About Dr. Motte
Dr. Motte, born Matthias Roeingh in West Berlin in 1960, is a German techno DJ, musician and label operator best known as the co-founder and organizer of the Love Parade, the Berlin street parade that grew from a small 1989 gathering into one of the world's largest electronic music events before its later years. Trained as a concrete builder, Roeingh spent the early 1980s playing in Berlin bands including Die Toten Piloten, Deutsch-Polnische Aggression and Squealer, where he first used the stage name Motte, before beginning his career as a DJ in 1985 and turning fully toward house music from 1987 onward.
He launched the first Love Parade in 1989 with the help of his then-partner, an event that combined his DJ background with a street-parade format and helped popularize techno culture across Germany through the 1990s. Roeingh remained a co-owner of Loveparade Berlin GmbH until 2006, overseeing the event's organizational side alongside his own DJ bookings. Decades after founding the parade, Dr.
Motte remains an active figure in German techno, continuing to perform as a DJ while his role in establishing the Love Parade format remains his most widely recognized contribution to the genre's history.