Germany: the “Love Parade” is making a comeback in the streets of Berlin
People take part in the parade in Berlin, Saturday, July 9, 2022. A techno parade, whose initiators include the founder of the once-popular Berlin Love Parade, has started on the streets of the German capital, with calls for the city's electronic music culture be added to a World Heritage List.
AP - Joerg Carstensen
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In Berlin, the techno parade, the "Love Parade", is making a comeback.
It had attracted up to 1.5 million techno music followers in the streets of the capital in the early 2000s. 12 years later, the event is back, under another name, “ Rave the planet”.
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With our correspondent in Berlin,
Nathalie Versieux
Hundreds of thousands of people from all over Europe gathered in Berlin this weekend, around techno, to celebrate the return of the “Love Parade”.
Indeed, having become unmanageable, the demonstration for love and music had to go into exile in small provincial towns, in the west of the country.
The adventure ended in tragedy in 2010 in Duisburg, where 26 people died in a crowd movement.
The return of Love Parade to Berlin!
pic.twitter.com/sI7TwdHVa4
— Craig Walker (Official) (@craigwalkeroff) July 9, 2022
It is 2 p.m. when the convoy sets off on the Kurfürstendamm, the large avenue to the west of the capital, which is crowded with people.
Twenty trucks in the colors of the biggest clubs in the capital spit music from their sound system.
Defying a downpour, the dancers shake off, as if electrified.
Lots of skin, fishnet, black, neon, wigs of all colors.
Anna opted for a form-fitting, dizzyingly high-cut outfit: "
I come from Leipzig, and I think it's fantastic, the whole city is celebrating together
".
Laure came from afar to attend this event: “
We come from Amsterdam, and we traveled all this way for the Love Parade.
I came because of this possibility of all being united for the music.
Berlin?
This is where it all started, this is the home of techno music!
»
The twenty trucks will take more than an hour to cover one kilometer, followed by tens of thousands of dancers.
50 meters from the last vehicle, the orange broom trucks of the company in charge of waste treatment, cleared tons of broken glass, in a deafening din.
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