The Mottos & the Message
Every year carried a motto — "We Are One Family", "Music Is The Key", "One World One Loveparade", "Access Peace". The utopian idealism of a generation that believed dancing together could change the world.
Part of Love Parade
17 moments in this segment.
- — 1989: “Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen”. The first Love Parade: Dr. Motte (Matthias Roeingh) and Danielle de Picciotto lead about 150 people down the Kurfürstendamm behind a single truck — a registered political demonstration for "peace, joy and pancakes". · Berlin · Kurfürstendamm · approx. 150 people.
- — 1990: “The Future Is Ours”. The year the Wall has fallen; the parade grows to 2,000 as a reunited Berlin becomes the capital of techno. · Berlin · approx. 2,000 people.
- — 1991: “My House Is Your House and Your House Is Mine”. A house-music pun and an open invitation; 6,000 now dance through the city. · Berlin · approx. 6,000 people.
- — 1992: “The Spirit Makes You Move”. Over 15,000 attend as the parade becomes a fixture of the Berlin summer. · Berlin · approx. 15,000 people.
- — 1996: “We Are One Family”. Outgrowing the Ku’damm, the parade moves to the Straße des 17. Juni in the Tiergarten, around the Siegessäule — and 750,000 come. · Berlin · Tiergarten · approx. 750,000 people.
- — 1997: “Let the Sunshine in Your Heart”. The first million. The Love Parade is now the largest techno event on Earth. · Berlin · Tiergarten · approx. 1,000,000 people.
- — 1998: “One World One Future”. A global message as the parade’s fame circles the world. · Berlin · Tiergarten · approx. 800,000 people.
- — 1999: “Music Is The Key”. The peak: 1.5 million people dance together peacefully under the Victory Column — the biggest the parade ever was in Berlin. · Berlin · Tiergarten · approx. 1,500,000 people.
- — Love Parade 1999 — "Music Is The Key". The 1999 anthem "Music Is The Key" — the year 1.5 million people filled the Straße des 17. Juni, the parade at its absolute peak.
- — 2001: “Join The Love Republic”. A Berlin court rules the parade a commercial event, not a demonstration — organisers must now pay for security and clean-up. Attendance falls. · Berlin · Tiergarten · approx. 800,000 people.
- — 2002: “Access Peace”. Still vast, but the funding battles that come with commercial status begin to bite. · Berlin · Tiergarten · approx. 750,000 people.
- — The Love Committee - Access Peace (loveparade 2002 anthem). Love Parade 2002 — archival footage.
- — 2003: “Love Rules”. The last Berlin Love Parade for years; in 2004 and 2005 it is cancelled over funding. · Berlin · Tiergarten · approx. 750,000 people.
- — 2007: “Love Is Everywhere”. After the fitness brand McFit buys the rights in 2006 and Berlin refuses a permit, the parade is reborn in the Ruhr — 1.2 million in Essen. · Essen · approx. 1,200,000 people.
- — 2008: “Highway to Love”. On the B1 motorway in Dortmund, 1.6 million attend — the largest Love Parade ever held. · Dortmund · approx. 1,600,000 people.
- — 2010: “The Art of Love”. The Ruhr parade comes to Duisburg on 24 July 2010 — the day that would end the Love Parade forever. · Duisburg · approx. 1,400,000 people.
- — Love Parade 1997-2010 Hymny / Anthems 2015 HQ. Love Parade 1997 — archival footage.
