Whale (club)
The Walfisch was an after- hour club in Berlin-Mitte that existed from 1991 to 1993. It is one of the early and important institutions of the Berlin techno scene.
Already in the days of the GDR there was the pub Zum Walfisch in the above-ground rooms of the Heinrich-Heine-Straße underground station on Köpenicker Straße . With the emergence of techno culture in Berlin, the operators wanted to offer parties, which brought the desired success through DJ Der Würfler's idea of trying an after- hour, as this was not yet regularly offered in the eastern part of the city.
With taped windows, psychedelic decoration, brutal sound, stroboscope and fog, the club-goers of Planet and Tresor were won over. The door policy was quite open, so there was a wild mix of gays, punks and hooligans in the club. The resident DJ team were Zappa , Der Würfler , Frankie , Tanith , DJ Rok , Spezial , Roland 138 BPM , DJ Jauche and DJ Abyss . The club and the makers were presented in detail in the SFB TV documentary Technocity from 1993.
Around 1993 the operators sold the location. First, the black music club Boogaloo came into the premises. The Sage Club was installed in 1997 and the KitKatClub was added in 2007 . Whale revival parties have been held here regularly since 2012.
Web links
literature
- Felix Denk, Sven von Thülen: The Sound of the Family - Berlin, Techno and the Wende , Suhrkamp Verlag , Berlin 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Technocity on YouTube
- ↑ whale at tanith.org
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 40 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E