The Ballermann and the wonderfully shot-up audience

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Vivian slip was born in southern Germany in 1994 and has been studying photojournalism and documentary photography since 2013 Hanover. She is currently in her seventh semester and mainly works on free projects. For the „German Holiday Paradise“ photo project, she rented a place on Playa de Palma in Malle for three weeks. And just watched. For us she answered questions in the interview:

ZEITjUNG.de: You rented a room in Playa de Palma for three weeks for your photo project – why are you so fascinated by the people who fly to Mallorca to see Ballermann?

Vivianrutsch: I’m interested in bizarre places and events and wanted to find out to what extent the clichés in my head correspond to reality. It fascinates me to become part of a microcosm and to dive into a world unknown to me. I wanted to find out which people flock to Ballermann and what motivates them to do so.

Why is Mallorca so popular with Germans anyway? After all, you can also party in your hometown.

I perceived the German holiday culture as a large community. At Ballermann, where I primarily stayed, the mood was always boisterous and uninhibited. Anonymity certainly plays an important role here. I think people find a place here that doesn’t exist in their home country. Age and profession are secondary, which is certainly one reason for the fascination that Ballermann exerts on German audiences. Especially for a generation for which there is actually no party culture on this scale in Germany. This exuberance would be unthinkable in Germany, for many, celebrating at Ballermann also means being free – without being judged for it.

What bizarre encounters were there during this time? For me, the entire time at Ballermann was a bizarre encounter. A small excerpt from my notebook: „I sit down with my camera on a wall between the beach and the promenade and watch the hustle and bustle. A woman sits next to me, brown perm, gold hoop earrings, and a gold necklace lying on her liver-spotted skin. She begins to smoke, drags heavily on her cigarette, her long red fingernails flash at me, the nail polish is peeling off at the ends. I want to take a picture of her, we start a conversation. I photograph her, with the Black Sea behind her. The lanterns cast yellow light on her brown hair. She says she’s alone, we’re going for a beer together. The room is crowded and loud, people sing along to German hits. Several monitors show a boxing match. Sandra says she loves fights, then she can’t stop staring. She got that from her mother, who put her in front of the television at the age of five and let her watch the heavyweight class. When she was 17, she went to a bar where the boys fought. There she stood in the first row and went home with blood spattered on her heels.

So I’m sitting with Sandra on wooden stools in the Bierkönig, three beers later three men join us. All between 48 and 50, paunchy and graying. They introduce themselves as Hubert, Guido and Winnie. After a short conversation, Sandra and Winnie kiss, although Sandra actually had her eye on the somewhat arrogant Guido in leather pants. We accompany the three of them to the „Rutschbahn“, an oldie disco with a small wooden slide that leads down to the basement. Similar to what you know from coal mines. There is dancing. Hubert sits down with me at the bar. After the seventh beer they buy us, we go home. Sandra still didn’t want to sleep with Winnie, maybe he should have withheld from her the fact that he is married and has two daughters.

Thanks for this interview! You can find Vivian’s photo projects here, her Instagram page here.

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