Scene jumble in the German capital. Around 48 hours before the kick-off of the techno parade “Rave The Planet”, which could attract between 200,000 (police statistics from 2022) and 400,000 dancers around the Victory Column in Berlin’s Tiergarten, the team wraps itself around the former Love Parade -Co-founder Matthias Roeingh aka Doctor Motte in silence. Roeningh celebrates his 63rd birthday on Sunday 9th July.
It still doesn’t seem clear in which environment the impressario DJ will celebrate his cradle party. Techo mega party or white wine spritzer on the balcony at home?
The big question of who will take over the medical service at this electronic music event, which has been declared as a demonstration, is still open. (as of Thursday, July 06, 1:30 p.m.)
As reported, it’s about costs and ultimately about the responsibility for this mass move on what the weather forecast says is a hot summer’s day on the Spree.
Meanwhile, it is bubbling in the environment. Not only the “Berliner Morgenpost” wonders why so few of the established clubs join “Rave The Planet”. Disdainful conclusion: Most of them have long since had their own agenda, logistically, but also atmospherically and musically. The era of the “Love Parade” is long, long gone… Tempi Passati!
There also seem to be short-term changes to the route: the starting point for the parade is now to be the Victory Column on the Großer Stern. From there, the 25 announced “floats” chug to the Brandenburg Gate, which is around two kilometers away. A long U-turn is planned across the Tiergarten, which has already been closed off from previous events with mobile fences to the street.
Originally, the planned kick-off was at the central Breitscheidplatz at the Memorial Church. Then, via Nollendorfplatz and Bülowstraße, there should be a “final rally” to the end point of the Victory Column. A route that would have had massive restrictions on the local department stores.
One of Dr Motte’s enigmatic speeches was/is to be expected at the Victory Column alongside booming bass and “rave signals”. The DJ once knew how to come up with beautiful slogans like “The world is sound!”.
In addition to old masters such as Westbam or Anja Schneider, there is a lot of youngsters in the previous DJ line-up. The main thing, it seems: It goes BOOM!
The former Love Parade organizer wizard Jürgen Laarmann, who pulled the strings together with the deceased club operator Ralf Regitz in the 1990s and also knew how to handle the immense handling of the street parade, expresses himself in a longer Facebook post as a warning at best about the chaos caused by the ex-techno comrades-in-arms.
In terms of social timing alone, the move would be a bad joke:
“In general: ‘Music is the Answer’ – motto and anthem unfortunately don’t fit our time at all. In the 1990s, we might even have believed it at first. Back then it was a little less megalomaniac ‘music is the key’. At that time, the vision of world peace was very real. I still remember how delegations from Poland, Russia and Ukraine danced together at the Love Parade. Sitting in a cafe in Krematorsk today and being bombed away, ‘Music is the answer’ comes across as cynical and mocking…”
Laarmann’s prophecy for July 8: “A few makeshift medical vehicles will still be brought in. The authorities will not ban the party. Everyone hopes it doesn’t get to 35 degrees where the Blue Punisher Es will have an even more devastating effect. In the end, there could be more fatalities than in Duisburg. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen like that…”