High native quota: midsummer night at Buhne 16

You can celebrate at Buhne16. Midsummer night on 21 June is perfect for getting warmed up before the season. It is generally very mild, always not that full and a magnet for all islanders who love the beach.

There is live music, meeting up again with lots of winter exiles, the first intensive meeting point of this summer, only a very few hours of genuine darkness. Sometimes there is dancing, always lots of laughter, nobody is ever ignored. Midsummer night is the first, perhaps the most beautiful celebration of the Buhne 16 party summer.
For 25 years people have been celebrating perhaps the most beautiful and certainly the shortest night of the year, midsummer night at Buhne 16. Even if it is sometimes not that great, as happens, when long after eleven at night it’s still barely dark and a glimmer lies over the horizon in the east before you can really think of sleep.
Some years ago it was raining "cats and dogs", as islanders like to say but the dedicated midsummer clique - and it’s huge! – as always met at Buhne 16 with live music from Reggae-Mann. The mayor sat next to a rasta boy, dogs sought shelter under the counter. Children romped in the buff through the rain. This date is sort of like a secret start to the season. The beach boys from last time around have finally returned with surfboard, small child and cone from winter hibernation somewhere down south. Everything is perfectly prepared for the onslaught of Rhinelanders, the seasonal lifeguards clique are all a little pale around the gills but all present and it’s a bit like the quiet before the tourist invasion, which mainly locals and the experts among the guests mutually enjoy unrestrainedly.