November 11, 2019

30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall: Germany was first reunited on the dancefloor of these parties

BBC has an interesting social article about what happened to the music and people in Berlin after the two sides of the city reunified. "It was not people from East Berlin dancing to music that was already around or going to spaces that were West Berlin spaces, but it was really that people from the west and east could discover something radically new together" - says Heiko Hoffmann, who was a teenager at the time, now the co-curator of the new No Photos on the Dance Floor! exhibition. It took almost a year for Germany to be officially reunified in October 1990, and even then there were still plenty of legal grey areas - "Anything was possible because there was no rule, the government was still in a grey zone - in a no-man's land - and the law was not written," says East Berliner Sebastian Szary, of electronic music duo Modeselektor.