Hotel Deutsche Eiche

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Hotel and restaurant "Deutsche Eiche"

The hotel "Deutsche Eiche" in the Gärtnerplatzviertel of Munich is an old traditional restaurant and is considered one of the oldest meeting places of the gay scene in Munich.

history

The Deutsche Eiche house in today's Reichenbachstrasse was built like many buildings in the area in 1864, and there is no evidence of a restaurant at the time. The name was used quite often for various institutions at the time and was intended to demonstrate national pride, law and order. There is evidence of a tavern since 1882 at the latest. In 1896 Emil Reichenbach bought the restaurant. In 1944 an aerial bomb destroyed the upper floor.

In the 1950s, more and more dancers from the nearby Gärtnerplatztheater visited the restaurant. They didn't earn particularly well, valued the cheap economy and sometimes got a soup or a glass of wine for free. As a thank you, the landlady was often given theater tickets, and premieres were soon relocated to Deutsche Eiche. Dancers came up with the idea of holding a carnival party , which soon became an institution. This is how the bar became a meeting place for artists, bon vivants and homosexuals, especially in the evening.

From 1971 the homosexual action group met regularly in the pub. Rainer Werner Fassbinder , who lived in the house opposite from 1974 to 1978, was one of the regulars at the restaurant and organized many of his celebrations there. For him it was a kind of living room and, according to Harry Baer, ​​the “motherhouse” of the clan that gathered around Fassbinder. His lover Armin Meier , who also worked as an actor in some of his films, worked for Deutsche Eiche . His regular pub also appears in several of Fassbinder's films; A scene from the film Lola was shot there, and the landlady Sonja Neudorfer got a role in some films. Countless other personalities also visited the restaurant.

In the end, the rather simply furnished hotel was run by Ella Reichenbach, her daughter Sonja and her sister-in-law Toni. The pub began to decline in the mid-1980s. The area around it became fancier and rents more expensive; the kitchen should be modernized by order of the authorities, which would have led to increased prices. Senior boss Ella also died, the lease contract was to be terminated and, from 1993, the building was to be gutted and designed to be commercially profitable. This led to worldwide protests and offers of help from the USA. Nevertheless, Sonja Neudorfer, geb. Reichenbach opened in 1995, closed the restaurant, and the owner Monachia sold the “problematic property”. This is the end of this piece of Munich local history under the direction of the Reichenbach family after almost a hundred years.

An artist get-together

After the Second World War , more and more artists, decorators and colorful people gathered in the rustic tavern "Deutsche Eiche", so that once in the SZ it was said that the "Deutsche Eiche" was a homosexual meeting place. The landlady at the time, Ella Reichenbach, was indignant: “What a rubbish what they're writing! With me 90% artists and 10% of women disappointed men! ”But there were - apart from the landladies - always women who felt comfortable in the“ Deutsche Eiche ”, e. B. Margot Werner , Elisabeth Volkmann , Barbara Valentin or Donna Summer . After the war it was Ernst Craemer who founded the carnival tradition. Parodies were staged with the two landladies Ella and Tony as the main characters. Even today there are big celebrations at the end of January and on Shrove Tuesday.

In the 1960s, John Cranko , world-famous ballet choreographer, came to Munich. He also preferred to celebrate with his people from the State Theater in the "Deutsche Eiche".

From 1974 the "Deutsche Eiche" becomes Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "second living room" . From then on, glittering film festivals are celebrated here. In “Satansbraten” and “Lola” the “Deutsche Eiche” even appears as a location. In order to be as close as possible to his regular pub, Fassbinder and his great love Armin, who was a waiter in the "Eiche", move into an apartment across from Reichenbachstrasse. 12, today the office of the "Deutsche Eiche".

Even Freddie Mercury ( " Queen ") lived in the 1980s in Munich and was a guest on the "German Oak".

today

“Leo von Klenze” monument on Gärtnerplatz; donated by the "Deutsche Eiche".

From 1995 the building was renovated and rebuilt bit by bit by the new owners. A gay sauna was built in the rear of the building and was expanded in 1997. In 1996 the hotel rooms were renovated and in 1998 the restaurant. The hotel became a designer hotel (own name). The house keeps the memories of Fassbinder alive and also organizes art projects again and again. Today the company is run by Josef Sattler GmbH, whose managing director is Dietmar Holzapfel - who is also a member of the Munich Pink List - and his partner Josef Sattler - who founded the Vollmarhaus-Theater in 1999 .

In 1998, the “Deutsche Eiche” donated the Leo von Klenze memorial created by Friedrich Brugger in 1867 on Gärtnerplatz .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hotel Deutsche Eiche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany, Beate Wild: Rosa Mythos. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Abendzeitung Germany: Where Fassbinder, Moshammer and Freddie Mercury celebrated. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Jörg van Hooven: As a guest in the darkroom - A visit to the Deutsche Eiche in Munich . Munich Live TV Fernsehen GmbH & Co.KG. April 6, 2016. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b The oak - the company

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 57.3 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 34.9"  E