Their chairwoman urges government to offer further financial aid.
According to Berlin Club Commission chairwoman Pamela Schobeß, the club scene won’t be back in full force until the end of 2022. Speaking to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, the delegate stated that clubs ‘are the first to be closed and the last to be allowed to reopen’, and added that venues will require financial support from government institutions to endeavor the transition, as they will not be able to ‘go from 0 to 100’.
‘What we know and appreciate as a club culture depends on intensity, closeness, contact, intoxicating nights, sharing, and exchange. As long as there is a risk of exponential infection and people die from Covid-19 every day, a return to the dance floor is not to be expected. The corona crisis intensifies capitalist injustices and worsens the social division so that the economic conditions for carefree clubbing also deteriorate significantly. To what extent the Berlin party situation as we enjoyed before corona can be restored at all is not foreseeable’, Schobeß concluded.
As things stand, government support is guaranteed until June 2021.
