After 18 long months the time had finally come again last Friday evening: I was standing in a queue – in front of a Munich club. Together with my colleague Lisa Miethke and our photographer Johannes Simon. On this first party weekend after the clubs opened, we wanted to see: What has changed over the long term? Will Munich be celebrating again like it used to be? Or do you feel a certain tension?
One thing becomes very clear on this first weekend: some things have not changed even with the pandemic. If you are on a guest list, it goes very quickly. Everyone else waits a long time – many more than an hour. As soon as you’re inside, it’s almost like it used to be. It can be celebrated. Without a mask, without a gap. Munich has not forgotten how to celebrate and the mood is good everywhere. Not only the club guests, but also the whole staff, the bar operators, bartenders, bouncers and DJs are happy and happy to finally get started again. Christian Haidinger, the manager of the 089-Bar, said to us that “the children will be told about this evening”.
For some it was also the first club night in their lives. For example for Hannah Kögelsperger, who we met on our foray. She turned 18 last February and wishes “it will be fun and a cool night”.
On this evening we meet – roughly speaking – two different types of party guests: Those who can let themselves fall again, dance and move as if they had never stopped partying. And those who first have to approach the unfamiliar situation. The closeness, the sweaty, strangers and the loud music. Reluctantly, they move their feet from right to left, their hands clenched tightly to their drink, as if they don’t know what to do with themselves.
But the mood changes over the course of the night. At our last stop we come to the new room at the Hackerbrücke: the people are dancing there, have forgotten themselves in the music and maybe for a moment the pandemic. You can read the entire report with SZ Plus.
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