Last but not least: Current forms of stress reduction
It's a Saturday afternoon in early March on the Domplatte in Cologne. The sky is surprisingly blue, and the temperature is already almost T-shirt weather. Suddenly, the mood takes a turn...
A Saturday afternoon at the beginning of March, on the Domplatte in Cologne. The sky is amazingly blue, the temperatures are almost in the T-shirt range. As always, crowds of tourists from all over the world are flocking towards the cathedral. But it's not just churchgoers who are here: A large number of young people gather in front of the Roman-Germanic Museum. And then, at 3 p.m. on the dot, it suddenly turns martial: with loud shouts, the young people - there must be a good 150 of them - charge at each other without any prior warning. Their weapon: a pillow, their medium: the Internet. Last Saturday at Zurich main station: at 4.15 pm on the dot, people of all ages stand still. In the middle of a kiss, looking at the scoreboard or eating chocolate sticks, they seem frozen (
). For several years now, so-called flash mobs have been taking place all over the world. People are asked by e-mail, on websites or in blogs to gather at a certain place at a certain time and take action together. Hundreds of people have already simultaneously set up umbrellas, pulled out newspapers or turned into hydrochloric acid (
), pillow fights are currently very popular. This form of collective stress relief has also been practised several times in Switzerland. Last year in Zurich, Lausanne and Fribourg, for example, young people beat the tension out of their bodies in a peaceful manner. The action in Cologne (see ), which many Cologne residents accepted with complete indifference, ended after around twenty minutes with happy exhaustion and a cloud of bed feathers swirling through the entire Cologne pedestrian zone.
). For several years now, so-called flash mobs have been taking place all over the world. People are asked by e-mail, on websites or in blogs to gather at a certain place at a certain time and take action together. Hundreds of people have already simultaneously set up umbrellas, pulled out newspapers or turned into hydrochloric acid (
), pillow fights are currently very popular. This form of collective stress relief has also been practised several times in Switzerland. Last year in Zurich, Lausanne and Fribourg, for example, young people beat the tension out of their bodies in a peaceful manner. The action in Cologne (see ), which many Cologne residents accepted with complete indifference, ended after around twenty minutes with happy exhaustion and a cloud of bed feathers swirling through the entire Cologne pedestrian zone.
