Andrea Petkovic, a German professional tennis player known for celebrating her wins with a little victory dance , talked with Sports Illustrated about Berlin's premiere underground club, Berghain. Apparently it's pretty tough to get in if you are a tourist:
SI.com: Let’s say someone is visiting Germany for
the first time. What advice would you give to ensure the quintessential
German experience?
Petkovic: Go to a club in Berlin called Berghain.
They don’t let tourists in, so this is the challenge. They let in
transvestites, people who are tattooed from here [points at face] to
here [points at waist] or extreme hipsters. You go inside and you don’t
see anything. It’s all black. But they have the best electronic deejays.
I don’t really like electronic music, but if they’re good deejays, they
know how to pull it off somehow. And you don’t go there before 4 a.m.
because it’s just empty. You party until 1 p.m.
SI.com: So they’re probably not going to let in the nice Midwestern dad wearing a hip pack and a baseball cap.
Petkovic: Probably not [laughs]. For them, tourists
are people who are not living in Berlin. So even for us, you have to
look really Berlin-esque to get in. We’re all dressing up crazy and
drawing tattoos and we’re like, “Please let us in!”
