Taboo cellar
The taboo was an " existentialist cellar" founded in Bonn in July 1951 under the Scala light plays in the former Meckenheimer Strasse 6–8 . In the course of the new townhouse building on the newly created Berliner Platz , the entire residential area, including the cinema and the Tabu cellar, was demolished in the early 1970s.
prehistory
In the post-war years, the area between Meckenheimer- / Bornheimer- and Maxstraße was the so-called “night jacket district”. A nameless St (r) ichstraße ( dead end ) branched off next to the cinema and was called " Next Alley " by Bonn residents , after the brothel street of the same name in Cologne's old town on Severinsbrücke .
In Paris, the French singer and actress Juliette Gréco founded a cellar club with a bar in the student quarter Quartier Latin , called Le Tabou , which developed into a meeting place for writers and musicians: Boris Vian , Jean-Paul Sartre , Albert Camus , Jean Cocteau and Miles Davis met here at Gréco , the always black-clad and black-and-white make-up muse of the existentialists.
The concept - jazz cellar + literary meeting + chanson stage + bar americaine with subtle dance music - tried to import the Cologne restaurateur Hans Herbert Blatzheim , who was busy during the economic boom, to West Germany.
taboo
Blatzheim, who already ran the catering business in the Beethovenhalle in Bonn , built his taboo chain - in addition to his branch restaurants Crazy Horse / Edelweiss or Eve (the night paradise) - mainly in the university cities of Cologne (1949), Bonn, Aachen , Düsseldorf (1951), Braunschweig , Hanover (1953), Hamburg (1953) and Munich (1953).
The Bonn taboo cellar under the cinema was usually only filled after the last evening performance: black-clad turtleneck pullovers (inside), smoking without filters or smoking pipes, discussed with soft bar music and with usually little drink consumption in the evening / night; thus the hoped-for sales could not be achieved - Bonn was not Paris.
In the 1960s, existentialism was over, and taboo management tried to increase beverage sales through sweaty music with performances by beat groups. But the Beat fans who drink Coca-Cola and Kölsch couldn't save the balance sheet either. In 1967 Blatzheim had to give up. At the beginning of the 1970s everything was torn down, and the new town house was built in the fallow land according to a design by architects Heinle, Wischer und Partner : an extensive office complex that blew up the small-scale city skyline of Bonn.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b BGH decision Tabu I (May 14, 1957)
- ↑ https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nachtjackenviertel
- ↑ SHELL city map No. 57 Bonn , www.landkartenarchiv.de
- ↑ Heavy load with light girls , Die Zeit , October 9, 1964, No. 41
- ↑ Tabu ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , BN-Beat - The beat scene in Bonn
- ^ Save and lock , Der Spiegel , No. 31/1967, July 24, 1967
