These young people live in a slightly different flat share: The flatmates not only share the bathroom and kitchen, but also clothes, groceries and the bed.
Dresden - There is no such thing as “mine” and “yours” in this flat share: Everything is shared with Lillian and her five roommates. The six students live in Dresden in a house with a total of 135 square meters. Even so, there is only one bedroom, one study, one wardrobe. If you need your privacy, you get it in the "private room", which you can only use when it is not already occupied - because that too is shared.
Living together in itself is not an unpopular living situation in Germany alongside family and single life. Overall, almost seven percent of Germans aged 14 and over will live in a shared apartment in 2021. This was the result of the Allensbach market and advertising media analysis. In addition to financial relief, such a flat share also brings other advantages, such as nice company or shared housework.
But many people shy away from living together with other people.
Common reasons: the lack of privacy, lack of cleanliness, frequent arguments about food.
The functional flat share in Dresden has taken the concept to extremes so that everything is really shared there.
From the rooms to the shopping or the clothes to the bed.
Funk reporter Pablo visited this flat in Dresden for the “follow me.reports” format and what the residents showed the reporter there is a completely different way of living together.
A flat share that shares everything: No own room and privacy traffic light in Dresden
Six young people are currently living together in the special shared apartment. In weddings it was up to 11, reports Lillian in the radio report. She herself has been living in the “functional flat share” for a year and a half. Functional in this context means that not everyone has their own room, as one might know from a shared apartment, but that the rooms are used according to function. In addition to the bathroom and kitchen, this also enables the flat share to have a music and party room, a study, a dressing room and even a “private room”.
The “follow me” report from Funk puts it to the test - because viewers are allowed to submit their questions in advance - no matter how uncomfortable they are.
Among other things: “How do you do that with the shared bedroom in relation to love partner and sex?” And that's where the private room comes into play.
The room is equipped with a self-made traffic light.
If it is green, everyone is welcome to come in or the room is empty, if it is yellow, “Please knock” and if it is red, the person wants to have absolute peace.
Functional flat share: roommates even share their underwear
The access data for a porn account, for example, is also hanging in this room.
So there actually seems to be hardly any limits in the functional flat share in Dresden.
When asked about her clothes, Lillian shows once again how easy it is to deal with your own and other people's property in the shared apartment.
She looks down at herself and says, “It's definitely not mine.
Yes.
The socks, I don't know and I don't think the underpants either. "
In Frankfurt in particular, the housing market is still tense, so that here too many people - especially students and trainees - live in shared apartments.
To ease the situation, the city of Frankfurt is now starting an extraordinary residential project.
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