Fuckparade

{{Infobox music festival

| name =Fuckparade

| image =Image:Fuckparade2006 02.jpg

| caption =Fuckparade 2006

| location =Berlin

| years_active =1997–present

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| genre = Electronic music

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| website ={{Official website|http://www.fuckparade.org}}

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The Fuckparade is an annual summer technoparade in Berlin.{{cite news|first=Denis|last=Staunton|title=Berlin holds an orgy but no one has sex|url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,338880,00.html|publisher=The Observer|date=2000-07-02|accessdate=2007-10-11|location=London}} The event began in 1997 as a demonstration against the increasing commercialisation of culture and public life and the misuse of the right of assembly by purely commercial ventures, in particular the Love Parade.{{cite news|first=John|last=Hooper|title=The course of true Love|url=https://www.theguardian.com/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,523236,00.html |date=2001-07-18|accessdate=2007-10-11|location=London|work=The Guardian}}{{cite news|first=Holger|last=Kulick|url=http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,135997,00.html|title=Berliner Demo-Kultur: Die Fuckparade klagt gegen den Senat|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=25 May 2001|language=de}} The event has had problems with the authorities since 2001, but in 2007 the Federal Administrative Court of Germany decided that it met the definition of a demonstration.[http://www.eve-rave.net/abfahrer/presse/presse07-05-17.html Versammlungsrecht und Demonstrationen: Bundesverwaltungsgericht bestätigt Demonstrationsstatus der Fuckparade], Press release www.eve-rave.net Berlin, 17 May 2007 {{in lang|de}}