Dhe last cowboy comes from Gütersloh and is looking for freedom somewhere, wrote the writer Thommie Bayer – back when he was still a singer. And if this cowboy was also looking for fortune and luck on his tours from Rottweil to Southampton and from Paderborn to the Matterhorn, just like Herr Rossi, the cartoon character, then he would only have to leave Frankfurt and head for house number 192 on Hanauer Landstrasse: That’s it the address of Fortuna Somewhere.
The name does not refer to a Roman goddess of luck, but to Club Fortuna Somewhere, Ardi Goldman’s latest venture, which combines the idea of freedom, the longing for happiness and pop culture references, not least in the person of its inventor. Goldman announces that he wants to open a “sanatorium for the mentally and nervously ill”, and what could not be more necessary in times of pandemic and war than a place where imagination has sovereignty, where you can travel and dream of eternal summer allowed?