2024-07-19 12:47:20
When you hear that an alcohol-free beer garden called “Die Null” is opening in Munich, you are initially confused. Is this where the trouble starts? The essence of the beer garden, even from its name, is not Spezi or Virgin Mojito (fresh mint, lime, ginger ale), but rather the beer. This is long available in an alcohol-free version. But when Obersendlinger Franzl Lang once sang that he would like to have a “Biersee as big as the Schliersee,” then it was clear to every decent Bavarian that he did not mean Clausthaler: “Although I am not a carp / I ‘still want to be blue. Or, as the FDP would say: openness to technology. Shouldn’t that also include the Free State’s most important oil?
With such thoughts in mind, then go to the opening of the beer garden on Karl-Stützel-Platz, which has recently developed into Frankfurt’s Bahnhofsviertel. The environment is actually very attractive. In the immediate vicinity are the old Botanical Garden, the “Park Café” and the “Café Kosmos”, the Luisengymnasium, founded in 1822 as a “school for old girls”, and the Grand Hotel The Charles, where Rod Stewart was recently. stand. Only: the audience. Drugs are sold and consumed in the park, and the sight of alcohol is also present here.
Alcohol versus surveillance cameras
There are people, especially in city politics, who think it makes sense to tackle the problem with cameras and a strong police presence. Florian Schönhofer, operator of the bar “Café Kosmos”, has a different idea. Changing the process of broken windows, so to speak: create a good and beautiful space, which then perhaps radiates to the surrounding area. Of course, Schönhofer came to the opening, as did the general manager of The Charles, Florian Steinmaier. Your home contributes financially and ideally in the work of the beer garden. He said it is not for better knowledge, but for better performance. Its employees, more than 300 people who come to work via the nearby main train station, are wondering if they should avoid Stützel-Platz. You have to do something to counter this: “use the space well” and “bring it back,” Steinmaier said.
The manager of the hotel, who also worked in Frankfurt, was drinking Augustiner, a non-alcoholic wine he had recently acquired from the brewery. The box is currently selling on Ebay for 80 euros as well. Steinmaier does not believe that the absence of alcohol stands in the way of the success of the beer garden, which has little organic nature. Many people drink alcohol because they don’t want to be asked why they don’t drink anything. Steinmaier showed himself to be a supporter of a thesis that a Bavarian state minister had previously stated as follows: “You cannot work too much, sleep too little and then drink too much.”
Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD), whose administration approved the two-month operation, has now arrived. Well tanned and wearing white sneakers, in terms of strength he is the opposite of the four men lying on the nearby grass listening to what he has to say about them. Three months ago “a damaged image for a city like Munich,” said the city’s director, looking at the square. “There is a generation where many people who are dependent on alcohol meet.” So it “makes perfect sense to try a beer garden that serves non-alcoholic beer.” One reason for the poor development is the construction sites at the main station, with which Deutsche Bahn literally brings to life the concept of convenience of time. Making matters worse is the obstacle of the “real estate developer”, meaning René Benko, which leads to opportunities with well-known consequences, the topic of Broken Windows. This part of Munich “must and will become more beautiful again,” said Reiter.
“You don’t have to drink anymore”
And where is the Bavarian credo of live and let live? It starts with the fact that there is no entrance fee to the beer garden and there is no pressure to eat. Reiter said the brewers have asked, “What do we think about doing a non-alcoholic beer garden here, where’s the diversity?” He answered: If you come from the Bavarian Forest, where there are two beer gardens within two kilometers, you can ask the question – “we have around a hundred beer gardens, and in 99 non-alcoholic beer as as well as non-alcoholic.” Incidentally, the percentage of people who prefer to drink non-alcoholic beverages is “always increasing”.
The employee of the “Café Kosmos” company helps: “It is no longer the case that you have to drink alcohol completely.” But he admits that there should be a reward for deprivation: with a cultural system. Munich bands are scheduled to perform here, including the orchestra of the Munich regional court. Music instead of alcohol – is that an issue or a solution? Reiter said: “Of course, neither drunkards nor fools nor businessmen will impale them in the air.” Therefore, you have to think more about it and do more “to help these people.”
Finally, after enjoying a mocktail called “Sportsmenwomendivers,” you walk through the Old Botanical Gardens, see a man with his pants down, and think of JD Vance. The candidate for Vice President has shown the change of people not only in terms of his attitude towards Donald Trump (who is anti-alcohol, by the way), but also about his diet. He is a “meat and potatoes” person, his wife said at the Republican convention, but has adapted to his vegetarian diet. Why are such changes not also possible with drinks?
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