What happened to Mensch Meier's floor?
Mensch Meier ran for close to a decade at Storkower Strasse 121, a queer-friendly, community-built techno room Berlin genuinely mourned when it shut down with a four-day closing run in December 2023. The operators said their rent had roughly quadrupled and they weren't going to chase it. Abstrakt, a sister project of the neighboring Anomalie Art Club, took over the room in April 2024. Anomalie itself later rebranded as DSTRKT, the club that now sits next door at Storkower Strasse 123, run by the same man who is about to reopen Mensch Meier's old room: Victor Rudek.
What is ROSA actually building?
Under Rudek's 121 Studio GmbH, ROSA names its audience directly: a kink club for "queers, sex-positive and curious people," pitched as a community space rather than a fetish spectacle for outsiders to gawk at.
"We see our club as a community space where we can learn from each other together with the scene."
That line, from the operators, borrows the same communal register the old Mensch Meier crowd used to describe their own floor.
Revival or rebrand?
This is where Berlin will split. To some, kink and queer culture landing here reads as continuity: Berlin's radical nightlife tradition finding a new form in a room it already loved. To purists, it reads as a brand exercise, a commercial operator with three addresses now (HIVE, DSTRKT, and this one) leaning on a mourned name's real estate rather than earning a room of his own. The concrete signals lean toward the former: the no-photo rule and the Safe Guard partnership with Good Night Out are structural choices, not marketing lines, and they track the consent-first culture the old crowd actually valued.
