Sven Marquardt, the clubland sentry who watches over the door of Berlin's legendary nightclub, Berghain, was given a style of his personal drugs at a nightclub in Sydney earlier this month.
In addition to being the world's most well-known bouncer, the East Berlin native can also be an achieved photographer who has exhibited his work in quite a few places world wide. Traveling to Australia to showcase his artwork at Goethe-Institut in Sydney, Marquardt determined to hit the city after his gallery displaying.
Finding himself in line at a nightclub later that evening, Marquardt was denied entry as a result of the membership's bouncers discovered his facial tattoos to be too off-putting and suspicious. "Later I talked to the proprietor and he instructed me that he was in Berlin and was allowed into Berghain," mentioned Marquardt throughout an interview with BZ Berlin.
An eye for an eye fixed, a bounce for a bounce.
Earlier this month, Marquardt efficiently sued the Swedish firm Beware Of Ninja for €15,000 after they used his likeness with out consent of their Berghain-inspired card recreation, Bergnein. Learn extra right here
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