Video subtitles: Die besten Bars und Clubs Deutschlands || Best-Of GERMAN-NESS (3/4)
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GERMAN-NESS comes to you today with a Best-of nightlife.
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A classic night of partying normally begins with a good drink in a cosy bar.
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And I was allowed to have a proper pre-drink for GERMAN-NESS.
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The Kumpelnest (Mates' Nest) Yes, we're already there!
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Hey! Good to see you.
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This used to be a brothel.
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And 28 years ago someone thought of turning it into a bar.
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We'll sing to the sea
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To love, if you please
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But never fall in again! No!
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Yes sir, yes sir!
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This is the Thelonious Bar,
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named after the great American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk.
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We are a very traditional cocktail bar with a modern twist,
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we play a lot of jazz, as the name suggests.
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From the jazz district of Berlin we now come to Frankfurt's hip hop scene.
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Celo from the rap duo Celo and Abdi is showing me the nightlife in the Main metropolis.
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I like coming to Allerheiligenstra?e, most of my friends hang around here.
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Here at the Smoke Lounge at 4 Allerheiligenstra?e.
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It's great here, no one pesters you here.
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There's no one here on a self-pity trip, instead, as I said,
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everyone's trying to keep their head above water, just fighting on.
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Someone else who's pushing through in Frankfurt is rapper and bar owner, Schwesta EWA.
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- So, Ewa, the Stoltze Bar. - Yeah.
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Is it called Stoltze Bar 'coz it's on Stoltze Street?
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Stoltze Bar, on Stoltze Street, and read this:
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Friedrich Stoltze, 1816 to 1891, journalist from Frankfurt.
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- And dialect poet. - Yep.
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Stoltze Bar is perfect!
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Yeah, and Ewa is the proud owner of the bar.
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Of course. Ewa is totally proud.
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Honour and pride, that's what Schwesta Ewa is all about.
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Tell me, Ewa, what else would you recommend to drink here? This tastes great.
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- Some other hit that I…? - Yeah, sure.
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My Polish shot. Zlota Polska.
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What do we say?
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Nastrovje, Kurwa.
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Bravo. She knows it! Frankfurt gang!
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Nastrovje, Kurwa! Nastrovje!
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Hmm...I'll take...this one.
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That Polish hazelnut liqueur has warmed us up.
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So let's go to the club.
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Is this your joint? The Prince Charles?
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That's my joint. I run it together with my partners.
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The Prince Charles and the Parker Bowles Restaurant, just up the street.
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And we've been doing that for almost 4 years.
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I can somewhat tell by your voice.
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Yeah, nightlife takes its toll.
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It looks like this used to be a swimming pool once.
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It did. Not a public swimming pool
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but the employee swimming pool of the piano manufacturer Bechstein.
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What is now the bar used to be the pool
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And what is now the dance floor used to be the sauna area.
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Amazing.
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Same city, totally different party crowd.
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Glamour queen Nina Queer is showing me her "Irrenhouse Party".
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Next I'm meeting Albert Just, better known as Party Gandalf.
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Albert is a wizard and gets up to his mischief in the party and art scene.
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Today, he's taking me with him.
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Hello Claire! Make yourself at home but don't tidy up.
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How long have you been wizarding?
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– I'm not a wizard any more. I never was a wizard. – What did you do?
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I was always Albert, who likes to be silly, with a penchant for magic.
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So I say "hey let's go"! Night is coming!
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Yoohoo, electro house! Look out of the window!
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Moloch is the last stop
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Pure mischief
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Albert is very fit for his age. I felt old next to Albert.
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If you feel just as old in the nightlife scene as I did next to Albert
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you can change to conscious clubbing.
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These parties take place early in the morning before work. They serve smoothies instead of alcohol,
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and you can trade in the dance floor for a yoga mat.
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It sounds strange but that's how it is.
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Wow! All these people got up early today
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to dance to the beats of Alle Farben before work.
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The great mood is contagious – and so we dive into the dancing crowd, too.
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– Marta, you organise "Morning Gloryville". – Yes.
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What exactly can people do at the party?
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There are free yoga sessions,
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wake-up massages,
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face painting
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or live painting. There's a lot to do!
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There is no alcohol, you don't serve alcohol.
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No alcohol, it's "Conscious Clubbing". Partying but being conscious of it.
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Starting the day, going to work with a positive energy.
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Yes, a great positive energy.
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That was GERMAN-NESS Best-of nightlife.
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As they say: into the night we go!