Sven Marquardt - tattooed, pierced and a successful photographer to boot - is the most famous guardian of the club's entrance. In his many interviews, he comes across as impenetrable as the door he watches. Berghain is known to have the toughest door policy in Berlin. They may or may not get in - the bouncers are unpredictable. People who want to enter the club have to stand in line for hours - with eager clubgoers waiting up to 7 hours on Berghain's reopening night. It quickly gained fame throughout the world, and has maintained its cult status to this day. The operators soon located a new building, and opened a club they named Berghain ("mountain copse") in December 2004. Tresor is where Berlin's techno myth was born, but Ostgut, a club founded in 1999 and known for unique parties and boundless freedoms, sexual and otherwise, is considered to have paved the way for Berghain.Īfter four short years, in 2003, the Ostgut club had to make way for a multipurpose arena. Debating with the Berghain bouncers like Sven Marquardt is pointless Image: picture-alliance/dpa/J.Carstensen Set up in a building on Potsdamer Platz, then still a no man's land between the former East and West Berlin, partygoers entered a basement complete with the rusted lockers of the former Wertheim Bank, bars in front of the windows, relentless strobe lights and equally relentless beats. In the 1990s, a club that went by the name of Tresor was Berlin's most popular. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, old buildings in the former East Berlin, in particular, offered highly sought-after places to party to the soundtrack of the times, wild and sweaty techno house. The club is part of the city's techno club history, which began in basements and empty factory buildings in the early 1990s. Since 2004, party people from all over the world have flocked to what was once an East German heat and power plant. It is housed in a massive steel and concrete building, surrounded by a large property in Berlin's Friedrichshain district - a great party location because there are no direct neighbors. Berghain is one of the most famous clubs in the world.
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