Good luck and practice well for that Berlin trip you have planned in a few months! Try it out and share your results with friends. According to the website, 8 out of 10 times you will be rejected and sent back towards Ostbahnhof to spend your time elsewhere. It uses facial recognition software to catch your emotional reactions, using those and your answers to the three questions to make a final decision. It places you in front of a simulated replacement for Sven, allowing you to interact with a fictitious bouncer as he asks you three questions before deciding whether to let you into the club or not. Or is there?Ī new simulator, called Berghain Trainer, seeks to replicate the very same dynamic of the final encounter at the Berghain door. While there are definite ways to increase one’s chances, there is no sure way of how to act and what to say once you make your way through the long line and are facing the short duel with the man making the decision on how you will spend the next 10, 15 or 20 hours of your life. Read Next: Now Everyone Can Get Inside Berghain…Thanks to Minecraft But what if there were a Berghain training simulator you could practice with?Īs everyone knows, there is no clear-cut answer, and it appears that getting past Sven and his team may be as much about luck as any real system of criteria they may be following in making their decision. ![]() Having managed to get into Berghain once, after failing earlier that very same weekend, I am often asked for “tricks” and “tips” on how to get into the fabled techno institution. The game will assess your body language to see if you make the cut | © Įven if you ace the Berghain simulator on the first go, it can’t guarantee your tricks will work IRL.Berghain Trainer: The Simulator That Trains You For The Techno Promised Land The game uses both your camera and microphone to simulate a real run-in with Berghain’s bouncers, examining your skills to see whether or not you’ll pass the ambiguous test. A game might help you get past the toughest door in BerlinĪlthough you’ll never get a guarantee until you’ve joined the ranks of Berghain’s seemingly-endless queue, this game claims to help eager Berghain visitors sharpen their skills to win the bouncer’s approval. When asked about his opinion on what will grant people entry to Berghain in an interview with GQ, the grande judge strongly reiterated the subjectivity of the nightclub’s (non-existent) entry policy. His particular selection when it comes to who is allowed entry is what gained him – and Berghain – international infamy. The heavily-tattooed Marquardt has earned the title of Berlin’s most notorious bouncer. The perfect venue for Teufele and Thormann to resume Ostgut’s legacy was an abandoned power plant dating back to 1953. Berghain is located at an old Swedish power plant In 2004, the duo moved the dance floor to an abandoned power plant’s concrete and a legend was born. Ostgut packed up, shut down, and its industrial buildings were inherited by the flashy O2 World Arena.įast forward to two years later, Teufele and Thormann finally found the perfect location to carry on the Ostgut legacy. ![]() ![]() Berghain’s infamous entrance | © Michael Mayer / Wikimedia CommonsĪlthough Ostgut was the ultimate crowd pleaser for Berliners, Ostgut went kaputt back in 2003 – but the club took a well-deserved bow – the closing party lasted for 30 hours. It had everything from the bullet-hard techno beats, dark nooks and unfiltered hedonism – oozing the feeling of an alternate world as soon as you step through the club’s doors. Ostgut was the blueprint for the Berghain we know today. After the club settled in a permanent location, it was expanded, revamped, and eventually named Ostgut in 1998. Their story started in the 1990s, when the pair ran the Snax gay club. Berghain was founded as a continuation of another club’s legacyįounders Michael Teufele and Norbert Thormann were well-versed in Berlin’s hedonistic nightlife scene before they decided to open the doors to the now world-famous Berghain.
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