Accepting it as an intangible legacy would open up various funding opportunities for techno music in Berlin, and in addition, clubs would receive special protection in urban planning.
Set Berlin DJs apply for Berlin techno music on UNESCO Intangible Heritage List, says The Guardian. The group is seeking protection for the music that defined the era of German reunification, saying that declaring it an intangible cultural heritage is essential to its preservation.
The Rave the Planet group is led by Dr. Mottena Matthias Roeingh, which founded the Love Parade Music Festival in Berlin in 1989.
In East Berlin, clubs playing techno music were erected in abandoned factories and bunkers after the fall of the wall, where Berliners adopted the style of music.
However, the coronary pandemic and gentrification threaten a “free, wild, creative Berlin,” says DJ, originally from Detroit and now living in Berlin. Alan Oldham. According to Oldham, the declaration of cultural heritage could, for example, protect nightclubs important to Berlin’s techno music, such as Tresor and Berghain.
Accepting it as an intangible legacy would open up various funding opportunities for techno music in Berlin, and in addition, clubs would receive special protection in urban planning.
The Berghain Club in Berlin closed in the evening light in March 2020 due to the coronavirus.
Immaterial cultural heritage means practices, expressions, knowledge and skills, as well as tools and objects and places associated with them. Conservation measures include identification, storage, research, preservation, promotion, transmission and recovery.
The UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List includes the Peking Opera, French gastronomy and the Catalan human towers.
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