Editing Tresor (club) (section)

==History==
[[File:Tresor - Berlin.jpg|thumb|Original location in Leipziger Straße (2003)]]
The club was founded in March 1991 in the vaults of the former department store [[Wertheim (department store)|Wertheim]] at [[Leipziger Strasse]] 126-128 in [[Mitte]], the central part of [[East Berlin]], next to the [[Potsdamer Platz]].<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Morse|first1=Erik|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/05/tresor-stays-relevant-30-years-of-the-legendary-berlin-techno-club|title='No established disco would have played this music': 30 years of legendary Berlin club Tresor|date=5 October 2021|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=5 October 2021}}</ref> The history of the club goes back to 1988 when the [[electronic music]] label Interfisch opened the ''[[Ufo (Club, Berlin)|Ufo Club]]'' in [[Berlin]]. Ufo was the original centre of Berlin [[house music|house]] and techno, but due to financial problems that club closed in 1990.

After Ufo closed, Interfisch's head, [[Dimitri Hegemann]], and some investors in the club found the new space in East Berlin. This was advantageous timing, as it was only a few months before [[German reunification|Germany unified]].  The vaults under the Wertheim department store proved to be the perfect location for a club, and Tresor quickly became the place to be in Berlin. Tresor continued to be a popular club, having expanded and reconstructed continuously several times to include an outdoor garden area, and a second "Globus" floor. The Tresor floor in the basement was reserved specifically for hard techno, industrial and acid music, while Globus was featured mainly more mellow house sound. The record label Tresor Records was founded soon after the club first opened, in October 1991. Featured artists on the label include [[Jeff Mills]], [[Blake Baxter]], [[Juan Atkins]], [[Robert Hood]], [[Drexciya]], [[Stewart Walker]], [[Joey Beltram]], [[Surgeon (musician)|Surgeon]], [[Pacou]], [[Cristian Vogel]] and many others.

In 2004 the documentary "Tresor Berlin: The Vault & the Electronic Frontier" was released.  Directed by Mike Andrawis, it features interviews with Hegemann, Carola Stoiber, and DJs & artists associated with the club & label.<ref>[http://www.7inch.org/What+27s_on/237.aspx Birmingham 7 lnch Cinema programme listing] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008094556/http://www.7inch.org/What+27s_on/237.aspx |date=8 October 2007 }}</ref> The film covers the period from Hegemann's involvement with the Fishladen and UFO clubs in [[Kreuzberg|Berlin-Kreuzberg]] to the final months prior to Tresor's closure.

Tresor closed on 16 April 2005, after several years' prolonged short-term rent.<ref>[https://www.orte-der-einheit.de/en/tresor ''Tresor: United party nights''.] In: [https://www.orte-der-einheit.de/en/ Sites of Unity] ([[Haus der Geschichte]]), 2023</ref> The city sold the land to an investor group to build offices on the Leipziger Straße location.  It was open for each night of April 2005, with the final event starting the Saturday night with queues stretching all the way down the road, and still going Monday morning.

Tresor reopened on 24 May 2007 in the decommissioned southern tract of the combined heat and power plant ''Heizkraftwerk Berlin-Mitte'' in Köpenicker Straße.<ref>{{cite web |date= 26 April 2007 |title=Legendary Berlin club Tresor finally reopens |url=https://ra.co/news/8643 |website=Resident Advisor}}</ref>

Since November 2019 the club has a subsidiary in the city of [[Dortmund]] called ''Tresor.West''.<ref name="fazemag_tresorwest_26112019">{{cite web |url=https://www.fazemag.de/so-war-die-erste-party-im-tresor-west/ |title=So war die erste Party im Tresor.West |trans-title=This is what the first party at Tresor.West was like |publisher=Faze Magazine |date=26 November 2019 |access-date=27 February 2020}}</ref> 

In September 2022, Tresor published a photobook, ''Tresor: True Stories,'' to document the past 30 years of its history.<ref>{{cite web |date=12 August 2022 |title=A NEW PHOTOBOOK IS DOCUMENTING 30 YEARS OF TRESOR BERLIN |url=https://mixmag.net/read/tresor-berlin-techno-club-photobook-30-year-anniversary-news/ |website=mixmag}}</ref>