A new book sheds light on the history of Munich's night life - and shows the wild, and unknown side of the city
Hardly is "Mjunik disco," Mirko Hecktors book about "Munich at night from 1949 until today," appeared outen the first groupies: Look! And: Ah, yes ...!
The secretary has, at the tender age teenagers, as Garderobiere in a succession of clubs by Peter Naumann "PN hithouse" at the Leopold Street gejobbt - 1965 launched the Local Beat shed was a model of Hamburg after "Star Club", covers bands from Munich and the surrounding area were divided there the stage with the Hollies and the Kinks and unleashed a generation of workers' children stamped on the sound of the Sixties.
A colleague, the outgoing 70s and early 80s in "Lipstick" is brought, one in gold and black submerged bar beer in the Ohlmüllerstrasse the punks, students and students shared with each other, which is not always good party. On a weekend of excesses here followed a general rotation renovation, the store equipment and demolished the toilets were broken during the week prepared days later and went back to breakage. The "Lipstick," you could say, it was Munich Ratinger yard or SO 36, populated by guys who looked as if they were just at the Sex Pistols had been fired and is now looking for a job, we say: New Order.
Already on the first pages represents "Mjunik disco," the book of the Munich choreographers, theater director and DJs Mirko Hecktor, so everything into question what the (apparently) secured knowledge about the Munich night, their locations and protagonists belongs. The night is not a few, but all of them. It is not elitist, but egalitarian, so Hecktors thesis. The rest, the image of the Schickimicki City, was the unprecedented "media charge" of the 80s owed as from stroke Klatschkolumnisten Michael Gräter their own invented world: A reality full of art figures, Möchtegerne and Adabeis, the Helmut Dietl served as a template for "Kir Royal", the TV series, the Munich-picture (especially the non-Munich) characterizes today.
"That is ironic Dietl said, one has in Hamburg or Berlin did not understand," said Mirko Hecktor. Its merit is that it corrects the distorted image. In his book, the Munich exceptional night with him - not with the Kahn and Verenas, but where, they emphatically and with passion, with unconditional devotion and "a certain tendency towards self" every day anew.
"Mjunik Disco" is like a melancholy, nostalgic journey through time and is very much more. To visit and to rediscover are "Villages and Towns" from 60 years ago. From "Hot Club" in the "Augustinian basement" of the Siggi summer in the 50-years said that it "with every Parisian Existenzialistenkeller record" could, until the "Cafe King." The Club Glockenbach in the quarter, its interior more an art than a building site catering operation out in the first years of the new millennium, the favorite meeting place for the urban bohemian become. Mirko Hecktor also establishes panels on there - and perhaps he will therefore not get rid of the feeling, not really a book to have presented, but a play. "Sometimes it feels like also to a ten-hour DJ set."
"Mjunik disco" works as a ticket into the night: "It appears there is one and only times unable to cope. You can hear stories. People see. If further in the next shop. And when the end comes out again, one has either a good time. Or it's a badly. " The Munich night, believes Hecktor is nothing for soft eggs. The participation is not in vain.
"What struck me on the photos from all the years most impressed, is the fearlessness in the faces of the people," says Hecktor. "Perhaps it is that all young. But hey, at all the photos are just cool and strong women types. One might think it's a Hollywood movie, when we see what the night for prototypes produced."
Undaunted had been his, who in the late'70s in "Schwabinger Bräu" the excruciating synthesizer attacks by avant-punks like Suicide underwent, and fights Pöbeleien not excluded. Even in the clubs of today such as the Pimpernel, "the Hecktor to the Top Five in Munich counts, the mood any time tilt:" You never know when it sits next to whom. " Munich lights, they say, but the city is darker than, for example, in Berlin, says Hecktor, the Munich side a schizophrenic attested: "Day and night are clearly separated. During the day you go to work. In the evening you go out. Releasing, which is -Wasting at the moment remains reserved for the night. " With hard predictable consequences.
Who totally detached Munich wants to experience, should be entrusted with the moon phases expected. "Three, four days before the full moon as a DJ, you have the feeling that the city immediately exploded," says Hecktor. The new, sometimes almost manic dynamics of the scene was also due to the fact that after the return of the clubs in the downtown club-hopping has become easier. "The conditions are actually in Munich only to those in New York to compare where the good shops in the area in and around Manhattan focus. In London and Paris, on the other hand, you have 20 minutes taxi ride to move from a club in the other to come - because it will be difficult to keep the mood. "
What the Munich club night of international life lettering, is a peculiar mixture of lethargy and liberalism: "I've even beside the author Rainald Goetz stood at the checkout and not checked who it is, as a 18-year-olds," says the now 34-year-old Hecktor. Only in Munich could it happen that Keith Richards in the "flap" completely unmolested champagne schlürfte undetected or Freddie Mercury Glockenbach by the scene grazed - "he would rather Reichenbach in the street in London rose from the limousine, he would immediately 200 People had to get around. But that is precisely Munich, "says Hecktor:" It is well satisfied with himself and the world. And either it is interested in the Munich not know who stands beside him. Or he does not recognize him. Then he he also does not matter. "
To view, makes "Mjunik disco" double meaning. It is not only to the special flair of the Munich club. But also to those unmistakable sound, as "Munich disco" wrote pop history. The mid-'70s, says Mirko Hecktor, the Philadelphia-disco music, to which half the world danced in Munich decisively modified. The US-disco sound with the broken march to the beat Disco has been reprogrammed, pioneers of electronic music like Giorgio Moroder produced the blueprint for techno and house. Moroder is long in Hollywood. DJ Hell, Munich inventor of the Electro Clash in the 90s, lost to Berlin. Matthias Modica, whose Munich's Gomma label today's music produced tomorrow, it would still there. But one that it recognizes on the street, is rather unlikely.
