Jungle (discotheque)

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The jungle was from 15 October 1978 to 31 May 1993, a dance club and cocktail bar in Berlin-Schöneberg .

history

Originally there was the Tauentzienpalast on Nürnberger Straße , on the border between Schöneberg and Charlottenburg in Berlin . The four-story, listed building complex was built from 1928 to 1931 as Femina-Palast and extends on Nürnberger Straße from house numbers 50 to 56 (in Schöneberg). In its history, the building, built in the New Objectivity style, was a magnet in Berlin's nightlife.

In the 1920s, the building's courtyard complex housed a variety theater with a glass domed roof that could be opened. Many well-known film documents, u. a. with Josephine Baker in a banana skirt, brightly made-up transvestites and bartenders with exuberant movements come from this business. The jungle was later the location for films and a home for artists who drew their inspiration from the 1920s and 1930s. Until the 1970s, the hall in the courtyard still housed the Berlin theater , a popular theater with light fare. After that, the vaudeville became the canteen of the Senator for Finance.

In the 1960s, the Chinese architect Chen Kuen Lee from the Bauhaus School designed the Chinese restaurant “San Lin Nan” at Nürnberger Strasse 53. Lee had come to Berlin from Shanghai in the early 1930s and worked on Bruno Taut's Onkel Toms Hütte housing estate with, implemented Le Corbusier's ideas of new building together with other architects in the Märkisches Viertel and was the right-hand man of the architect and urban planner Hans Scharoun for over ten years .

At the end of the 1970s, the jungle moved from its original location on Winterfeldtplatz and became a stylish, trendy disco at Nürnberger Straße 53, the Berlin counterpart of New York's “ Studio 54 ”. The spiral staircase to the gallery, the aquarium, the small fountain and the yellow-black mosaic tiles on the floor were from "San Lin Nan".

Prominent regular guests were u. a. the actress and singer Zazie de Paris , the musician Nick Cave , the entertainer Romy Haag , the designer Claudia Skoda , the painters Salomé and Martin Kippenberger , the director David Hemmings , the poet Detlev Meyer , the singer Blixa Bargeld , the experimental filmmaker Knut Hoffmeister , the actors Ben Becker and Benno Fürmann , the cultural theorists Diedrich Diederichsen and Oliver Grau and the musicians Iggy Pop and David Bowie . Some of the regulars had temporarily worked in the jungle, u. a. Marc Brandenburg , Salomé and Detlev Meyer as bouncers, waiters, bartenders or cleaning crew. The regular guests got different club brands over the years. The first chips for the keychain were made of brass, later silver and finally blue, red, green and yellow made of transparent plastic. They guaranteed free entry to the dance club. The other guests had to pay ten DM if they were let in by the doormen at all. The international guests who visited the jungle during their stays in Berlin included: a. Frank Zappa , Mick Jagger , Prince , Grace Jones , Depeche Mode , Boy George and Barbra Streisand .

With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the emergence of techno music, the Dschungel discotheque was sidelined in the late 1980s and was closed in 1993. The successor, the noble "Restaurant Dschungel", closed again in 1996. In 2002 a revival party filled the club with regular customers from the past. With the demolition of the architectural interior in 2006, the end of the jungle was finally sealed. Today the former premises belong to the Hotel Ellington .

music

  • In her Berlin anthem, Annette Humpe sang of “ Ideal ” in 1980: “Let's see what's going on in the jungle. / The music is hot, the neon light is shining, / someone paid me a gin. / The dance floor is boiling, this is where the scene meets / I feel good, I love Berlin! "
  • The NDW band Geile Tiere around the singer and painter Salomé , who had also worked as a waiter in the jungle, and the Swiss artist Luciano Castelli performed here in the 1980s.
  • In David Bowie's 2013 single Where Are We Now? it says: “Sitting in the Jungle / On Nurnberger Strasse”.

Movie

Scandal article by Thomas Kapielski in the taz

In 1988 Thomas Kapielski wrote an article for the taz to mark the ten-year existence of the disco , in which he described it as “full of gas chambers”. This led to a letter to the editor from Pieke Biermann , whereupon the then taz magazine editor Arno Widmann, according to a text published on February 11, 2010 by Kapielski's friend Helmut Höge , called a kind of general assembly. Höge writes: “The author of the Gaskammervoll article, Thomas Kapielski, was 'banned from writing' at the taz. He turned to book writing and became famous as a 'Merve' author. Nonetheless, he is repeatedly asked about the word 'full of gas chambers'. There is more debate as to whether it can be used as he is. The operating collective of the 'jungle', although averse to all political correctness (one of the managing directors was the singer of the punk band 'Geile Tiere'), had already decided on 'pc' in 1988: Kapielski got a 'local ban'. In addition, a 'dossier' was put together on the scandal - and sent to all club members. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Ulrich, Uwe Prell (scientific Red.): Berlin manual: the lexicon of the federal capital . Edited by the Press and Information Office of the State of Berlin. Project management: Ernst Luuk. FAB-Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-927551-27-9
  2. ↑ adk.de
  3. ↑ koeln-bonn.business-on.de
  4. ↑ a b c welt.de
  5. ↑ spiegel.de
  6. ↑ Ideal - Berlin. Lyrics. In: golyr.de. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Horny animals. (No longer available online.) In: NDW-Wiki. May 21, 2008, archived from the original on September 21, 2008 ; accessed on March 24, 2020 .
  8. ↑ David Bowie Where Are We Now Lyrics (from 0:00:47) on YouTube , January 9, 2013, accessed March 24, 2020.
  9. ↑ Fire at the mouth . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1981 ( online ).
  10. ↑ youtube.com
  11. ↑ taz.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 5.8 "  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 17.1"  E