The Ufo (lit. UFO) was the first acid house club in Berlin. It is considered a pioneering place for the techno scene during the reunification of Germany.Techno-DJs gaben Berlin einen Endlos-Rhythmus Berliner Morgenpost October 30, 2009 Techno - Entwicklungen und Erscheinungsformen einer Jugendkultur Work for the Proseminar "Communication and Media Law: Youth and Media"Plötzlich war jeden Tag Party Tagesspiegel November 8, 2009 Residents and guest DJs at the club included, among others, Tanith, Jonzon, Rok, Dr. Motte, Mike van Dijk Robb, David (2002) Techno in Germany: Its Musical Origins and Cultural Relevance and the then 13-year-old Kid Paul.Ein Geheimzirkel erobert die Welt - Die Pioniertage des Techno From Zeitgeschichten on Spiegel-Online

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The techno activists Achim Kohlenberger, Dimitri Hegemann and the former history student Carola Stoiber,Mit ignoranter Coolness Berliner Zeitung November 7, 2009 founded the Ufo club in 1988 in West Berlin, in its first year it was located at the No. 6 Köpenicker Straße, in Kreuzberg,Sechs Jahre Tresor Records De:Bug near Schlesisches Tor in the basement of an old residential building,"Die ganze Stadt schreit »Party!«" Die Zeit May 23, 2007 that their electronic music label Interfisch had rented as headquarters.Dimitri Hegemann - Past, Present, Future Raveline October 28, 2009 Originally they opened the club with the name Fischbüro'''.Techno-Club Tresor: Die Stahltür fällt zu Der Spiegel April 15, 2005

The basement room had a ladder for access and an improvised kitchen on the side of the building, it had a ceiling height of only about 6 ft 2.8in (1.90 meters) of space for up 100 people.Eine 20-jährige Ost-West-Reise The European November 18, 2009 In 1989, it hosted the after party celebration of the first Love Parade.

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As the authorities discovered the club's illegal operation of acid house parties, the club moved and finally worked inside a former store building at the Großgörschenstraße in Schöneberg, just before the fall of the Wall in 1989.Chaosradio Express 136 Interview with Tanith about Techno in Chaosradio In the meantime, Ufo parties were set up in different places and the locations were usually given in hidden clues in the Saturday show The Big Beat hosted by Monika Dietl, from the SFB- teen radio station Radio 4U. In January 1990 the DJ Tanith established, his Wednesday regular show Cyberspace''.Tanith in the Intro-Künsterbiografie

After the club closed in 1990, the owners opened in the following year the Tresor clubBoom boom boom: Techno in Germany after the Wall which became one of the world's most famous techno clubs.

See also

List of electronic dance music venues

References

External links Sie feiern schon wieder 9. Geburtstag? Interview with Carola Stoiber, Berliner Zeitung, September 16, 2000