gestern G4 11 Strandgut Berlin B4 12 Berghain/Panorama Bar C3 13 ://about blank G5 14 Zum Schmutzigen Hobby F4 15 Himmelreich F3 16 Monster Ronson's Ichiban Karaoke D4 Entertainment 17 Astra

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cocktails strong, the crowd grown-up and the DJs tops. (www.strandgut-berlin.com, in German; Mühlenstrasse 61-63; from 10am; S-Bahn Ostbahnhof; ) 12 Berghain/Panorama Bar Club Offline map Google map Only world-class spinmasters heat up this hedonistic bass-junkie hellhole inside a labyrinthine ex-power plant. Upstairs

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, Panorama Bar pulsates with house and electro, while the big factory floor below (Berghain) is gay-leaning and hard techno. Strict door and no cameras. (www.berghain.de; Am Wriezener Bahnhof; Fri & Sat; S-Bahn Ostbahnhof) 13 ://about blank Club Offline map Google map This club

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clubs charge €12 or €15 for admission, but elsewhere €3 to €10 is typical. Doors can be tough on busy nights at top clubs like Berghain/Panorama Bar (Click here), Watergate (Click here) and Cookies (Click here), but overall making it past the bouncer is still relatively relaxed. Individual style generally

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.clubmatcher.de. › Scan RA, flyers, posters and local listings magazines for new openings, one-off raves, festivals, label releases and other parties. Best Electro Berghain Big bad Berghain is still Berlin’s quintessential dancing den of iniquity. (Click here) Watergate Two floors, a stunning riverside setting and plenty of eye candy. (Click

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is Kreuzberg, which teems with party pens, especially along Oranienstrasse and Mehringdamm. Across the river, Friedrichshain has fewer gay bars but such key clubs as Berghain/Panorama Bar and the hardcore Lab.oratory. In Prenzlauer Berg gay-geared locales are fairly spread out. Party Spectrum Berlin’s gayscape ranges from mellow

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on weekends. (Click here) Marietta On Wednesdays, this retro bar is a warm-up for the local gay party circuit. (Click here) Best Clubs & Parties Berghain Post-industrial techno-electro hellhole for studly queer bass junkies; with darkrooms. (Click here) Weekend Host of GMF, Berlin’s premier Sunday club, known for

Berlin Like a Local

by Dk Eyewitness · 170pp · 32,491 words

(they’re rightly popular). Got tickets to the philharmonic or theatre? Smart casual is the way to go – just swerve the trainers you wore to Berghain last weekend. NIGHTLIFE Berliners don’t rush their nights out – with weekend-long parties, there’s no need to. Most clubs open at midnight on

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epitomizes Berlin’s alternative spirit, it’s Friedrichshain. Punk allegiance lives on in dingy pubs, off-beat cinemas and lively alternative clubs – including hallowed ground Berghain. It’s no wonder students make it their mission to live in the large shared apartments (known as WGs) in eastern Samariterkiez. But this isn

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g Contents Google Map HARD WAX Map 1; Köpenicker Strasse 70, Mitte; ///status.fattest.inferior www.hardwax.com You don’t need to go to Berghain to access Berlin’s exclusive dance music scene (plus, Hard Wax is easier to get into). Rehoused inside Kraftwerk Berlin, a defunct power plant turned

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.torn; www.uy-studio.com This brand’s story is classic Berlin: two broke students start making their own clothes, show their threads off at Berghain and, before they know it, their genderless black garms have their very own showroom. A loyal following of revellers sporting leather chokers and heavy eyeliner

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. Find a new favourite jam at this second-hand gem. Karl-Marx-Allee ///trader.salutes.lake Berghain ///period.talkers.crystals Expressing yourself through clothing plays a big part in whether you get into notorious club Berghain. So does wearing black. g Contents ARTS & CULTURE A haven for creatives, Berlin is shaped by

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and raving it up well into Monday morning. g NIGHTLIFE g Contents Cool Clubs Zur Klappe ://about blank Salon zur Wilden Renate Beate Uwe Ohm Berghain KitKat Club MS Hoppetosse g Cool Clubs g Contents Google Map ZUR KLAPPE Map 4; Yorckstrasse 2, Kreuzberg; ///decorate.connects.complains; www.zurklappe.org Look

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intimate haunt for purists, where transcendence is found through avant-garde electronic music. g Cool Clubs g Contents Google Map BERGHAIN Map 2; Am Wriezener Bahnhof, Friedrichshain; ///period.talkers.crystals; www.berghain.berlin If there’s any club that people are willing to queue three hours for only to risk a stern

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head shake at the door, it’s Berghain. A badass techno temple in a former power station, Berlin’s most illustrious nightclub has just as much a reputation for its world-class DJs

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Platz Folkdays HHV Motto Berlin Shakespeare and Sons ARTS & CULTURE Boxhagener Strasse Computerspielemuseum East Side Gallery Freiraum in der Box Urban Spree NIGHTLIFE ://about blank Berghain Bi Nuu Chantals House of Shame Club der Visionaere Else Holzmarkt Madame Claude Monster Ronson’s Ichiban Karaoke MS Hoppetosse Salon Zur Wilden Renate Yaam

The Rough Guide to Berlin

by Rough Guides · 550pp · 151,946 words

sure to try Currywurst, a local speciality. 11 Nightlife You can party all night in Berlin’s bewildering array of bars and clubs; world-famous Berghain has been called the best club on the planet. 12 Weekend brunch Weekend brunch buffets are Berlin’s best hangover cure. 13 Tiergarten Full of

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. Basic food served. Summer daily 10am–3am; rest of year Mon–Sat 5pm–3am, Sun 10am–3am. TOP 5 PLACES TO END A NIGHT OUT Berghain Golden Gate Kumpelnest 3000 Möbel-Olfe Rosi’s EASTERN KREUZBERG AND TREPTOW Arena Berlin Eichenstr. 4, Treptow 030 533 20 30, arena-berlin.de; Treptower

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; map. Expect everything from experimental concerts and films to sculpture installations at this small but edgy space. Tues–Sat 9pm–late. TOP 5 TECHNO CLUBS Berghain Kater Blau Sisyphos Tresor Watergate FRIEDRICHSHAIN ://about blank Markgrafendamm 24c aboutparty.net; Ostkreuz; map. Set inside a nondescript concrete block a short walk from Ostrkeuz

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related electronic genres plus live concerts. Entry €10–14. Club Thurs–Sun midnight till late; from 7pm for midweek live shows. Berghain Am Wriezener Bahnhof 030 29 36 02 10, berghain.de; Ostbahnhof; map. This vast, artfully scuzzy old power plant is considered by many people to be the best club in

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generally drops below an hour. Entry €14–18. Fri & Sat midnight until late (usually late afternoon the next day). Kantine am Berghain Rüdersdorfer Str. 70 030 29 36 02 10, berghain.de; Ostbahnhof; map. A friendly atmosphere and tiny but jolly summer beer garden mean that this venue is far more than

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simply a haven for people rejected by the neighbouring Berghain – to which its music often compares but also diverges from. Entry €5–10. Opening times vary. Kater Blau Holzmarktstr. 25 30 510 521 34, katerblau

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absorb the LGBT community and it’s not uncommon to see LGBT folk mingling in all kinds of cafés, bars and clubs – and not just Berghain. The best time to arrive and plunge yourself into the hurly-burly is Gay Pride Week, centred on the Christopher Street Day parade ( csd-berlin

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gay bars is in Schöneberg around and between Wittenbergplatz and Nollendorfplatz. Many mainly straight clubs have gay nights – see Tip, Zitty or Siegessäule for details. Berghain, Kit-Kat Club and Kumpelnest 3000 are all mixed venues with a strong gay presence that have become legendary. Other nights not to miss are

Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

by Tim Mohr · 10 Sep 2018 · 370pp · 107,791 words

About Blank, perhaps the normality they know in another city or another country altogether. 70 By far the most famous club in Berlin today is Berghain. Opinions of the place vary—to some, it’s been irrevocably sullied by coverage in American media outlets, or it’s lost its edge because

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of all the tourists who flock there to party. But Berghain was the largest and most easily identifiable institution at the moment when the world decided Berlin was the coolest city on earth, and it is

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gravitational center of the scene, allowing lots of other places to operate in the relative anonymity of its outer orbits. The building that now houses Berghain was originally part of the physical plant for a grand Stalinist residential development that runs east from Alexanderplatz out to Frankfurter Tor. The centerpiece of

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the time was open land near the main East Berlin rail yards, the building that became Berghain originally provided steam to heat these showpiece housing blocks. The steam plant was abandoned in the 1980s. When Berghain opened, in December 2004, the space was left largely as the club owners found it, in

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social, sexual, and musical pleasures. In a club where photography is strictly forbidden and the staff consciously avoid the media, the most familiar aspect of Berghain isn’t the dark, industrial interior or even the Socialist-Bauhaus exterior of the old power plant; it is the bulldog-like glower of Sven

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Marquardt. Sven is Berghain’s Türsteher, which could be translated as “bouncer,” but in a scene where there is virtually no violence it really means something else. Sven is

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in Berlin in recent years. Say it, speak it, shout it out loud. A straight line connects Planlos and Namenlos to Eimer and Tacheles, to Berghain and About Blank, and on to all the other clubs that will inevitably follow. Were you really born to be subordinate to it all? A

Germany Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

) in Kreuzberg. »Hire a bike and ride along the smooth tarmac of defunct Tempelhof (Click here) airport. »Get up at 6am to go clubbing at Berghain/Panorama Bar (Click here). »Have drinks or a meal at Defne (Click here), Horváth (Click here), Cafe Jacques (Click here) or any of the other

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71 Süss War Gestern H3 72 Würgeengel E3 73 Zum Schmutzigen Hobby H3 Entertainment Arsenal (see 12) 74 Astra Kulturhaus G2 Babylon (see 72) 75 Berghain/Panorama Bar G2 76 Café Fatal E3 Cinestar Original (see 12) 77 Club der Visionäre G4 78 English Theatre Berlin C5 Lab.oratory (see 75

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comfortable elsewhere. Current hipster central is Kreuzberg, which teems with party pens along Mehringdamm and Oranienstrasse. Across the river, Friedrichshain has such key clubs as Berghain/Panorama Bar (p) and the hard-core Lab.oratory Offline map Google map (www.lab-oratory.de; Am Wriezener Bahnhof; Thu-Mon; Ostbahnhof). In Prenzlauer

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’80s and still hasn’t lost its grip on the scene, even though everyone’s a little older now. The giant cruising labyrinth is legendary. Berghain (p) Take off your shirt and head to this vast post-industrial techno hellhole filled with studly queer bass junkies. With its dark and hidden

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Koka 36 (6110 1313; www.koka36.de; Oranienstrasse 29; 9am-7pm Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm Sat; Kottbusser Tor) in Kreuzberg. Clubbing Berghain/Panorama Bar CLUB Offline map Google map (www.berghain.de; Am Wriezener Bahnhof; Sat; Ostbahnhof) Only world-class spinmeisters heat up this hedonistic bass-junkie hellhole inside a labyrinthine former

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Wed-Sun; Warschauer Strasse) Tousled hipsters in need of an eclectic electro shower invade this funkytown dancing den that at times feels like a mini-Berghain – sweaty, edgy, industrial and with a top-notch sound system. In summer, watch the stars fade on the outdoor floor with chillier sounds and grilled

Pocket Rough Guide Berlin (Travel Guide eBook)

by Rough Guides · 16 Oct 2019 · 212pp · 49,082 words

house and techno around, attracting clubbers from around the globe who come to the city just to party the weekend away at heavyweight places like Berghain and Watergate. There’s a strong concentration of clubs in Friedrichshain and East Kreuzberg, particularly along the River Spree, which divides these two neighbourhoods. OUR

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FAVOURITES: Berghain, Clärchens Ballhaus, B-Flat. < Back to Introduction 15 THINGS NOT TO MISS It’s not possible to see everything that Berlin has to offer in

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even chill out in the kitchen, or over a game of ping pong, in between sessions on the dancefloors, where indie, punk and electro pound. Berghain. It’s notoriously tough to get into, but if you can penetrate Berlin’s world-famous techno temple you’ll realise why it’s considered

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summer. The dominant music policy is house and techno with occasional forays into related electronic genres plus live concerts. Berghain/Panoramabar Alamy Berghain/Panoramabar MAP Am Wriezener Bahnhof Ostbahnhof 030 29 36 02 10, berghain.de. Fri & Sat midnight–late. €12–18. A strong contender for best club in the city, if not

The Passenger: Berlin

by The Passenger · 8 Jun 2021 · 199pp · 63,724 words

higher levels of tolerance, but because the rules are less sharply defined it can be difficult to adhere to them. A good example is the Berghain techno club, which officially has no dress code. Look for a recipe for guaranteed admission to the club and all you’ll find are details

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Neukölln Arcaden shopping centre. Live music during the Sunday flea market at the Mauerpark. ‘Abandon hope all ye who enter here’ – queuing to get into Berghain. Ellen heard about her city’s new coordinates while she was in Fischlabor. There she met people who showed her the way to a wartime

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at Tresor, becoming more like gabber or hardcore. Regulars at the legendary venue included Michael Teufele and Norbert Thormann, the future founders of Ostgut and Berghain, who organised gay parties there. After four years of illegal parties, in 1996 Bunker was closed down, to the dismay of many, and for years

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Biergärten where punters could listen to electronic music while seated: dancing was forbidden. Two long-standing institutions of Berlin’s nightlife took very different paths: Berghain made a virtue out of necessity by transforming itself into an art exhibition space in collaboration with the Boros Foundation, while the KitKat, the subject

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political opponent, one that sits in the German Parliament. In 2018 a Berlin representative of the AfD party wanted to close the world-famous Club Berghain and light up the darkrooms. The protests were fierce and loud, and the politician never introduced her bill. The opponent was visible, but the counter

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legendary Watergate club. Efdemin is a long-time Berliner and one of the icons of Ostgut Ton, the label owned by that temple of techno, Berghain. The playlist ends with another Italian, Lucy, a ‘shaman’ originally from Palermo, who brilliantly combines ambient and techno and has left his mark on the