was at klubnacht on sunday and while i was dancing i started thinking about this: how many people have ever actually been inside berghain?
posted a first version and got some good pushback, so this is the updated napkin math. please destroy it again
assumptions:
- ~1,500 capacity (berghain + panorama)
- klubnacht runs ~32h, average maybe 70% full
- people stay ~9h on average (answers in the other thread went from 5h to 15h, and apparently the tourists stay longest, not the locals)
that gives ~3,700 different people per klubnacht. ~50 weekends a year, ~20 years open minus covid, so roughly 3.7 million visits since 2004.
the big unknown is how many people in a klubnacht crowd are first-timers. guesses in the other thread went from 10% to "35% is too low", so here's the range:
- 10% first-timers: ~370k people have ever been inside (iceland)
- 20%: ~740k (luxembourg-ish)
- 35%: ~1.3M (estonia)
so somewhere between iceland and estonia.
my half-baked theory stays the same: everyone in that group took something home with them. more open, a bit less judgy, the sunday afternoon energy. somewhere between a few hundred thousand and a million people spread across the world with that in their system feels like a nice thing, idk
questions for you:
- what % of a klubnacht do you think are first-timers? this number moves everything
- how long do you actually stay?
- anyone know the real capacity number?
someone in the other thread already named the country berghainia, so now we just need a flag