This film might interest many of you. Especially those of you who have so far been denied access to the sacred halls of Berghain. But not only her. Because even constant Berghain-goers should find the topic of the film exciting.
The YouTube film “The Fernheizoper” accompanies a little boy on his foray through the former thermal power station at the Wriezen train station – three years before it became the most famous club in the world: the Berghain. The film shows how magical the place has always been, even before it became a club.
The main actor in the film is Toni Traum, a popular actor these days who can be seen in the successful series “4 Blocks” or in “Dogs Of Berlin”. In the film, Toni Traum plays Coster, a lost boy in the summer of 2001. Berlin in 2001 is a metropolis with many empty buildings and run-down areas. Where the Mercedes-Benz Arena stands today, gay ravers celebrate in the Ostgut, Berghain’s predecessor club. And the later Berghain itself, now the most famous club in the world, is a ruin surrounded by crumbling warehouses, old sidings and rubble.
Coster, 14 years old, spends his afternoons on the streets of Friedrichshain in this setting and is the main actor in the film “Die Fernheizoper”, which has appeared on YouTube. The amateur film with shaky camerawork and no obvious storyline has a lot of atmosphere. The second protagonist of the 15-minute film is the district heating opera, the former thermal power station at the Wriezen train station, which the employees gave it its nickname because of its monumental, socialist-classical confectionery architecture. Built in 1954/1955, the thermal power station was only in operation until the 1960s. After that it fell into disrepair until the makers of Berghain opened their club in 2004. The camera accompanies Coster on his foray through the decaying power plant, now called Berghain. Toni Traum not only identifies with his role, but also with the building. Vacant houses, especially industrial ruins, captivate him. “I was fascinated by the thought of how much life was once in the buildings – and still was,” Traum told TIP Berlin.
In the film, where the Panorama Bar is today, you can still see the old control apparatus of the thermal power station, in front of those dirty white tiles that everyone who visits the Panorama Bar will probably remember. Anyone who has ever been to Berghain will also recognize the balustrade that stretches from one side to the other over the Berghain floor and the metal staircase that leads from a floor full of puddles up to what is now the Panorama Bar.
And here you can see the film
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