A sequin skirt, a fur vest and a glittering cylinder - you don't need much more so that the participants arrive in their roles in the "scavenger hunt of madness".In keeping with the outfit, everyone pulls a note on which his very personal madness is noted: Suddenly Lukas finds everyone here "super hot", Madlen whines over the dirt in the forest and Alex becomes a cave man.The scavenger hunt is part of a holiday camp especially for adults.
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20 people opened their camp for four to six days on a campground in Rosenberg in the Ostalb district.The deeper the colorfully costumed group fell into the forest, the more exuberant the mood becomes.Note hang on trees with tasks, so that soon every strange -looking behavior shows.Nils is desperately looking for Puck from Shakespeare's summer night dream, Madlen is constantly screaming "left" and Christoph shows all his muscles."This is the perfect moment to let out character traits that you would otherwise not live out."The sentence of Sandra Wilde - organizer of the spectacle - is the program.
But who are the people who sit under a white tent in camping chairs, play board games or bathe in the pond?And why did you come to this holiday camp?"We used to be at the youth fire brigade in the camp," says 27-year-old Sandra.Together with her two friends, she wanted to experience the holiday feeling from before."You are so carefree and live into the day," says the industrial engineer.The advantages of the Ü18 camp: there are fewer rules that you don't have to be at 8:00 a.m. at breakfast and alcohol is allowed.
A sense of community quickly arises
The 37-year-old Madlen was also about five times in the holiday camp as a child, as she says."Two days ago we were still alien here, now you have a real feeling of community," says the head of a children's home.What who does professionally or the age of the other games is hardly a role here.
In addition to the points of "Fixed Shoes", "Sleeping Sac" and "Mosquito and Teck Protection", the pack list sent in advance to the participants of the holiday camp also "your inner child with flausen in the head and infinite curiosity".
The supposed children's games in the camp are not nonsense, but have positive effects, says the game researcher Jens Junge."Playing is a basic phenomenon of man that still plays a major role after childhood. When adults play, they can forget obligations and constraints from everyday life," says the founder of the Institute of Ludology - the teaching of playing - in the designAkademie Berlin.It free and enable the outbreak of rigid rollers."Playing looks like a valve."
"People are here to get down"
Before you arrive, you did not know which program awaits women and men between the ages of 25 and 44."People are here to get down. We just want to repeat the good old days," explains Nils Stauch, who launched the camp together with Sandra Wilde.The brown roasted wilderness teacher wears hiking trousers on which a knife dangles.As a child, the 38-year-old was among the scouts.
"Now you are starting up with scouts," said friends to him when he and the 31-year-old decided to turn outdoor courses into their profession in 2017."I miss my old job zero zero," says Sandra Wilde, who had previously worked as a management consultant.
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VideoIf compression shapes his hands into a funnel and emits a loud call to crow, this is a signal that something happens straight away.Today the striking scream sounds, among other things, as an announcement for the joint construction of a rope bridge.About ten people find themselves and move into the forest to build a bridge out of rope and branches.The rope is pulled tightly together, if you need help with the climb, you get a shoulder to hold on or a robber ladder.
Who wants: meditate in the morning
In addition to fun and fun, deceleration is a big topic in the camp.If you like, you can take a meditation in the morning.There are no fixed meal times or program items.It is lived after the internal period.Hardly any of the vacationers wear a wristwatch."You go to sleep when you are tired. It's really nice, not as planned as usual," says participant Sandra.Even the look at the smartphone display, which is so typical in everyday life, is no longer necessary, because there is hardly any cell phone reception on the campground.
The holiday camp for adults in Baden-Württemberg is not the only one of its kind. An organizer in Lower Saxony advertises "crazy PyjamaPartys" and describes the camp as a "adventure playground".And in a camp in northern Germany, the holidaymakers carry new names in the camp under the motto "Being who you always wanted to be".
Game researcher boy has long observed an increase in game events especially for adults.Among other things, indoor playgrounds offer tiby evenings for people over 18.The toy industry has long since discovered the so -called kidults - adults with fun with childish hobbies."For many people, childhood was a very nice time that they like to think back. Such a journey into the past is a source of strength," says the 57-year-old."If you reminiscent of back then, you can get your feeling of wellbeing."
