Munich’s rave culture demands its place – Munich

It’s 6:12 p.m., and after turning onto Schellingstrasse, the number 153 bus has no choice but to join the “noise parade”. There’s a decent delay, so the bus driver looks a little helpless, but what should you do if you suddenly find yourself in a demo like this?

15 Munich rave collectives got together on Pentecost Saturday to claim their place in the city – or their places. They actually want to be able to use their sound systems in 20 public spaces in the city up to four times a year, based on the Zurich model. But that’s not possible in Munich. Here the ravers and techno fans see themselves pushed into illegality. Celebrations without a commercial background are not allowed here, they criticize.

A few hundred of them therefore meet at 5 p.m. at the Geschwister-Scholl-Platz in front of the university, then they drive with 15 cars – from bicycle trailers to tractors with trailers and trucks, equipped with large loudspeaker boxes – through half the city to the Theresienwiese . More and more people are coming, and at the Wiesn there are probably around 3500. It’s a party and then again it’s not.

It is time to demand play and other spaces for the youthful subculture, they say

The district administration department finally imposed a ban on alcohol and glass bottles. It’s supposed to be a demo and not a party, but such an edition on the Theresienwiese of all places has a strange charm. In the techno scene, however, you know that. After all, the very first Love Parade in Berlin was only approved as a political demo with the motto “Peace, joy, pancakes”. Not as a move.

And the “noise parade” in Munich was definitely political. Slogans such as: “Culture instead of luxury renovation” and “Noise up, rents down!” also testify to a profound dissatisfaction with the conditions in the city. The organizers of “More Noise for Munich” think that people have kept quiet long enough. Now is the time to demand play and other spaces for the young subculture that are not tied to commercial offers. Quite punctually at 10 p.m. the demo on the Theresienwiese, which with its pounding beats could have been a veritable open-air rave, is over. Which can actually only be seen as an offer to talk to city politicians.

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