Techno party featuring Love Parade founder hits Berlin’s streets

A techno parade whose initiators include the founder of the Love Parade have taken to the streets of the German capital with calls for the city’s electronic music culture to be added to a World Heritage list.

The “Rave the Planet” parade set out from Berlin’s Kurfuerstendamm shopping boulevard to the Victory Column in the middle of Tiergarten park.

They deployed 600 officers but no disturbances were reported.

One of the parade’s organisers, a DJ known professionally as Dr Motte, called for an unconditional basic income for artists and for Berlin’s club culture to be listed as intangible heritage by Unesco, the UN’s cultural agency.

The event’s popularity later waned, having last been held in Berlin in 2006.

Parties with the Love Parade brand were held under different organisers after that in Germany’s industrial Ruhr region, but ended after a mass panic at the 2010 event in Duisburg resulted in 21 deaths.