Hush

They stand for dance, sweat, closeness, freedom and loss of control for a time, but an involuntary silence has descended on the city’s once loudest venues with the onset of the pandemic. For their book, Staggat and Stein visited over 40 Berlin electro clubs from April to December 2020 and interviewed the often forgotten faces of this crisis: the club manager, the bartender, the booker, the DJs, the toilet man, the bouncer or the caretaker.