Techno Culture in Berlin // Film on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Application

Techno and Club Culture in Berlin as part of UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity - SIGN THE PETITION: www.ravethepla...
This short info film is part of the application to UNESCO to add Berlin's techno culture to the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. It features many representatives of the culture and explains what is special about techno culture in Berlin, its international influence, how it has developed to where it stands today, and where this form of culture is threatened needs the safeguarding of UNESCO.
Many thanks for the interviews:
◼︎ Adriaan van der Werf
◼︎ Alan Oldham
◼︎ Alexander Krüger
◼︎ Daniel Boon
◼︎ Dimitri Hegemann
◼︎ Dr. Motte
◼︎ Ellen Allien
◼︎ Hans Cousto
◼︎ Marc Wohlrabe
◼︎ Mike Vollmuth
◼︎ Sophie Augello
Produced by 25Films - www.25films.de
On behalf of Rave The Planet gGmbH - www.ravetheplanet.com
Funded by
◼︎ARTtraktiv Berlin GmbH - www.arttraktiv.de
◼︎Berliner Sparkasse - www.berliner-sparkasse.de
Photo documentation by Thomasz Guiddo
Research, content and structure by the Rave The Planet crew:
◼︎ Claudia Schneider
◼︎ Dr. Motte
◼︎ Ellen Dosch-Roeingh
◼︎ Felicitas Settili
◼︎ Florian Löhlein
◼︎ Kristin Floruß
◼︎ Quirin Graf Adelmann
◼︎ Yad Hindreen Ali
Many thanks to the copyright owners and authors for allowing us to use their film works:
◼︎ 25Films / Meissner, MIscher, Schmalz - in memory of Nana Yuriko
◼︎ Alan Oldham
◼︎ BPitch Berlin / Ellen Allien
◼︎ Feel Festival, Alte Münze / Alexander Krüger
◼︎ Kieran Behan
◼︎ Moyn Moyn Festival, Kollektiv Spieltrieb e.V. / Adriaan van der Werf
◼︎ Ostfunk, Magdalena / Daniel Boon
◼︎ Pfadfinderei
◼︎ Ravemore Berlin / Mike Vollmuth
◼︎ Tresor Berlin / Dimitri Hegemann
◼︎ UND.ER Berlin / Sophie Augello
◼︎ Videohai02 / Jürgen Apelt
Also many thanks to the copyright owners and composers for allowing us to use their musical works:
◼︎ Amount - „Marshmallow“
◼︎ Amount - „Morning Glory“
◼︎ Dr. Motte & Eric Sneo - „We Are Here“
◼︎ Dr. Motte meets Gabriel Le Mar - „The Breeze“
◼︎ Dr. Motte meets Gabriel Le Mar - „The Fall“ feat. Hans Cousto
◼︎ Dr. Motte meets Gabriel Le Mar - „Cut No Tree“ feat. Terence McKenna
◼︎ Drumcomplex & Rakom - „Hellcat“
◼︎ Ken Ishii - „Upkick“
◼︎ Mark Dekoda - „Hybrid“
◼︎ Nakadia - „Around The Clock“
◼︎ Saytek - „OK“
Special thanks to:
◼︎ Andreas Peyerl
◼︎ Frankyeffe & Riot Recordings
◼︎ Hedoné.world
◼︎ Holzmarkt 25
◼︎ URSL
◼︎ all DJs & Live Acts
◼︎ all musicians, producers & composers
◼︎ all record labels & distributors
◼︎ all festival organizers
◼︎ all crews & collectives
◼︎ all artists & light designers
◼︎ all clubs in the city of Berlin
◼︎ and the whole, global techno family
Let's rave the planet! 🎶🌎❤️
𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗔 𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
As a non-profit organization funded by donations, we rely on the support of people who are passionate about electronic music and club culture.
You can donate directly on our website: bit.ly/Support...
We are looking forward to your support!
𝗥𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗘𝗧 - 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗪𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘
Rave The Planet is a Berlin based non-profit organization dedicated to the spirit and culture of electronic music. Our initiators are artists, ravers, entrepreneurs - including the inventor of the Loveparade, Dr. Motte. With our work we want to make a sustainable, positive contribution to techno culture.
𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡
We raise awareness, promote openness and connect creative professionals in order to enable electronic music culture to continue to develop. Step by step, we aim to deepen understanding and increase public acceptance of this culture.
𝗩𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡
Our vision is for techno to be officially recognized as a cultural form. Berlin’s techno culture, with its special features and characteristics, should be protected by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage. Clubs and other venues will be saved and cultural creators will be supported, so that the culture will be preserved and can develop further.
With a new, big parade in Berlin we would like to continue the tradition of the Loveparade, as an annual celebration of electronic music culture. Culture creators worldwide should be inspired to organize their own parades on the same day and so unite the whole world peacefully dancing together. Rave the planet.
❤️🎶 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹: bit.ly/Subscri...
@Rave The Planet is a non-profit based in Berlin, Germany.
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#Techno #UNESCO​ #CulturalHeritage​

[@RaveThePlanet]

WE DID IT! Techno Culture in Berlin is officially recognized as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage since 13 March, 2024! ❤🎶🌍 Thanks to all cultural creators who shaped this culture. This is a major milestone & our joy is beyond words! ••• #ravetheplanet #ImmateriellesKulturerbeDeutschland

[@technodromm]

Techno has much bigger potential, than it accumulates and brings at the present. It's good idea, that in documentaries a history is mentioned. Same in this particual one. PEACE & LOVE & ENERGY!! Exactly!! 💛 💛 💛

[@acidtrungpa4760]

I remember my first Love Parade in 2000... Nothing was never the same after that day.

[@michaelmaterne]

Yeah... the music's THE key! Respect from Belgium everyone 🙂

[@trailert]

the music is the answer to connect the ppl!

[@DrMotteOfficial]

#berlin #ravetheplanet #loveparade #hilfe #help

[@RaveThePlanet]

Hashtags rule! 😜❤️

[@RaveThePlanet]

Sharing is caring ❤️🌍🎶

[@simonh6371]

According to wiki ''In 1988, due to the popularity of house and acid house music in Great Britain, Virgin Records talent scout Neil Rushton contacted Derrick May with a view to finding out more about the Detroit scene. To define the Detroit sound as being distinct from Chicago house, Rushton and the Belleville Three chose the word "techno" for their tracks, a term that Atkins had been using since his Cybotron days ("Techno City" was an early single).''

[@RaveThePlanet]

There's also a great documentary about the European origins of electronic music on ARTE. We'd love to warmly recommend this www.arte.tv/en/videos/098798-000-A/electronic-vibrations/

[@simonh6371]

@@RaveThePlanet Thanks for the tip though, going to watch that now. Electronic music may well have been invented in Europe, the first electronic music was in 1928 in the USSR. But hardware does not make a genre i.e. techno or house. Otherwise you could claim jazz was invented in Europe in the 18th century, as all the instruments used to play jazz had been.

[@simonh6371]

@@RaveThePlanet Well I just watched that. Nothing new, it's already well known that electronic music was first experimented with in Europe. But electronic music is not a genre, any more than percussive or vocal music, or piano music is. Techno has never been the only genre of electronic music.

[@berlintechnonarrativew]

Love it !!!

[@RaveThePlanet]

Thank you 🙏 🤩

[@SanchoArcoIris]

Bravo

[@beatpunkcollective]

Subkultur is the future!

[@RaveThePlanet]

One does not exclude the other. Quite the opposite.

[@giuliatacchini]

🎉

[@v81berlin61]

#loveisstronger

[@artarty8441]

Moscow loves U) One World, One Peace, One Rave

[@DrMotteOfficial]

what a funtastic night & how do you like my latest dj set? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIe6hayqr8lsjq8 #drmotte

[@devangsomani6651]

Abe tracks ke name toh likh deta lodu

[@RaveThePlanet]

Sorry, the translator gave up. Would you mind to comment in English, please? 😅

[@cicabeca84]

thats a bit of a stretch...

[@RaveThePlanet]

No, it's not. Did you know that Techno Culture in Zurich (Switzerland) already is an Intangible Cultural Heritage? And so is Reggae in Jamaica and Tango in Argentina and Rumba in Cuba… Also the cultural form of a parade is already recognized and protected by the UNESCO. Just have al look to Amsterdam, Netherlands. We have many more examples but we'd recommend to just have a look at the UNESCO website to get a perfect overview. ❤️

[@simonh6371]

@@RaveThePlanet Reggae was born in Jamaica, Tango in Argentina, and Rumba in Cuba...Techno was born in Detroit. Germany was a late adopter, as they'd missed out on the whole house movement in the preceding years, preferring to stick to new wave and punk, as well as Schlager. Truth hurts.

[@RaveThePlanet]

@@simonh6371 we've done masses of research on this subject and yes, we also give a lot of credits to the Detroit techno scene. But we're applying for the unique developement that the techno culture in Berlin has been going through, in particular by the extraordinary social and political circumstances surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall. This, in turn, led to the development of a completely independent subculture and club culture in Berlin, which is unique in its own way. We would like to have this protected by UNESCO and we are happy to support other initiatives, if they exist, to have their cultural form protected as well. If someone in Detroit, for example, founds an initiative to do this, we would be happy to support them with our experience. ❤🌎🎶

[@simonh6371]

@@RaveThePlanet This subculture didn't start until around 1991, when the Tresor opened. Before that it was just electropunk and new wave in Berlin. This scene then adopted techno/house which had been going strong in other countries like the Uk and Belgium since 1988. As late as 1991 the ''pioneering'' DJ Dr. Motte was simply playing UK chart hits with records which were sent to him from the UK. I agree that from 1991 onwards a German style of techno developed. But no new genre was created in Germany.

[@simonh6371]

@@RaveThePlanet Firstly I think someone in Detroit should do this. Secondly I am pretty sure that UNESCO would do some research of their own before granting any such status so honestly I doubt that there is any chance of it being granted. Seriously there is nothing unique about techno subculture post reunification, just a bunch of electro DJs jumping on the techno bandwagon. In fact I might suggest that UNESCO will be very pissed off if they do just 10 minutes research into this. For example if they type into yt ''Berlin techno 1989'' apart from a few contemporary uploads claiming falsely that techno was invented in Frankfurt or Berlin, they will get uploads of the Love Parade in 1995, purporting to be the one in 1989, that and a Nitzer Ebb electropunk concert labelled ''technoclub'' so it will be clear to them that someone is trying to pull the wool over their eyes. If they type in ''Berlin acid party 89'' they will get loads of footage of huge acid partys and raves...from 1989 in the UK. Oh yeah there is one ''1989 techno and mdma berlin'' vid but actually it's a 1997 recording from the Thunderdome in Belgium. ''Luegen haben kurze Beine'' as they say in Germany.