SO36

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Entrance on Oranienstrasse

The SO36 (short: the SO [ ˈɛso ]) is a music club in Oranienstrasse 190, Kreuzberg , near Heinrichplatz in Berlin .

The club takes its name from the historical postal delivery district of the same name, Berlin SO 36 .

history

The traditional hall in Oranienstrasse was built towards the end of the 19th century as a “restoration shop” for the local beer garden . Plans to set up a movie theater were dated back to 1912. Initially the cinema was operated under the name Kinora , from around 1930 as a cinema on Heinrichplatz . Closed due to war damage, it was reopened in 1951, but closed for good after the wall was built. From the late 1960s to the 1970s it served as a studio, and occasionally as a supermarket.

Punk and New Wave

Entrance to SO36, 1987

The venue was SO36 on 11/12. August 1978 with the two-day "Wall Construction Festival " (in ironic commemoration of the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961) under the direction of Achim Schächtele, Klaus-Dieter Brennecke and Andreas Rohè. The Wall , Dub-Liners , Lunch Break , Male , SYPH , DIN A Testbild , Ffurs , Stukka Pilots and PVC performed among others . After just five months, however, it threatened to go bankrupt , Schächtele fell ill and Brennecke sold his shares to Martin Kippenberger . Schächtele, Kippenberger and Rohè tried to build a bridge between punk , new wave and art, similar to how the Ratinger Hof had succeeded in Düsseldorf . In addition to conventional punk bands, they also invited avant-garde bands such as The Red Crayola , Suicide , Lydia Lunch and Throbbing Gristle .

This business model failed because of the lack of acceptance on the part of the Kreuzberg anarcho-punk scene, who criticized the concept as “consumer shit” or “Schickeria art” as well as the admission prices and house bans against individual visitors, which were perceived as too high. The criticism ultimately escalated in an attack by a "command against consumer terror" on November 11, 1978 during a concert by the English band Wire , at which the entrance box for 2500 to 4500  marks was stolen. This money may have flowed into the later founding of a Kreuzberg punk center. In June 1979 Schächtele, Rohé and Kippenberger ended their phase with the “Last Night in SO36” and sold the GmbH to the Turkish social worker Hilal Kurutan.

Under his direction, the SO36 remained a center of the punk and new wave scene in Germany until 1983; Kurutan also organized weddings, Turkish disco evenings and numerous theater performances. Originally renamed “Merhaba”, it kept the name “SO36” on the advice of concert organizers in Berlin. In cooperation with various organizers such as Karl Walterbach, Burkhard Zeiler and later also independently, the history of SO36 as the center of punk was continued. Bands like Slime , Die Ärzte , Die Toten Hosen , Einstürzende Neubauten , Die Tödliche Doris and the Dead Kennedys performed , and in 1982 the first Berlin Atonal Festival took place here. The "True Heino" organized his legendary "Tanz-in-den-Mai" parties, including the farewell concert by Soilent Grün (today: Die Ärzte) and one of the first Toten Hosen concerts (1982).

At the end of March 1983, the SO36 was closed by the building supervision , Kurutan could not afford the necessary renovation and gave up operations.

The period from 1980 to 1984 is the subject of the documentation So was SO 36 from 1984 by Manfred Jelinski and Jörg Buttgereit . which was also released as a video in 1997.

In 1984 an exhibition of the International Building Exhibition (IBA 1984) moved in at short notice . After the occupied Art and Culture Center Kreuzberg (KuKuck) had been evacuated in Anhalter Straße , its sympathizers stormed the IBA exhibition, threw it out and occupied SO36. In the following years they were tolerated by the STERN (Gesellschaft der bewutsamen Stadterneuer mbH), which held the lease. The SO36 developed into a local center of the Kreuzberg scene. In 1986 the Hundertfleck theater took up a lot of space and time and the SO36 functioned mainly as a rehearsal room and stage for the theater. It was not until the end of 1986 that groups from the surrounding neighborhood took over the operation and programming of the SO36 and the focus shifted back to concerts, but there were also popular kitchens and general assemblies. For example, the “Blockshock” operator Sibylle Schmidt organized a few evenings here.

In 1987 there were conflicts with the police, as the concerts had developed into street battles on Oranienstrasse several times . They culminated in a major police attack on SO36 on New Year's Eve 1987/1988 after punks had thrown guns at police cars on the neighboring Heinrichplatz. In the scene, the police attack was interpreted as "revenge for May 1st".

At the beginning of February, SO36 was again closed by the building inspectorate and the lease was terminated after a theater group removed parts of the floor for a performance and a fire broke out.

Former users of SO36 joined the non-profit association “Sub Opus 36 e. V. “to fight for a new lease and funding for a reopening.

In 1983/1984 the rehearsal room of the Berlin punk band pre-war youth (VKJ) was located in the backyard of SO36 .

present

In 1990 the SO36 was renovated and under the new sponsorship of “Sub Opus 36 e. V. ”was put back into operation as an event hall. Event operations were increasingly professionalized by the end of the 1990s. In addition to concerts, events for and by lesbians and gays established themselves during this period , which made the term “ queer ” popular in German-speaking countries for the first time with the queer parties in the mid-1990s . "Gayhane" was the world's first gay and lesbian party series that was specifically aimed at people with Muslim roots and the only one that has been held every month since 1997.

In 2009, the SO36 was threatened by a neighborhood conflict. In order to be able to meet the resulting requirement for noise reduction, a soundproofing wall should be built. In order to bring in the necessary financial means, both benefit concerts (so on September 2, 2009 with Die Toten Hosen ) and negotiations with the district to cover the costs took place.

In addition, SO36 is also politically active. In 2009, for example, the club took part in protests against the Mediaspree investor project and supported the “ Freedom instead of Fear ” demonstration alliance . As a protagonist against the gentrification of Kreuzberg, the SO36 was involved with several events and finally turned away from the Kreuzberg Myfest.

For 2009 the SO36 won the Live Entertainment Award as best club. In addition to the SO36, the jazz club Domicil in Dortmund and the Bochum colliery were nominated .

In November 2017, the press reported about a dispute that broke out in 2016 between parts of the workforce and management. The management was accused of wanting to get rid of employees who had come together in a company group and had demanded secret elections and a discussion of the termination practice at a general meeting. The process, which was accompanied by the Free Workers' Union , landed several times before the Berlin Labor Court.

Some film scenes from the official video clip for the song Freight Train by the American hardcore band Madball from 2018, shot by the filmmaker Daniel Prieß, were recorded in and in front of the Berlin music club SO36. This song is included on the Madball album For The Cause .

Events

Concert stage of the SO36
Techno party in SO36

Today parties and concerts take place regularly. The Monday Electric Ballroom was one of the longstanding techno events in Berlin.

The oriental and gay-lesbian party Gayhane, organized by Fatma Souad (Hakan Tandoğan) with resident DJ Ipek , gave the gay-lesbian Turkish scene in Germany a decisive impetus. It takes place once a month on a Saturday and is musically influenced by Turkish and Arabic , as well as Greek and Hebrew pop music . An integral part of the program is a half-hour show with belly dances and other oriental influences. The organizers work more closely with political and social or gay and lesbian organizations that are mostly active in the areas of foreigner integration and refugee aid.

The “Café Fatal”, which has been taking place on Sundays since 1995, is one of the traditional events. The event begins with a one-hour standard dance class for beginners and advanced. Afterwards, changing DJs initially play standard and Latin American dance music and later in the evening rock , pop and hit songs .

Since 1998 the so-called “Super sexy Kiezbingo” has taken place once a month. The bingo game is moderated by the queens Inge Borg and Gisela Sommer. The prizes are sponsored by local businesses and the proceeds are donated to a pre-selected political or charity.

The “My ugly x” party series is primarily aimed at younger guests and takes place once a month on a Friday. The event has the motto "Bad Taste" and is characterized by clothing and music styles, especially dance and pop music from the 1990s, which are said to be particularly tasteless and trash- heavy.

Once a month, the hall is used for a nightly flea market with free social counseling on Hartz IV .

Films and reports

  • Manfred Jelinski: That was SO36 , Germany, 1985
  • Ines De Nil : In the Heart of O Street (documentary), 1999
  • Beate Becker: SO36 - The club as free space and total work of art , Deutschlandradio Kultur , 2014

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Brennecke (Ed.): Süd Ost 36. 1978–79 . Exhibition catalog. Gallery Brennecke, Berlin 2013
  • George Lindt, Ingolf Rech (ed.): We will always go on . Book including documentary on DVD , Favorite Book Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943967-01-2 .
  • Sub Opus 36 e. V. (Ed.): SO36 - 1978 until today . Ventil Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95575-054-1 .
  • »Esso« myth. In: Drucksache - Drucksache. Magazine of the Kottbusser Tor Renewal Commission , No. 6, August 31, 1987, deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de (PDF)

Web links

Commons : SO36  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cinema on Heinrichplatz. In: allekinos.com. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ August 11 + 12, 1978 Two weird German nights in the south-east - Rockinberlin. In: rockinberlin.de. August 12, 1978. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Frank Apunkt Schneider: When the world was still down - From Punk to NDW , pp. 73 f., 2007, ISBN 3-931555-88-7 .
  4. ↑ Frank Apunkt Schneider: When the world was still down - From Punk to NDW , p. 334, 2007, ISBN 3-931555-88-7 .
  5. ^ Anonymous leaflet Destroy SO36 , quoted from a reproduction by Frank Apunkt Schneider: When the world was still going down - From Punk to NDW , p. 185, 2007, ISBN 3-931555-88-7 .
  6. ↑ Frank Apunkt Schneider: When the world was still down - From Punk to NDW , p. 185, 2007, ISBN 3-931555-88-7
  7. ↑ Frank Apunkt Schneider: When the world went down - From Punk to NDW , p. 75, 2007, ISBN 3-931555-88-7 .
  8. ↑ In 2012 we will always go on , a book and documentary film in which SO36 is described in detail with the chapter No Futere, Now .
  9. ↑ die-beste-band-der-welt.de (doctors fan page)
  10. ↑ The wild heart of old Kreuzberg beats in SO36. In: Berliner Morgenpost , March 29, 2009
  11. ^ Freedom instead of fear 2009 - nationwide demonstration on September 12, 2009
  12. ↑ SO36 is Club of the Year. In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 16, 2010
  13. ^ Felix Langhammer, Axel Gebauer; WARENFORM http://www.warenform.net : Left claim and reality (new Germany) . ( neue-deutschland.de [accessed on November 18, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Peter Nowak: Labor conflict in left club . In: The daily newspaper: taz . November 11, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 52 ( taz.de [accessed on November 18, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Conflict Chronicle, berlin.fau.org
  16. ↑ Left claim and reality , Neues Deutschland, November 2, 2017
  17. ↑ (Update) Work conflict between a colleague and the management in SO36. August 18, 2019, accessed November 30, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Kira Kosnick: Beyond the Community - Queer Migrant Club Cultures in Metropolitan Spaces . (PDF; 116 kB) Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Sussex UK, 2005
  19. ↑ Super, Sexy, Bingo ( Memento from December 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berliner Zeitung , April 28, 2007
  20. ↑ That was SO36. in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  21. ^ Bundesplatz Kino Berlin
  22. ↑ SO36 - The club as a free space and total work of art . Deutschlandradio Kultur

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 1 ″  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 20 ″  E