Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Berghain" in English language version.
The club's roots ran deep into the Berlin subculture that developed after the fall of the Wall in 1989. Its owners, Michael Teufele and Norbert Thormann, organised first their Snax sex parties in the nineties at the Bunker club, an abandoned World War Two air-raid shelter occupied by ravers in 1992 and run as a hardcore outpost for acid techno, gabba and BDSM parties, amongst other niche predilections, until it was raided and shuttered in 1996. Two years later, Teufele and Thormann founded Ostgut in an old railway depot in the Friedrichshein [sic!] district, which at the time was a drab and desolate sector of what had been East Berlin. [...] The revolution was over – or was it? 'It was the end of the nineties, techno was out of fashion, but Ostgut was a place where people were still doing Ecstasy and having a great time, with parties going on until the afternoon,' Schneider recalls.
Ostgut, Berghain's precursor, began as an itinerant gay fetish event called ,Snax,' which eventually found a permanent home at Ostgut in 1998
The Panorama Bar, which is the smaller upper portion of the legendary techno club Ostgut, has re-opened on Friday, October 15, at its new address in the Friedrichshain area of East Berlin. [...] Ostgut was the epicenter of Berlin nightlife starting late 1998 [...]. On certain nights of the month, Laboratory was the location for the famed Snax parties, with special themes for the insatiable gay appetites of Berlin
PERVY PARTY · Sat. 16.07.94 · Start 11 pm, End ?! am · Bunker Albrechtstr. 24/25 Berlin-Mitte [...] Rubber? Leather? You can change into whatever turns you on. SNAX CLUB is a new concept in fetish trading for pervy men.
Den berlinska klubben Snax gör ett gästspel i Amsterdam den 25 november. Vid vattnet, pà Vrieshuis Amerika, Oostelijke Handelskade 25 arrangeras ,Whipping Boys'-festen. Dj Mickey V (Amsterdam) och Dokker [sic!] Daan (Berlin), vilket i Snaxandan bör betyda techno. [...] Snax klubb är ingen läderklubb. Här blandas läderkillarna med technokids, gummiklädda, gay skinheads och allmänt partyglada män. Snax innebär dans, sex och glada miner.
At first, nobody knew who owned Ostgut. Michael Teufele and Norbert Thormann ran the lab.oratory, a gay sex club. The idea to open a dance club came up when they were offered to rent more space. [...] The Panoramabar opened two years later. It was accessible through a huge staircase after having passing the wardrobe. [...] The Panoramabar was more digestible for partygoers who did not relate to gay partying. There were more or less as many women as men, and the range of music was wider.
Noch vor der offiziellen Schließung des Techno-Bunkers hat das Bauaufsichtsamt das denkmalgeschützte Gebäude in der Albrechtstraße gestern gesperrt. Damit fallen die für dieses Wochenende im Bunker geplanten Abschiedsparties aus. Wie die Polizei mitteilte, wurde der Bunker aufgrund einer Nutzungsuntersagung geschlossen.[Even before the official closure of the Techno Bunker, the Building Supervisory Authority closed off the heritage site on Albrechtstraße yesterday. This means that the farewell parties planned for this weekend in the bunker have been cancelled. As the police announced, the bunker was closed due to a ban on use.]
Berlin's Berghain club is known for many things: its hardcore opening hours (starting from Saturday it stays open until Monday noon), its DJs (who play some of the best techno in Europe), and its relaxed attitude towards sex in public (walk past the booths on the ground floor and you're sure to see a bare bottom or 10).
The Panorama Bar, which is the smaller upper portion of the legendary techno club Ostgut, has re-opened on Friday, October 15, at its new address in the Friedrichshain area of East Berlin. [...] Ostgut was the epicenter of Berlin nightlife starting late 1998 [...]. On certain nights of the month, Laboratory was the location for the famed Snax parties, with special themes for the insatiable gay appetites of Berlin
Noch vor der offiziellen Schließung des Techno-Bunkers hat das Bauaufsichtsamt das denkmalgeschützte Gebäude in der Albrechtstraße gestern gesperrt. Damit fallen die für dieses Wochenende im Bunker geplanten Abschiedsparties aus. Wie die Polizei mitteilte, wurde der Bunker aufgrund einer Nutzungsuntersagung geschlossen.[Even before the official closure of the Techno Bunker, the Building Supervisory Authority closed off the heritage site on Albrechtstraße yesterday. This means that the farewell parties planned for this weekend in the bunker have been cancelled. As the police announced, the bunker was closed due to a ban on use.]
