big family over the years you get to know each other everyone comes here and we love it sure ziggy marquardt has been coming here regularly for 6 decades he lives in the west half of the city in the ball houses in the east even after the wall went up in 1961 he continued visiting the club despite border controls. that were suddenly back then you have to cross the border of strangers you've got a day pass and in the evening at midnight you have to be back again. today the dance club in the middle of berlin also boasts a restaurant and is popular with locals and tourists alike. author madeon keizo research the history of clear his ball house for years and interviewed many eyewitnesses who danced here when the g.d.r. still existed and berlin was divided into east and west. mike comes in so what comes before she they can't even imagine that they built a wall through the middle of the city but this is a place where east and west germany met up and became close because music and dance and alcohol all that brings people together. in her book mommy and keys are tells the story. in 1013 club who are