It's Beartime!

As we hit Berghain/Panoramabar to party, we need to decide a) if we're willing to stand in line for hours and b) if after those hours we can deal with a refusal. Luckily enough, we arrive in time and ride the line-ride with comfort & joy. After about 20 minutes and the sight of at least 40 people being refused, we enter the door, doing a quick finger victorydance. The happiness might sound a bit exaggerated knowing that we have never been refused before, but the changing doormen and their moods seem to be a insecure factor to a lot of people. Now you wonder why I would like to get in a club with such a ridiculous (is it really?) doorpolicy. Because it's not just a Berlin club, it's thé Berlin club. Of course, there's a wide range of alternatives, but they completely vanish at comparison.
Every weekend, the 18 meter high dancefloor of this former power plant is packed with about 1500 enthusiastic people trembling of pleasure while listening to the best minimal and techno tracks. But it's not only the music that makes the reincarnation of the former Ostgut-club a desirable venue, the entire ambience is developed to play and have fun. Swings, small make-out corners, diffent dancefloors, a coffee-/icecreambar, a garden and an unvisited darkroom. You name it, Berghain's got it. Therefore everyone is still anxious to get in the club, officially labelled as 'Bear'-place (one of the reason why chickclicks are always sent away).
You just want to be there. Have fun until the sun has come up and gone down again. No matter what.



http://www.berghain.de/


NOTE December 2th 2008

After several questions, I just want to clarify a few things I wrote.

Definition of Bear according to mr. Wiki:
Bears (family Ursidae) are mammals in the order Carnivora.

Definition of Bear (gay slang) according to mr. Wiki:
Bear is LGBT slang* for those in the bear communities, a subculture in the gay/bisexual male communities and an emerging subset of LGBT communities with events, codes and culture-specific identity. It also describes a physical type.
The bear concept can function as an identity, an affiliation, and an ideal to live up to, and there is ongoing debate in bear communities about what constitutes a bear.

A big group of Bears tend to be very hairy. Although this is not the case in Berghain, it's their hyper-masculine attitude that could classify them as Bears.

Definition of Bear according to me :
Camp Fairyland.



*Definition of LGBT slang according to mr. Wiki:
LGBT slang or gay slang in linguistics refers to a form of English slang used predominantly among LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people.

Definition of Chickclick according to me:
A certain amount of girlie-girls behaving like chicks.