Gesine Kühne
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first heard Jun 2024
last heard 10 Jul
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The death strip, yes.
Todesstreifen.
When he was 16, he was actually knocked down by an old Stasi guy because he said something about the GDR, like something not even nasty, but saying, well, in this shitty place, you can't even get a lemonade because it was summer and all the lemonades were out, which happened.
And so he knew he always had this file and he couldn't move as he wanted to because... Because he complained about there being a lemonade deficit. Exactly.
And we've been followed when we're driving around with the car. We've been followed by the Stasi all the time. And my parents always looked to the backseat and said to me, okay, when we arrive now, you're going to be sick again. You have to act sick. So I've been like holding my stomach and acting all sick and so on. So we got, I don't know, a couple more weeks in the GDR.
So mom could finish up whatever she had to finish up. And then we left. But the day you leave, they cut your passport and you're not a citizen of anywhere. Like you don't have a passport. You don't have an identity anymore, pretty much. And the good thing was us being Germans, when we went to West Berlin, you're instantly a German citizen. So that was kind of good.
46 or 40 years later, actually, wow. I have to deal with that a lot. I'm actually trying to work through things because we're ripped out of our environment and now slowly realizing how much harm it actually did.
So this is part of the wall, which is like now a monument, East Side Gallery, with lots of different paintings along the wall.
This would have been the death strip because then the canal was also part of the wall or of the no-go area. And then behind it is Kreuzberg on the other side.
Yeah, we can walk towards the water. So yeah, here is where Bar 25 used to be. And now it's like Katerblau and the whole area. But Bar 25 was also quite safe.
My best friend, Martin, who is such a soul in all kinds of ways, he started taking me to those places. And one was Tresor.
Downstairs was super interesting with the old compartments and the very famous Stahlgitter here. What do you have in a prison? What's it called? The steel bars, which looked like, you know, a cell kind of thing.
And you walked in there and there was the techno floor, that was the trésor floor where techno was played. And I was standing on the floor there and looking around me because I felt a bit uncomfortable because that was loud and strobe lighting was always a bit weird for my eyes. And then it became all dark.
And I felt something wet dripping on my nose. And I'm just like looked up, couldn't really see. But then the straw was started. I'm like, oh, that's like sweat from the ceiling. That's very interesting. And then the kick drum kicked in. So like pure bass in my stomach and I felt it in my stomach and that was such an amazing feeling.
Like seriously, I was standing there a bit like I had an epiphany or maybe Jesus came to me. I was like, oh, I understand. I looked at Martin and I'm like, I understand now. Okay. And I didn't drink or anything back then. I was pure, pure energy of the music.
Even I have trouble sometimes finding words for the history I have within my body and having something like techno where everyone comes together and people with no agenda on both sides.
We're going to get there from the side, which isn't maybe as... Cinematic? Yeah, bombastic. But I think you still get the gist of it.
You can already see. Is that it? Yeah, you can already see part of Berghain there.
It's huge. Like, seriously, it's so, so big.
Yes and no, because when I start telling those stories to my a bit younger friends, when they ask you, what was your first time to Berghain? How long? That's what they ask. They're like, how long have you been coming here? This is the question I get. I'm like, you know what? I've been going to Osgut. This is how long I've been coming here.
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