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Rødhåd

German techno music producer and DJ

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ57306134
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Mike Bierbach (born 1984), known by the stage name Rødhåd, is a German techno music producer and DJ, living in Berlin.

Biography

Bierbach was born and grew up in East Berlin. Rødhåd means "red head".

In 2009, he co-founded Dystopian, a series of parties that turned into a record label. He is associated with the Berlin nightclub Berghain. Rødhåd is known equally for his work as a music producer as for his DJing.

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“Rødhåd” enters the record as german techno music producer and DJ. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rødhåd, German and techno can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rødhåd, German and techno.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q57306134. VIAF identifies the subject as 13152682569623312466. The Library of Congress control number is n2018028261. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from Rødhåd” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.