The Fuckparade is an annual summer
technoparade
A technoparade (taken from the German word "Technoparade") is a parade of vehicles equipped with strong loudspeakers and amplifiers playing electronic dance music. It resembles a carnival parade in some respects, but the vehicles (called love ...
in
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...
.
The event began in 1997 as a
demonstration against the increasing
commercialisation
Commercialisation or commercialization is the process of introducing a new product or production method into commerce—making it available on the market. The term often connotes especially entry into the mass market (as opposed to entry into ea ...
of culture and public life and the misuse of the
right of assembly by purely commercial ventures, in particular the
Love Parade.
The event has had problems with the authorities since 2001, but in 2007 the
Federal Administrative Court of Germany
The Federal Administrative Court (, , BVerwG) is one of the five federal supreme courts of Germany. It is the court of the last resort for generally all cases of administrative law, mainly disputes between citizens and the state. It hears appea ...
decided that it met the definition of a demonstration.
Versammlungsrecht und Demonstrationen: Bundesverwaltungsgericht bestätigt Demonstrationsstatus der Fuckparade
Press release www.eve-rave.net Berlin, 17 May 2007
See also
* Techno Viking
*List of electronic music festivals
The following is an incomplete list of music festivals that feature electronic music, which encapsulates music featuring electronic instruments such as electric guitars and keyboards, as well as recent genres such as electronic dance music (E ...
* List of technoparades
References
External links
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Music festivals established in 1997
Parades in Germany
Music festivals in Berlin
Technoparade
1997 establishments in Germany
Anti-consumerism
Electronic music festivals in Germany
Free parties
Summer in Germany
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