They used face and voice recognition software to analyze your emotions while you do your best in answering the bouncer’s questions so you could enter virtual Berghain. The final bullet of his Powerpoint interrogation was a blunt, "Where are you coming from?" "Errr…London. The most known attempt at such is the Berghain Trainer, an interactive Berghain simulator developed in 2016 by Fabian Burghardt and Vincenz Aubry. People Berlin’s Most Notorious Bouncer on His Day Job as a Photographer, and What It’s Like to Be a Symbol of a Vanishing Club Scene Sven Marquardt talks about creative life under lockdown and the city's ever-fluctuating club culture. This time around, for reasons only my future analyst will know, I fluffed it. Normally when I'm asked my age I'm pretty certain that I'll have said "26" within a good half-second of the question hanging in the air. Which is probably why I felt panicked and nervous when it came to sauntering up to the digitized doorman who was glowering at me through my browser. It was a fun night, but it wasn't an authentic experience by any stretch of the imagination. Also Berghain has a very famous Bouncer (Sven Marquardt). Just once, mind, and even that was on a press trip, so I got to saunter past Sven and the lads and straight into the garden to bang pints of prosecco with other braying journalists and a really tired looking Bernard Sumner from New Order. The hype around this secretive club is only magnified by its no-photos rule and notoriously difficult door policy. The bouncer may quiz you on which artist is playing in the club and, if you answer correctly, let you inside.
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