Before Covid-19 came up....in a handful of episodes....some cities had done a 'dry-up' order (no beer/booze) after 10 PM over the past twenty years. It was mostly done to curtail bad drunken behavior in highly urbanized areas (Stuttgart is a good example where is was done on a temp-basis).
Since Covid-19, it's become apparent that private large-scale parties are now being run (again in highly urbanized areas....like Berlin), and without the formal business of writing down names or collecting personal data.
The idea of shutting down pubs, bars and restaurants? It may have some effect on legit operations, but the alternate 'scene' has probably already taken off and various parties are being reported this morning that the police had to break up. Social distancing and formal information control? Abandoned, and booze readily available after 10 PM.
The question here....over the past two decades....has urbanized Germany become a party-state, where various young people (say between sixteen and twenty-five) hang out....party-up with beer and cocktails, and laugh about regulation? More or less...I'd suggest that.
For roughly a year, I lived over at Bitburg, Germany (early 1990s)....where locals would say that the region was 'dead' after 9 PM. You could go over to the 'big' city of Trier where the locals there would say that everything was shut down by 10 PM. On the positive side, it keep young people out of trouble, but in desperation....they'd go and drive great distances to find late-night partying.
As much as the political establishment chats about saving people from the virus....the amount of control or shutdown being discussed isn't going to be easily accepted by this one element of society.
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