Der Klang der Familie

After the fall of the Wall, unused spaces and buildings are ready to be filled with new life all over Berlin. The ownership structures are unclear, and thus the scene from both parts of the city is reclaiming these new open spaces. Clubs, galleries, studios, and ateliers are emerging—often only for a few weeks. Soon, Berlin becomes the epicenter of a new culture, attracting thousands of followers from around the world with clubs like Tresor and E-Werk. They dance through the night in gas masks or welding goggles to the sound of previously unknown DJs from Detroit. Among them are also writers, artists, photographers, and designers. With 180 BPM, youth culture spread in Berlin shortly after the reunification, uniting East and West: Techno. DJs, club creators, music producers, bouncers, and scene figures, people from the heart of the movement and its fringes, all come together.