{"id":8515,"date":"2020-05-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/?p=8515"},"modified":"2026-11-09T15:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:57:53","slug":"distanz-im-mai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/en\/2020\/05\/15\/distanz-im-mai\/","title":{"rendered":"DisTanz im Mai: better a May quake than giving in"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ke-pb\">\n<p class=\"ke-pb-lead\">May 2020: every event cancelled, the industry at a standstill. We celebrated anyway \u2013 online, together and with guests from eight countries.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ke-pb-facts\">\n<li><strong>14 May 2020<\/strong><span>online festival<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>210<\/strong><span>guests on the night<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>150<\/strong><span>at the same time at peak<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>8 countries<\/strong><span>from the USA to Vietnam<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"ke-pb-text\">\n<p>Two months into the first lockdown it was clear: events would not be back for a long time. So we created one. <strong>DisTanz im Mai<\/strong> was our online festival to lift spirits \u2013 with live music, a stage programme and a chat that barely paused.<\/p>\n<p>Our motto: <strong>\u201cBetter a May quake than giving in.\u201d<\/strong> Together with our partners \u2013 the <strong>Scharlatan Theater<\/strong>, <strong>Tilo Nordhaus<\/strong> and <strong>Florian Scherer<\/strong> (Alte Liebe Catering), <strong>Artstage<\/strong> and singer-songwriter <strong>Lukas Droese<\/strong> \u2013 we proved that closeness works even at a distance \u2013 and that in a crisis we don\u2019t wait, we act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"ke-pb-fig wide\"><video controls preload=\"none\" playsinline poster=\"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/140515_Zusammenfassung-DisTanz_im_Mai2020_001-scaled-1-1024x576.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/virtuelle-events.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/DisTanz-im-Mai-2020.mp4\" style=\"aspect-ratio:16\/9;object-fit:cover;background:#000\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<div class=\"ke-pb-media\">\n<figure class=\"ke-pb-fig\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/distanz-buehne-nadja.jpg\" alt=\"Nadja Kahn moderiert DisTanz im Mai vor rotem B\u00fchnenvorhang\" loading=\"lazy\"><span class=\"ke-pb-st t\">A warm welcome!<\/span><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"ke-pb-fig\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/distanz-buehne-band.jpg\" alt=\"Band auf der B\u00fchne von DisTanz im Mai unter einem leuchtenden Herz\" loading=\"lazy\"><span class=\"ke-pb-st r\">Live music with heart.<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ke-pb-media\">\n<figure class=\"ke-pb-fig\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/140515_Zusammenfassung-DisTanz_im_Mai2020_003-scaled-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshots vom Online-Festival DisTanz im Mai mit B\u00fchnenprogramm\" loading=\"lazy\"><span class=\"ke-pb-st t\">Showtime in the browser.<\/span><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"ke-pb-fig\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/140515_Zusammenfassung-DisTanz_im_Mai2020_006-scaled-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Volle Chat-Spalten w\u00e4hrend DisTanz im Mai\" loading=\"lazy\"><span class=\"ke-pb-st r\">The chat was on fire.<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ke-pb-text\">\n<p><strong>Who was there?<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ke-pb-claim\">Better a May quake than giving in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ke-pb-text\">\n<p>How we run online events today \u2013 read more on our page <a href=\"\/en\/portfolio\/online\/\">Online Events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2020, every event cancelled: with our online festival DisTanz im Mai we celebrated anyway \u2013 with 210 guests from eight countries.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aktuell"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8595,"href":"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515\/revisions\/8595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kahnevents.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}