Be bop (discotheque)

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The be bop was a scene - Disco in Hildesheim that existed from 1976 to 1996.

Location and building

Until the end of 1985, the discotheque was located in a former excursion restaurant on the Rottsberg . In the building, which was built around 1900 as the Landgasthaus Wilhelmshöhe , individual dance events had already taken place from 1972 onwards. Due to its mountain location above the city, the be bop could only be reached by car, motorcycle or a long walk. Even the nearest bus stop, Triftstraße, was a good 15-minute walk away. From 1986 the disco was in the Hildesheimer Nordstadt .

history

On November 5, 1976, the poorly renovated and self-built former excursion restaurant was reopened by three young people from Hildesheim as a youth club. The concept: tea room in the afternoon, pub and disco in the evening. The location (called "Hell") consisted of a large bar room, the so-called "Vorhof", an adjoining room with pinball machine and pool table and the "Inferno", the disco.

In the rather sparse “alternative” discotheque scene of the 1970s, be bop quickly became a “special kind of dance hall”, which soon achieved “cult status”. "The Hildesheim witch's house up on the edge of the forest was the authentic place of the seventies, the fantastic disco with experimental and world music, the dirt shed, hell". The catchment area of ​​the discotheque was correspondingly large. The young guests came from Hanover , Celle , Höxter , Herford , Goslar and Göttingen . Since up to 1000 young people jostled in the restaurant in the evening, the forecourt and the surrounding meadows were also used intensively. “You looked down on the city and also had the whole, this great starry sky.” Because of the excessive drug trade in hard drugs for Hildesheim , the be bop and its access routes were under increased police surveillance from the start. Since numerous British soldiers also visited the disco, there were occasional violent operations by the British military police .

From the beginning of the 1980s on, a “ Noise Pollution Triftstrasse / Rottsberg Interest Group ” was organized against the disco, which consisted primarily of villa owners below the be bops and who covered the tenants with advertisements and complaints. In 1983 a settlement was reached before the Higher Regional Court , according to which the discotheque could only be operated for two years. At that time, the building was already in a catastrophic structural condition. At the last concerts it rained through the leaky ceiling, in some places the floor gave way. On December 30, 1985 be bop closed its old domicile and moved into the music store , a former cinema on Steuerwalder Strasse. The old building on the Rottsberg burned down almost completely one evening in February 1987. The flames could be seen for kilometers in the surrounding residential areas because of the exposed location. Although other causes were initially considered due to the dilapidated substance of the building, the more detailed circumstances finally indicated deliberate arson. However, a perpetrator was never identified.

The be bop still existed for years at its new address on Steuerwalder Straße, although the old flair at the new location could not be restored despite largely good visitor numbers and the music offering became increasingly mainstream. For the generation of party-goers that had grown up in the meantime, however, this seemed less relevant and be bop was still a fixture in Hildesheim's nightlife until the early 1990s. However, its popularity fell a little later and in June 1996 the disco was finally closed. Soon afterwards the location was revived after minor renovations under the name Discothek Ypsilon , but could only hold its own for a few years.

Over the years there had been around 550 concerts in be bop . Among others, Jan Akkerman , Herman Brood , Edgar Broughton , Jack Bruce , Gruppo Sportivo , Jan Hammer , Mungo Jerry , Renaissance and Tony Sheridan , German bands such as Can , DAF , Extrabreit , Hans-A-Plast , Ideal , KFC and Inga played Rumpf , but also jazz musicians like Stanley Clarke , Volker Kriegel and Schnuckenack Reinhardt . Some of the musicians were hired under rather obscure conditions. For example, Joe Cocker , who performed there on November 2, 1981, believed he had been booked by a madman for a private birthday party.

From November 2007 to January 2008 there was an exhibition on the history of be bop in the Hildesheim City Museum in the bone carving office .

literature

  • Markus Hertle: Medium Discotheque. Characteristics and effects using the example of Hildesheim discotheques . Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences 1985. (Diploma thesis in cultural education) .
  • Brigitte Tast, Hans-Jürgen Tast: “be bop” - Wilhelmshöhe rocks. Disco and concerts in hell . Hildesheim: Verlag Gebr. Gerstenberg 2007. ISBN 978-3-8067-8589-0 .
  • Brigitte Tast, Hans-Jürgen Tast: Hildesheim and its young side - from “HIPETUK” to “be bop” , in Hildesheim in the 1970s . Hildesheim: Verlag Gebrüder Gerstenberg 2008, pp. 138ff., ISBN 978-3-8067-8716-0 .
  • Brigitte Tast, Hans-Juergen Tast: “be bop” - Rock Temple & Night Asylum - Volume 2 on the legend . Hildesheim: Verlag Gebrüder Gerstenberg 2009. ISBN 978-3-8067-8733-7 .
  • Brigitte Tast, Hans-Jürgen Tast: Herman Brood. The lady killer in the "be bop" . Schellerten: Kulleraugen-Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-88842-049-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ also on the following: Dallas methods around Hildesheim's BeBop . In: Live im Potte o. Dat. (1985)
  2. ↑ Hertle 1985, pp. 5f.
  3. ↑ also on the following: be bop . In: HAZ v. November 4, 2006, p. 13
  4. ↑ s. Floor plan (web link)
  5. ↑ Quotes: HAZ v. November 4, 2006, p. 13
  6. ↑ Quote: Place of worship “be bop”. The authentic place of the seventies . In: Moritz vom Berg 175 (July 2007)
  7. ↑ Interview statement from: Brigitte Tast / Hans-Jürgen Tast 2007, quoted. n. Moritz vom Berg 175 (July 2007)
  8. ↑ cf. Hertle 1985, p. 45
  9. ↑ Hertle 1985, p. 51
  10. ↑ HAZ v. November 4, 2006, p. 13

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Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 27 ″  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 38 ″  E