In der Schlange stehen...

A German tradition. Not my thing.

Let's have a Dance!

I love dancing and going out to clubs. I love clubs and especially in Berlin.

I love the Berlin state of mind and especially the free spirited clubs in Berlin.

So far, so good. Last Saturday, after a great concert we had the joy to be on the guest list for a club which is one of the Berlins most notorious clubs.

When we arrived there sometime after midnight the line was already 80m long.

Ok for us, since we had a shortcut.

What was not ok, was this feeling of being an intruder who had to "prove" he is crazy enough for that club.

I mean, I never had any problems dealing with selectors and bouncers in Berlin.

I just felt: No, this right here, right now, doesn't feel right for me anymore.

I love the KitKat, I love its music and the free dancing and I think it is playing a very essential role in the Berlin nightlife.

It is just very good to know that there is a club like the KitKat holding the freaky line in this world of "fitting in".

Everybody: Just do your thing...

Having a club which is not a jeans and T-shirt club is great and it is good that the bouncers make sure that a certain vibe is alive in that club.

And for me it felt like there are so many people in that club who wanted to break out of their conventional ordinary life. And then they just switched one devil for the other and again had to follow a certain convention and a new code. May be it's just me but I felt like the vibe in that club is not as free anymore with all those hurdles one has to jump over. So much stress for a little dance...

Somehow I just feel that there is a time for everything and I feel that I will see if other clubs do the same for me: feel the free spirit with less of that stress level.

Hey, dancing is supposed to be joy!

One last thing

Ok, now I may get a little bit heavy on the "Schlange stehen" aspect of it and this is pretty sure the German aspect of me who sees sometimes the darkness inside all things alive.

But that feeling is in me and this blog is supposed to show the contradictions in life.

I didn't feel as a valued human being to stand in line for that club.

Not even in the guest list line.

I don't even want to blame the bouncers for this negative vibe all over the place. They were just doing their job under rather extreme conditions with hundreds of people wanting to get into "their" club. That is a stressful situation which I don't have the slightest idea what it feels like.

But then again, it's the little things that count in the end:

Die Türsteher haben "nur ihre Arbeit getan".

Die Türsteher haben "nur Befehle ausgeführt".

Es ist eine dreckige Arbeit aber einer muss sie ja tun.

That's what Germans do now and what they also did in the ugly parts of our past as Germans.

Selecting the worthy people and allow them to "live".

Selecting the unworthy people and send them to "a sad place".

Ok, there you go. That's what I felt.

Feel free to feel something completely different.

That's cool with me!

#music #holdtheline #notmything