In the whole of the western world, the narrative has been the same for a while: public domain, free to all, is shrinking in size, investors are robbing us of space, things aren’t as good as they used to be. It’s all going downhill! In my opinion, that simply isn’t the case in Berlin’s club scene. Even though the makers, the people who shape the scene, may be very idealistic, they are also quite realistic at the same time. That applies to the doers, the club-goers and also to those responsible in city hall. These sorts of circumstances are both unique and fortunate.
—Tobias Rapp, Interview with the Goethe-Institut, March 2009
