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Blond is a gay bar at Eisenacher Straße 3a, Berlin-Schöneberg. This street corner steeped in gay-lesbian history was the location of the Fugger-Eck, a popular venue whose owner/operator also ran the very well known gay disco Trocadero on Courbièrestraße in the 1970s. Arts and culture columnist Helmut Schödel describes the Fugger-Eck in the Süddeutsche Zeitung not long before it it closed as follows:
"In the 'Fugger-Eck' in the Motzstrasse district, the bar's owner, a man in his sixties, who used to be a dance school teacher in Bochum, plays hits from the good old days, "Die rote Sonne von Barbados" or "Gigi Amoroso" [sic]. At the push of a button, he triggers the sound of chirping birds throughout the locale, and when a guest enter the restrooms, an alarm siren sounds. Former gay West Berlin in the Autumn of its years dozes between artificial flowers and all manner of foofaraw, time stands still in a moment before the German Reunification. The owner has been running the 'Fugger-Eck', formerly a family restaurant, for over 20 years now, before that he ran the gay disco 'Trocadero'. It was something special, so they say. The owner has a boyfriend who too is well over 40."
On the legal information page of Blond's web-site Rene Dolling, and Reinhard Wöbke are named as the managing directors. Blond is of it's own account a cocktail bar with karaoke and a flirt-music-box. The bar prides itself on it's prominent guests. The owner Reinhard Wöbke named the bar Blond after a patron at one of his former bars Ralf Morgenstern's gossip talk-show "Blond am Freitag" on Germany's Second German Television (ZDF). Blond's interior was designed by set designer Thomas Gabriel, who has worked for such prestigious venues as Deutsche Oper, Berlin. According to the bar's own web-site, the decor is meant to remind patrons of the 1970s. Other sources say the 1980s. One on-line trip advisor reassures readers that the bar is "heterofriendly" in spite of its location in the "heart of the gay district".
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Blond is a gay bar at Eisenacher Straße 3a, Berlin-Schöneberg. This street corner steeped in gay-lesbian history was the location of the Fugger-Eck, a popular venue whose owner/operator also ran the very well known gay disco Trocadero on Courbièrestraße in the 1970s. Arts and culture columnist Helmut Schödel describes the Fugger-Eck in the Süddeutsche Zeitung not long before it it closed as follows:
"In the 'Fugger-Eck' in the Motzstrasse district, the bar's owner, a man in his sixties, who used to be a dance school teacher in Bochum, plays hits from the good old days, "Die rote Sonne von Barbados" or "Gigi Amoroso" [sic]. At the push of a button, he triggers the sound of chirping birds throughout the locale, and when a guest enter the restrooms, an alarm siren sounds. Former gay West Berlin in the Autumn of its years dozes between artificial flowers and all manner of foofaraw, time stands still in a moment before the German Reunification. The owner has been running the 'Fugger-Eck', formerly a family restaurant, for over 20 years now, before that he ran the gay disco 'Trocadero'. It was something special, so they say. The owner has a boyfriend who too is well over 40."
On the legal information page of Blond's web-site Rene Dolling, and Reinhard Wöbke are named as the managing directors. Blond is of it's own account a cocktail bar with karaoke and a flirt-music-box. The bar prides itself on it's prominent guests. The owner Reinhard Wöbke named the bar Blond after a patron at one of his former bars Ralf Morgenstern's gossip talk-show "Blond am Freitag" on Germany's Second German Television (ZDF). Blond's interior was designed by set designer Thomas Gabriel, who has worked for such prestigious venues as Deutsche Oper, Berlin. According to the bar's own web-site, the decor is meant to remind patrons of the 1970s. Other sources say the 1980s. One on-line trip advisor reassures readers that the bar is "heterofriendly" in spite of its location in the "heart of the gay district".