For almost two decades, Sven Marquardt has worked as the doorman and principal sorter at Berghain, the Berlin night club. But at 61, he is focussing more on his long side career as a photographer.
“A little bit,” he said the other day. “I worked eighteen years for this house, and it’s a big chance and good memories, butAt sixty-one, he is working there less frequently—“I don’t know when my next shift is”—and focussing more on his long side career as a photographer. Last month, he visited New York for an exhibition of his work at ArtsDistrict Brooklyn, a cavernous space in Greenpoint. The show, of old and new work, is called “Disturbing Beauty.
“There hasn’t been any clubs then,” Paetke said. “No drugs. No coffee, no bananas. Craziest thing was alcohol. There has been in East Germany a strong regime of how to look, how to behave in public. So coloring your hair or doing anything which could go in the direction of queer would have caused serious problems.”
After the Wall fell, Marquardt took a long break from photography. He said, “I lost my identity, with millions of people. We felt like immigrants in our own country. Yes, this is why I don’t take pictures.”
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