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The LOVELACE is not a business idea, it‘s new hotel group, but a unique opportunity: A large a limited time. 2017 – 2019. A chance to bring to stage for things equally funny and important. With gastronomy, art, fashion, sustainability, design and first time they‘re coming together to collaborate on hotel, but a happening. With events everyday, Culture: exhibitions, performances, concerts, rea temporary shops. Society & Politics: talks, discus street kitchen. Nightlife: rooftop bar, club nights, workshops. The LOVELACE is about what‘s levels – whether it be events, performances and – nothing is coincidence. Everything is on purpo art and commerce, communities and the individu LOVELACE is not Munich and yet it is enti political instead of adapted, prosperous, cultiva instead of elitist, detached and expensive. Interna of homey and self-satisfied. Following on from the theatre, film and politics went hand in hand. The laborators. Guests are active participants at the action, through the experience, communication Keywords to consider: inspiration, interaction, par brings the basic melody, the rhythm. Our guests develop the LOVELACE together. Until one day it‘s all new emerges in Kardinal Faulhaber Street.

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The true relevance of the right pair of socks.

These socks have a deep meaning in 2018, because you are wearing your past and your future on your feet. In the second week of 2018 I already was aware of that meaning. I was in Cameroon for a few weeks and an aid organization for blind people gave me the chance to tell the people there about my life as a photographer and creative person. But the same day a cup of yoghurt, which was lying in the hot car for too long, exploded in my hands. Therefore, just before my appearance, which took place in a church, I had to change from my only long pair of trousers into shorts. I was wearing the 2017-2019 socks, and right before I went on stage, I had the following thought: Don´t let your past define your future. Also, don´t let the thoughts about your future define your present. Live now. Everything, that happened, is over now and you can´t do anything about it anymore as well as too many thoughts of tomorrow don´t help you either. You don´t even know, if and how you will wake up tomorrow or that will happen. I went through a lot of pain, sadness and negative stuff this year and won´t let that define me,

because all that doesn´t affect my today´s attitude and where it goes from here. I also had many worries and questions about tomorrow this year. But it´s so often, that these worries –which won´t let you sleep – just disappear the next day and everything happens differently to how you would expect it. It helps in my life, that I can entrust my past and my future to the divine in my prayers. This does give me ease and calmness, even in tough situations. I wouldn´t have had so many thoughts about that, if this stupid yoghurt didn’t´ explode in my hands and if it wasn´t frowned upon to walk around in shorts in Cameroon. They even say about people like me in shorts from Europe: “They don´t show it, but they have a lot of money.”

Thomas Mandl Photographer, movie maker, activist, inventor of the Lovelace socks

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A TRUE REVOLUTIONARY MIND

· December 10th 2017

202 years ago, on this very day, a true revolutionary mind was born – Ada Lovelace. The daughter of Lord Byron is world famous for inventing the first ever algorithm and is therefore responsible for every digital innovation we use today. Her context (being a woman in the beginning of the 19th century, not the best times for gender equality) never stopped her from achieving her goals. Reading about her strength and story makes it seem impossible that she really lived so many years ago.

We chose this astonishing Lady as our name patron for two main reasons.

First of all she obeyed little and resisted much.

Ada was born as a baroness. That’s why the British aristocratic society of the 19th century wanted her to be a good, representable lady, but she gave a crap about it. She loved betting on horse races, had lots of affairs and did groundbreaking math. Her husband had to smuggle literature out of libraries for her, as those were men-only at the time.

Secondly, we truly believe in the power of algorithms.

They are around us and not restricted to the digital world at all. They are about setting outskirts for recurrent procedures. Their results turn out different every time. Our project is meant to be the come-to-life analytical machine Ada Lovelace dreamt about. With just space, guidelines, people and time, we create different outputs every single day. Our Lovelace Happening is a factory of ideas inspired by Lady Lovelace’s visions and life.

THE FUTURE IS NOW!

· January 7th 2018 ·

A week ago, the house was stuffed with party animals. Our NYE party was a blast. We had an amazing dinner with live jazz at the flying lobby, two floors with incredible vibes and Fra Diavolo at the housetop bar, who ripped this party apart. Thank you all for coming out and dancing with us!

The first week of the future is already over. Every hangover should be cured by now. 2018 seemed so far away when we opened our hotel happening last summer. Time is running. The future is now. When people talk about the past year, they seem to be really happy it’s finally over. 2017 was obviously a pain for the most. Trump, Brexit, the refugee crisis, the US bombing of civilians in Iraq and North Korea rattling with nuclear weapons – sometimes we thought the world as we know it falls apart. Sometimes, as time flies, we’re just stumbling somehow towards a giant mess. Somehow, we feel like in the head of Miranda July. The American artist is amazingly creative in every thinkable way. Movies, performances, literature, feminism – Miranda rocks it all. But there is something melancholic about her way to think about the world. There is this undertone, questioning everything she does and believes in. It’s exactly the kind of feeling all of us sometimes have. What am I doing? Where is this all leading to? Am I doing what I do best or what I really, really want? Is this relationship working for me? Her movie „The Future“ is one of our favorites. It draws a shattering picture of our generation. Internet addicted, bored of itself, incapable of making decisions and always kind of unhappy. But July is not always dissatisfied. Her shortstorys were released under the title „No One Belongs Here More Than You“. We took it as one of our main claims.

This simple sentence is so powerful, it just makes everybody smile.

COME ON – LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL !

· February 12th 2018

Ahh, Valentine’s Day. There’s probably no other day that splits the society as much in half as this cheesy-romantic tradition. Haters say it is an invention of the chocolate industry and the flowers syndicate, who came together for this sinister coup. Lovers start planning this special day weeks ahead. They buy flowers, book a special dinner and take their loved ones out for fancy concerts.

It is soooo typical for our cynical generation. We just can’t stand the cheesiness of those who truly love, or we adore the hell out of it and try imitating the best love moments in cinematic history. There’s nothing in between. We don’t want to judge, but maybe we should all just seriously chill. In Germany, we finally achieved the marriage for everybody. But when will we start tolerating the uniqueness of every relationship? Isn’t it so 20th century style to make throw-up sounds with your siblings when your parents kiss? Hasn’t it always been just super mean and childish to roll your eyes on someone else’s way to express their love?

Come on – love is beautiful!

Still, we all feel lovesick or lonely sometimes. Data shows that being single becomes more and more the norm. It’s a phenomena with deep consequences. It messes with our housing markets for example. Some say we lose our ability to fall deeply in love and explain it with the growing individualism, but those don’t see the masses who are desperately lonely, seeking for love and true partnership but not finding any. Without those livelong bounds formerly known as marriage, a lot more people will die lonely. And not all of them will be those who chose a life as lonesome wolfs.

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DIVERSITY MEANS BEING DIFFERENT

· February 22nd 2018 ·

Dear members and non members!

Please get ready for the next 7 days at the Lovelace. We have it all. Readings, talks, partys, dinners, movie nights and shows – our program is super diverse! It’s a great opportunity to talk a little bit about how we bring the arts together here. From the first day on, we wanted to be a place for everything and everyone. In our believe, the arts must mix! Each and everyone of you is different. You all have different tastes and things you’re interested in. To make a place for everyone involves including everything interesting there is to explore.

We hear it all the time: „A concept that can’t be explained in one sentence is a shitty concept!“. People say things like that, when we tell them what we do here. There is truth to that. Still, we were mad enough to try it. The Lovelace can be a hotel, a cinema, a bar, a restaurant, a café, a barber shop, a night club, a conference centre, an office, a concert hall or anything else – always depending on what time and day you walk in. There are no boundaries.

There is only 4.800 square-meters of space and people who fill it with ideas.

When places, clubs or venues are curated too much, they loose their ability to integrate all different kinds of guests and concepts. Here at the Lovelace – anything can happen!

This upcoming week represents all we stand for: There are delicious dinners (The Green Egg and Loveocado), pulsating partys (Lost at Lovelace) and interesting talks & readings (Das Wetter) happening next to our regular Movie Night and Saturday Night Show. Diversity is what we’re talking about!

THE WORLD BEYOND RACES

Nearly 60 years ago on March 21st in 1960, ethnic conflict in South-Africa escalated tragically. The police shot 69 peacefully protesting black civilians at a rally against the racist Native Urban Areas Act with over 20,000 participants.

This massacre was a turning point in South-African history. The international community increased its pressure and the black community stood even stronger together in its outcry against Apartheid. In 1966, the date of the „Sharpeville massacre“ was named the „International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination“. It became a symbol of the new South-Africa, when Nelson Mandela signed the first post-Apartheid constitution on that day in 1996.

Many societies overcame their discrimination by law somewhere during the past decades. We actually made some progress, but recent political developments proofed the optimists wrong. Today it is even more important to stand up for a world without racial discrimination. The world is growing together. We finally become more diverse, mixed and therefore more equal. Cultures don‘t seem so strange anymore.

Fashion, film and music have long been influenced by exotic cultures. But now, they include them and present them as equally important and not like something with less value, like they did during colonial times. There is much more awareness for diversity now. The next seven days at the Lovelace reflect this movement.

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LITTLE STEPS INTO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

Climate change is real. With the current US president it is important to make that clear from the beginning.

It’s real, but it is also… boring. Yes it is. Just ask any news journalist – every story about climate change or sustainability has a hard time reaching readers. People are just fed up with the whole topic. It’s tragic really: We all know about the huge problems humanity faces, but it’s not the main thing on our minds.

It is also true, that a lot has changed in the past years. Supermarkets charge you for plastic bags now or ban them for good, an increasing number of consumers go vegan in order to reduce their carbon footprints and companies care more and more about how their goods are produced. Of course it is not enough. We still pour tons and tons of poison in our environment and atmosphere. We’re not even close to reducing emissions of transportation (shame on you, car industry).

But still – can we actually achieve anything, if we’re not interested in the process and not keen to be informed about the challenges ahead?

Climate change is a big thing for us. When we planned the concept for the Lovelace we asked ourselves: Where can we make a difference? How can sustainability be included in a project like this? How much ideology is enough?

For us, it’s the little steps. Change won’t come over night. Consuming sustainable will take a lot of time and energy from all of us. We probably need to accept, that most people are not willing to cut down their lifestyles.

The Lovelace is completely veggie as most of you might already know. Most of the time, our offer is even vegan. But not being too strict about it is part of the plan. We don’t want to be those pretentious hipsters who rub their ideology into your face. Leaving no footprint at all is just not possible, so why even try?

We decided to start small but with big motivation. That’s why we do not serve cow milk with our coffees at the Naked Cake Coffeebar, but cheese at the brunches we occasionally do on Sundays. It’s not about banning milk or dairy products at all. But with no milk in the coffee, we are able to reduce the consumptions of milk by several hundred liters a month.

At the Naked Cake Coffeebar, we serve cakes without a single drop of cream or any other kind of dairy. We don’t want to punish people who have not yet decided to live plant based, but we do like to show you, that there are alternatives that are equal to animal-made products.

WHY WE JUST CAN INSIST ON TRYING EVERYTHING

Sometimes we hear that we offer too much. They say, there is not enough space in people’s heads for everything the Lovelace wants to be. They say we’re crazy for filling up a hotel with culture, arts and music to the top. Let’s say it like it is: The haters are right. There’s no point in being everything at once. A hotel will always be something totally different. Just like any movie theater will be much more than our little streaming nights on the third floor. We’re just a happening. We don’t do perfect. All we do is try things out.

It starts with the venue. As you probably know – we reside in an old bank. A very fancy bank indeed, that hosted the management board of a very large international bank, but still – the house was built for a totally different purpose. Its halls and rooms challenge us every day. Our main bar is actually a meeting room and so is the boxing studio. Our hotel rooms are remodeled offices.

The extraordinary but weird conditions we found here made us picture various dimensions, that we reflect with our complex concept. Just doing one thing like a hotel, or a night club, or a restaurant would not be sufficient to the house, its history and the massive space it offers. The architecture reflects the development of the place. Outside, it is old, classic, majestic even. You can see the decades that past this facade. Inside, it is light, with open halls and lots of light due to windows in the roof and between the rooms. All this lavish space snobby bankers once held exclusively for themselves waited long to become a public place. But now it is.

Are you experienced?

We want to let you experience the house and its chances in every possible angle. We want to encourage you and everybody who walks in to participate, to make this your space for a night or a day. All our furniture and equipment is light and moveable. We can be a restaurant today and a festival location tomorrow. Anything is possible and imaginable. It is our dearest wish to end this project with thousands of impressions in our minds. We cherish all the arts and styles in order to widen your world. We basically try out crazy things all the time, but nothing will last for good. The Lovelace changes on a regular basis. The concept symbolizes the ever present change in the world and in everything. Our concept is colorful chaos, just like everything. And come on – how boring would a normal hotel in this place be??

EAT. SLEEP. THINK. REPEAT.

· June 8th 2018

Don‘t you think how crazy that is? Living everyday life while the world turns upside down during each news media coverage. Fake news. Trump news. News from beyond and from right in front of our door. Markus Söder news for example. Sometimes good news, too. Like Meghan & Harry, well yes, you know... Some of you might say, come on honey, stop whining, get off the damn hamster wheel. Yes is the answer! It might sound a little over the top (sometimes being over the top is totally un-embarassing and we should more likely honour that), but at The Lovelace we try to break the cycle. In fact – by being a pop-up hotel we‘re on a good road to the unknown anyways. If watching the wheels go round is no option for you, friend, you‘re at the right place with us. You know why? Because we‘re always looking for:

Instant goosebumps!

This week at The Lovelace we offer plenty of options to take some time-off from day-to-day reality. Stop by and be part of a happening that maybe tells a breaking story about being human. Or at least about the rebirth of something or someone we‘d thought we know – like Giorgio Moroder for example who is back from oblivion playing a live-set in Munich on June 16th. „The Difference“, a Fashion And Music Festival, lights up an African perspective on fashion & music, don‘t miss out on that! If music or cultural stuff isn‘t really your thing, superfood propably is: On Sunday 17th the new age of eating ladies of Epi-Food will serve a delicious, healthy brunch for all of you hangovers or Sunday morning lovers.

“Well, we all shine on, like the moon and the stars and the sun”

(Instant Karma!, John Lennon, 1970)

GOOD VIBRATIONS

· July 20th 2018 ·

Hot town, summer in the city. Mmmbop, ba-duba, dop ba, du bop, ba-duba, dop ba-du, yeah, yeah. It´s summer in good old Monktown. Woop, woop. As Bavarian Connoisseurs you certainly know that the German „München“ derives from „Mönchen“ which literally means „monks“ or „city of monks“. Probably you´re also familiar with the town´s logo, the Münchner Kindl. Right, that either childishly smiling or grumpy, kind of out-of-a-horror-movie-like comic kid, who originally resembled a Franciscan monk (you can still see the signs by its habit). Well, if a Medieval monk can be turned into a doll then everything is possible! Summer may last forever. Flamingos turn green. Luke Perry and Shannon Doherty are back in Beverly Hills again, young and beautiful. And The Lovelace will exist forever. Mmmbop, baduba, dop ba, du bop, ba-duba, dop ba-du, yeah, yeah. Oh, dreamers we are! We can only imagine, but it would be fantastic, wouldn´t it?!

If paradise is half as nice!

If you look at it from a certain point of view, The Lovelace is still a teenager. It wears blue jeans and all the fancy stuff, its face shows no wrinkles, it can be playful and serious at the same time, it likes pink and all the range of dazzling colors, sometimes it has teenage sex and sometimes it is simply in love with everything and everyone. As a matter of fact only the good die young and The Lovelace won´t turn into a formal, stiff adult. We should celebrate that! Let´s do it! Live each day as if it were your last. Enjoy summer, the sun, life itself. Good, good, good vibrations!

„I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars“

(Lil‘ Wayne, The Carter III, 2008)

MONACO DI BAVIERA

· August 10th 2018

Hey friends, this time we want to take you on a journey through our glorious hometown Munich! If you check out Munich travel guides, you´ll come by some really funny insights of our city as seen by others from abroad. The Italian Wikivoyage website states that the Bavarian people are very conservative, almost reactionist, and that wearing blue jeans can be subject to huge disapproval. Woohoo. The Lonely Planet highlights „tall tankards and high-tech cars, edgy art and Lederhosen“, well yes, „Munich is a city where traditional and modern sit side by side like few places on earth“. Quite impressive, isn´t it? According to The Guardian „outside Oktoberfest, the Bavarian capital is a graceful city – green in summer, atmospheric in winter, and buzzing with great museums and bars year round“ and The Times is sure: „There’s nothing quite like Munich in late summer: warm southern sunshine, Italianate architecture and cold beer under shady chestnut trees in the calm before the Oktoberfest rabble arrive. Simply, this is one of Europe’s most beautiful and cultured cities.“ Yeah, that´s the way we like it! Tell me more! Because it wasn´t always that way. The New York Times writes that „Munich has long maintained a reputation as a buttoned-up city.“ Excuse us?! „But these days, the Bavarian capital is cracking its conservative shell in a push to challenge Berlin as Germany’s cultural capital.“ Much better! We´d say our fantastic hotel is found in a fantastic, vibrant, buzzing and yet tranquil city. If you don´t believe us, check out on Marcel Duchamp: „My stay in Munich was the scene of my complete liberation“. That´s why sometimes the people of Munich like to shout out loud:

Here comes the sun!

Lifestyle, joie de vivre or Lebensart – whatever you call it, Munich has it in spades. It might be down to the clear blue skies or simply the city‘s beauty, but one thing‘s for certain: The people of Munich always like to show their best side. You don‘t have to be rich and beautiful to feel right at home in Munich, but it doesn‘t hurt. Think of London! Think of New York! A modern, cosmopolitan city with a big heart and a long heritage, as suave as it is easygoing. And here we are, in the heart of Munich, The Lovelace, following the tradition of the grand hotels of the 20s and 30s of the last century, those places where the artists and literati met with the social circles to discuss and shape how the world was seen and – often – changed. God! Let´s overexaggerate it! Please! Sometimes the truth lies right there!

„Here comes the sun, and I say / It‘s all right“

(The Beatles, Abbey Road, 1969)

AS TIMES GO BY...

This week the spotlight is on TIME. The summer is drawing to a close, which can only mean one thing: time goes by so fast (oh Madonna, we´re not hung up)! When we were children, the summer holidays seemed to last forever, and Christmas Day felt like an eternity. So why is that when we get older, the time just seems to zip by, with weeks, months and entire seasons disappearing from a blurred calendar at dizzying speed? Why the hell does time seem to speed up as we age? This apparently accelerated time travel is not a result of filling our adult lives with grown-up responsibilities and worries. Research does in fact seem to show that perceived time moves more quickly for older people making our lives feel busy and rushed. For children, however, the world is an often unfamiliar place filled with new experiences to engage with. This means children must dedicate significantly more brain power re-configuring their mental ideas of the outside world. The theory suggests that this appears to make time run more slowly for children than for adults stuck in a routine. But don’t despair. We are happy to tell you that the apparent velocity of time is a big fat cognitive illusion and even more happy to say there may be a way to slow the velocity of our later lives.

If you want time to slow down, become a student again! Learn something that requires sustained effort! Do something novel! Put down the thriller when you’re sitting on the beach and break out a book on evolutionary theory or Spanish for beginners or a how-to book on something you’ve always wanted to do! Take a new route to work! Take vacation at an unknown spot! Stop by at our beautiful Lovelace Hotel before it will be gone! Live each day as it is: a new day! And don´t forget:

Take your sweet time about it!

As a pop-up hotel we are dedicated to the unknown. When we started to work on our concept for The Lovelace we were surprised that we hardly found any references for temporary hotels. There are only very few pop-up hotels in the world and those are mostly mobile structures. The Lovelace however is more an alternative to a grand hotel. A place where pop and politics, art and commerce, communities and the individual come together. That´s why this place works as a fountain of youth, too. Ah, friends, we can assure you: At The Lovelace no day is like the other! The Lovelace is all about improvising. But not in a we-did-not-think-this-through-but-maybethis-will-do kind of sloppy way. We believe in the unbeatable beauty of an improvised jam, like a jazz band improvising on a song, resulting in a oneoff performance that will never happen again like that. It´ll keep you young, friends, oh yes...

„The days run away like wild horses over the hills“

(Charles Bukowski, Black Sparrow Press, 1969)

ALL PLACES ARE TEMPORARY PLACES

· October 13th 2018

Welcome to The Loveplace. Um. Welcome to The Loveface. Wait, now we know: Welcome to The Lovedaze. Welcome to The Loverace. Welcome to Lovepace. The Loveace. Lovegaze. Lovemace. Ah! Welcome to The Lovelace. Beloved friends, all loveplaces are temporary loveplaces. We´re already getting nostalgic here. And you know what? Everyone in the house is all about nostalgia right now, but there‘s a reason for that: The Lovelace is awesome. It is a hell of a happening to drop by, sleep in, stay over, work at, cooperate with, party through and so on. But soon it´ll close its doors and the beautiful 18th century building on Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße will morph into something else, something new. Who knows into which concept The Lovelace is going to transform in order to recreate itself from the ashes, there are rumors, friends, rumors... Whatever will happen, whatever might happen, let´s get to the idea of temporary places: Everything on earth is in a constant flow. Life itself. And nothing will last forever. Not even the greatest structures, erected by nature or mankind. Think of the seven wonders of the ancient world! They have been celebrated by scholars, writers and artists since at least 200 B.C. These marvels of architecture were monuments of human achievement, built by Mediterranean and Middle Eastern empires of their day with little more than crude tools and manual labor. Today, all but one of these ancient wonders have vanished. What now?

Go with the flow!

The message is that clear and that easy. Sometimes one can´t see the forest for the trees, but sense is always there. So don´t shed no tears, friends, and let´s move on. When the time is right you´ll know which step to take. The Lovelace won´t end. Because there is no such thing as end or an ending.

You will hear from us. We might not seem the same but you will recognize us, no worries. The future starts now.

„Oh yeah / Just like a Phoenix from the Flame“

(Robbie Williams, I´ve Been Expecting You, 1998)

Munich based artist Florian Süssmayr created individual wallpapers for every hotel room at the Lovelace. As well as the Lovelace founders, the artist is interested in politics, music and riots. What does it mean to obey little and resist much? His pictures tell a story about Munich’s underground and about the power, which emanates from the people’s will to resist.

Photography and installation:

Florian Süssmayr

Conception graphic design::

Swantje Grundler & Thomas Mayfried

Prepress and on-site installation: Trommeter-Szabo

Florian Süssmayr zeigt Hotelbilder.

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So, Like, Why Is Everyone So Obsessed With Hipster Hotel Bingo Right Now ?

A comment by Matthias Huettebraeuker

If you woke up in a Hilton, so a story often told in the formative days of the boutique hotel movement goes, you needed to call reception to find out whether you were in the St. Petersburg Hilton or the one in Panama City. Such was the level of uniformity within the major hotel chains in those days, the paradigm of “no surprise is a good surprise” a logical consequence of a general atmosphere of insecurity in the cold war era as much as of the existing quality gaps in global travel. Today, 25 years after Ian Schrager “brought panache into space that had been commodified” by inventing the boutique hotel, the joke needs to be rewritten. Sitting in one of those boutique hotel lobbies that are popping up left and right, you might need to ask the nonchalant waiter slash social media influencer as he serves you your soy flat white whether you were sitting in the 25hours, the Sir or the Ace hotel. And the answer might be “it’s the Canopy, dude”, which is, you’re right, a Hilton.

The boutique hotel sector, or as it came to be called after the other big name of the movement, Claus Sendlinger, launched his company, the design hotel sector, was quickly reduced to aesthetics. This was probably owing to wording as much as to the uber sleek looks of early temples like The Hempel or The Delano or to quotes like Sendlingers “there is no reason anymore to build an ugly hotel”. While looks were important, the true revolutions were conceptual, adding a democratization of luxury, a sense of place and proximity to the local communities to the designer chair in the lobby.

The second wave of the boutique hotel revolution took the idea of community and affordable luxury to the next level, creating the budget lifestyle segment, or as the industry also calls it the select service seg-

ment, which is a nicer way to voice the common prejudice that design hotels were lacking a proper amount of human care. Pioneers of that segment included 25hours hotels, who were first in separating all acts of living from the bedroom and creating a buzzing community feeling in the public areas and citizenM hotels who introduced a radically egalitarian approach to the idea of luxury for all, that Ian Schrager now claims to have invented with Public. Another ingredient that Schrager didn’t invent (but arguably raised to the max) is replacing the night manager with nightlife, or as it is called cultural programming. According to its brand narrative, staying at Public is the closest that a generation too young to have experienced the original IRL can come to the legendary Studio 54.

So, with all this emphasis on individuality, why does the bucket list of the modern lifestyle traveler begin to look more and more like a group of Mr. Smiths from The Matrix?

As with every avant-garde or underground idea, at some point the inventors want to leverage their business. And the ones who were big before want to tap into that market, which is business speak for blatantly copying. So, as the boutique hotel groups turn into chains or are being acquired by chains and chains launch boutique brands, the homo economicus enters the stage and with her or mostly him a reduction of the complex process of brand building down to equations and formulas. Developing the resulting breed of hotels has become a game of hipster hotel bingo, as the British Airways High Life magazine has brilliantly called it. A tattoo book, a co-working space and a DJ in the lobby? Bingo. Exposed brick, exposed beards and vinyl in the rooms? Bingo.

One can see the appeal of this idea, it makes bravery safe, provides a manual for individuality. But the development of a personality is deeply consequential and its stories require no tautologies or augmentation. What makes a brand or an experience unique or touching lies within its culture, the stories it tells about itself or its followers and its ethics. Or in Aristotle’s words: “About some things it is not possible to make a universal statement which shall be correct”. Hence this rollout of streamlined individuality does not necessarily convince one that their cultural world view is expansive.

If you want to understand why all these hotels look like they look, why it is unavoidably de rigueur to have a hotel manifesto, novelty do-no-disturb signs and cold pressed juices you must go back to 1999 when the late Alex Calderwood founded the role model of all modern lifestyle hotels, the Ace Hotel. Coming out of the hometown of grunge, Seattle, it is the ultimate expression of hipsterdom, which is to the millennials what grunge was to the Gen X’ers. And while it is the first mistake of many developers (often GenX’ers themselves) to confuse hipsters for grungers, the more severe misconception is that all Millennials are bearded hipsters eating kale, wasting away their lives on Instagram and Snapchat.

If you want to be a part of the next wave of boutique hotels, trying to be another Ace doesn’t get you far, as the Ace is still way better at being the Ace than you will ever be. The good news is, you can be something else and still be the perfect choice for this new generation of travelers, who will, within the next ten years, amount for 75% of the global workforce. The bad news is, there is no easy formula for doing that. You will

have to go and watch and listen and understand how they live, what they care for and what they don’t.

Once you do, you will find a generation that is globally connected, that at the age of twenty-five they have seen more than previous generations have in a lifetime. A generation that in the presence of unified brands, architecture, fashion and music exceedingly searches local and authentic, one-off experiences, that is obsessed with the new. We are being introduced to a new kind of customer, or guest, that wants to be treated as an individual yet values community as their highest good. Equipped with a mindset of collecting moments and experiences, intellectual and spiritual fulfilment are their status symbols, constant transformation is their goal. Hence every attempt at attracting them with a pretty (and uniform) surface alone must inevitably fail.

Whatever the next generation of winning hotels will look like, whatever their take on innovation, improvement or disruption will be, the best of breed will be those that rigorously express a personality and a belief, those that are born out of a vision of their makers and not out of checklists. Or following the words of Israeli Singer Asaf Avidan, the heroes will be those who have a path, not just a plan.

Matthias Huettebraeuker is an independent brand strategist and hotel development consultant. He has worked as Director of Marketing and Product Development at Design Hotels and has been advising, among others, citizenM hotels, 25hours hotels and also The Lovelace.

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FOES. THIS IS WHAT THEY LIKED AND HATED ABOUT THE LOVELACE:

„Very interesting concept hotel. Every night there‘s a different event going on... from cultural to full on parties. The rooms are very cozy and have a super cool aesthetic! If you are in Munich this is the place to be!“

„World-unique concept. Very creative, hip, design. Indeed more of a happening than a hotel. You can spend hours and still find new details. The Zwickl Suite is a top event or party room. Only 30 rooms. No TV. Vegan food. Excellent location right next to Bayerischer Hof and Literaturhaus. Several bars are great places for drinks in the evening with good local crowd.“

„Rather a gathering, a venue, a meeting friends place, with the good drinks, pingpong tables and absolutely the best beds in town! Yes there are some details which could be improved, but there are so much more details that surprised!“ „super“

„The rooms are great, you get what you pay for and everything is quite modern. “ „Very cool…“

„A very positive experience. Unforgettable and beyond comparison. Very friendly and accommodating staff. A place where history, present and future clash and all enjoy good times.“

„Very cool space to chill with friends, nice location and view over parts of Munich.“

„That was something else… extraordinary…absolutely worth seeing…“

„I was thrilled! Great location, cool rooms and really cordial staff. I read so much negative stuff before I stayed there that I was almost scared, but I was positively surprised. Although I am not vegan I have to compliment the kitchen.“

„Kul koncept och ganska trendigt saknar dock AC på rummen.“

„Bourgeoisie is definitely at the start. Acoustics at concerts are rather bad. Yet sufficient for graduation parties or lectures.“

„Completely overrated. The Location could be quite cool (shouldn´t be called Rooftop Bar though – just because of 5 to 10 m2 “balcony”) – if only the DJ wouldn´t play such bad music. No one´s dancing after all…there is no atmosphere. Entry for 8 Euro (Welcome Drink included = any Campari drink without alternatives!) Too bad about the money…“

„Super expensive bars. Nothing going on there. Lame!“

„We (luckily) spent only one night in this ‚hotel‘.“

„HOWEVER, the ‚hotel‘ regularly hosts loud music parties in the 3rd floor which makes the whole building shake and vibrate. The rooms are supposed to be ‚sound proof‘ but that‘s just not true.

During our only night there there was an electro party from 10 PM until 5AM and therefore it was IMPOSSIBLE to get some sleep.“

„I don‘t understand how they can call themselves a ‚hotel‘ if this is clearly a club with rooms. I also don‘t understand why would you have to fight to get some rest at a HOTEL you PAID FOR.“

„When travelling I like Boutique hotels and smalle units as they give a bit more homely feeling... for this I accept that not all is perfect... However this was a disappointing new level.“

„Sometimes you have to engage in something you don´t know. Super tasty salad and vegan breakfast. My room was clean and quiet with a great view. Supermarkets and sightseeing within walking distance.“

„Super cool venue for a night out. I was taken here by some of my friends in Munich for my birthday and it certainly didn‘t disappoint. The very grand old staircase takes you up through the converted hotel to a series of bars and small club areas built in the old rooms of the hotel. All with different vibes and tastes it was a mad night. The smoking area on the roof also offers some cool views over Munich.“

„ Berlin in Munich. Lovely hotel in perfect location. I recommend the corner suite – enjoy the well-sorted mini-bar.“

„Everything perfect but no tv.“

„ The location of the hotel was really good as well as the cleanliness and the comfort of the room. Besides it was a bit alternative and unique. I would book this hotel again for my next trip.“

„One of our rooms was too cold. There was no way to regulate the air con. Bathroom took a bit getting used to, also too small. But given the fact that it is just a pop-up, really ok.“

„Prime location!! Building was really unique and TOP! Parties in the hotel have been great! Highly recommended for young people who like to party. Not a hotel to relax in but more to party“

„Beautiful room, high ceilings, good beds.“

„Have been there with my wife... the promised room for the steep 275€ was not available and so we stayed in a small room which was for 185€ not remotly ‚cheap‘ enough to compensate the small space. Remarkable – NO TV in the room... No light in the shower and the lights where not sufficient for the room. They offered a bigger room but told me that it will be noisy due to an event on the 3rd floor which was forecasted ro run until 3am!!!“

„I did like the arty type of space and the creative environment but with the friendly but rather untrained staff it did not feel up to the level I would expect a hotel on such price range.“

„If you go there avoid the 2nd floor rooms... it can be noisy if they have a function one up-stairs.“

„Overall it’s an experience but I suggest to have a dinner there or drinks in the 3rd floor bar... but the hotel itself is nothing I could reconsider.“

„Great concept, terrible execution. As a hotel you should at least give your guests a chance to sleep, which is impossible when said hotel organizes ‚deep house‘ club nights in an event space in the middle of the hotel – literally two doors down the hall from the hotel rooms – until 5 in the morning. Never again.“

„Very loud air con / couldn´t turn it off – the staff had no solution either…?? Besides there was a loud music event in the lobby…??? went on till night…Sleep? Forget about that! Also no TV. The next morning I skipped breakfast because all the partypeople had left their rubbish everywhere…not nice to look at! Conclusion: Partylocation, but no ‚hotel‘.“

When we entered the future Lovelace for the first time we were amazed by the mix of colors, materials and structures of the place. The idea of the second layer was the gesture that allowed us to re-occupy the space without despising the character of the consisted architecture. The principle of

the collage is an artistic technique, that led us to choose multiple ways of its implementation: textile layers like curtains, broadcasting posters, wallpapers and wallpaintings, living walls in combination with static materials like glass and steel. It was important for us to show the pop-up character of the project not only in the public areas but also in every room. This we managed by keeping the old walls and putting a curtain layer in front of them. This so-called soft shell brought the concept of offering a stage for real content alive.

4800 square meters, turned into a hotel and public space for a limited time. 2017 – 2019.

Convenience, cozyness and sustainability were the pillars of the Lovelace concept.

We were searching for a gesture that would turn a former executive office into a hotel room. The idea of the soft shell provides a 360° textile curtain wall. It is a second layer that covers the consisted architecture and stages the items inside the room.

There are so many ways experiencing a hotel. Make it happen!

Everything is going to be amazing, if you have the unique opportunity of a large unused space in the middle of Munich.

Cork family by Vitra is iconic. Beautiful collaborations with furniture manufacturers and designers made high quality fittings of the hotel rooms possible.

Stone lamp by swedish architect Andreas Martin Löf is one of the items that were custom made for The Lovelace.

There is a curated bookshelf in every hotel room. We especially collaborated with magazines who are interesting in both ways: content and graphic wise.

Our typographic concept has a strong consciousness. By the way: we love to placard! It’s a symbol that reminds us of demonstrations and political engagement of the citizens. At the same time it is a kind of collage.

Members and non-members only means: this place belongs to all of us. All languages are welcome here.

Yes, there is art everywhere. No room looks like the other, as Florian Süssmayr created an individual wallpaper for every single room.

The curtain wall is a textile layer, that transforms a former office into a hotel room. Furthermore it provides maximum comfort in acoustics.

Marble provides vivid structures and organic forms. Moreover, stone as material connects the animated with the inanimate nature.

The only place at The Lovelace where we see the world in black and white: our piano suite.

What happens at The Lovelace stays at The Lovelace.

The living walls on the third floor are not an image of nature, it’s not an ecosystem. It’s an artificial creation of plants from peaceful community and overcoming the patterns of nations.

from all over the world. For us, they represent the idea of internationalism: the coexistence of human beings in a

Cur tain up!

Experiencing the soft shells

Before imagining anything else, the creatives behind The Lovelace were in search of a gesture that could appropriately transform the existing bank offices into hotel rooms. Originally, the architecture of the building was set to seal the private bank business off the public. The Lovelace, however, has been established to form a space of interaction, communication and discovery. After all, it holds a stage for live performances much unlike the previous bank transactions.

The winner of the architectural pitch was Alexander Strub of the RBS Group who suggested a soft shell to cover up the hard shell in form of the existing interior design. He came up with a textile concept that allowed the previous ideas and features to persist. With curtains by the Danish company Kvadrat, he created a wonderfully pliant, tender atmosphere within each room. The original floor plan lingers underneath a delicate and elegant fabric by designer Patricia Urquiola which fittingly is called „Twilight“.

An interview with RBSGROUP creative directors Jenny Brunn and Alexander Strub

How was your reaction when you first heard about the project?

Alexander Strub: It was a mixture of being shocked and euphoria.

What do you mean?

AS: Well, it was hard to imagine conceptualizing, planning and realizing hotel rooms in a former bank building for just 24 months of useful life. But at the same time, you are confronted with a beautiful and extremely exciting challenge. So, you have to weigh between a big pain and maybe a lot of joy as well.

Jenny Brunn: In addition, it is kind of a home match and you want to be part of it.

How did you approach this kind of project, what was different?

AS: Key questions were, how much freedom do we have given the fact that it´s a temporary project? What attitude do the operators have and what could we bring in?

JB: You must set different priorities than usual, extremely focus at the point, put the spotlight much more on the idea. We set ourselves a deadline of two days to develop a strong concept.

AS: We wouldn’t have been interested in just designing trendy rooms. We have been searching for an idea that´s up to something and we were aware that intuition and coincidence would play a bigger role than normal.

What is the idea you are talking about?

AS: We liked the idea very much of seeing this hotel as an open space where relevant topics and authentic contents find a home in a changing cycle. We wanted to stage the rooms in that sense: focusing on the guest and giving him two roles, observer and player. The room as a 360° stage. The scenery a mélange of historic continuation, former boardrooms, views at the city, art, literature and the „soft shell“.

What is it about the ‘softshell’?

JB: The „soft shell“ is our big gesture in the rooms, a 360° circulating textile layer. The offices were equipped to the highest standards, but also shaped by a plain appearance. It was a huge opportunity to maintain the former offices and make them to an integral part of the new rooms. Therefore, it was important to enforce the haptic quality of the rooms and generate more coziness. The acoustic consequences are amazing. The „soft shell’“ was our answer both in a functional, atmospheric and theatrical way. Please explain that more for us.

AS: The offices already had circulating fitted cupboards, shelves and we could use them as wardrobes, cargo space and book shelves. The ‘soft shell’ was measured in a way that the openings matched with the infrastructure behind it. At the same time, we captured the art and the view and created a whole new space.

You talked about intuition and coincidence, how did that influence your work?

JB: It is both coincidence and a gift that an artist like Florian Süssmayr, who we really appreciate, created art for every room. That was really inspiring for us.

AS: We really hoped that the views of the city ignite and stand alongside Florian‘s work like art itself, but you can only have assurance about that when everything comes together. Or the enormous room height which gives the ‘soft shell’ such a coherent proportion, that wasn’t planned, that just occurred.

The days of the Lovelace are counted, does that make you sad?

JB: Helmut Dietl would say „so ist das im Leben, zuerst ist’s schee und dann is‘ auf einmal alles vorbei!“

AS: The end was part of the story right from the beginning.

„The End was part of the story from the beginning“

KIN DER HO TEL

A charity project at the Lovelace Hotel: Kids from different Munich based children‘s homes spent some nights at the Lovelace. Out of the everyday routine – into the hotel adventure!

„I COULD WITH

‘Oh my God’, Vanessa shouted, when she entered her room. The 16-year old girl drops her suitcase and throws herself lively on the bed covered in white sheets in the Lovelace – the currently most popular pop-up hotel in Munich. From there she admires the interior: dark blue curtains in front of endlessly high white walls, a simple black couch and the neon green bathroom. ‘Beautiful!’ That´s her first impression of the room, she will stay in tonight. Without paying a cent. This trip to the trendy hotel downtown in Munich is surely one of the highlights which the foster children of the evangelic children and youth welfare in Feldkirchen can experience. It was the well-known gastronomer Michi Kern who himself lived once in this home in Feldkirchen for five years, who made that possible for the children. “The time I spent there was very important and nice for me and since then I feel really connected to that place and the institution behind.” explains the 51-year old. With his invitation for a free night at the Lovelace he wanted to allow the children to break out of their daily life at least for once: ‘They

should get out of their own four walls with all the daily routine and sleep somewhere else.’, he says. 21 children and teenagers between eight and nineteen registered for the trip today. Most of them are fourteen and older and live in different housing groups in Feldkirchen. But the Lovelace isn´t just interesting for the older children. Nikki and Jenny, both eleven, also appreciate the nice atmosphere. They run down the hallway and look into the boy’s room – definitely bigger! For Jenny it´s too bad, ‘that there is no TV in the room, otherwise we could watch TV all night long.’ But you can play hide and seek behind the curtains at least.

Most of the kids spent their night at the kid’s bar –specially created for them – with Paul, the waiter. Or playing table tennis in the box gym or PlayStation. ‘The last ones went to bed at midnight’, tells Jutta Bisani the next day. All of them were thrilled at the end. By the rooms, the food and mainly how nice the staff was.

BURST JOY!“

Nine-year old Leon writes as thanks: ’It was so nice, I could burst with joy!’ And Makenzie from Congo loves the hotel so much that she would give it at least four stars. But that’s not possible unfortunately. Since the Lovelace is just a two-year happening, it’s not qualified for these stars. But that doesn’t bother the twelve-year-old at all.

(* names of all children have been altered)

Credits: Pia Jaeger;

Diakonie Report der Inneren Mission

Sleep tight!

Creating a pup-up hotel meant we had to improvise a lot. From day one we were sure that we would not compromise on the quality of our beds and bed linen. That’s why we chose handcrafted beds and mattresses from natural materials to promote a truly relaxing and rejuvenating sleep. The beds we use are metal free and made with 100% natural materials, such as coconut fibre, natural rubber, wool, cotton, goose down, oak wood but also seaweed, eucalyptus, horsehair, and cactus fibre. Our bed linen are made from organic cotton and are organically cleaned.

Our bed partner COCO-MAT is an award-winning producer of premium quality mattresses, bed linen and furnishings for homes and hotels. The company was established in 1989 in Athens, Greece as a small family business, and grew to become a global brand with growing presence in major capitals of the world.

For cats and A comment on

Time to shine

– the boxing gym at The Lovelace

and tomcats.

Lovelace

»We want to offer workouts, you enjoy doing while you are pushing yourself to new heights. Our idea is to establish a playful atmosphere, where ever ybody is motivating one another, to create an energy that, combined with our training, will make you forget about time, push harder, sweat out your daily stress and connect to yourself.«

André Döbert, owner and founder of TTS

»Having worked as a New York based model in the fashion industry for 10 years, the only way to stay sane for me was boxing. It was never about the fighting but the fun, versatile and challenging workout that is inherent to boxing. Being close friends with Derek Nicholas, one of the top personal trainers in New York City, we created our own style that involved the core elements of boxing paired with a whole body workout. People around us quickly got attracted to our way of training and we realized that we are in the middle of a new evolving trend of working out. Seeing a new style of Gyms popping up around us, boxing became a lifestyle that has nothing to do with fighting anymore and is growing ever since.«

Lenz von Johnston, owner and founder of TTS

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body faust!

When boxing merges with poetry. You probably know, that we have a lovely little boxing studio on the third floor. But surely you did not know, that the two handsome boys who run it are also keen for classic German poetry. In a three hour installation, eight performers presented Goethe’s Faust I uncut and raw, while they fought epic battles.

Munich’s Faust Festival 2018:

Dear friends,

this time we have some serious issues to discuss. Oh no, come on, don´t leave. Yes, we truly are a bunch of crazy, idealistic, but funny people. At the core of The Lovelace, as a defining attribute, we do give a fuck. That´s why, sometimes, we take the world serious. We take issues serious. The ubiquitous irony of worldwide hipsters isn´t our thing. We don´t hide. We can´t make it right, we mean: totally right, either, because anyone living in Western society can make it right. But we can contribute something, we can take little steps in the „right“ direction. Besides we don´t believe in righteousness. Everyone has to decide for himself what is right or wrong. Anyway, there are facts we can´t ignore (as long as we´re not president or someone else in power). It is easy to draw a dramatic picture of today’s world. Climate change, the most serious environmental challenge humanity has to face, is threatening the well-being of the next generation. Globalization has led to rapid economic, social and technological changes that have left too many behind. Hunger is still a persistent problem, affecting over 900 million human beings worldwide.

The production of meat and other animal products places a heavy burden on the environment – from crops and water required to feed the animals, to the transport and other processes involved from farm to fork. The vast amount of grain feed required for meat production is a significant contributor to deforestation, habitat loss and species extinction. The world’s population is increasing and viable agricultural lands are diminishing. If we are to avoid future global food scarcity we must find sustainable ways of utilising our natural resource base. Industrial livestock production is not just unsustainable; it‘s unjustifiable!

Faced with these issues, we sometimes feel overwhelmed by their magnitude and power. But there is hope:

We can decide on change. We do have a choice. Poor people don´t. Animals don´t. Every time we make the switch from an animal product to a vegan one we are standing up for a better world for all of us.

No need for milk here.

The Lovelace is completely veggie as you probably all know. Most of the time, our offer is even vegan. We see ourselves as deeply personal. Not to be confused with “personalized” (which at certain aspects is also nice to have) or “approachable”. The Lovelace is an extension of its creators. And by extension, of its collaborators. There can be no The Lovelace without the presence, involvement and passion of the ones who are part of it. The Lovelace creates a framework through the experience, communication and design, encouraging guests to be active participants. This huge space in the heart of Munich can be your stage, too. So please be on our side. We can laugh about ourselves without end, but there´s no need for us to hide behind a smirk. Let´s do it! Together.

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Schulmilch, Kirchenmilch, Bittermilch, Regen

Mara-Daria Cojocaru

Cow milk is a white, opaque liquid, secreted by the mammary glands of the domestic ox. It contains proteins, fat, sugar, minerals and vitamins and, as in all other mammals, it is used in order to bring up the calves. At least as early as the Neolithic and in many, though not all, regions of the world, humans started using cow milk in order to both use it for their own offspring and consume it in various liquid or solid dairy products way beyond infancy. Indeed, the consumption of cow milk has become such a matter of course that it is most commonly referred by the term ‘milk’ only. The dairy industry receives massive subsidies by public bodies. For instance, in 2016 alone, the EU spent some €21 million on interventions just for the Deutsche Milchkontor in order to compensate for the loss of value on the market, and yet another half million for its storage costs. At the same time, tax payers do not unanimously consider consuming cow milk a matter of course anymore. Many people stopped consuming it for reasons of health or moral concerns. While milk – unless you are suffering from lactose intolerance – is not unhealthy as such, many people started doubting when they learn that sometimes pus from infected udders or drugs will find their way into the eventual product. Hence, they try alternatives, like milk made from soybeans, rice, peas, oats, almonds, or coconuts. These alternatives have proven at least as healthy. From an environmental health perspective, too, as well as from a perspective of food justice, it seems, like in the

case of meat, more sensible to not first process all the resources through an animal, with a much reduced “return on investment”.

However, a lot of people are also concerned about the moral issues involved in the conventional production of milk, i.e. the one that relies on so-called “dairy cows”. People who refuse to eat meat but drink milk, going by the assumption that no animal has to die for that, realise that, actually, all male calves will have to be killed. It is impossible not to have calves, because a cow will only lactate when she is having a calf. Also, many people object to the separation of mother and child, and every typical dairy cow will lead a much shorter life than she naturally could. Indeed, the ABC of the dairy industry entails many disturbing concepts – from A like “artificial insemination” or “automatic milking system” to D like “dehorning” through to M like “mastitis” and T like “tethered housing”. Putting all of this together, it appears increasingly unconvincing that the whole story of cow milk could be re-written with an unequivocally happy end if only farmers would switch to “dual-purpose cattle”. Rather people are pushing to abandon milk. Instead of seeking to improve an essentially problematic situation by increasing welfare and transparency, societies should learn to say: Bye-bye Milk – because the only happy end to the story of cow milk is when cows’ calves get the milk and a cow gets a calf only when she decides to. In order to learn how a farewell to milk could at all be possible and to address most likely concerns, we

A review on the opening panel of the bye bye milk festival, that happened April 5th-9th 2018 at The Lovelace.

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invited different people whose perspectives complemented each other to join us for a constructive panel discussion. Michaela Cosenza (volunteer and animal rights advocate for PETA Germany) and Jan Gerdes (former dairy farmer and now head of Hof Butenland, a retirement home for dairy cows) managed to both deliver the facts of how a typical dairy cow will lead her life and to bring cows to life as individuals by drawing on statistics as well as on lived experience. It became clear that, even when these cows are kept on small farms with great attention to animal welfare, violence remains an essential component to this practice. Viktor Gebhardt (Animals United) and Emil Franzinelli (Verein Mensch-Tier-Bildung) pointed out the many manipulative and misleading ways in which industry and politics contribute to an ignorance among consumers and shared their experience with emancipatory ways of educating the general population. And while Michi Kern (yoga teacher, hotelier and much else) told many inspiring stories of creatively overcoming all the obstacles in our heads and culture, the most vivid images of a better future for humans and dairy cows came from Hof Butenland. Here, former dairy cows can live a life in relative freedom, peace, and dignity, together with caring humans and other animals who found refuge on that converted dairy farm. And while the evening did not result in a fully-fledged political programme – complete with, say, support schemes for dairy farmers willing to abandon milk or federal voluntary service deployments to animal sanctuaries –, people who attended the evening were clear that, as individuals, they wanted to take that step, away from milk and towards a more peaceful future for humans and other mammals. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the few who currently benefit from the dairy industry would go along and not stand in these people’s way?

Mara-Daria Cojocaru is a lecturer in Practical Philosophy and a writer. She works in the tradition of philosophical pragmatism and is interested in the role of emotions in inquiry as well as in animal ethics and politics.

www.maradariacojocaru.weebly.com

„Instead of seeking to improve an essentially problematic situation by increasing welfare and transparency, societies should learn to say: Bye-bye milk.“

I would like to come back to the cows To their SECRET LIFE Which you describe In such great detail

The irony was lost Return to sender, Mrs. R. Young

Re 10 of the 20 things that you say I should know

Cows make friends for life. As long as it lasts

Cows love music. That explains a lot*

Cows babysit for each other. A mess of calves, aka fricassee

Cows can communicate with people. Don’t you understand

Cows love each other… at least some do. And don’t we love them? How cute

Cows can solve problems. Now, that’s a problem

Cows have food preferences. Indeed: Just like us!

Cows can be aggressive. You don’t say

Cows invent games. Robbers chasing cops

Cows can be forgiving. We can only hope

I’d like to add one more thing They can feel pain

* Fury in the slaughterhouse?

elle p., 2017

Photos series, placards

The Fragile Series, created in 2017 during a travel crossing into Western Asia, revolve around the aspect of female sensibility, questioning the peculiar link between strength and fragility.

Emotion as something trying to be supressed, striking a balance between intimate and cosmic.

elle p.’s work combines and explores a remarkable range of media – music, video, singing, performance, installation. Her work focuses on the close link between imagery, space, sound and word, and communicates with found or ad hoc circumstances while holding up an improvisatory character. Her drop- dead extravagant songwriting and unique, unassuming and diverse singing style led to numerous releases, all charted and bigged up by esteemed terrestrials and magazines. A brand-new album is on the way to be out in 2019.

elle p.‘s performances and video installations react to actual conditions that challenge her artistic actions in a kind of chain reaction and reflect on the female positioning in the art world. The vocal all-round talent‘s quirky, experimental compositions embody autobiographical elements which are the basis for her artistic creations, music performances and club shows. The interplay of her own multi-tracking vocal technique, the irony of text content and new media generates a flamboyant mix of digital art, music and poetry. elle p. lives and works in Berlin.

www.elle-p.com

scribblitti

Hu-Be, 2018 Drawings

Scribblitti is the temporary platform of an nomad art show and performance: it is an ephemeral, itinerant time based performance of interaction, human value and drawing. It consists of a maximum of ten supersized artworks realized in the time span of a single month along a territory. The Scribblitti do not find themselves in a single physical space such as a gallery, but are hosted by residents and citizens, collectivities and territories in their private and public spaces, creating a cluster of portraits in a city or wider land.

In this case Hu-Be met Michi Kern, owner and founder of The Lovelace, and interviewed him about his life and memories while taking meticulous notes. The dialogue was a narrative of their youth, of stories of lost passions and of yoga.

During these interviews, everything is relevant to the artist. The landscape described in those vivid images becomes the draft of each site-specific Scribblitti.

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www.hu-be.com/Scribblitti-Archive

between april and sun

Raphaela Riepl, 2018

„Where the first sunbeams touch the ground, which has been frozen for months, where the snow begins to melt, there a tender force is hiding. Noise and hustle of the city cover up the annual processes. Only if you look closely, listen and disregard time, will you be part of the changes. The first seeds are sprouting and the calming sense, that the circle of life is still intact, makes my skin tingle. For the first time the wind seems to be warming, the air streaming into my lungs is still fresh and a bit humid. With my eyes closed I see colors, moving forms – everything is in constant change. I am thinking about life, about rising, growing and decay, which again provides the ground for something new. With deep breath I listen to the urban sound.“

For the installation Between April and Sun – developed for the staircase of The Lovelace– Raphaela Riepl for the first time combines picturesque practice with clear lines of neon elements. Light is used graphically and interacts with the painting. Colors and forms create an atmospheric ambience. The poetic work is in dialogue with the frescos and the architecture of the historical hallway and refers to present at the same time.

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Neon, transformer, cables, hardboard, varnish / finish, acrylic paint

where there is a wall there is a will

Media Wall

Chris Rehberger, 2017 mixed media, neons, lightboxes, thread curtain

Chris Rehberger is a typographer and art director. His agency Double Standards in Berlin has developed the concept of the most instagrammable photo opportunity at The Lovelace: the media wall at the flying lobby, which extends over 200 square meters.

2012 Rehberger was awarded by the Lead Academy who named him Germany’s most significant designer. He is famous for his works for Nike, Guggenheim Museum NY, MTV, Kammerspiele Munich, HAU Berlin and many more.

Love and communication could be the motto for this collaboration between the artist and the hotel. The Lovelace creative team collected a bunch of claims which express different aspects of the hotel happening idea: sentences like “get your freak on/off”, “wish you were here”, “the future”, “this is really happening” were modified according to the philosophy of the Double Standard Agency. They created a dynamic typography, although typography is often something more static. The typeface was realized with a mix of lightboxes and neons; by using a thread curtain, a second layer was introduced to the installation. The curtain divides the wall into several fields, which add another interactive moment to the whole expression of the epic wall settlement.

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admire the tragic beauty they build

Andre Döbert, 2017

Mixed media, foil, mirror ball, spots, plastic waste objects

Every movement needs a beginning. Is this the end? We don´t know yet. What can we expect?

We can never be sure about that. The end of the world as we know – it is not the end of all worlds.

A supernova is the temporary bright flash of a star at the end of its life – an explosion which destroys the original star. At the same time there would be no life without the explosions of stars. Almost every atom we know originates from here. A residual is the non-organic component of a molecule, a left-over of the degradation itself. Consumer goods, wrapped in plastic, stretched in a tight, floating net, – all of them refer as a pars pro toto for all the consumer and luxury goods of our civilization and the practices of giving and possessing. They all are cocooned in numerous layers and they seem to be both, delicate and dangerous. And this is how you can consider the object to be: as a Christmas-supernova, which represents an era yet to come: The time after humanity abolished itself.

Still – the object is of aesthetic beauty: It allows the observer to pause for a moment and admires the tragedy in its beauty. Floating 5 meters above the ground, spanning 17 meters, an entity is shaped, which creates both interesting points of view and an exciting spatial structure within its patterns and layers. The luminescence of the diaphanous levels is promising and demanding at the same time: a naïve prospect of protection symbolized by the installation – as it were a Virgin of Mercy opening her arms – is diametrically opposed to actual reality. She reminds us to take action from a post-civilizing point of view, as the systematic extinction of our environment calls for response.

the lovelace cardboard superheroes

Edlinger,

Matthias Edlinger is a ‘three dimensional’ artist. He writes novels, works as a director for music videos and is a fine artist. The collage-technique integrates all his skills and interests perfectly.

In June of 2018 he created six unique artworks from scratch using only material, images and people from The Lovelace. This limitation of means was a very experimental approach. In the first step he took quick photographs of each one of them in a classic superhero pose. Then he strawled the building in search for iconic structures and individual patterns.

He began to combine the portraits in a collage like manner with these found patterns to create more powerful and fantastic images and to connect the people with the space. And finally he assembled „the lovelace superheroes“ on a canvas made out of cardboard that he selected from the paper-trash of The Lovelace.

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Matthias

2018 Cardboard, collage

Sina Greinert, an artist based in Hamburg, works with an extraordinary medium: balloons! Her sculptures can alter spaces, form them in a new way and celebrate the finite. The childlike associations which have been generated by the balloons partially find a breeding ground, her works are often cheerful, but they never seem childish or thoughtless. She creates organically appearing, spectacular worlds, in which the visitor can immerse.

Sina Greinert created an extensive installation for 48 hours Paulaner in The Lovelace, which was deinstalled again with a big bang during the event. So it was only temporary luck – as The Lovelace itself.

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Sina Greinert, 2018 Installation, balloons

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Franziska Sima, 2017 Sculpture, plaster

wallpaper

A kind of guise, Charlotte Kelschenbach, 2017 Graphic design

streetart in the house

Dinomaat

Tape-art

Stairways on all floors

Clemens Kokott

Burning Icons

2nd floor

Tatiana Vukolova and Lena Rosner

Hand grenade, humanity

1st and 2nd floor, bridge

In collaboration with Designschule München, students created a bunch of illustrations and some of them were realised as wall paintings. Also Munich based tape artist Dinomaat threw a piece of tape art on the walls of the stairways.

We are happy to introduce to you what we call The brave Hotels of the World. A hotel or similar with a mission, with the urge to give something back or at least state a comment, a hotel which redefines the model of how business is done – either artistically, socially or politically.

THE BRAVE HOTELS OF THE WORLD

THE WALLED OFF HOTEL

First we welcome you to Banksy´s The Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem in the West Bank, surrounded by a wall considered illegal by the International Court of Justice. The 10-room hotel appears to be an ironic, dystopian version of the famous Waldorf Astoria (one can be found even in Jerusalem): Built in the style of a colonial club, its opening fell together with the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, the 1917 statement by the British government that paved the way for the creation of Israel. “It’s exactly one hundred years since Britain took control of Palestine and started re-arranging the furniture – with chaotic results,” Banksy is quoted, evoking a Brexit commentary, “I don’t know why but it felt like a good time to reflect on what happens when the United Kingdom makes a huge political decision without fully comprehending the consequences.” The hotel was constructed in complete secrecy over several months. Aside from Banksy, Palestinian artist Sami Musa and Dominique Petrin, from Montreal, have also designed rooms, with more

to come. The rooms, public spaces, literally every part of the hotel is decorated with dozens of new works by the street artist. One painting shows an Israeli watch tower with Palestinian children swinging around it like a carousel. In another a bucolic village is bulldozed by an armoured vehicle. But the hotel is meant to be a genuine place to stay and not just a political statement. There‘s a budget dorm room designed to look like an Israeli military bunker, and a presidential suite including a screening room and jacuzzi. Besides from that, The Walled Off features a small museum, an art gallery curated with the works of Palestinian artists and a bookshop stocked with titles published about the wall. Welcoming guests with the claim „the worst view in the world“ is for sure controversial and some have criticised the hotel for trivialising the conflict, but it has to be seen as a work of art, in fact a living art project: brave, courageous and forward thinking!

BELLEVUE DI MONACO

The Bellevue di Monaco is a newly founded residential center for culture created for refugees in Munich – in the heart of a trendy district between Glockenbach and Gärtnerplatz, where the monthly rent is about 20 Euro per square metre. It was only in June 2015 when the project celebrated its opening after two years of expensive renovation. Almost 600 members of the cooperative raised 1.3 million Euro independently, to make the renovation of the domicile possible. It’s only three and a half years ago that the buildings along Müllerstraße 2 till 6 were planned to be demolished. Due to the first protests against the demolition of the vacant properties owned by the city council of Munich – who classified the buildings as not being renovatable – a group of activists reassembled. What then took place as a fun-guerilla – protest, the likes of which have not been seen in Munich for many years: The activists dressed up as gorillas founded a conceptual real estate company named “Goldgrund” and renovated one of the apartments by themselves. Then they created a short video about this act, which went viral. Renovation instead of demolition! Celebrities who get their hands dirty! This action received a huge media response and caused the officials to finally give in. In January 2015 the city council reversed its demolition decision.

Now there are young refugees living in ten apartments in Müllerstraße 6 – all supported by youth welfare with the aim of them being able to live independently one day. Each of the young adults can stay there for about two years. This home in Müllerstraße 6 provides a space of six apartments for refugees with special needs, particularly for families. The rear building –created as a cultural space – offers readings, concerts, panels and theater performances on a regular basis. Furthermore, the refugees can make use of counseling services, language courses and trainings. At the crossing of Müllerstraße and Corneliusstraße is an Infocafé: organized and realized together with the refugees. The concept behind it is built on the idea that a humane and respectful conduct with people fled from their home countries, benefits everyone in the long term – the Munich residents, too. For they need a space where they can debate urgent questions dealing with flight, migration, immigration and identity, too. The Bellevue recognizes itself as an open house fond of discussion and dialogue. Debates of migration and urban living of the future are held here – and a concrete togetherness with support for those in need is being provided.

GOOD HOTEL

Welcome to Good Hotel – a former floating prison and currently docked at the Royal Victoria Docks London. The hotel offers more than just rooms for guests as part of a socially responsible quest to prove that „good hotel“ is more than just a name. The hotel was built on a transportable, 8-million-kilo platform and after a year as a pop-up floating hotel in Amsterdam, the whole thing was moved to London. Unlike neighbouring Novotel and Ibis chain hotels, its profits don’t go to the company’s owners or shareholders –they go back into the business, which offers training and jobs to long-term unemployed people in the local community. The Good Group’s portfolio is the manifestation of Founder and CEO Marten Dresen‘s social business vision. The concept is simple: combining an authentic, high quality guest experience with doing good. The focus is on creating a profit for non-profit business with long-term goals: creating jobs, offering training to the local unemployed community, supporting NGOs with the profits of the hotel, and set a new standard in the local hospitality industry. Under Good Hotel’s London mission, individuals from disadvantaged communities are taken on for a 3-month placement that includes training and working in the hotel. After successfully completing the training, trainees get on-the-job training and a full-time salary at Good Hotel, after which they are mediated towards a permanent job in the local economy. Once the place -

ment is completed and trainees graduate, a new intake is employed. Those who join the team come from a variety of backgrounds: it could be a young mother who has fallen off the career ladder or a teenager who didn’t finish school; someone who lost their job in the recession or someone with a criminal record. They all need a second chance.

Good Hotel London is also eco-friendly and an excellent example of ‚upcycling“. The abandoned former detention platform was redesigned as a 144-room hotel. This floating hotel looks different and it truly is different. Think pure industrial design, unique waterfront location, communal living room and unique rooftop terrace – all with a view every Londoner would love to wake up with. Good Hotel’s design team used natural, no non-sense materials, colours and textures such as steel, concrete and wood and took inspiration from the conceptual approach of Dutch design. With sustainability in mind, the Good Hotel is where guests find furniture made from re-purposed materials, natural ventilation systems and water reclamation systems. It offers locally brewed beers, and meals, crafted from locally sourced ingredients, in its kitchen and bar. Industrial in look-and-feel yet minimalist, the designers took on the challenge of creating a hotel experience that inherently reflects “the local”.

ESPACE SOBO BADE

Welcome to Espace Sobo Badé, which you may call a kind of African Chelsea Hotel. Bohemian and full of artistic esprit, the hotel, restaurant and arts centre in the fishing village of Toubab Dialaw, 50 kilometres from Senegal´s capital Dakar, along the Petite Côte, draws an as interesting as diverse crowd of people. The hotel can accomodate up to 60 guests in its serene structure. The design is reminiscent of the works of Antoni Gaudí or Niki de Saint Phalle, with an eclectic collection of colourful mosaic tiles, sculptures and seashells adorning the buildings. Haitian multi-talent Gérard Chenet used sustainable materials from the countryside surrounding the village: volcanic rockstone, litter, bamboo, shells and reused Italian marble.

His Gesamtkunstwerk is a multi-level complex, with beautiful mosaic tiles on the exterior walls, numerous stone sculptures and sensuous plant life. You can truly say that the Sobo Badé is a mesmerising example of a rockstar rococo – the sort of place where you might expect to find Brian Jones. Close by shines another unique Gérard Chenet structure example: the openair theatre L´Engouement, where towards the end of a year the annual Festival Rythmes et Formes du Monde is held, attracting artists from all over Africa. As a guest at this Grimm tale-ish wonderland you might learn drumming and traditional dancing, or simply lie on the beautiful golden sandy beach and swim in the Atlantic.

GRANDHOTEL COSMOPOLIS

Welcome to Grandhotel Cosmopolis, a former nursing home which accommodates refugees, artists, musicians, and travellers under the same roof. The hotel is located in the historic centre of the Bavarian city Augsburg. The district of Swabia´s capital has a immigration rate of more than 40%. At Grandhotel Cosmopolis, guests and asylum seekers stay in the same building, allowing for ample opportunity for story sharing and awareness raising. As you can see, this is not a usual hotel. Based on Beuys’ idea of a Social Sculpture the concept of Grandhotel Cosmopolis is aimed towards a vision of a society that is human, open and interactive (which is also reflected by the term ‘cosmopolis’). Beuys‘ idea of immaterial sculpture is vivid by the constant creation of a new reality by people. People are artists by realizing their utopian ideas in a creative way and influencing reality through this. They shape reality like a sculpture. Therefore The Grandhotel Cosmopolis has already been called a realized utopia: Combining refugee accommodation, ho -

tel, and artist studios under one roof and thereby enabling exchange between refugees, artists, guests, and residents of the city. You can truly underline that this is a shining example of how refugees can be integrated into our civil society and by the way it´s taking a stand against social exclusion across Germany and demonstrating new ways of avoiding conflicts over accommodation for asylum seekers. The project has gained considerable national attention and has received numerous awards as a model project. Yet in a polarized debate about immigration some call the Grandhotel Cosmopolis kind of a left-wing hippie dreamland. So what?! It is a working dreamland then. Particularly popular with families, this wonderful hotel offers 12 fully-furnished bedrooms as well as four ground-floor hostel rooms, allowing for a range of guests with varying travel ambitions and backgrounds. Every hotel or hostel room is designed individually, many of them fitted with balconies which offer fantastic views over Augsburg.

OPERNDORF AFRIKA

Welcome to Operndorf Afrika, an international art project, which is being realised in Burkina Faso/West Africa, since 2009. German artist Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010) had the idea for this project and lots of passion to lay the foundation. Since 2011 the project is under the patronage of Horst Köhler, the former Federal President of Germany. Operndorf Afrika was Schlingensief´s last artistic work and he described it himself as his most important project. He believed in a different vision of Africa than we tend to see it in the West, trying to break off post-colonial stereotypes: „It is clear that help has to be provided, where hunger prevails. It is clear that mediation and intervention must be provided, in the case of war. But what about the other side of Africa? Why is it only perceived as exotic? Does it have to be that way? I mean, no!“ (C.

Schlingensief)

The Operndorf Afrika works as an international meeting place, too. Envisaged was that people from different backgrounds should be able to work as artists and to exchange views about art with each other.

Since 2009, this has manifested itself, in the form of a platform for intercultural exchange programs and relevant postcolonial discourses, which makes a new and differentiated image of Africa, visible. Embedded therein, is the exchange of the daily reality of an emerging village, about 30 km from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. The project is expected, over the medium term, to be transferred under the aegis of its residents. In February 2010, the foundation stone of Operndorf Afrika was laid. To date, 23 buildings have been erected on the area, provided by the government of Burkina Faso. Thus Operndorf Afrika focuses on the topics education by providing a school for nearby residents, health by hosting a clinic in its structure, cultural program by giving residencies for artists from all over the world and by practising and teaching opera and acting, agriculture by cultivating the land.

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Magazine Concept: Lissie Kieser, Lisa Miletic, Gregor Wöltje

Editor in Chief, v.i.s.d.P: Gregor Wöltje

Creative Director: Lissie Kieser

Art Director: Lisa Miletic

Contributors:

Mara-Daria Cojocaru, Matthias Hüttebräuker, Pia Jäger, Thomas Mandl, Jennifer de Negri, Jan Rauschnig-Vits, Sonja Steppan, Florian Süßmayer

Translations:

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Proof Reading: Alex Wulkow

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Cover: Lisa Miletic

S. 12 Thomas Mandl

S. 15 Steve Herud

S. 17 Steve Herud

S. 19 Thomas Mandl

S. 23 Thomas Kiewning

S. 25 Thomas Mandl

S. 27 Steve Herud

S. 29 Steve Herud

S. 31 Lisa Miletic

S. 33 Steve Herud

S. 35ff Thomas Mandl

S. 38f Lisa Miletic

S. 51 Lisa Miletic

S. 75-96 Florian Süssmayr

S. 100f The Lovelace

S. 111-119 Lisa Miletic

S. 121 Thomas Mandl

S. 128f The Lovelace

S. 130f Background: bkmediasolutions

S. 130f Foreground: August Castell

S. 132f Background: bkmediasolutions

S. 132 Foreground: August Castell

S. 133 Foreground: Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe GmbH & Co. KGaA

S. 134f Background: Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe GmbH & Co. KGaA

S. 134f Foreground: bkmediasolutions

S. 136f Background: August Castell

S. 136f Foreground: August Castell

S. 138f Background: InMagazin Verlag

S. 138f Foreground: InMagazin Verlag

S. 140f Background: Lisa Miletic

S. 140f Foreground: bkmediasolutions

S. 142f Background: The Lovelace

S. 142f Foreground: Aperitivo Monaco

S. 144f Background: InMagazin Verlag

S. 144 Foreground: Steinway & Sons

S. 145 Foreground: InMagazin Verlag

S. 146f Background: Thomas Kiewning

S. 146f Foreground: Thomas Kiewning

S. 148f Background: Lisa Miletic

S. 148f Foreground: Lisa Miletic

S. 158f Steve Herud

S. 160f Lisa Miletic

S. 162 Steve Herud

S. 163 Lisa Miletic

S. 164f Lisa Miletic

S. 166 Steve Herud

S. 167 Lisa Miletic

S. 168 Thomas Mandl

S. 169 Lisa Miletic

S. 170 Thomas Mandl

S. 171 Steve Herud

S. 172f Lisa Miletic

S. 174f Lisa Miletic

S. 176f Lisa Miletic

S. 178f Lisa Miletic

S. 181 Steve Herud

S. 182f Lisa Miletic

S. 184f Thomas Mandl

S. 187 Lisa Miletic

S. 189 RBS Group

S. 190-195 Verein für Sozialarbeit e.V.

S. 196f Steve Herud

S. 198 Coco-Mat

S. 199 Steve Herud

S. 200f Time to Shine

S. 202f Time to Shine

S. 204f Time to Shine

S. 208f Time to Shine

S. 212 Lisa Miletic

S. 224f Elle p.

S. 226 Elle p.

S. 228 Lisa Miletic

S. 230 The Lovelace

S. 232 Steinway & Sons

S. 234 André Döbert

S. 236 Matthias Edlinger

S. 239 Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe GmbH & Co. KGaA

S. 240 Thomas Mandl

S. 241 Franziska Sima

S. 242 The Lovelace

S. 243 Steve Herud

S. 245 The Lovelace

S. 246f Walled Off Hotel

S. 249 Walled Off Hotel

S. 251 Bellevue di Monaco eG

S. 253 Good Group

S. 255 Espace Sobo Bade

S. 257 Wolfgang Reiserer, Frauke Wichmann

S. 259 Festspielhaus Afrika GmbH

S. 264f Thomas Mandl

S. 266f Thomas Mandl

S. 268f Thomas Mandl

S. 270f Thomas Mandl

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