Stadt. Land. Match. - Datingkultur auf Usedom
ROOM 117 @ Grunewaldstraße 2-5, UdK Medienhaus // Dating apps are booming. Gone are the days when only baby boomers and elite singles went on the World Wide Web in search of the right sweetheart. Tinder, lovoo, Bumble - the list of online dating services is long. The singles market is booming, especially in big cities. In rural regions, too, people are swiping and discovering the great love in the next village. But what does the whole thing actually look like on islands like Usedom? Even residents of a peninsula are limited by geographical conditions. How long does it take to swipe through the whole island? Do tourists date or only locals and what is the island's dating hotspot where you meet the most lonely souls in summertime? On site, we were told many stories and had perspectives opened up to us. Our Berlin prejudices were refuted and surpassed. Of course, there is no one dating culture on Usedom - just like in other places, it is made up of different people, with their individual stories and needs. People on Usedom are looking for big love just as much as they are looking for small adventures. Lovoo beats Tinder and is also used to make friends. The radius is set larger than the public transport network - so some are actively looking for people beyond Usedom, because with 76,500 and school class sizes of 10 people in some cases, you can definitely swipe through some acquaintances and have to search for the large selection first, at the same time the train tickets are expensive and the trains relatively inflexible. Those who have a car win! And if you don't, you can cycle to the next date - or ask taxi driver Mike. He comes into play at the latest when the local youth has once again spent long nights in the "Hühnerstall", THE club of Usedom. It's not only the tourists who are enchanted by the sight of the sunset on the beach or on the Achterwasser - a typical date for locals, too. If that's too kitschy, you can also go skating on the first date - unless you belong to the handball scene. People from Berlin to Bavaria come to Usedom to celebrate their freshly won love, to find it for a summer, or to escape marriage for a forbidden adventure. Yes, and sometimes the love of a holiday together on Usedom also extends beyond death.