Out (Cologne trendy bar)
The Out was a musician, artist and student pub on Alteburgerstraße, on the corner of Kurfürstenstraße in Cologne's Südstadt district , which existed from 1981 to 1989. The pub belonged to the Monheimer brewery . The tenants were Gerd Schulz-Pilath and Renate Lubowitzki.
meaning
The out was more numerous in the 1980s starting point Cologne artists who had either big names or the complaint itself. The future actress and comedian Gaby Köster regularly stood behind the counter here.
According to the Cologne gallery owner Ingo Kümmel , the Out was considered a “center of alcohol and drug consumption, a temple of music and art rebellion, breeding ground for the anarchy of morals and ideas”. The guests included u. a. Drafi Deutscher , Ina Deter , Klaus Lage , Klaus "Major" Heuser from BAP , Helmut Zerlett , the actor Uwe Fellensiek , the publisher Benedikt Taschen , the filmmaker Robert van Ackeren , the painters Sigmar Polke and Rosemarie Trockel as well as the members of the Schroeder Roadshow band Rich Schwab and Gerd Köster , who also regularly stood behind the counter.
history
The Out opened in 1980. It belonged to the Monheimer Brewery and was run by Gerd Schulz-Pilath (called Schupi) and Renate Lubowitzki as tenants. The pub was on a corner in the basement. From the street you went down a few steps. In addition to a small counter, there was only sparse equipment. In front of one wall was a short bench, otherwise there were three to four single-legged high tables in the room, flanked by stools, which Gerd Schulz-Pilath had built by hand. The tabletops had the shape of the protruding tongue known as the Rolling Stones logo and were colored accordingly. The narrow passage to the toilets was right next to the counter. Due to the limited space, u. a. the funny ad text "Kneipe narrow - people wide", for example, was published in the Cologne city revue. Next to the passage hung the original Rolling Stones tour poster from 1982 with a large full-body portrait of Mick Jagger . In the picture, Jagger was indistinguishable from Schupi, the operator of the Out. The striking similarity was a running gag in the out. The poster was hung up as a picture joke, as it was given a playful double meaning at this location. The name of the pub was also based on an ironic ambiguity. On the one hand, you played with being in / out, but at the same time none of the visitors to the Out was seriously interested in whether you or the shop were in or out.
When the German wine bar , which still exists today, opened next to the Out , the Out was briefly renamed the German Laughing Bar . As a bouncer, shortly before one o'clock (the curfew that was valid in all of West Germany at the time), the song Ultra Determinanten by the wave punk troupe Kowalski played .
The Out closed in 1989 after the Cologne Higher Regional Court in 1988 banned the operators from continuing to play music after a complaint by residents of the house because of noise pollution. At first an attempt was made to continue the pub without music [BILD Cologne, August 13, 1988]. After the guests stayed away, Gerd Schulz-Pilath teamed up with Rich Schwab and opened the zero-two in the former Stollwerck bar nearby.
The attitude towards life of the regular Out guests, which probably largely coincides with that of the youth of the 1980s, has been incorporated into some of the songs on Gerd Kösters ' first record , The Piano Has Been Drinking (1990), with which he made his experiences in Out and elsewhere to the music of Tom Waits in melancholy street dog Kölsch ( Der Spiegel ). Especially En d'r Nohbarschaff is a fitting mood picture of those years.
Well-known guests
Regular and occasional guests included u. a. Arno Steffen , Jürgen Zeltinger , Drafi Deutscher , Ina Deter , Anne Haigis , Klaus Lage , ( Trio Rio ), Frank Köllges , Klaus "Major" Heuser ( BAP ), Richard Bargel , Jaki Liebezeit , Helmut Zerlett , Rainer Linke , Stefan Krachten , Uwe Fellensiek , Klaus the Geiger , Herman Brood , Benedikt Taschen , Helge Malchow , Robert van Ackeren , Fosco Dubini and Donatello Dubini , Ulrich Rückriem , Jürgen Becker , Jürgen Klauke , Cornel Wachter , Jürgen Raap , Stefan Wewerka , Sigmar Polke , Rosemarie Trockel , Daniel Spoerri , Adem Yilmaz , Gaby Ludwig, Walter Dahn and Heribert C. Ottersbach , Ingo Kümmel , Renan Demirkan , Joachim Król , Wolf-Dieter Poschmann , Thomas Kling , Andreas Graf and Rolf Persch and Bert Brune .
The surrounding
In the late 1970s and early 1980s originated in the south of Cologne , next to the predominantly student Latin Quarter around the Barbarossa - and Zülpicher Platz , a lively trendy district of numerous, as an alternative understanding pubs, cafes and takeaways. Due to affordable rents, many schoolchildren, students, artists and the unemployed moved to the district, whose old buildings in need of renovation often had no bathroom or toilet in the hallway. The development of the scenes received new momentum when the vacant Stollwerck chocolate factory in Südstadt was occupied in May / June 1980. There were studios, rehearsal rooms and alternative venues such as the machine hall and the Annosaal , which hosted rock and punk concerts, cabaret and performances , Art installations, etc. v. a. also attracted a young national audience, which filled the surrounding pubs after the events.
As a result of the demolition of the factory in 1987, the art and event locations Kunsthaus Rhenania and Bürgerhaus Stollwerck were created . In the immediate vicinity was also the University of Applied Sciences for Art and Design (whose building is popularly known as the Busentempel ), which attracted numerous artists and art students until it was forced to close in 1993. The Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde and the pawn shop of the City of Cologne on the Carthusian Wall, whose weekly auctions were a popular and always well-attended event, ensured a steady stream of guests for the pubs around Chlodwigplatz .
Another essential factor for the development of Cologne's pub culture was the increasing monopoly of the Cologne brewery industry. Kölsch became a protected brand. Only 'Kölsch', which was brewed within the city limits, was allowed to call itself that. That moved breweries outside of the city to open brewery-operated Kölsch pubs. The Peters brewery from Monheim, for example, ran the Out and the Opera.
Favored by these influencing factors, the number of restaurants in the Südstadt almost doubled from 1973 to 1987 from 109 to 206. (Eckert / Kißler, p. 138)
The Südstadt scene in literature
“Life was seething in the southern part of the city. It even seemed to increase from year to year. The pubs were packed with young people in the evenings, and the many pizzerias, snack bars and gyro bars were flourishing [...] well. "
“This is not the kind of alcoholic scene you find in traditional bars. Drinkers are lonely people. [...] Here, on the other hand, there is the euphoric excitement of young people who have not outgrown the disco age for so long. The names of the pubs also sound different. [...] 'U-Bier-Ding', 'Stilbruch' and 'Out' have the playful flair of an art world that is closer to the comic strip than the fountain in front of the gate. "
“In the 80s, the Eldorado of trendy bars developed here, which gave the Südstadt the image of an alternative quarter after the Stollwerck occupation. It all started with the legendary "Chlodwig-Eck" [...] and then expanded like metastases. Either it was regular guests who found it cheaper to sell their own beer and opened their own pubs, or former waiters who started their own business or simply the expansion of successful trendy restaurateurs who founded new shops with their profits and the blessings of the breweries. "
“The dark streets [are], especially on weekends, flooded by […] the pub crawlers who come to the southern part of the city from all over the city and the area around the right and left of the Rhine. [...] You are looking for belonging and the difference. Everyone is like everyone here and yet a little different, and together they play it through: Who are you? Who am I? Self-promoters who sit together. Everyone shows something personal, and all together they represent the general. It is a particular general that is different from the great majority outside. Is this life here? When the Kölsch softens the boundaries and the billows of smoke obstruct the view, you can no longer tell whether you are sagging or floating. You come here because the pub is an agglomeration of possibilities. Where so many come together, there is reasonable suspicion that life could begin at any time. Another Kölsch please! And the next cigarette. Most of them are still there, and everyone who comes in is a new confirmation that this is the place where everything happens. "
“Soon, not only the real artists, painters in particular, but also those whom one […] likes to call, and also a little admiringly,“ bon vivants ”were cavorting at the bar in the district […] Women were suddenly there in large numbers [ ...] The "hacking" became a new term in art. Some types who have long since persisted in secure positions [...] found that they had hardly fallen for the southern city and their rhythm of life, found new shores, gave up work and earning money in order to indulge in this overwhelming feeling that the southern city offered them. "
"In the 'Out' [...] All familiar faces around you / the lonely are no longer alone / the mentally crippled no longer feel that way: / warmth, joy / (even if strongly stimulated / by a lot of Edelzwicker, Peters- Kölsch) / is noticeable. / You absolutely don't want to get out before 1 or 2 a.m. / But somehow the crash comes / the Down / is good / catching the right minute, second. / When it's at its best / stop, it's called. "
“It all started again in a pub. This time at the 'Out' counter. There I met Cologne's legendary, now deceased art mediator Ingo Kümmel, and we talked about old times. "
More trendy bars in the southern part of the city
For the lifestyle migrants - so-called by sociologists - the trendy bars "Chlodwigeck" (from 1975 to 1978 actually still directly on Chlodwigplatz , managed by Clemens Böll, a nephew of Heinrich Böll , who were run by Clemens Böll, a nephew of Heinrich Böll) were created in a short time, in addition to "Out" financially made the acquisition of the bar possible), Vrings-Eck , Salt Peanuts (a jazz bar ), Kong , nullzwei , Opera , Ekkstein’s , Linus , U-Bier-Ding , Kabäuschen , radio , Stilbruch , Schröders , playground , lithos , Backes , Kurfürstenhof (sung about in madness by BAP ), Delirium , Filos and - on the periphery of the southern part of the city - surprise bag and exile ; In addition, the cream Settebello and Forum , the café of the South first alternative café Cologne, and later the eggs Cookie café , in addition, the snacks micro grill ( Mamma ), cicada , the fat Greek (so the snack Christopheros was then generally on Severinswall and called up to the present day,) u. a.
Origin of the term Südstadt
The term Südstadt came into being at the same time as the trendy bars. The name is the name of a new generation of residents and users for a new playing field . Previously, the administrative names Altstadt Süd and Neustadt Süd (north and south of Chlodwigplatz) or the popular term Vringsveedel for the district around the towering Romanesque basilica St. Severin, the south cathedral, were known for this city quarter . The newly perceived and designated urban space merged these areas as Südstadt , which now stretched east-west from the banks of the Rhine to Ulrepforte and north-south from Waidmarkt (at that time still with the police headquarters) to the DB railway line parallel to Bonn Wall, with Chlodwigplatz as a natural power center in the Center. The popular song In unsrem Veedel (1973) by the Bläck Fööss , who were based in the southern part of the city, is still a reflection of the older term Veedel , while Wolfgang Niedecken's song Südstadt, verzäll nix (1983) already introduces the new term.
literature
- Rich Schwab et al. a .: "Mach e joot, Clemens!" Memories of Clemens Böll. Cologne: private printing 2018
- Bert Brune : Der Stadtwanderer (Cologne 2015; first time 1982)
- Wolfgang Niedecken : For a moment, autobiography (Hamburg 2011)
- Bernd Imgrund : 111 Cologne pubs that you should know (Cologne 2011)
- Doris Hansmann : Südstadt. Myth and attitude to life (Cologne 2005)
- Martin Stankowski : Cologne. The other city guide, vol. 2: Neustadt, Südstadt, rings, Rhine, Deutz Revised new edition. (Cologne 1997, 6th edition)
- Bert Brune : The Watercolorist (Cologne 1997)
- Josef Eckert / Mechthilde Kißler : Südstadt, what is it? Cultural and ethnic plurality in modern urban societies (Cologne 1997)
- Klaus the violinist : Germany's most famous street musician tells a story (Cologne 1996)
- Klas Ewert Ewerwyn : Cologne Südstadt and me. A book of memory. (Cologne 1996)
- Bert Brune : The King of the South City. Living and Dying (Cologne 1993)
- Jochen Arlt u. a. (Ed.): End station Ubierring (Cologne 1992)
- Rich Schwab : Never again apple grain (Cologne 1992)
- Wolfgang Niedecken : Information (Cologne 1990)
- Rüdiger Jungbluth : Death in the Südstadt Cologne crime thriller (Cologne 1990)
- Dieter Wellershoff : Night walks in the south of the city (1989). In: ders. Pan and the angels. Views of Cologne. (Cologne 1990), pp. 41-58
- Bert Brune : So Far That You Live Your Dreams (Cologne 1989)
- Bert Brune : Südstadtgeschichten and others. Photos by Elmar Schmitt. (Cologne 1984)
- Andreas Graf : Male & Winter Festival. About: City life, poetry. Photos by Elmar Schmitt , graphics by Jochen Bauer (Cologne 1982)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 14.6 " N , 6 ° 57 ′ 42.6" E