Love Parade

The Love Parade was a popular electronic dance music festival and technoparade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany. It was held annually in Berlin from 1989. The festival was free. It had stages and floats which paraded down the streets.

The first Love Parade was nicknamed 'Germany's Summer of Love', as it embodied similar values to the 1967 American Summer of Love - freedom from oppression, anti-capitalist and sex positive & heavy drug use.







In 2010, the festival was held in a closed off area for the first time. This ended in disaster as several people were crushed to death due to poor organising and the festival only having one entrance/exit.

"The atmosphere was explosive. Many in the crowd seemed to be intoxicated. When people started falling off the stairs and pulling others with them, it became just chaotic. They just couldn't be stopped. It was a living hell." - eyewitness

The festival was permanently cancelled after this.