“Rave the Planet” is moving through Berlin: The Love Parade is coming back
“Rave the Planet” is moving through Berlin
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The Love Parade is coming back
Twelve years after the last Loveparade, the techno parade “Rave the Planet” started on Saturday. She is to move from the Ku’damm to the Victory Column. Also there is Dr. Motte, founder of the old parade. He sees the event not only as a music event.
For several years, Loveparade founder Dr. Moth from a new edition of the legendary techno celebration. Because of the pandemic, the waiting time was extended by another two years – but this weekend the techno parade “Rave the Planet” started under the motto “Together Again”.
As with the Loveparade in the 90s, the organizers don’t want “Rave the Planet” to be all about techno. The parade has always stood for peace, freedom and tolerance, according to Dr. Motte in an interview with rbb. “Everyone is welcome.” If all people realized that they were part of the same family on this planet, then the vision would be world peace, according to Dr. Moth.
Procession route like at the Loveparade
The “Rave the Planet” parade starts on Saturday at 2 p.m. from Kurfürstendamm in Charlottenburg. The route leads via the Landwehr Canal to the Brandenburg Gate and then via Straße des 17. Juni to the Victory Column. Just like back then more than 20 years ago, when 1.5 million ravers at the Victory Column lost themselves in the bass together. Even if the first new edition of the Loveparade only starts with a fraction of the visitors, Motte is convinced: “There is an absolute need for dance music again.”
According to the organizers, 25,000 people are expected on the streets. 150 artists and 18 music vans are expected.
End of the Loveparade 2010 after the disaster in Duisburg
The first Loveparade took place on the Ku’damm in the summer of 1989 in what was then a divided city, with no more than a few dozen people. The spectacle reached its peak at the end of the 1990s with around 1.5 million participants in the Tiergarten. After the turn of the millennium, the Love Parade in Berlin went downhill – also because it was no longer recognized as a demonstration and the organizers now had to pay for the garbage disposal.
In 2006, entrepreneur Rainer Schaller took over the naming rights and moved to the Ruhr area with the Love Parade. In 2010, disaster struck when there was a mass panic at the Love Parade in Duisburg, killing 21 people and injuring more than 600.
Club culture as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
The organizers of “Rave the Planet” now want to achieve that the club culture as an intangible cultural heritage is declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A corresponding application was made last November, said Dr. Moth. “Rave The Planet” is also intended as a political rally. You want to improve the club culture.
Broadcast: rbb24 Inforadio, 09.07.2022, 10.40 a.m