Helene, her Axolotl and me at Tresor!
Honestly, I didn’t want to got there. To the new Tresor. It would be sad, so very very sad, visiting a club that was part of your teenager life, a place where you spend endless nights, met friends for one night or longer. Some did stay, some of them I never saw again. All these memories..The last time I went to the old Tresor, I felt so weird, like a freak. The people had changed so much, they all seem to look the same and they didn’t like my looks, I could tell that. Too alternative to them. Where did all the good people go? The tolerant people I was used to hang out with, the people from the early days. Or was it me who had changed? I couldn’t figure out. However, when I was invited to the Axolotl Roadkill event, I thought I should have a look, I mean, after all these years..Axolotl Roadkill is a bestseller, written by the talented director-daughter Helene Hegemann, when she was only aged 16! More of this evening and pics after the jump:
I met Helene Hegemann before, she is a friend of a friend, but I didn’t know that she wrote a book. Honestly, the acoustics in the Tresor aren’t made for a reading, especially when like 2000 people want to listen to you. Some people went over to inhale helium out of the balloons that were spread all over the room. I wonder if some people made anonymous phone calls after manipulating their voice with the gas, sounding like a Chipmunk. When Helene finished reading there was an after party with the Sick Girls and Entanzkavalier and a German actress playing music. Instead of drinking and dancing I explored the massive building, wondering why the hell people go to Berghain, this place is so much more amazing. And suddenly, melancholia started to creep into my mind, it was caused by that certain smell, the walls in the toilets covered with paintings and names, exactly like it used to be years ago, as if nothing changed. I remembered how I wrote the name of a former love on the wall and how I used to check regularly if it was still there. Later the regular Tresor audience started to enter the place – time for me to leave. Things just never come back, what stays are the memories..beautiful memories. Erm sorry, the book, well, I didn’t read Axolotl Roadkill yet, but I can tell you, the Axolotl is some sort of an animal and in the story someone has Sex in Berghain! These young intellectuals, I can tell you.
by Suz
on March 1st, 2010
in Clubs, Party, People
9 Comments »
March 1st, 2010 at 12:53h
An event in a place decorated with a plethora of pink balloons, candy floss for the guests, and an under-age person in the limelight. Sounds to me like a child’s birthday.
March 1st, 2010 at 13:49h
it’s been in fact her 18th birthday
March 1st, 2010 at 13:55h
dieses erbärmliche plagiative pseudoschriftstellerin auch nur im ansatz
durch erscheinen auf so ner pupsparty zu pushen is sich doch ……%&/(&=$$$
andererseits ist der heutige tresor auch nur ein disneyland für technotouris,
also och pseudo & von von daher passt das schon
March 1st, 2010 at 14:17h
@suz: Good thing she could enter the club from then on.
Anyway. I didn’t read the book either but it seems to me there’s already a certain hype because of the scandal. 2000 people visiting a reading of a new-born star… an astonishing achievement.
March 1st, 2010 at 15:26h
wer kann sich noch an “ric graf – i cool” erinnern? das buch war soo überlüssig… habe axolotl nicht gelesen, aber ich habe das gefühl dass axolotl in die selbe richtung geht… hat eigentlich irgend jemand das buch gelesen? oder finden alle das buch geil weil alle das buch geil finden?
March 1st, 2010 at 16:03h
Habe gerade das Buch gelesen. Es ist wirklich überflüssig wie sonst was. Talentiert? Nun ja, wie wir mittlerweile wissen, ist es an nicht wenigen Stellen gut abgeschrieben von anderen Autoren / Bloggern.
Wie auch immer. 17-jährige Mädchen, die auf gut 200 Seiten was über Drogen, Ficken und das anschließende Kotzen schreiben, sollten dass dann auch erlebt haben, damit man wenigstens das Gefühl von Glaubwürdigkeit hat. In keiner der Szenen und Exzessen konnte ich mich da jedenfalls wieder finden.
Sorry, aber der Hype um das Mädel ist überzogen.
March 1st, 2010 at 16:32h
genauso überflüssig wie das buch ist dieser blog-eintrag.
March 1st, 2010 at 16:58h
habe das buch gelesen. ist langweilig und die zeit nicht wert.
March 2nd, 2010 at 13:24h
Witzig ist, dass ich schon einem Blogbeitrag zu Helene geschrieben habe als sie noch keiner kannte….
http://www.iheartberlin.de/2009/05/28/beauty-and-the-beast/