Ufo (Club, Berlin)

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The UFO (often spelled: UFO) was the first acid house club in Berlin . It is considered a pioneer institution and a trailblazer for the techno scene as it developed during the fall of the Berlin Wall .

The club's resident DJs and guests included Tanith , Jonzon , Rok , Dr. Motte , Mijk van Dijk , Celal Kurum, Discomo and the then 13-year-old Kid Paul .

history

UFO

The UFO Club, founded by the techno activists Achim Kohlberger and Dimitri Hegemann and the history student at the time Carola Stoiber , opened in West Berlin in 1988 and was initially located for about a year at Köpenicker Strasse  6 in Kreuzberg , near the Schlesisches Tor in the basement of one ailing old residential building in which Hegemann had rented an office for the Interfisch label and also ran a club called Fischbüro , which was originally located on Wrangelstrasse . The basement room, which was accessible through a hatch with a ladder and which was set up improvisationally, was entered via a kitchen in the side wing of the building and, with a ceiling height of just 1.90 meters, offered space for around 100 people.

In 1989 the after-hour party of the first Love Parade took place here.

UFO 2

After the partly illegal club operation was discovered by the authorities, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the operators moved into a former Penny-Markt branch in Großgörschenstrasse in Schöneberg , where the club existed until the last event on December 31, 1990. UFO parties have now also taken place at different locations, which were usually announced by Monika Dietl with hidden clues in the Saturday program The Big Beat on the SFB youth broadcaster Radio 4 U. From January 1990 onwards, Tanith established the regular Cyberspace event on Wednesdays .

After the club was closed in 1990, the operators opened the vault the following year , which is now one of the world's best-known techno clubs .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Techno DJs gave Berlin an endless rhythm . Berliner Morgenpost , October 30, 2009, archived from the original on April 8, 2014 .;
  2. ↑ a b Techno - Developments and manifestations of a youth culture . ( Memento from August 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Term paper for the introductory seminar "Communication Policy and Media Law: Youth and Media" at the Free University of Berlin, Department of Media and Communication Studies, WS 95/96. In: Werner Stangl's teaching text collection.
  3. ↑ Suddenly there was a party every day . In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 8, 2009
  4. ↑ a b A secret circle conquers the world - the pioneering days of techno . someday
  5. ↑ With ignorant coolness . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 7, 2009
  6. ↑ Six Years Tresor Records De: Bug
  7. ↑ a b The whole city is screaming "Party!" . In: Die Zeit , No. 3/2007
  8. ↑ Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund - Event: INDUSTRIAL Matinée | From safe to power plant: Dimitri Hegemann (Berlin) on the power of forgotten spaces and the ruin as free space and motor . on hmkv.de December 2013
  9. ↑ Techno-Club Tresor: The steel door closes . Spiegel Online , April 15, 2005
  10. ^ A 20-year east-west journey . In: The European , November 18, 2009
  11. ^ CRE 136 Interview with Tanith
  12. ↑ Tanith ( Memento of May 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) in: Intro -Künsterbiografie.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '7.7 "  N , 13 ° 26" 23.8 "  E