Published on January 10, 2025 at 8:49 p.m.
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Images of open stages from the 1990s, such as the Platzspitz or the Letten, have left a lasting impression. These places of wild consumption have not disappeared from the landscape
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Chur, for example, is experiencing an expansion of the phenomenon.
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The population accepted at the ballot box the creation of an injection site, but which has not yet been possible due to opposition from local residents.
A smell of sausage mixed with the scent of cotton candy spreads across the main street of Chur, where the Christmas market has taken up residence. A chime rings 11 a.m., while mulled wine and Magenbrot (gingerbreads) find buyers in a good-natured mood. A few steps further, the atmosphere changes drastically. In the Stadtgarten, around twenty drug addicts drag their slippers under a rain of dead leaves. “Fuck the Wellt”, asserts a graffiti tagged on the surrounding wall. A man silently dances the jig in front of a stele in the center of the quadrangle.
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