There is a very specific experience that Berghain sells and it is destroyed by allowing people deeply unfamiliar with the techno scene into the party. It’s not

There is a very specific experience that Berghain sells and it is destroyed by allowing people deeply unfamiliar with the techno scene into the party. It’s not the kind of club that most people know or have experience with. If they let in everyone who wants to go, it would stop being the thing that it is (which is why it is valuable and sought after). People don’t go there only for the building and sound system (though both are top notch). It’s the experience enabled by the specific people who are there (and, perhaps more importantly, who are not). Many people check in all of their clothing at coat check. You can have gay or straight sex in most parts of the club. I’ve been involved in BDSM scenes in different parts of the venue. Nobody leers, nobody harasses you. There aren’t generally people wasted drunk, there are no fights. If it were not a microcosm containing the specific scene it exists to support, and they just let in the general public indiscriminately, it would be no different than drinking in the park. Anyone can buy a world class soundsystem and book fancy techno DJs. Not anyone can recreate Berghain.