Part of Maximiliansplatz could become an outdoor club in the coming weeks. It is another push by the city to create celebration opportunities despite the corona pandemic. The proximity to the neighboring clubs enables “seating and the offer of music”, it says in a submission of the social department, on which the vacation senate of the city council is to vote on Wednesday. The whole thing is intended as a pilot project in cooperation with the clubs Pacha, 089 Bar, Rote Sonne, Sweet Club and Call Me Drella. It should be scheduled for four weeks and will probably take place from Thursday to Saturday.
If things go well, it could be extended.
The festivities in public space had led to problems in the past few weeks, especially in Türkenstrasse. The city wanted to straighten out the action by closing Ludwigstrasse to car traffic on the weekends and making it a party mile. However, this failed – the idea could not be implemented for legal reasons. So now Maximiliansplatz.
“Super exciting,” says City Councilor David Süß (Greens) about the proposal. He was “really excited to see how the clubs decide”. Because they would ultimately have to answer for the project and say whether the pilot project is economically feasible for them. In addition, time is short. The template says that the general conditions would be communicated to the club operators with the request “to submit a concept very quickly” so that the project could start in mid-August – that would be in a few days.
Whether the project is actually implemented depends on the clubs, whose operators have already included the administration in the considerations. “We are pleased that the city wants to make something like this possible,” says Tom Hilner, one of the operators of the Pacha. “But we have to weigh up the conditions under which we can and want to do it.” The matter is not that easy, especially because it has to pay off. That is why they are now doing arithmetic, researching and thinking. They met on Monday to talk again.
The club operators also have concerns: If people can have fun at illegal celebrations on the Isar without a mask, the threshold to go to a regulated event in the city may be too high. The possible duration and volume also played a role. “The things that make a good party,” said Hilner. And: The planned space is not large, 250 to 400 people could celebrate there. “We also asked the city: How many places do you want to make?” Well, just the one for now. In addition, the administration is proposing two events with electro music in the Theatron and on the east bank of the Lerchenauer See in August. It is checked whether further events can take place in front of the Fröttmaninger Arena, in outdoor swimming pools, in front of the trade fair, at park-and-ride facilities or on the southern access avenue in front of the Nymphenburg Palace.
But not only the party audience is considered in the template. It is also about other target groups, children and young people under 18 for example, for whom more freedom should be created. The administration proposes to set up converted containers and mobile toilets at ten locations, which make the meeting in the evening, in bad weather and in the cold season more attractive. So far there are so-called youth shelters in 60 places in the city – the containers, which are supposed to cost 250,000 euros in total, are now a more protected variant.
Sometimes nobody knows the rules of the Free State anymore
The proposals met with goodwill from the green-red coalition. “We are pleased that the template is so differentiated,” says Lena Odell (SPD). For a long time, “the celebrants” were shorn of a ridge; the template now carefully reveals which groups need what. This is also important beyond the pandemic. He would have wished for more than a pilot project, says David Süß (Greens), “but it has to be responsible”. He refers to the partly inconsistent rules that the Free State specifies.
The problem is also addressed by Peter Fleming, who runs the Harry Klein Club on Sonnenstrasse and is involved in the so-called collective gardens, temporary cultural beer gardens. The guests no longer understand that it is not allowed to dance outdoors there, and there is no reasonable justification for this. “Politicians have to give in, otherwise there will be riots.” He will therefore start another request with the district administration department.
The largest opposition faction in the city council is also happy about the proposals and praises the social department. “Finally there are solutions for the various needs, says Alexandra Gaßmann (CSU).
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