Comment by Hillberg

Now it seeps So by all sides: Still applies to everything and everyone the presumption of innocence, nor are the investigations by the prosecutor "highly confidential", but was still apparently in large part, in various editorial offices around - some apparently in the "mirror". The content is already known to offer few surprises: the topics are inadequate input and output situation in the safety concept of the organizer, the non-compliance with requirements that the chaotic response to the crisis situation. All this is sufficient, however, obvious that Duisburg's Mayor Adolf Sauerland with an "apology" speaks up, in which he wants to take "moral responsibility" for the disaster.

At the same time flickered and the very insightful and made solid ZDF documentary "On a day in Duisburg" on 12 July, on the screens, made solid. In short: If you all of this - more or less affected - so down to trickle up, one is tempted to think that typical German thoroughness has been successful in the end and you can confidently proceed to consider the future of the Love Parade in the eye, especially as a legal condemnation but now only seems to be a mere formality and question time.

Because it fits into the picture when Tom Novy early as one month after the disaster, the new edition - this time but please in Berlin - Devotion: is from the Love Parade 2011 but became nothing can, but the debate translate well liked on a possible Loveparade 2012: "... has everything, thank God - as almost all of its own accord, because the very strong hand wins. Holds together the world of fairy tales - and that robbers are caught ... "sang Falco: So - close the chapter and Chapter Duisburg" Open Berlin 2012 "?

Not at all.

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Reflections on Love Parade 2012, which I will not shut me should not be made without looking back to 2010.

Because MA has also put in my opinion, the worst side of Rave open - but also the best in people who were there: In mortal danger for itself many grew from them beyond themselves hauled to the ground gone over steel beams and staircases out of the danger zone. Many of the visitors were the true heroes of the drama.

So: No outlook to "2012" without looking back to "2010". The torque should be utilized for the purpose of keeping a short survey, where is "rave" "techno" "House" - the electronic music circus today at all?:
"I want all the guilty are punished," and "How could all this happen like this?" A visitor to the Duisburg Love Parade asks for the cameras of the ZDF documentary reports.

Yes, but who are the culprits? How could anything really happen that way?

The investigations of the Prosecutor will provide high security concrete soon name a mayor already been explained as "morally responsible" - whatever that means.

But still unanswered in the room is the question: "How could this happen to all this?" Sure - the results of legal proceedings will also provide answers to: Technical Answers. Responses that result from mandatory applicable legal documents. Also likely explanations for why a hundred times ... safety chains process could go awry.

And satisfy weil technocratic such responses, by their nature highly likely, the sense of justice of squatting in front of the media, average citizens rarely and are perceived only as satisfactory, if was made clear who in the whole affair is now the shining hero (this offer is in addition to the mentioned visitors the forces of the Red Cross on), but also who was the evil crocodile now be incorporated words like "greed" or "craving" in the court opinions (or at least accompanying media comments) - the relevant Internet forums, they have already mastered now Posts of the community.

The witches are burned, the plague is defeated - who cares there's the more wandering in the homes of rats?

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But that is the whole truth? And forthwith the curtain on "Berlin 2012"?

After all, one question remains unanswered, which I believe needs to be clarified urgently, before the rave caravan moves on:
How could this happen to know that an event with about one million visitors were dealt with as a children's carnival parade?

For comparison: If located in Duisburg announced instead of the Love Parade as the Pope, I want to rule with probability bordering on certainty, that this town wedged in an area between the railway and highway would be made available. Or even just for Andy Borg Musikan... None of Rock Festival, the selection of location would be made so amateurish.

For me, one of the most revealing scenes in the ZDF documentary was when the expected numbers of visitors has been discussed: everyone basically completely clear that the site would not adopt a million visitors, we followed blindly and delighted to in the round pitched saying, "the Visitor numbers are faked anyway, artificially screwed for Sponsors to the top, is at most one third of the stated number of visitors expected. "

This is probably a scene, especially for those of closer inspection, made clear what was the true cause of the disaster: successive worlds collided here. At each visit of the Pope, with each Musikan such a remark would be ringing alarm bells: the potential operators would probably be asked if he was not very dense and are asked to come back as soon as he could present concrete numbers of visitors. But not here. Why?

Maybe blame lies with the "rave scene" itself: It has long been electronic music, especially in highly marketable area like a Love Parade, out of their underground / independent existence in the late 1980s and 1990s, outgrown, generated sales of Champion League games has become a mass phenomenon like Pop: Michael Jackson, Madonna, David Guetta and Martin Solveig has long been a play on the same league.

And yet the protagonists flirt rave in the 21 Century with nothing better than with their underground status: withdrawn as the Love Parade 2001, the non-profit status was dropped, many of its protagonists in the pose of not being understood. There are much more likely these protagonists who commercialized wealthy rave movement, who have not understood: squinting with one eye on 1989, as Love Parade and techno were indeed a revolution, held and hold the slogan "Love Peace and Unity" "make people think" and "Party On!" as an itinerant preacher from Western in her left hand while the other is to maximize revenues for operation. It's basically nothing wrong - just because, like a stubborn little kid trying to nevertheless hold on underground status.

And just like that sell the protagonists of the rave-Biz also their "product": As a jack of all trades, as the eternal fountain of youth, the "Rave-o-lution" (left) to the sport preferably, young dynamic e arrive. It also still remain peaceful. And happily dreaming in the past provided rat hole without any claims of peace, joy and pancakes. Maybe a little pill, maybe a bit noisy, but it also easily deport Stadtaustobahn between high-and rail route. As believers in a very different pope's visit or Andy Borg's complicated brass band musicians.

Sometime during the planning of the Cultural Capital Ruhr 2010 event one of these protagonists met with the mayor of Duisburg. Anything other than sport, dynamic, and not young - but a penny! As the Love Parade is not entirely unreceptive to his city. Especially since apparently easy to handle. And then:

So far, the first part of Hill's thoughts on the Love Parade 2010, which marks the tragedy of those days for the first time. Also being increasingly these days, so the question is whether and how the Love Parade is to be re-activated. Takes more thought to Duisburg in 2010 and a possible future of the parade of Hillberg her in a sequel, which will be released in the coming days! ... watch out!

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For Rave, in particular, the Love Parade-market segment, has to do with "peace, joy and pancakes"-long protest parades only as much as "Band-Aid" megalomania cellar with the first appearances of The Beatles. In the ZDF documentary a visitor came to speak with kidney disease, which saw her last hour came. 1989 were kidney-suffering mid-fifties with the kids certainly the visitors exceptions, 2010/2012 is techno in the middle of the company arrived: Nevertheless, the techno-Grand Circus manages to be established and handled like a garage party in a dark cellar from early times. Of course, not without you would use the positive side of change "Raving-Society" does not like: increased purchasing power of clients not on the edge of the affluent society, but to a clientele that long a ride in 1982-he Opel Ascona against SUVs and medium-sized sedans has traded. Tuscany enjoys wine instead of two energy drinks with pill. Yes, even the "granddaddy" of all the techno-sponsors, Red Bull drives, long ago rather than on auto racing tracks around at raves.

2010, the breaking point between the reality of a changing society and raving self-image was the organizer, but also DJ's and - yes, even those visitors who did not want to admit that 21 years have come and gone, reach. That the breakup would make such a dramatic, is a tragedy. Without warning, she was not yet: Recall the "surprise" the raving exponents, as the city of Berlin no longer willing to accept more that just one million visitors have left the zoo in a different state than a few thousand. The move to the Ruhr area was soon on the limits to growth: 2009 was canceled Bochum, 2010, the worst-case scenario in Duisburg.

Yes, it makes sense to think about the future of "Rave" - also about a possible Love Parade 2012th It makes no sense to throw out the baby with the bathwater and "The World of Rave" - such as Eva Hermann even as a kind of devil's work - damn. It is the bottom line is always worth-building, when a million visitors - even on a commercial mega-spectacle to distorted - Event enthusiastic as in 1914 with trains to go into battle fields of Europe as a destination.

But will consider whether an event of this scale is still of the protagonists in the early days is manageable, even if they have now established a professional sounding event settlement limited liability companies. Events with one million visitors are simply not developable as a club event.

Duisburg, the caesura is the raving society, as the sinking of the Titanic, the end of faith in the 19 Century, all the world's problems could be solved by technological progress was. Just as the murder of John Lennon's 1980, the ideals of pop ripped apart.

The question remains how the raving society itself will deal with it: Love Parade 2012 in Berlin? Maybe. If so, then they will certainly take place under increased security standards. And publicity at some point the victims will be remembered from 2010. Whether these foreseeable moment of silence remains a lip service, will depend on how especially the protagonists of the raving community reflect the events in 2010.

Without deeper such reflections, the aforementioned memory Tom Novys a Love Parade in Berlin will be nothing more than a shrill a techno-music-workers, who fear feels his benefice could dry up if the annual showpiece disappears his diary of that event.

The idea of rave 1989 would dig his own grave is so final and cementing himself as a mere circus act now in music history.

It is also a chance to grow in the drama of Duisburg. This will however be needed more than the previous "consternation"-phrases of the "Kings of Rave": Painful I miss about the association of artists such as the formation of a fund for victims and survivors. Or even just something that goes beyond the previously belonged to a thousand times already, "I am deeply shocked and concerned" goes. That would be appropriate. It may be that the only noticeable signal a deeper processing of the drama only by the person affected is based. That shows great immaturity and far beyond the circle of those who have come into focus prosecutorial investigation. A signal, just risen from the ranks of artists whose star with the Love Parade is doing, not much, if we would see the idea of "Rave-o-lution" buried not as ridiculous figment of aging artists in year one to Duisburg.

Love Parade co-inventor, Dr. Motte, Tacheles in Berlin dedicated to new projects, warns - in my opinion, not without reason - "to put a sign" before a hasty edition of the Love Parade, only.

A provocative idea: create not even the longest into fantasy in adult salary demands of the artists (that means even with free events like the Love Parade) turn so strongly on the spiral of having to reaping more and more sponsorship money with, from which the temptation arises , visitor numbers to tweak for sponsors so until the end no one has an overview of who or what will come now because ...

... Not even the artists themselves a bit of a "moral responsibility" ...?

You might crucify me for this my provocative question. Tom Novy has been out my phone number.

I look forward to feedback!

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