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Jonny Knüppel Club 2025 in Berlin

Club-Awareness at Jonny Knüppel

Awareness work in a subcultural club and event space
In 2025, reflect.awareness e.V. provided awareness support for the Berlin club Jonny Knüppel. The club is a subcultural venue that offers space for music, political content, social interaction, and communal experiences. In this context, awareness plays a central role in creating a safe(er) and discrimination-sensitive environment for all visitors.

Club spaces are places of closeness, intensity, and diverse needs. At the same time, social power structures, forms of discrimination, and boundary violations are often particularly visible here. Awareness work is therefore an essential part of responsible club culture.

Awareness-work in the club context
Our task was to accompany the event operations at Jonny Knüppel with a visible, approachable awareness team. We were present during events, attentively observing the situation and offering support to visitors when needed.

Awareness in the club context means being easily approachable, offering conversations, and not leaving people alone in stressful or overwhelming situations. It is not about control rather about support, solidarity, and protection.

The role of reflect.awareness e.V. as the Awareness-Team
As an awareness-team, we consistently worked according to the principles of partiality and the power of definition. Experiences were taken seriously, not relativized or questioned. Our goal was to open up options for action and to respect boundaries.

Our stance is clearly anti-sexist, anti-discriminatory, and critical of power. We understand awareness as a political practice that assumes responsibility and takes a clear position against all forms of violence and discrimination.

Awareness and responsibility in club culture
The awareness support at Jonny Knüppel made it clear that clubs are not only places for partying but also social spaces with responsibility. Discrimination-sensitive structures help more people to feel safe and participate.

Awareness work in the club context also means making existing power structures visible and promoting forms of solidarity—especially in spaces that consider themselves open and progressive.

We thank the team at Jonny Knüppel for their trust and collaboration.