DJs, festival organizers and music lovers are seeking to secure UNESCO World Heritage status for Berlin’s techno culture amid fears that a fight will have to be waged to save it.
The “Rave The Planet” campaign is pressuring the German authorities to apply for inclusion in the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage.
The campaign team includes Matthias Roin, also known as Dr Motte, the DJ who founded Love Parade, a major electronic music festival that debuted as a techno-political parade in West Germany in the summer of 1989 before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Berlin embraced the Detroit-born genre of music, with its post-war abandoned shelters, power plants and factories providing an escape for clubbers to dance to the music that became the soundtrack of the nation’s reunification. of the 80s.
But today tecnho culture is under threat. Estimates, according to Sky News, speak of 100 clubs closing in the last decade, combined with the fact that the value of the city’s real estate and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to threaten the stability of its techno scene. Berlin.
Clubs will have additional protection under spatial planning legislation and will also have access to grants and other funding if techno culture is included in the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage.
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