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Berlin is trying to revive its dormant club scene through creative methods. A venue in Europe’s techno capital invited revelers this month to enjoy throbbing beats again— but they needed to roll up their sleeve and get a shot.
With the delta variant spreading and vaccinations stalling, authorities are getting increasingly inventive to prod more people to get inoculated against Covid-19.
A popular club in August touted free entry and a DJ setting the scene, but without drinking and dancing just yet. The hope is that once the variant is under control, Berlin will return to its clubbing glory days— with a tested or vaccinated crowd.
“We know that vaccination offers have to have a very low threshold, that you have to go to the people,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after announcing a renewed inoculation push.
Aside from fighting the pandemic, the so-called “long nights of vaccinations,” which ran from 8 p.m. to midnight for three nights earlier this month, are part of Berlin’s efforts to revive its club scene, an important part of the techno capital’s cultural identity.
Selected venues, including the free-wheeling KitKat Club, participated in a pilot reopening program. The party weekend was supervised by scientists and accompanied by stringent testing to explore if indoor clubbing could be possible again under pandemic conditions.
The reason for such an initiative is evident in Germany’s recent surge in new cases, with young people particularly exposed. Infections for 20-to-24-year-olds are more than double the national average, according to the Robert Koch Institute, Germany’s public health authority.
On top of higher contagion rates, younger people are less likely to get vaccinated. That makes efforts like the vaccine raves crucial for the country to reach its target of fully immunizing more than 75% of the population, compared with 55% at the time of the event.
“Every single person who gets the vaccine counts,” says Lutz Leichsenring, spokesman for the Berlin Clubcommission, a lobby group for the city’s nightlife and one of the event’s organizers. “If we want to revive Berlin’s nightlife, vaccination is key.”
Still, a return to pre-Covid clubbing isn’t likely anytime soon. Weekend tourism, which fed clubs like Berghain, Tresor and Salon zur Wilden Renate, will take many months to recover, and some people will skip big events.—Josefine Fokuhl
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