May 2020: every event cancelled, the industry at a standstill. We celebrated anyway – online, together and with guests from eight countries.
- 14 May 2020online festival
- 210guests on the night
- 150at the same time at peak
- 8 countriesfrom the USA to Vietnam
Two months into the first lockdown it was clear: events would not be back for a long time. So we created one. DisTanz im Mai was our online festival to lift spirits – with live music, a stage programme and a chat that barely paused.
Our motto: “Better a May quake than giving in.” Together with our partners – the Scharlatan Theater, Tilo Nordhaus and Florian Scherer (Alte Liebe Catering), Artstage and singer-songwriter Lukas Droese – we proved that closeness works even at a distance – and that in a crisis we don’t wait, we act.
Who was there? 1,326 visitor clicks from Germany alone and 210 guests on the night: 197 from Germany, four each from the USA and the UK, and one each from Switzerland, Austria, Morocco, Russia and Vietnam.
Better a May quake than giving in.
How we run online events today – read more on our page Online Events.