Soho in Germany’s capital? Soho, New York? Soho, London? That may sound somewhat objectionable, but is actually something with a totally different intent. Berlin’s residents actually first became aware of the existence of this British import when Damian Hirst celebrated here after his Berlin exhibition.

Here? In Soho House on Torstrasse 1, a multistoried sandstone palace from the roaring 1920s and with a fateful biography: department store, expropriation from its Jewish owner, seat of the Reich’s Youth Leader of the National Socialist Party, followed by the party leadership of the Socialist Unity Party, now a branch of a London institution, the elite Soho House, a member’s club that, in contrast to the traditional ‘conservative’ clubs of the British capital, wants to be with the times, and, for instance, charges a fee of ‘only’ 3.28 euros per day – which is the yearly fee of 1200 euros divided by 365, and which allows members to make use of all the facilities and offerings of Soho House.

There are also, pro forma, two cheaper variants: with 600 or 900 euros one can be a member; however, the doors to the exclusive club rooms remain closed at these rates. Psychology is everything!