Joe at Wedding
From 1985 to 1996, Joe am Wedding was an adventure restaurant in the former ballroom of the experimental and training institute for brewery in the Berlin district of Wedding with space for 3000 guests. The rooms were used for discotheques and live music, including major events and parties that were important for Berlin.
The building was originally the ballroom of the research and teaching institute and was later handed over to private operators. The restaurant was owned by the Engelhardt brewery in Berlin , which had leased the business to Detlef "Joe" Gerhardt. He also ran Joe's Bierhaus, Joe on Ku'damm and the Pleasure Dome open- plan disco . In day-to-day operations, the disco was at times managed by Norbert Raeder . The Joe went bankrupt mainly due to the losses of the Pleasure Dome , which the Joe in Wedding could not absorb, so that it also went into bankruptcy .
Joe at Wedding played live music. In particular, Joe had specialized in country music , rock 'n' roll and oldies. For example, members of the Puhdys performed there when the band had just broken up, the Mamas and Papas a few years after their greatest successes, and Peter Behrens after he left the trio . In 1988, Helga Hahnemann had her first appearance in the west at Joe am Wedding. In 1989 Walter Momper received the red scarf, which determined his public image in the following years, in the discotheque. The red-green coalition celebrated the successful formation of a government after the election to the House of Representatives in Joe, Momper received the scarf from the host. In the 1990s, the RIAS Dance Orchestra recorded the RIAS radio show in the nightclub. At that time, the atmosphere was already such that Till Brönner , who took part at the time, describes Joe am Wedding as "a large bar that rightly went bankrupt in the late 1990s."
On May 14, 1991, VfB zu Pankow from West Berlin and Einheit Pankow from East Berlin - both successors of the former VfB Pankow - reunited to form VfB Einheit zu Pankow .
After Joe went bankrupt, various operators tried their hand at the restaurant. In the following years the disco located in the building was called Querbeet , Lighthouse and Palace, among others . Most recently it was called Kral and was a Turkish-oriental disco. In the course of the expansion and renovation of the research and teaching facility, the former ballroom was completely demolished in 2011.
Remarks
- ↑ a b Senate Department for Urban Development: Call for tenders: New construction of the training center for the experimental and teaching institute for brewery p. 31.
- ↑ a b Innkeeper Detlef Gerhardt files bankruptcy for the operating companies at the Charlottenburg district court: "Joe" closes his bars in Kreuzberg and Wedding. In: berliner-zeitung.de. Berliner Zeitung , July 5, 1996.
- ↑ Arine Bemmer: The rise of the elderly Der Tagesspiegel September 19, 2006
- ↑ The Man with the Red Scarf , Main-Echo September 3, 2011
- ^ Till Brönner: Talking Jazz Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2010 ISBN 3-462-30117-9
- ^ Julian Graeber: Unit for Pankow , Der Tagesspiegel November 21, 2015
- ↑ New building project 2016 ( Memento from October 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )