Documentation-ZDF series »Bürstener«: Buns of Raphael

Security, that was once an order of mostly uniformed law enforcement officers who, apart from a few bodyguards and security cupboards, were easy to overlook. At most patrolling police, there were no concrete blocks in front of folk festivals. And in front of the club, depending on the size, two muscular guys were sitting, which occasionally opened bags and packed in an emergency. Not much more. Very long.

If the Lower Rhine Disco E-Dry now organizes a Halloween party, 14 professional security guards alone come to 3000 guests who organize someone with a bald head, many years of experience and a work motto that may save life: “You have to be authoritarian,” says Raphael. And it really does not sound in the remarkable ZDF documentary, which bears his job in the name, really, as if you should ignore this in an emergency: “Bouncer”.

Drunk rioting, rejected protest, euphorized deliration and constantly attract real rescue workers.

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Already because the 48-year-old specifies why he is already a “guard of the night”, as is hot in the subtitle: “Out of passion”. Where does it stem from what she follows, why, despite all the dangers, she is not just a nightly acquisition, but also the existence of existence – those affected like Raphael have explained this twice 45 minutes in the media library since Monday. A little tip: be sure to switch on!

Because Antje Diller-Wolff and Steven Melzer not only stop on their tour through the German party life. The directors (cut: Franz Buscha, Jan Cords, Steffen Meibaum) travel to seven, sometimes legendary hotspots of the party mood and meet people like Raphael in Edel Discos such as the Munich Disco P1, world clubs such as the Berlin Berghain, provincial sheds such as the Kaiserslauterer Markthalle or amusing quarters.

And everywhere Raphael shows what Raphael says about his work directly: “The youth no longer knows any limits.” Alcohol, drugs, testosterone, mixed with loss of control, chauvinism, adrenaline-a toxic brew: “If a bottle meets you at a short distance, the lamp can be after one of the thousand documentary formats of” trouble “above “Night patrol” to “Toto & Harry”, who in particular fill private television with security personnel in the ordinary state of emergency of German security forces.

So does the ZDF do something else, something more profound, so better? First of all: unfortunately no. With the usual mix of manipulative drama and personality, public law bouncers are also portrayed in the overwhelming sound, without the Real Life disappearing off four-digit access rates. Under observation, all security guards prohibit structural racism of normal German inlet controls. In any case, objects of the security subjects hit the strands here. In the camera focus, the Heisenberg blur ferelation also proves its influence here.

What makes SPIEGEL TV differently on behalf of ZDFinfo? A little less blood, sweat and tears in the blue -red light, but more pixelated eyes and focus on the socio -cultural context. While the Berlin sociologist Christine Preiser explains to us on the basis of her doctorate that bouncers are “figureheads” of their establishments, whose profession is influential, demanding, meaningful and increasingly female, but is stigmatized as inferior, even simple, even simple stigmatized, a dozen talking heads of these highly interesting milieus study in gray -rich.

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Tough, liked to halenate types such as “Germany’s allegedly best -known bouncer” Anke, called “Black Götin”. Proud 33 of her 55 years in the Lauterer Nightlife, she is there even longer than Mirko, who “only” ensures a third of his 48 Lenze for order at the Entree Frankfurt Festivities. Both are luminaries of an underpaid, high -risk, deeply fulfilling activity, which they explain to us with real empathy in front, but also privately. This creates moments of authentic proximity that bring a almost dozen nightshade plants of the entertainment industry into the spotlight and show one thing above all: respect for their work.

Of course, the hut is constantly burning here. Drunk rioting, rejected protest, euphorized deliration and constantly attract real rescue workers. But then the documentary hardly differs from a reality that Raphael gets to the point in a nutshell at dawn of an eventful night: “We are only people with a sensitive shell and want to come home in the evening.” When it stays salvation, he puts his safety vest in the car and brings rolls.

Available in the ZDF media library and from March 20 in ZDFinfo