1. Monika Kruse played an influential role in the early Munich rave scene during the early 1990s and was among the first wave of German techno artists to tour internationally, before moving to Berlin at the end of the decade where she founded her Terminal M record label.
Monika Kruse was born in 1971 in West Berlin, but grew up in the Bavarian capital of Munich after her parents moved there when she was a baby.
Monika Kruse began classical training in piano at the age of four*, and during her teens began accumulating a record collection that saw her cultivating a love of music that spanned funk, soul, hip-hop and house.
Monika Kruse was a Resident DJ at Ultraschall from the start.
The middle of the decade saw Monika Kruse performing alongside Sven Vath regularly at his club Omen in Frankfurt.
In 1999, Monika Kruse first DJed at the popular Time Warp event in Mannheim, Germany and she remains a fixture on the line-up to this day.
Monika Kruse appears regularly at prominent European festivals such as Awakenings in the Netherlands, and her DJ schedule for 2017 sees her appearing weekly in nightclubs across Germany and the rest of Europe.
Monika Kruse has performed at the Burning Man Festival that takes place at Black Rock City, a temporary city erected in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
Monika Kruse was one of the very first international DJs I ever saw in my life.
In 2017, Monika Kruse made her debut on the Essential Mix weekly radio show broadcast on BBC Radio 1, where host Pete Tong described her as "techno royalty".
In 2007 Monika Kruse began a productive cooperation with Worms-based Gregor Tresher.