The New Cologne After-Work — September 2026

An after-work evening at die kunstbar in central Cologne, opposite the Alter Wartesaal by the Hauptbahnhof, on Thursday 10 September 2026 from 6 pm. The organiser has run the format in Cologne for over seven years and describes it as an uncomplicated start to the weekend, away from the party scene — a place to meet, date, see friends again, flirt and dance, with Frank Sonic on the turntable.

The organiser is explicit about what it is and is not: 'we are not a club and not a fetish event — BUT what pleases is allowed', and it lists the evening as frivolous, hot, colourful, erotic and hedonistic. It calls the night deliberately easy for newcomers. House rules: a no stays a no; there is a guarded cloakroom with somewhere to change beside it; men who register as a couple and turn up alone are refused entry; and photography is forbidden, with calls and messages to be taken outside. Tickets must be bought in advance through the organiser's own shop — it says a JoyClub registration is not a ticket.