“Take a look” shouted to them Bruno Koschmider, the owner of the “Indra”, who had brought the boys from Liverpool to encourage them to perform for four and a half to six hours. Today it is no longer clear whether the red light size meant that the Beatles should put on a good show and not just stand around making music, or whether he asked them to play especially
look
. The adjective
schau
existed in the West German youth language of the early 1960s in the sense of “great, great, especially good”.
It is clearer how the word
Exi is
to be understood, which also haunts the Beatles' memories of their time in Hamburg. Ironically, the four Englishmen attest to the existence of the abbreviation
Exi
for
existentialist,
which is otherwise not very often documented in written sources
.