Berlin didn’t play a decisive role in the musical education of Carmen Herold, co-founder of the Zhao Dai Club (招待会). Although some might assume otherwise at first glance, the daughter of a Chinese mother and a German father sees herself more connected to the traditional lines of the Frankfurt metropolitan area, where she grew up. „Music and fine arts were historically more closely intertwined in the Frankfurt scene than in Berlin. There was a totality of different aesthetic experiences that were not present elsewhere,“ says Herold.