- The club's eponymous owner looks back at 20 years in Berlin nightlife.
- In the mid-'90s, Heinz "Cookie" Gindullis opened a bar in Berlin's Mitte neighborhood. Now a hub for art and fashion, Mitte was still a post-reunification blank slate, but Cookies, as everyone called it, formed part of a constellation of less-than-legal nightspots in the area. Music wasn't initially the focus—in the early days, Cookie would schlep his stereo down from his apartment—but through a half-dozen incarnations, Cookies became a fixture of Berlin's burgeoning scene. It's the place where a young West Berliner named Ben Klock played before Berghain made him a superstar, and where a generation of Berlin's club cognoscenti spent innumerable Tuesday and Thursday nights. The club has long been a fixture at the corner of Friedrichstrasse and Unter den Linden, but this Saturday's party will bring its 20-year run to a close. With the final night approaching, we had Cookie by our office—which, as it happens, sits above the location of one of his old bars—to discuss one of Berlin's legendary clubs.
TracklistOskar Offerman - The Fog Burns Off
Ben Klock - Goodly Sin