Norman Ohler

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Really, the city was very open.

The wall was still... I mean, it's a few years later, but still the wall, it felt like it just came down.

Berlin was not yet the capital of Germany.

That was still in Bonn.

So Berlin was a very...

cheap and cultural and crazy city.

Probably a bit like in the 20s, actually.

And that's how I fell in love with it, and that's how I became interested in this electronic scene.

I mean, I visited many dance venues then, so-called clubs.

That's one of the hubs in the world of electronic music.

They claim that techno was kind of invented in Berlin, but it also comes from Detroit.

So Detroit and Berlin are like the techno...

Humps, I would say.

Well, in Germany, we had a situation that the wall actually kept people apart.

People didn't know each other.

But because the wall came down, people suddenly met in abandoned buildings in the center of Berlin.

which had been owned by the socialist state of East Germany.

The most famous club, Tresor.

Tresor means like vault.