It has become quieter again around the Silent Days. On Good Friday, the opponents of the dancing ban made a big fuss about the Bavarian fun-stopper. A techno demo moved through Munich, there was a huge rave, and the hotel and restaurant association and the state parliament opposition argued valiantly in the spirit of equal treatment against the ban on entertainment events on nine holidays that were supposedly in need of rest. The hope lay in the state elections, but the Bavarian state government has actually not promised any easing, let alone initiated any easing to date.
That doesn’t mean that it will be quiet on All Saints Day and the evening before, when, due to the law, all public Halloween parties are only allowed to go on until 2 a.m. With its concept of “Celebrating against the ban on dancing”, the Association for Freedom of the Spirit in Munich in particular is overturning the ban on dancing: In 2007, Assunta Tammelleo and her colleagues sued through all courts for their “torment from hell” parties; In 2016, the Federal Constitutional Court also upheld a constitutional complaint; Since then, dance festivals have been permitted on Silent Days if they are an “expression of a clear ideological demarcation from Christianity.” Of course, she has nothing against Christians, says Tammelleo, and she expressly invites “not just non-believers” to the “heathen fun” events, but everyone.
In the trash with the ban on dancing: The Afrofuturists “Fulu Miziki” make danceable music with instruments made from garbage, even on All Saints Day for import and export.
(Photo: Fulu Miziki)
Under this guise, around All Saints’ Day, the motto is “We dance whenever we want!”: at the 1990s party on October 31st from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. in the Milchbar and on November 1st at the “Pagan Fun Halloween “-Technorave in the Space for Skate (midnight to 6 a.m.) and the evening “Against Dance Ban and Silent Days” with the Afrofuturist band Miziki Fulu from Kinshasa and DJ Booty Carell in Import Export (8 p.m. to 4 a.m.). Tammelleo particularly praises the club in the Creative Quarter because of its free and multicultural approach. That’s why she’s pleased that Import Export is also taking part in nine other events against the dancing ban around Remembrance Day (November 19th) and Funeral Sunday (November 26th), as well as Rote Sonne, Unter Deck and Feierwerk.