According to the German Minister of Culture and Media, the addition opposes the “absurd” division between high culture and low culture.
Berlin’s techno culture has been added to UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage.
The German Ministry of Culture and the German Unesco Commission announced the matter on Wednesday in the bulletin.
Minister of Culture and Media Claudia Roth says in the announcement that Berlin’s techno culture has been an important part of the sound of the country’s capital for more than 30 years.
According to him, adding it to the list of cultural heritage sites also broadens the understanding of culture and opposes the “absurd” division between high culture and low culture.
– Youth culture is just as much a part of Germany’s cultural life as hundreds of years old handicrafts, says the vice-chairman of Germany’s Unesco Commission Christopher Wulf.
A non-governmental organization that supports technoculture Rave The Planet applied to add techno culture to the list in 2021.
Techno clubs started to appear in Berlin in the 1980s, and club culture grew even stronger after the fall of the Berlin Wall in the 1990s. Clubs found their place in vacant buildings.
Techno clubs and festivals are popular not only with Germans but also with tourists.
UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage refers to knowledge, skills, practices and traditions that live in different communities.