Baroness of Kö

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Freifrau von Kö in a Louis Vuitton costume with a mink stole (2011)

Freifrau von Kö is the name of the fictional character of the Düsseldorf travesty artist and city ​​guide Andreas Patermann. The figure, which satirizes the clichés about millionaire wives on Düsseldorf's Königsallee and the “ Schickimicki ” image of the state capital in the form and habit of a drag queen , was created during the Düsseldorf Carnival and became known as its creator on February 21, 2009 on so-called Tuntenlauf on the Königsallee with the name Freifrau von Kö participated and won this competition .

description

The Baroness von Kö, whose last name refers to the abbreviation Kö of the luxury shopping mile Königsallee , represents a Düsseldorf millionaire's wife. She usually wears a brown costume with an expansive brunette wig, according to her own statement, in size 38 and “slightly wider at the hips “, Which reproduces the gold-colored trademark of the luxury brand Louis Vuitton as a pattern. She also wears accessories that match the costume, such as gold-colored pumps, gloves and necklaces, occasionally shopping bags from well-known shops and luxury labels on Königsallee, or a gold-colored construction helmet, which is supposed to identify her as a guide to the construction sites in the state capital. Her make-up is applied brightly and overdrawn in the typical way for drag queens. In good weather, she also wears lighter costumes, such as her " Elizabeth Taylor memory caftan".

Autobiography and habitus

The Freifrau von Kö comes from Dinslaken , a city in the Ruhr area . The society lady decidedly rejects any connection to the hit diva Uschi Blum , who was also born there. She wants to have “worked up” as a simple woman and made a career as an internationally acclaimed photo model. Finally, she was in the wealthy baronial those sex of Kings or lard-Köttgenburg married. Her places of residence include Düsseldorf, Nice, New York and Dinslaken. Her husband Carl Theodor is spending time in the Caribbean with his secretary. About her age, she realizes that she is 34 and will remain. Having risen to the nobility and jet set as a baroness and millionaire's wife , she claims the title “Madame”. She distances herself from the ordinary visitors to Königsallee, whom she sometimes calls “rabble from the outskirts” in an uninterrupted and frank flow of words. Looking back on a beauty contest at the Munich Oktoberfest in 2010, in which she did not make it to the final round with her specially tailored dirndl , but was eliminated early from among four hundred competitors, she told the daily Rheinische Post that The opinion that she was "a little too funky for conservative Munich". But she expected it, she said, and added: "It would have been different here in the Rhineland, here people are more open."

The Freifrau von Kö on Wallstrasse (September 2012)

Biography of their performer

In his first life Andreas Patermann (* 1949 in Franconia ) alias Freifrau von Kö worked as an exhibition designer at the theater museum . In 2002 he came to Düsseldorf from Franconia to study design at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences . He found his first job in an architects' office in Düsseldorf. According to his statements, it takes him two and a half hours to transform into a baroness, and an hour to remove make-up.

City tour

In addition to appearances at gala and charity events as well as a " walk in the park with Kings & Co." in a "glamorous taxibus" of the local public transportation company Rheinbahn offers the baroness of Kings at fixed and agreed dates a " glamor -Stadtbummel" by the "country's pit Dusseldorf" to . During this city tour, which regularly begins with a champagne reception in the Theatermuseum am Hofgarten , on the one hand it presents the current major construction sites in the area around Königsallee, in particular the Kö-Bogen project , on the other hand it provides insights into the city's history of Düsseldorf , with anecdotes and grandes dames of the city's history , such as Louise Dumont , Anna Maria Luisa de 'Medici , Johanna Ey and Lore Lorentz . The Baroness calls the Hofgärtnerhaus , the starting point of her city tours, her Petit Trianon . Since she dares to compare her person on the one hand with Madame de Pompadour and Marie Antoinette on the other, she shows once again that her preference is not for the stylistic device of understatement . With the appearance of a fictional character and the presentation of topics from architecture, urban development and urban history, the touristic service of the Freifrau von Kö can be classified as a scenic-thematic city tour .

Düsseldorf clichés "Millionaire's Wife" and "Schickimicki"

In the run-up to the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 , the news magazine Der Spiegel described the city of Düsseldorf, which is preparing for the major media event, as a “colony of 600,000 people, populated by Altbier drinkers and over-the-top millionaire wives”. At an event of the Initiativkreis Kultur in Düsseldorf , the author of this controversial city portrait explained that he was using it to describe Düsseldorf that he had been officially mediated, including contact with the Freifrau von Kö.

According to the results of the 2007 wage and income tax statistics, Düsseldorf was, before Cologne, the city with the most income millionaires in North Rhine-Westphalia (6.5 income millionaires per 10,000 inhabitants), but eleven smaller municipalities topped this list, especially the neighboring city of Meerbusch (18th century) , 1 income millionaire for every 10,000 inhabitants). If only the larger cities in Germany are taken into account when considering the number of income millionaires, Düsseldorf takes a top position; In 2012 it took first place in this category. A well-known "Düsseldorfer millionaire wife" was Gabriele Henkel and is Ute-Henriette Ohoven . During her liaison with the Düsseldorf car dealer Helmut Becker , Tatjana Gsell also met a number of criteria in the relevant scheme. The male counterpart to the stereotype of the Düsseldorf millionaire's wife can be seen as the playboy whom the hit singer Dorthe Kollo, who lived in Düsseldorf at the time , sang about in her song Would you have stayed in Düsseldorf in 1968 .

As early as 1979, the magazine Der Spiegel had reported under the heading A leprosy colony of the overprivileged about the opening of the luxury nightclub Regine's in the basement of the luxury hotel Breidenbacher Hof on Königsallee by the French singer and entrepreneur Regine Zylberberg , evoking well-known Düsseldorf clichés. The magazine spoke of the fact that "well-known idlers from the Rhenish money nobility (...) were spooning their crayfish charitable for the benefit of the German Cancer Aid".

In 2001, the writer Martin Walser used the cliché of the Düsseldorf millionaire's wife in his social novel The Life Course of Love . In it, the novelist described the figure of the 50-year-old Düsseldorf millionaire wife Susi Gern, who after an extravagant but unsatisfactory luxury life finally becomes a widow, welfare recipient and sexual partner of a young man with a migration background.

The fact that the Düsseldorf millionaire's wife has already achieved the status of an established term is shown by a gloss that Norddeutsche Rundfunk broadcast in 2013 on its radio program. The following attributes were assigned to this type: 50 years of age, wearing designer clothes, wigs and brilliant necklaces, figure problems, denial of age, wrinkled neck ("Waran neck", term after Tom Wolfe from American English) and taking advantage of cosmetic surgery offers.

Lately, the Düsseldorf entrepreneur Gisela Muth has been able to place herself as the well-known Düsseldorf millionaire wife in various TV formats - including the series The Perfect Celebrity Dinner .

The “Schickimicki” image is often promoted by actors in Düsseldorf for the purposes of tourist branding and marketing , often not without an ironic undertone, for example through a YouTube video of the Düsseldorf luxury hotel InterContinental , in which it is a special feature of “local cuisine” Short advertising film highlighted the fact that a “ Currywurst with gold” ( gold leaf ) is being served in the city's media harbor .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rüdiger Hoff: Düsseldorfers should fight against the “Schickimicki” image , article from November 22, 2011 in the online portal Der Westen , accessed on December 31, 2011.
  2. ↑ See Jörg Dietz: ESC in Düsseldorf. The village disco . Article by the Düsseldorf correspondent of Der Spiegel magazine on May 12, 2011, accessed on September 30, 2012.
  3. ↑ See also Reiner Burger: Capital of North Rhine-Westphalia. The world is a Düsseldorf . Article of May 9, 2011 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , accessed on September 30, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Get ready to go" , article from February 21, 2009 in the RP-ONLINE portal , accessed on July 14, 2011.
  5. ↑ Tuntenlauf on the Kö on February 21, 2009 , video in the YouTube portal , accessed on July 14, 2011.
  6. ↑ Nathalie Riahi: Freifrau von Kö made the shrill race , article from February 21, 2009 in the EXPRESS.DE portal , accessed on May 24, 2017.
  7. ↑ Jörg Tilmes: Düsseldorf in June 2011: Midsummer, Foundation Stones and Topstars , article from June 25, 2011 in the suite.de portal , accessed on November 3, 2013.
  8. ↑ For reference see: Elizabeth Taylor Auction: A Fitting Rememberance , series of images on the forbes.com portal (2013), accessed on November 3, 2013.
  9. ↑ Freifrau von Kö leads through the Landesbaugrube Düsseldorf , contribution in the broadcast WDR local time on May 28, 2011
  10. ↑ Sebastian Dalkowski: The shrill glow of the Freifrau von Kö . Article from October 19, 2013 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on June 7, 2014
  11. ↑ Götz Middeldorf: Freifrau mit losem Mundwerk , article from July 20, 2011 in the online portal DER WESTEN , accessed on July 23, 2011.
  12. ↑ Anja Steichan: Freifrau von Kö - Düsseldorf's Drag Queen , article from September 15, 2010 in the RP-ONLINE portal , accessed on July 14, 2011.
  13. ↑ Anja Steichan: Freifrau von Kö at the Wiesn , article from September 23, 2010 in the RP-ONLINE portal , accessed on July 14, 2011.
  14. ↑ Sebastian Dalkowski: The shrill glow of the Freifrau von Kö . In: Rheinische Post v. October 19, 2013, p. D11
  15. ↑ Coffee trip with Kö & Co .: Freifrau von Kö and Rheinbahn on tour , video (3:30 min) in the youtube.com portal , accessed on June 7, 2014
  16. ↑ Coffee trip with Kö & Co. , website in the portal rheinbahn.de , accessed on November 3, 2013.
  17. ↑ Guided city ​​tour with the Freifrau von Kö , article from April 26, 2011 in the RP-ONLINE portal , accessed on July 14, 2011.
  18. ↑ Alexander Kühn: Our village should become more beautiful , article from May 2, 2011 in the SPIEGEL ONLINE portal , accessed on July 16, 2011.
  19. ↑ ESC-Stadt Düsseldorf, in the realm of the millionaire's wife , article from May 13, 2011 in the online portal DER WESTEN , accessed on July 23, 2011.
  20. ↑ Ananda Milz: The Man Who Mocked the City , article from July 6, 2011 in the RP ONLINE portal , accessed on July 16, 2011.
  21. ↑ Meerbusch and Düsseldorf in front: Number of millionaires in North Rhine-Westphalia has risen dramatically , article from July 14, 2011 in the RP ONLINE portal , accessed on July 16, 2011.
  22. ↑ These German cities have the most millionaires . Article from February 28, 2012 in the morgenpost.de portal , accessed on November 3, 2013.
  23. ↑ Hans Leyendecker: Treacherous message with lipstick , article from 9/10. August 2003 in the portal sueddeutsche.de , accessed on November 3, 2013.
  24. ↑ Conny Neumann, Ralf Hoppe: The rise and fall of a breast . Article dated December 8, 2003 in the spiegel.de portal , accessed on November 3, 2013.
  25. ↑ Ernst Hess: A leprosy colony of the overprivileged . Article from April 30, 1979 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on October 12, 2013.
  26. ↑ The poor life of the millionaire's wife , book review of July 23, 2001 in the portal noz.de , accessed on November 3, 2013.
  27. ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: Schnucke im Luxuspelz , book review from July 16, 2001 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on November 3, 2013.
  28. ↑ Holger Senzel: Wigs That Do n't Decorate Anyone ( Memento from November 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), article from August 21, 2013 in the ndr.de portal , accessed on November 3, 2013.
  29. ↑ Contemplation among millionaires , article in spiegel.tv , first broadcast on December 23, 2008, accessed on November 3, 2013
  30. ↑ Ruth Schneeberger: Von Möpsen und Grehhunden ( Memento from June 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), TV review from January 12, 2011, Süddeutsche Zeitung, accessed in the archive.is archive on November 3, 2013.
  31. ↑ Gisela Muth: "The perfect celebrity dinner" from 02/06/2011 . Article in the portal vox.de , accessed on November 3, 2013.
  32. ↑ See: Position 3:18 min in: Insider's Tour of Düsseldorf, Germany, with InterContinental Düsseldorf ( YouTube video, 5:40 min) .

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