Detlef Gehlhaar

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Detlef Gehlhaar (* 21st February 1964 in Emden as Detlef Hünnecke ) is a German hairdresser . He became known from 1996 through the establishment of the “Cut & Go” principle in Germany.

Life

Detlef Gehlhaar has been working in the hairdressing business since 1979 and is mainly active in Bremen . In 1984, together with Gülhizar Biricik, he founded the Güly and Pierre hairdressing salon in the Hanseatic city , which his business partner took over in 1987. He then worked for three years in the creative house built in 1921 by Bernhard Hoetger in Worpswede . In the immediate vicinity of his already existing TenDenZen business at the Sielwallkreuzung in Bremen's " hip district ", he opened the Salon Headhunter on December 1, 1996 , with which the concept of a hairdresser with comparatively cheap haircuts was taken up in Germany for the first time, without appointments and with a simple pricing structure occurred. In addition, the customers usually took care of blow-drying and styling themselves to save costs .

Gehlhaar later opened further branches in Bremen, Hanover and Berlin. As a result, other providers also implemented the idea, including existing hairdressing companies such as Frisör Klier ( hairdresser for small prices ) and HairGroup ( HairExpress ). In 2012, almost ten percent of the around 80,000 existing hairdressing salons in Germany advertised the principle.

With the exception of the main store in Bremen that still exists today (as of 2019) - which is now located near the Sielwall intersection in the street Am Dobben - Gehlhaar sold all headhunter branches in 2003 and changed the concept of the salon that he still owns in the following years towards higher-priced offers. In 2014, on the occasion of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany, he said that he considered the idea of ​​the cheap “Cut & Go” of the 1990s to be out of date. Gehlhaar understands his collections, with which he achieved national and international success (see section Awards ), as reminiscent of the forms and colors of the Bauhaus .

He was married to the artist Andreas Gehlhaar, whose family name he adopted.

Awards (selection)

  • German Hairdressing Awards 2015: Winner in the Women North category
  • German Hairdressing Awards 2017: Winner in the Women North category
  • German Hairdressing Awards 2017: Winner in the Hairdresser of the Year category
  • International Hairdressing Awards 2019: Finalist in the International Hairdresser of the Year category

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Happening at the hairdresser's. Queuing at “headhunter” in Prenzlauer Berg. In: Neues Deutschland , March 22, 2000, accessed on April 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Fast cut. In: Der Spiegel , June 2, 2003, accessed April 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b splitting hairs. What hairdressers do to secure their business. In: Die Zeit , November 6, 2003, accessed April 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b My wonderful hairdressing salon. In: taz , January 4, 1997, accessed April 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Wash, cut, save. The cheap hairdresser report. In: Die Welt , April 22, 2012, accessed on April 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ A hairy business. Hairdressing industry suffers from structural problems. In: Weser-Kurier , April 19, 2008. ( Factiva WESKU00020080419e44j000ek)
  7. ↑ 10 questions to Detlef Gehlhaar. friseur-job.de, August 18, 2014, accessed on April 9, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Detlef Gehlhaar, SalonStar Newcomer 2012 creates the "Nature Glam" collection for Napura. Friseur.com, March 30, 2012, accessed April 9, 2019 .
  9. ↑ 100 years of Bauhaus: Style homage by Detlef Gehlhaar. fmfm.de, 2019, accessed on April 9, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Schwarzkopf Professional celebrates creativity and passion for the hairdressing trade. Henkel AG & Co. KGaA , April 8, 2015, accessed April 9, 2019 . (PDF document, 0.1 MB)
  11. ↑ a b Event booklet German Hairdressing Awards 2017. Schwarzkopf , 2017, accessed on April 9, 2019 . (PDF document, 4 MB)
  12. ↑ The finalists of the first International Hairdressing Awards. Estetica Magazin, October 2, 2018, accessed April 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gehlhaar, Detlef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hünnecke, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hairdresser
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden