This legendary club began as an artist squat in the early 1970s and soon evolved into Berlin’s seminal punk venue, known for wild concerts by the Dead Kennedys, Die Ärzte and Einstürzende Neubauten. Today the crowd depends on the night’s program: electro party, punk concert, lesbigay tea dance, night flea market, ’80s, ‘Bad Taste’ – pretty much anything goes. Easy door.
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