Help: Pop Inn, Dachluke, Swing-Point, Sloopy poster
Berliner Jugendclub e.V. was founded in 1960 as an initiative to provide West Berlin’s youth with age-appropriate venues to meet, party, and enjoy (live) music. The first of these Senatstheken was the jazz-saloon in Steglitz, which was renamed Pop Inn in 1967 (and closed its doors in 2010). It was followed by the Dachluke on Kreuzberg’s Mehringdamm (1961–1988), the Swing-Point in Spandau, and, since 1967, the sloopy at Kurt-Schumacher-Platz in Reinickendorf, the largest of the four.
Around 1968, Jürgen Spohn designed a DIN A1 poster promoting the four youth clubs. The little doll arms waving out of apothecary bottles apparently reference the cover art for the 1965 Beatles album, Help. For the typography, Spohn paired Fette Volta (1956) and Fette Künstler-Schreibschrift (1958).
