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Berghain

January 01, 1970

Berghain (German: [bɛɐ̯khaɪn]) is a nightclub in Berlin, Germany. It is named after its location near the border between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain in Berlin, and is a short walk from Berlin Ostbahnhof main line railway station.[2] Founded in 2004 by friends Norbert Thormann and Michael Teufele,[3] it has since become one of the world's most famous clubs and has been called the "world capital of techno."[1][4]

Berghain
The Berghain nightclub building (2022)
Berghain
Location within Berlin
AddressAm Wriezener Bahnhof
LocationFriedrichshain, Berlin, Germany
Coordinates52°30′40″N 13°26′35″E / 52.51111°N 13.44306°E / 52.51111; 13.44306
DesignationCultural institution
TypeNightclub
Capacity1,500[1]
Opened2004; 20 years ago (2004)

History edit

 
The sign for Ostgut

Thormann and Teufele hosted a male-only fetish club night called Snax, which launched in 1992 at Bunker.[5] In 1999 they founded their first club, Ostgut, in a former railway repair depot in Friedrichshain. Unlike Snax, the club was open to the general public. According to Deutsche Welle, Ostgut, "known for unique parties and boundless freedoms, sexual and otherwise, is considered to have paved the way for Berghain."[6] Ostgut closed in January 2003, with the building slated for demolition and later replaced by a large indoor arena, the O2 World Berlin.[3]

Berghain opened in 2004 as a reincarnation of Ostgut.[7][8] The name "Berghain" is a portmanteau of the two city quarters that flank the south and north sides of the building, Kreuzberg (formerly in West Berlin) and Friedrichshain (formerly in East Berlin), and has been described as evocative of the club's "post-1989 identity."[5] The literal meaning of the German word Berghain is "mountain grove."

The club is located in a former thermal plant built in 1953 as part of the flagship post-war Stalinallee development[5] and abandoned in the 1980s.[1] The space was originally rented from the energy company Vattenfall[9] but has been owned outright by the club since 2011.[10] The building has a cavernous main room with 18-meter ceilings and is dominated by steel and concrete. The design of the club's interior, as well as later interior and exterior expansions of the venue, were carried out by the Berlin design firm Studio Karhard.[11]

In 2016, a German court officially designated Berghain a cultural institution, which allows the club to pay a reduced tax rate.[12]

Nightclub edit

The club's main room is focused on techno, with a smaller upstairs space, Panorama Bar, featuring house music.[4][13] An outdoor garden opens between late spring and early fall to host daytime DJ sets.[14][15]

Berghain has a Funktion-One sound system on its main dance floor. Its first iteration, called the Dance Stack, was installed in 2005 and was one of the company's largest club installs.[16] The Dance Stack was replaced with a new, updated Funktion-One system in 2023.[17] The Panorama Bar system was upgraded in 2017 with a four-point line-array system with an additional six subwoofers from Studt Akustik.[18]

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, in March 2020, Berghain closed along with all other nightclubs in Berlin.[19] Over the summer, it hosted several sound art installations inside the building and garden.[20] In September 2020, the indoors club reopened as an art space, hosting an exhibition titled "Studio Berlin" featuring 115 Berlin-based artists including Tacita Dean, Olafur Eliasson and Wolfgang Tillmans.[21][22][23] After 19 months, in October 2021, Berghain resumed indoor dance club events, with patrons required to either be vaccinated or have recovered from COVID-19.[6]

Lab.Oratory edit

The basement holds a male-only establishment called "Lab.Oratory", which Rolling Stone described in 2014 as being "known as Berlin’s most extreme sex club."[1]

Culture edit

Berghain has become associated with decadence and hedonism. It is open continuously most weekends from Saturday night through late Monday morning.[24] The club offers dark rooms dedicated to sexual activity, and media have frequently reported of guests openly indulging in sexual acts.[25] In 2019 Frieze magazine observed that while in Berghain's early years, "the main room was mostly a space for gay men, [...] now its queer palette is more mixed [but] the club’s values remain the same: concealment, queerness and excess."[5] The twice-yearly Snax Party is reserved for gay patrons.[26]

No photos are allowed inside the club, with patrons required to cover their smartphone cameras with a sticker.[3] The policy was maintained in 2020 when the club temporarily converted into an art space for the "Studio Berlin" exhibition during the COVID-19 pandemic.[21] In the toilets of the club there are no mirrors, so that guests are spared the "buzzkilling indignity of seeing their own faces after an epic partying session."[1][4]

A 2022 academic study described Berghain as a unique 'pharmacolibidinal constellation', where sexual orientations may become porous, and preexisting behaviors altered, owing to the environment.[27][28]

The club's door policy is notorious for being both strict and opaque,[29] generating frequent debate and speculation.[30][31][32] The club's bouncers have been accused of racism.[12][33] Head bouncer Sven Marquardt, who is also a photographer, is a minor celebrity in the techno scene.[34]

Record label and booking agency edit

 
Panorama Bar resident Cassy

In 2005, Berghain's owners started a record label, Ostgut Ton,[4][35] conceived by former Ostgut resident DJ Nick Höppner after Ostgut's closure in 2003.[36] Its first releases were by Berghain/Panorama Bar DJ residents such as Marcel Dettmann, Cassy and Ben Klock. The label's music is mostly techno, tech house, Detroit techno and minimal techno.

In 2007, Berghain collaborated with the Berlin State Ballet to create Shut Up and Dance! Updated, a ballet for five dancers that was performed at the club in late June and early July that year.[37][38] The ballet's soundtrack, released on Ostgut Ton on May 29, 2007,[38] is made up of five specially composed tracks by prominent minimal techno artists, such as Luciano, Âme, Sleeparchive and Luke Slater (The 7th Plain).[39] The soundtrack received some positive reviews,[35][40][41] while the ballet was less well received.[42]

In October 2010, the label released a five-year anniversary compilation, Fünf, for which field recordings from within the club were used. Nick Höppner explained that the idea had come from his collaborator Emika on "a regular Sunday morning [at Berghain, where] she noticed how everything in the building was resonating and vibrating and swinging and humming–she realized that there were a lot of sounds coming from the building itself. That led to the idea of doing field recordings within the building while it's not open to the public."[36]

In the same 2010 interview, Höppner stated that Ostgut Ton was turning down many recordings because there are "so many in-house artists", while the label at that time was selling more product than other labels, but not generating much profit.[36]

Ostgut Ton closed in December 2021, having been (according to Resident Advisor) "a dominant force in dance music, beloved for its mix series and dozens of EPs, albums and compilations" for 16 years.[43]

In 2021, ARTE Concerts produced a series of three videos at the Berghain and released it on YouTube.[44]

Around 2007, Berghain also launched its own booking agency Ostgut Booking, which among other artists represented Ben Klock, Steffi, and Marcel Dettmann.[43] In October 2022, it was announced that Ostgut Booking (which at the time represented 28 acts and had eight employees) would be closing down at the end of the year.[43]

Recognition edit

DJ Magazine's top 100 Clubs edit

Berghain first entered DJ Magazine's Top 100 Clubs list in 2008, ranking 20th, and reached the top position the next year.[45]

Position by year edit

Year Position Notes Ref.
2008 20 New Entry [46]
2009 1 — [47]
2010 8 — [48]
2011 6 — [49]
2012 13 — [50]
2013 18 — [51]
2014 14 — [52]
2015 13 — [53]
2016 16 — [54]
2017 12 — [55]
2018 10 — [56]
2019 10 — [57]
2020 8 — [58]
2021 6 — [59]
2022 12 — [60]
2023 16 — [61]
2024 13 — [62]

International Dance Music Awards edit

Year Category Work Result Ref.
2010 Best Global Club Berghain - Berlin, Germany Nominated [63]
2012 Nominated [64]
2013 Nominated [65]
2014 Nominated [66]
2015 Nominated [67]
2016 Nominated [68]
2020 Nominated [69]

In popular culture edit

  • In 2013, American pop star Lady Gaga hosted an event at Berghain promoting her techno-inspired album, Artpop[70]
  • In the TV series Sense8 one of the characters, Riley Gunnarsdóttir, played by Tuppence Middleton, is admired for a recording of a DJ set she made in Berghain.[citation needed]
  • In 2016, American comedian Conan O'Brien attempted to gain admission to Berghain while filming a travel episode of his television show Conan, but was denied and asked to leave due to the presence of his camera crew.[citation needed][71]
  • In 2017, the card game Bergnein was released, a satirical card game where the goal is to "Let the right people in, outshine your colleagues and win the game!"[72]
  • A character in the 2021 film The Matrix Resurrections named 'Berg' has a series of tattoos on his arm of the Berghain logo. The Wachowskis are also known patrons of the club.[citation needed]
  • In the 2021 television series Gossip Girl, Max Wolfe is said in the pilot episode to have visited Berghain. In his final appearance, he is shown to be thrown out of the club.[citation needed]
  • In 2021, DJ Mag suspected that "a number of Berlin clubs have inspired Hitman III's new night time venue: Club Hölle", a virtual in-game nightclub, including "Berghain, Kraftwerk and Griessmüehle".[73]
  • The Electro song Ostbahnhof by the French producers Miss Kittin and The Hacker, released in 2022, describes a night spent at Berghain without naming the club.[74]
  • In 2023, the film John Wick: Chapter 4 features John Wick visiting a fictional club in Berlin named "Himmel und Hölle" inspired by this club. It also features a cameo from the Bouncer Sven Marquardt.[75][76]
  • The song Berliner Luft by German band Scooter, released in 2023, mentions Berghain along with other Berlin clubs.[77]

See also edit

References edit

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Berghain German bɛɐ khaɪn is a nightclub in Berlin Germany It is named after its location near the border between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain in Berlin and is a short walk from Berlin Ostbahnhof main line railway station 2 Founded in 2004 by friends Norbert Thormann and Michael Teufele 3 it has since become one of the world s most famous clubs and has been called the world capital of techno 1 4 BerghainThe Berghain nightclub building 2022 BerghainLocation within BerlinAddressAm Wriezener BahnhofLocationFriedrichshain Berlin GermanyCoordinates52 30 40 N 13 26 35 E 52 51111 N 13 44306 E 52 51111 13 44306DesignationCultural institutionTypeNightclubCapacity1 500 1 Opened2004 20 years ago 2004 Contents 1 History 2 Nightclub 3 Lab Oratory 4 Culture 5 Record label and booking agency 6 Recognition 6 1 DJ Magazine s top 100 Clubs 6 1 1 Position by year 6 2 International Dance Music Awards 7 In popular culture 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksHistory edit nbsp The sign for Ostgut Thormann and Teufele hosted a male only fetish club night called Snax which launched in 1992 at Bunker 5 In 1999 they founded their first club Ostgut in a former railway repair depot in Friedrichshain Unlike Snax the club was open to the general public According to Deutsche Welle Ostgut known for unique parties and boundless freedoms sexual and otherwise is considered to have paved the way for Berghain 6 Ostgut closed in January 2003 with the building slated for demolition and later replaced by a large indoor arena the O2 World Berlin 3 Berghain opened in 2004 as a reincarnation of Ostgut 7 8 The name Berghain is a portmanteau of the two city quarters that flank the south and north sides of the building Kreuzberg formerly in West Berlin and Friedrichshain formerly in East Berlin and has been described as evocative of the club s post 1989 identity 5 The literal meaning of the German word Berghain is mountain grove The club is located in a former thermal plant built in 1953 as part of the flagship post war Stalinallee development 5 and abandoned in the 1980s 1 The space was originally rented from the energy company Vattenfall 9 but has been owned outright by the club since 2011 10 The building has a cavernous main room with 18 meter ceilings and is dominated by steel and concrete The design of the club s interior as well as later interior and exterior expansions of the venue were carried out by the Berlin design firm Studio Karhard 11 In 2016 a German court officially designated Berghain a cultural institution which allows the club to pay a reduced tax rate 12 Nightclub editThe club s main room is focused on techno with a smaller upstairs space Panorama Bar featuring house music 4 13 An outdoor garden opens between late spring and early fall to host daytime DJ sets 14 15 Berghain has a Funktion One sound system on its main dance floor Its first iteration called the Dance Stack was installed in 2005 and was one of the company s largest club installs 16 The Dance Stack was replaced with a new updated Funktion One system in 2023 17 The Panorama Bar system was upgraded in 2017 with a four point line array system with an additional six subwoofers from Studt Akustik 18 At the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic in Germany in March 2020 Berghain closed along with all other nightclubs in Berlin 19 Over the summer it hosted several sound art installations inside the building and garden 20 In September 2020 the indoors club reopened as an art space hosting an exhibition titled Studio Berlin featuring 115 Berlin based artists including Tacita Dean Olafur Eliasson and Wolfgang Tillmans 21 22 23 After 19 months in October 2021 Berghain resumed indoor dance club events with patrons required to either be vaccinated or have recovered from COVID 19 6 Lab Oratory editThe basement holds a male only establishment called Lab Oratory which Rolling Stone described in 2014 as being known as Berlin s most extreme sex club 1 Culture editBerghain has become associated with decadence and hedonism It is open continuously most weekends from Saturday night through late Monday morning 24 The club offers dark rooms dedicated to sexual activity and media have frequently reported of guests openly indulging in sexual acts 25 In 2019 Frieze magazine observed that while in Berghain s early years the main room was mostly a space for gay men now its queer palette is more mixed but the club s values remain the same concealment queerness and excess 5 The twice yearly Snax Party is reserved for gay patrons 26 No photos are allowed inside the club with patrons required to cover their smartphone cameras with a sticker 3 The policy was maintained in 2020 when the club temporarily converted into an art space for the Studio Berlin exhibition during the COVID 19 pandemic 21 In the toilets of the club there are no mirrors so that guests are spared the buzzkilling indignity of seeing their own faces after an epic partying session 1 4 A 2022 academic study described Berghain as a unique pharmacolibidinal constellation where sexual orientations may become porous and preexisting behaviors altered owing to the environment 27 28 The club s door policy is notorious for being both strict and opaque 29 generating frequent debate and speculation 30 31 32 The club s bouncers have been accused of racism 12 33 Head bouncer Sven Marquardt who is also a photographer is a minor celebrity in the techno scene 34 Record label and booking agency edit nbsp Panorama Bar resident Cassy In 2005 Berghain s owners started a record label Ostgut Ton 4 35 conceived by former Ostgut resident DJ Nick Hoppner after Ostgut s closure in 2003 36 Its first releases were by Berghain Panorama Bar DJ residents such as Marcel Dettmann Cassy and Ben Klock The label s music is mostly techno tech house Detroit techno and minimal techno In 2007 Berghain collaborated with the Berlin State Ballet to create Shut Up and Dance Updated a ballet for five dancers that was performed at the club in late June and early July that year 37 38 The ballet s soundtrack released on Ostgut Ton on May 29 2007 38 is made up of five specially composed tracks by prominent minimal techno artists such as Luciano Ame Sleeparchive and Luke Slater The 7th Plain 39 The soundtrack received some positive reviews 35 40 41 while the ballet was less well received 42 In October 2010 the label released a five year anniversary compilation Funf for which field recordings from within the club were used Nick Hoppner explained that the idea had come from his collaborator Emika on a regular Sunday morning at Berghain where she noticed how everything in the building was resonating and vibrating and swinging and humming she realized that there were a lot of sounds coming from the building itself That led to the idea of doing field recordings within the building while it s not open to the public 36 In the same 2010 interview Hoppner stated that Ostgut Ton was turning down many recordings because there are so many in house artists while the label at that time was selling more product than other labels but not generating much profit 36 Ostgut Ton closed in December 2021 having been according to Resident Advisor a dominant force in dance music beloved for its mix series and dozens of EPs albums and compilations for 16 years 43 In 2021 ARTE Concerts produced a series of three videos at the Berghain and released it on YouTube 44 Around 2007 Berghain also launched its own booking agency Ostgut Booking which among other artists represented Ben Klock Steffi and Marcel Dettmann 43 In October 2022 it was announced that Ostgut Booking which at the time represented 28 acts and had eight employees would be closing down at the end of the year 43 Recognition editDJ Magazine s top 100 Clubs edit Berghain first entered DJ Magazine s Top 100 Clubs list in 2008 ranking 20th and reached the top position the next year 45 Position by year edit Year Position Notes Ref 2008 20 New Entry 46 2009 1 47 2010 8 48 2011 6 49 2012 13 50 2013 18 51 2014 14 52 2015 13 53 2016 16 54 2017 12 55 2018 10 56 2019 10 57 2020 8 58 2021 6 59 2022 12 60 2023 16 61 2024 13 62 International Dance Music Awards edit Year Category Work Result Ref 2010 Best Global Club Berghain Berlin Germany Nominated 63 2012 Nominated 64 2013 Nominated 65 2014 Nominated 66 2015 Nominated 67 2016 Nominated 68 2020 Nominated 69 In popular culture editIn 2013 American pop star Lady Gaga hosted an event at Berghain promoting her techno inspired album Artpop 70 In the TV series Sense8 one of the characters Riley Gunnarsdottir played by Tuppence Middleton is admired for a recording of a DJ set she made in Berghain citation needed In 2016 American comedian Conan O Brien attempted to gain admission to Berghain while filming a travel episode of his television show Conan but was denied and asked to leave due to the presence of his camera crew citation needed 71 In 2017 the card game Bergnein was released a satirical card game where the goal is to Let the right people in outshine your colleagues and win the game 72 A character in the 2021 film The Matrix Resurrections named Berg has a series of tattoos on his arm of the Berghain logo The Wachowskis are also known patrons of the club citation needed In the 2021 television series Gossip Girl Max Wolfe is said in the pilot episode to have visited Berghain In his final appearance he is shown to be thrown out of the club citation needed In 2021 DJ Mag suspected that a number of Berlin clubs have inspired Hitman III s new night time venue Club Holle a virtual in game nightclub including Berghain Kraftwerk and Griessmuehle 73 The Electro song Ostbahnhof by the French producers Miss Kittin and The Hacker released in 2022 describes a night spent at Berghain without naming the club 74 In 2023 the film John Wick Chapter 4 features John Wick visiting a fictional club in Berlin named Himmel und Holle inspired by this club It also features a cameo from the Bouncer Sven Marquardt 75 76 The song Berliner Luft by German band Scooter released in 2023 mentions Berghain along with other Berlin clubs 77 See also editList of electronic dance music venues SuperclubReferences edit a b c d e Rogers Thomas 2014 02 06 Berghain The Secretive Sex Fueled World of Techno s Coolest Club Rolling Stone Retrieved 2022 01 02 Panoramabar Berlin s Underworld XLR8R Archived 2008 02 08 at the Wayback Machine a b c Paumgarten Nick 16 March 2014 Dancing Through Berlin The New Yorker Retrieved 2020 12 22 a b c d Sherburne Philip 2007 05 09 The Month In Techno Pitchfork Media Retrieved 2007 07 04 a b c d Cagney Liam 2019 12 20 Berghain at 15 What Next for Berlin s Legendary Nightclub Frieze Retrieved 2022 01 02 a b Wunsch Silke 2021 10 02 What makes Berlin s Berghain club special Deutsche Welle Archived from the original on 2021 10 01 Retrieved 2021 11 02 andrew Ostgut Berlin Discopia Archived from the original on 2006 08 29 Retrieved 2020 12 22 Berlin electro club Berghain turns two The Berlin Paper 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