I went there with my parents to have coffee on Sundays – properly dressed, of course. For example, on the nude hike that took me to the Bergisches Land. No, it doesn’t and I had to overcome myself more than once. Does this shame simply disappear among the naked? Many are ashamed to be naked and can hardly bring themselves to do it. Being naked is a great equalizer, but it also connects you. Everything that could be interpreted is gone, is my counterpart a bank manager or a plumber, is he conservative or progressive? After this tabula rasa you get into a conversation very quickly and talk about personal things in a completely different way than usual. But when I think of the nude cruise that I went on, for example, then you suddenly meet people in a completely different way. It’s totally unfamiliar and also a bit uncomfortable. I ran after luck with the others and was very frozen, but it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.įirst you just have to jump over your shadow. If you can do that, you’ll be lucky next year. For the New Year, thousands of men – there were more than 9,000 when I was there – go naked through the city in the snow and cold and try to touch a holy man. It has been around for more than 1,300 years. On my journey to the undisguised cultures of this world, the nude festival in Japan was the most fascinating. Everyone bathed as they wanted, naked or with swimming trunks. I’ve been used to that since I was a child, because I went there with my parents.
Marc Engelhardt: I think that I actually feel most at home on the Baltic Sea beach. Where was your favorite place to be naked? Ntv.de: In your self-experiment you visited numerous places naked, including a cruise ship and a museum. He spoke to ntv.de about where it was embarrassing or cold and why it is actually nothing special to be naked. His journey to the undisguised cultures of the world takes him to his limits of shame and beyond. Without a scrap of textile on his body – this is how the author Marc Engelhardt sets out: for a hike, to the museum, on a cruise.