Clubs and nude calendars – it’s a connection with a long tradition. Whether rural youth, sports club or volunteer fire brigade – the nude calendar has established itself as an additional source of income and for recruiting members. Hardly a club that gets by without partially or completely undressed cashiers, trainers, board members and other members who hold typical utensils from the respective club life in front of their shame like Adam and Eva Blattgrün in the drawings of a first grader in his Reli booklet.
For example, there is the district fire chief, dressed only with an extinguishing hose. A classic and always good for the calendar sheet in June, July or August. Or the master butcher who smiles from between the pork halves for the nude calendar of the butchers’ guild. Or the calendar of the young farmers, the Pirelli among the naked club calendars: There you get routine posing with a pitchfork in front of the cowshed, milking anyway or served with a lamb draped over the bare shoulders. And that for 20 years. Pioneers so to speak.
But the nude calendar has outdated itself a bit since you can find people of all professions naked on the internet with just a few clicks. Mostly in poses that are completely untypical for the respective profession. And all for free.
In times of war and Corona, however, the art form of the naked club calendar may be experiencing a renaissance. In one of the first lockdowns, for example, Franconian handball players had themselves photographed naked at the team meeting in order to save the club from financial ruin. A large number of other calendars may have been nipped in the bud only by contact restrictions. But that doesn’t exist anymore and there’s still time until the new year.
In Regensburg they are moving forward, even employees of the Tafel have now undressed. On the cover of the calendar, men pose with nothing but a sack of potatoes, bananas, or a pineapple. Things they give to those in need every day. And since the war and the energy crisis, there have been more and more of them. At the same time, less and less is being donated. Blackboards across Germany have therefore been sounding the alarm for months. In Regensburg they are now doing it naked – in the best club tradition.