
English: 
Good morning, we are here with Frank Künster
and Smiley Baldwin, two of the three main characters
of "Berlin bouncer", the film which was shown yesterday
and the day before yesterday, so already two times
and so the film is a documentary
about Berlin nightlife, especially your life as bouncers.
So my first question is:
Why do you think Berlin bouncers became so popular
among not just the Berlin people
but also in the rest of Europe
is it?
So much that you just made a film about it
I think it is because everybody in the last thirty years
looked on Berlin because we have this special nightlife.

English: 
Good morning, we are here with Frank Künster
and Smiley Baldwin, two of the three main characters
of "Berlin bouncer", the film which was shown yesterday
and the day before yesterday, so already two times
and so the film is a documentary
about Berlin nightlife, especially your life as bouncers.
So my first question is:
Why do you think Berlin bouncers became so popular
among not just the Berlin people
but also in the rest of Europe
is it?
So much that you just made a film about it
I think it is because everybody in the last thirty years
looked on Berlin because we have this special nightlife.

English: 
And so like Sven, Smiley and me had the chance
to get into this iconic place,
because everybody looked at us and
all the people from Europe come to party,
because like Berlin is only famous for party.
We exposed us so long and so often
that people was interested about our lives.
For me it's good, because it means I'm famous and cool.
Smiley, I would like to know a little more about your life.
I know you explained it a lot during the film,
but what you were doing here in Berlin
before the Wall fell?
So, exactly, what were your duties?
Well, I came here as a soldier.
I was an American soldier,
especially I was a military policeman.
In the modern history there are not so many...
besetzt?

English: 
And so like Sven, Smiley and me had the chance
to get into this iconic place,
because everybody looked at us and
all the people from Europe come to party,
because like Berlin is only famous for party.
We exposed us so long and so often
that people was interested about our lives.
For me it's good, because it means I'm famous and cool.
Smiley, I would like to know a little more about your life.
I know you explained it a lot during the film,
but what you were doing here in Berlin
before the Wall fell?
So, exactly, what were your duties?
Well, I came here as a soldier.
I was an American soldier,
especially I was a military policeman.
In the modern history there are not so many...
besetzt?

English: 
Occupied cities.
English!
You're American!
There are not that many occupied cities.
So as a young military policeman
to have this kind of job
is like the top possibility
that you can always have as a policeman
to be working in an occupied city.
And the history of Berlin after the World War
and the Wall and all that stuff,
it was a very extreme and good place to be
for an American soldier.
This set is the best deal.
So that's what I did here from '87 to '92.
And then you had to resign to stay here?
I just let my contract run out,
because I knew that if I stayed in the army
I would have had to leave Berlin.

English: 
Occupied cities.
English!
You're American!
There are not that many occupied cities.
So as a young military policeman
to have this kind of job
is like the top possibility
that you can always have as a policeman
to be working in an occupied city.
And the history of Berlin after the World War
and the Wall and all that stuff,
it was a very extreme and good place to be
for an American soldier.
This set is the best deal.
So that's what I did here from '87 to '92.
And then you had to resign to stay here?
I just let my contract run out,
because I knew that if I stayed in the army
I would have had to leave Berlin.

English: 
So I decided to stay
and make my way within the waters of the city.
I'm living here for 10 years this year.
Definitely, when I arrived I just had the feeling
that there was something else that I missed.
Definitely, now I can see people who just arrived
that see Berlin totally different from when I arrived.
What's your feeling about Berlin today?
Did it change in a way you were expecting somehow?
Or did it change too much or not enough?
What's your opinion about it?
I think changing is a normal process
from the metropolitan city, because
it's always people approaching the city,
coming and expecting something new live, new ideas
and so obviously nightlife has to change too.
When I came here in 1989
and then the Wall came down,
the nightlife was a special thing,

English: 
So I decided to stay
and make my way within the waters of the city.
I'm living here for 10 years this year.
Definitely, when I arrived I just had the feeling
that there was something else that I missed.
Definitely, now I can see people who just arrived
that see Berlin totally different from when I arrived.
What's your feeling about Berlin today?
Did it change in a way you were expecting somehow?
Or did it change too much or not enough?
What's your opinion about it?
I think changing is a normal process
from the metropolitan city, because
it's always people approaching the city,
coming and expecting something new live, new ideas
and so obviously nightlife has to change too.
When I came here in 1989
and then the Wall came down,
the nightlife was a special thing,

English: 
there were no regulations.
And this is why it's so special today,
because something built up without regulations
and it made that WHY very special and
after 10 years of regulation again to come,
but we still have this space they built
without the regulations.
And so now we are in a normal regulated circumstances
but we defined freedom wider
than we could have defined it in other places
and that's one of the main reasons
why nightlife is special more or in a different way
than in other metropolitan circumstances.
And it's also because it's more democratic,
because when you got to Rome, Paris, London,
New York, whatever, only very rich people
can participate in really cool nightlife.
And of course they are not so rich people
but it's always very different
from the nightlife of rich people
and here there's no difference. That's the point.

English: 
there were no regulations.
And this is why it's so special today,
because something built up without regulations
and it made that WHY very special and
after 10 years of regulation again to come,
but we still have this space they built
without the regulations.
And so now we are in a normal regulated circumstances
but we defined freedom wider
than we could have defined it in other places
and that's one of the main reasons
why nightlife is special more or in a different way
than in other metropolitan circumstances.
And it's also because it's more democratic,
because when you got to Rome, Paris, London,
New York, whatever, only very rich people
can participate in really cool nightlife.
And of course they are not so rich people
but it's always very different
from the nightlife of rich people
and here there's no difference. That's the point.

English: 
And it will keep it that way, as long as possible.
Hopefully.

English: 
And it will keep it that way, as long as possible.
Hopefully.
