Jan-Niklas Hustedt remembers going to techno parties in the abandoned canteen of a pump factory that had drastically downsized after reunification, in his hometown of Oschersleben. He was born in East Germany in 1989, just a few weeks before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He describes himself as a "wendekind"; a child of the turning point. Now, at 36, he recalls how that time would change his community. Many businesses in the communist east struggled or simply collapsed as they were thrust into a