KW - the thermal power station

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KW - Das Heizkraftwerk was a techno club in Munich that existed from October 1996 to January 31, 2003.

history

Stairs to the gallery

The club, usually only briefly referred to as KW (for power plant ) in parlance , was opened in 1996 in a former heating and power plant on the site of the former Pfanni works in the Art Park Ost in the Berg am Laim district of Munich . In addition to the Berlin clubs Tresor and E-Werk , the Frankfurt establishments Dorian Gray and Omen and the Natraj Temple , Ultrasound and Millennium clubs, which were also located in Munich at the time , the KW was one of the most famous techno-culture clubs in Germany in the 1990s .

Well-known venue for world stars

The club was a well-known venue for stars of the techno and pop scene. The New Yorker David Morales was the premiere guest of the Saturday event called World League , which took place for the first time on October 31, 1996 in KW. In addition to Morales, international DJs and live acts such as Sven Väth , Carl Cox , Paul van Dyk , Armand van Helden , Daft Punk , Masters at Work , Talla 2XLC , Marc Spoon , DJ Sneak , Frankie Knuckles , Bob Sinclar and Westbam played regularly partly exclusively in KW when they were in Munich. International pop stars like Boy George and Jimmy Somerville from Bronski Beat also chose KW for their concerts. Such events then regularly attracted thousands of visitors, who also traveled beyond the region, to the Kunstpark Ost, and KW soon made a name for itself across Europe.

Program and festivals

The club's musical program focused on both techno and house music . The Friday event Powerplant focused on techno. The Saturday event World League , one of the most famous Munich event series, which lives on in other clubs to this day (as of 2020), was dedicated to house music and guest appearances by international stars. René Vaitl and DJ Tomcraft were among the residents of KW . The club's door policy was considered comparatively strict. KW repeatedly presented its own love mobiles at well-known techno parades such as the Berlin Love Parade or the Munich Union Move . The club was also involved in other well-known major events in the techno scene such as Rave City .

End of the club

With the end of the Kunstpark Ost after a change of operator, KW also had to go on January 31, 2003, the reason given being the loud volume of the club. The last record in KW was put on again by David Morales, who was already the premiere guest. In 2004, in cooperation with the Münchner Kindl Foundation for Munich children, the non-profit children's adventure world "Kulti-Kids" was created in the former heating power plant, while some of the KW party series continued in other Munich locations. The cogeneration plant, which still exists today, is to give way to the future central park in the newly emerging Munich Werksviertel.

Building the club

The club was located in the former company-owned thermal power station of Pfanni , and sprayed the charm of an old industrial manufacturing plant. It thus represents an early example of today's typical conversion of disused power plants and their robust backdrop as a techno club, as it was later, for example, at Berlin's Berghain (2004), the second Tresor (2007) and the MMA Club, which is also based in Munich (2014) should follow. The KW was divided into three levels: the main area with the main floor, the gallery with a lounge and the basement. The hall-like main area was divided by meter-high concrete columns and a long steel staircase that led to the gallery. There were several bars in the club, as well as an outdoor chill-out area. Due to the proximity to ultrasound and Natraj Temple , the KW had to assert itself against so-called club sharing like these clubs .

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Others

The TV broadcaster MTV2 Pop selected KW in 2002 as one of "three of the hottest German metropolitan clubs" for its own live special as part of the ODC 40 Club Tour. Sven Väth recommends KW in a Spiegel Special about the club culture from 1998 as one of the 5 hottest clubs. The then resident DJ Tomcraft reported that he tested his world-famous hit Loneliness (# 1 UK Single Charts, # 1 UK Dance Charts, # 10 DE) for the first time in front of the audience at KW. In the television film Totentanz in the crime series Tatort , the KW acts as a film set for the fictional scene club K2.

Web links

Commons : KW - Das Heizkraftwerk  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paulina Thillmann: Germany Map: Legendary clubs. In: Zeitmagazin . November 29, 2017. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ cf. Ronald Hitzler , Michaela Pfadenhauer: A post-traditional community: integration and distinction in the techno scene . In: Frank Hillebrandt, Georg Kneer , Klaus Kraemer (eds.): Loss of security? Lifestyles between multiple options and scarcity . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 1998 / Springer-Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-13228-0 , p. 85, 4th footnote , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-322-83316-7 .
  3. ↑ a b Alex Wulkow: Dancefloor long-running hit: 20 years of the World League. In: tz Munich / Münchner Merkur . Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
  4. ↑ KW official guest dj's and live acts list. Archived from the original on June 8, 2002 ; accessed on February 15, 2017 .
  5. ^ Corpus Techno: The Music of the future will soon be history. In: MUNICHfound. Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
  6. ^ A b Francis Söder: Hall culture and event instead of monument and industrial culture . In: Thomas Kaestle, Manfred Walz, Ovis Wende (eds.): Art + planning = urbanity? Brownfields between urban development and urban art . FH Dortmund, 2006, p. 74-75 .
  7. ↑ Sabine Speth Ling: Munich Electronic Music Scene. In: tunes & wings. March 13, 2018, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Sofia Kröplin: Faze Trip # Munich (Part 1) - Where does Munich techno come from? In: Faze magazine . December 6, 2019, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ a b Feature: Tomcraft. In: dmcworld magazine. Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
  10. ↑ KW on München-Party.de. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Jochen Temsch: The new art park east: A clean fun. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Last record in KW. In: Entry in the Technoforum. January 27, 2003, accessed February 25, 2017 .
  13. ↑ News in Kultfabrik: Kult-Kids. Münchner Wochenanzeiger , February 11, 2004.
  14. ↑ Carmen Ick-Dietl: The Werksviertel is growing: We explain what is created where. In: tz Munich / Münchner Merkur . Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Martina Baum: Urban Places Part II . Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 2008, ISBN 978-3-86644-286-3 ( PDF version ).
  16. ↑ New Yorker goes on tour in Germany with MTVPop. In: New Business Verlag. Archived from the original on February 17, 2017 ; accessed on February 15, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Young is the night: CLUB TIPS. In: Spiegel Special . August 1998, p. 6 , accessed on February 25, 2017 ( PDF version ).
  18. ↑ Renate Winkler-Schlang: Berg am Laim: Let off steam in the energy center. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 30, 2019, accessed August 30, 2019 .
  19. ^ Tatort: ​​Dance of Death. In: The first . Retrieved August 30, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 24 ″  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 32 ″  E