from
Heiner Effern and Anna Hoben
It gets close to eleven thirty on Sunday evening, a woman collects the flowers from several vases, she waves them back and forth in her hand to the music. The woman laughs, it looks like she is floating on cloud nine. Also in front, in front of the huge screens next to the bar: cheerful, exuberant Social Democrats. The mood is relaxed at the SPD election party at Paulaner am Nockherberg. Benedict Lang, chairman of the Munich Jusos, has a beer on the table in front of him. He looks into the hall and says: “To be honest, I don’t know what to celebrate today.”