Günther Krabbenhöft

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Günther Anton Krabbenhöft (* 1945 ) is a German male model .

Early years

According to the company, Krabbenhöft was born in 1945 and grew up with four siblings in a rural area near Hanover . After an apprenticeship as a chef, he worked in this profession for around 50 years. From a marriage that he entered into at the age of 25 and divorced ten years later, he has a daughter whom he raised alone for ten years , according to his own statements, anti-authoritarian . He also worked for a number of years in end-of- life care with AIDS patients .

He has lived in Berlin since the 1970s , initially in Moabit , and since the 1980s in Kreuzberg in a shared apartment . He has two grandchildren.

Designation as "hipster grandpa"

Krabbenhöft has been visiting various clubs in the Berlin techno scene , such as Berghain , Sisyphos , Club der Visionaere or Kater Blau , which has regularly attracted media attention, especially through the distribution of selfies, since February 2015 . In 2015 he was mentioned in an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . In the summer of 2015, Krabbenhöft became known worldwide as an internet phenomenon after being photographed in July at the Berlin Admiralbrücke and a little later at the Kottbusser Tor in the Berlin subway , and the photos were then spread on social networks . The magazine Cosmopolitan reported on it, praised Krabbenhöft's emphatically elegant clothing style and called him a "fashionable grandpa". Thereupon publications from home and abroad reported on him as supposedly “ Berlin's oldest hipster ”, “hipster pensioner vom Kotti” or “Berlin's coolest grandpa”. The Huffington Post called him "officially the world's most fashionable grandpa".

Krabbenhöft is being marketed as a model by a Berlin advertising agency. His trademarks include a bowler hat and a vest .

Awards

  • 2015: Street Fashion Pluck Award , presented by VDMD - Netzwerk deutscher Mode- und Textildesigner e. V.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günther Krabbenhöft on aging - "Live wild and dangerous!" In: sueddeutsche.de . October 15, 2015, accessed January 22, 2017 .
  2. ^ Franziska Felber: Günther Anton Krabbenhöft from Berlin-Kreuzberg: The hipster pensioner from Kotti. In: tagesspiegel.de . September 9, 2015, accessed January 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Wlada Kolosowa: Internet star Günther Krabbenhöft: Out and about with the oldest hipster in Berlin. In: Spiegel Online . September 4, 2015, accessed January 22, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Wlada Kolosowa: Get up, celebrate - then to the office. In: FAZ.net . February 4, 2015, accessed January 22, 2017 .
  5. ^ Günther, Kreuzberg. In: schickaa.com. August 26, 2015, accessed January 22, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Günther Krabbenhöft, el 'abuelito hipster' que viste mejor que tú… ¡y lo sabes! In: yahoo.com. August 25, 2015, Retrieved January 22, 2017 (Spanish).
  7. ↑ This Seriously Fashionable Grandpa Is So Hot Right Now. In: cosmopolitan.com. January 6, 2017, accessed January 22, 2017 .
  8. ↑ BZ: Berlin's coolest grandpa is dancing through the city. In: bz-berlin.de. February 2, 2016, accessed January 22, 2017 .
  9. ↑ This Fashion Grandpa Can Teach Us A Lot About Style. In: huffingtonpost.ca. January 22, 2017, accessed January 22, 2017 .
  10. ↑ http://weareunlikeyou.com/model/gunther-krabbenhoft/ ( Memento from April 5, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
  11. ↑ http://www.vdmd.de/de/current/news.php?id=1692 ( Memento from April 6, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Krabbenhöft, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krabbenhöft, Günther Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cook
DATE OF BIRTH 1945