By Sebastian Bauer
In the football pubs, hope was always alive. The BZ watched in the chestnut grove in Reinickendorf.
HA HO HE – heartbeat BSC! What a game! What joy after the final whistle! In the cult restaurant Kastanienwäldchen in Reinickendorf, BZ experienced how tender hope turned into huge jubilation. Visiting the Hertha homeland!
Before the game, the mood among the fans was still skeptical. “The relegation has been indicated for a long time, sometimes bordering on a refusal to work,” says Kalle Kaiser from Charlottenburg. The quick 1-0 changed everything. Faith was back! “I never expected that!” said Gerhard Grahl in disbelief after the final whistle and relegation.
As a Hertha fan, the mood is not always boisterous. There is jittering here Photo: David Heerde
The unusual vigor of the Hertha players on the field caught on from the first minute. Under blue and white balloons, with Berliner Pilsener in a glass and delicious burgers on the plate, Doris Brozeit and her friends were also rooting for the party. “Insanity! Today they fought,” says the Reinickendorf native. She has been with Hertha since she was twelve and has seen a lot of ups and downs.
What did the team do better today than most of the rest of the season? “Everything,” says Fernando Rodrigo, his voice thick with jubilation. The circle of friends had appropriately uniformed themselves with jersey, scarf and blue and white wig.
In front of the big screen in the chestnut grove, Reinickendorf and his Hertha team are cheering them on Photo: David Heerde
Now Norbert Raeder can continue to give his legendary football parties here in the chestnut grove. The host says: “Seeing Hertha in the Bundesliga is of course also important for us.”
Hertha BSC
If the team always played like this, they could climb up the table in the future, everyone is convinced of that. And this belief is harder than any of Felix Magath’s medicine ball training sessions.
The mood in the HSV fan bar “Havanna” in Pankow is depressed Photo: Ralf Gunther
Hopefully for years to come fans will be treated to the kind of football that flashed that night and that they have long deserved here.
