Get out your glitter shorts, steampunk goggles and fluorescent jumpsuits – the biggest techno party in history returns to Berlin, and everybody is welcome!
The Love Parade 2022, aka the Rave the Planet Parade, is scheduled to take place this Saturday, July 9, and hundreds of thousands of ravers are expected to flood the streets of the German capital.
More than 200 DJs from all over the world will play music from 18 floats (music trucks) making their way through the city. Partygoers can dance, party and drink to the beats of artists such as Westbam, Kaiserdisco, Juan Atkins, Last Robots and Love Parade’s founder, Dr. Motte.
This is a fresh start for this legendary event after the parade was canceled in 2010. However, the Love Parade is not just another Berlin techno party. It started as a public protest through music and is considered the festival that put Berlin on the map as the techno capital of the world.
A protest for peace, joy and pancakes
Berlin has not always been the hip city it is today. In the mid-80s, Berlin was considered a warzone. The Cold War was at its peak, and the wall dividing East and West was a source of trauma among Berliners. Even though the government offered affordable housing for those who relocated here, the city was still relatively empty.
The only outsiders who found a home in Berlin were artists looking for free housing and a place to express themselves. According to Berliners living here at the time, the city was dark, depressing and hopeless. This motivated Dr Motte, a DJ from West Berlin, to organize a demonstration for peace, tolerance and understanding.
He called his demonstration the Love Parade, using the motto, “Peace, Joy, and Pancakes,” with techno music as the means of communication to promote his message. Led by a car blaring techno, 150 ravers danced through the streets of West Berlin in July 1989 as a protest – and so the first Love Parade began.
Berlin: a techno capital of the world
The event grew quickly. Hundreds of people turned into hundreds of thousands in just a few years. Love Parade put Berlin on the map, and the authorities loved it, not only for turning Berlin into the techno capital it is…
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