The latter didn't age well for sure.

btw: Watergate (and Renate in a year (and Rummelsburger Bucht a few years ago)) are closing because some secretive Russian oligarch has decided the way he wants to throw his oligarch money around is to buy up left-wing spaces in Berlin and shut them down. Not just rave clubs or whatever they're properly called - he was also the reason for the tiny little squat Liebig 34 getting stormed by over 2000 armed police officer, and I don't remember whether he also had the same role with another squat, Køpi Wagenplatz, which got shut down in a very similar way (the police brought an actual tank to that one). He either has the right connections, or he knows exactly how to manipulate the legal system. Watergate actually tried to buy its own building at a fair market price, but this guy outbid it.

I think the owner of Watergate, felt it was a good time to retire from that anyway, but that isn't the case for the other spaces affected.

This page hasn't been updated in over 6 years but: https://padowatch.noblogs.org/

Documentary inspired by the Padowatch blog: https://archive.org/details/schattenwelten-berlin-miete-und-...

last article archived here: https://archive.ph/20121024051203/http://www.cnbcmagazine.co... Yeah, it's not really about techno music or rave scene, though it briefly mentions the Berlin nightlife. It is about tech work jobs and startups.