Disco Story

The term 'disco' is still actively used in Germany.  I know....for most folks from the US, disco has been dead for almost 30 years. 

In today's Germany, a disco club is mostly a bar that attempts to have taped music, cheap drinks, and survives off people who are mostly over the age of thirty. 

This term came up in the news this week....over in a small town in the Brandenburg area of Germany. 

Trebbin is a town of 9,000 residents, and is mostly known for a historical 'slant'....going back to the middle ages.

On the NE end of town, they have a disco....named 'Diskothek Kulti'.  Typically 'kulti' means that they are sophisticated and very open to different cultures and societies.  At least that's what Germans will say. 

Now, if you were to drive up and stand in front of Diskothek Kulti....looking at the building, you'd say that it's more of a historical building than a disco.  It simply looks like a 700-year old fortress type building.  Locals will tell you that it was built in 1911, and in recent years....became one of the few 'night-clubs' in Trebbin. 

From the exterior...it just doesn't appear to be a disco.

Why bring up the disco?  Well....last weekend (Saturday night).....all 'hell' broke loose.

Two guys were set to enter the disco, and the entry-control folks (the bouncers) said 'no way'.   Reason for barring them?  Well....what the disco folks say is that the two more or less did a sneak-in game two weeks prior....trying to enter without paying at the door.

The two guys being barred?  They pulled machetes on the entry-control people.

Yes, it got pretty tense.

With some minor injuries, the entry-control guys got smart, and pushed back....then locked the door.  A group kinda assembled on the outside, and the use of machetes were centered on getting the door knocked down.

The group?  Well, journalists from Bild say it was a combined group of Syrians and Afghan guys.  Old or young?  No one says.  Usually, older guys don't go around looking for trouble, or carrying machetes.  So I would take a guess that this group were mostly 18 to 25 years old.

Cops were called at this point, and the group scattered out and left.

The thing about this is that you have a couple of stupid-behavior young guys, who go off and do some threatening things, and this gets people all peppy, defensive, and anti-migrant.  The actions of two.....suddenly get a thousand labeled as trouble-makers, when it's really only two stupid guys who start the mess.

As for the disco?  I would imagine it's probably open for business this weekend, and the customers aren't that freaked out.  The bouncers?  They might be prepared for more intense battles, if required.  As for the two guys who started all of this?  Nope, they haven't been found or arrested, and my guess is that they are avoiding public view for the time being.  You really wouldn't want to be arrested and sent off to jail....with the other prisoners noting you as the 'disco-team'.