Organ organ (brothel)

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Organ organ after the 2013/2014 renovation.

The Leierkasten in Munich - Freimann is a brothel and was reopened on October 4, 2004 as a Laufhaus . It is the oldest and best-known establishment of its kind in the Bavarian capital and enjoys a national reputation.

history

Even when it was founded in the early 1970s, the brothel made headlines in well-known print media across Germany because of the so-called Munich “Whore War” about the intended closure. The brothel in the city with the largest restricted area in Germany later served several times as a backdrop for film and television. Due to its exposed location on the corner of Ingolstädter Strasse and Frankfurter Ring near the Euro-Industriepark , the organ grinder with its slogan "You come as a stranger and go as a friend" is known to many locals and tourists and is therefore not infrequently used also as a guide.

The long-time Lord Mayor of Munich Christian Ude used the slogan in a modified form to emphasize his distance to the Bavarian SPD and state politics. Accordingly, it is the other way around with the Bavarian opposition party than with the organ grinder, which he cites as a well-known Munich brothel without further naming, "You would come as a friend and go as a stranger".

Eros Center Leier-Kasten in the Zweigstrasse and the war of prostitutes

The Eros-Center Leier-Kasten was founded in September 1971 in the Zweigstrasse near Munich Central Station by the Frankfurt building contractor and brothel king Willi Schütz (1920–2001), who had acquired the building for seven million Deutschmarks. Even Walter Staudinger , who was also familiar as the "godfather of Munich," the restaurant was involved in the financing. At that time the 65 prostitutes paid DM 2,170 per month for an apartment. Because of the 1972 Summer Olympics , however, neither the Free State of Bavaria nor the city administration wanted to have the horizontal trade in the city center and the building was occupied by the police on the evening of April 10, 1972, after the city center had been declared an extended restricted area two days earlier . The suitors were pushed aside by the police, the whores were no longer allowed to do business at night. As a result, the prostitutes protested and the so-called "prostitute's war" broke out, in which the prostitutes also found support from spontaneously formed citizens' initiatives, students and numerous onlookers. A short time later the suitors stormed the brothel, the police withdrew. On Friday of the same week, an out-of-court agreement was reached that the whores would not receive any suitors from 8 p.m. to 0.30 a.m. The police action ultimately turned out to be an advertising campaign for the lyre box, and it was even reported abroad. In the meantime, some prostitutes have already offered their services on the street on a trial basis in Pullach and Solln in protest . Schütz failed with his attempt to move the brothel to Solln.

The young CSU City Councilor Peter Gauweiler and the then Police President Manfred Schreiber were largely responsible for the police action that caused the Munich Whores . In retrospect, the Bavarian Ministry of Justice denied that the police action was related to the Olympic Games. The Munich Administrative Court subsequently decided that the offering and exercise of industrial lunacy in the city center was also prohibited in closed houses.

New opening in Ingolstädter Straße

Ultimately, the brothel moved to its current location in the 1970s. The operator from 1978 to 1990 was Hans Fretz aka "Karlsruher Hans", who also invited stars like Muhammad Ali , Pelé and Diego Maradona to the establishment in the 1970s and 1980s . In 1989, Fretz opened the "Sport-Café Schiller" near Munich Central Station. In 2001 he died in a hunting accident at the age of 55. His partner at the time is still the host of the café.

The facade of the organ organ until 2013.

The facade was redesigned in the early 1990s. Around 1990 a police officer from Ottobrunn apparently also took part in the organ with 1.6 million D-Marks from a lottery win. The visit of the sports journalist Rolf Töpperwien to the organ in 1995, during which he did not pay his bill, went through the tabloid media as a scandal and was commented on several times by the entertainer Harald Schmidt .

In 2000 there was one dead in the vicinity of the brothel. The bartender Sven D., son of the then operator Pit D., was convicted of manslaughter . On the night of October 1, 2000, he kicked the building contractor Zenon K. to death in an argument.

In 2001 the tenant Friedrich Ewald , known as “Der dicke Fritz”, was arrested along with 17 other red-light figures. The allegations were exploitative pimping , promoting prostitution and tax evasion . The aim was to smash the so-called Munich “sex mafia” around Ewald and Walter Djurkovich. The District Court of Munich I assessed the evidence for a criminal organization as not particularly valid and pimping as difficult to prove. The allegation of tax evasion remained. The defendants were released.

In 2004 it reopened as a Laufhaus.

Renovation 2013/2014

The building was completely renovated from autumn 2013 to June 2014 . The new leaseholder expanded the Laufhaus as part of a renovation with a 600 m² extension including a wellness area. The objective was to continue operations with the same purpose based on the previous 30 years. The rooms on the first floor have been enlarged; original windows for it partially walled in. The traditional name of the house was retained. The reopening took place on June 15, 2014.

literature

  • The Munich “Whore War”. In: Josef Falter, Rainer Stolle, Michael Farin : Chronicle of the Police Headquarters Munich II 1974–2010 , Volume XI, Verlag Belleville, 2010, ISBN 3-933510-33-3 .

Web links

Commons : Leierkasten, Munich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Break for the dolls: Munich police drew the shorter in the prostitute war. In: Die Zeit , April 21, 1972.
  2. ↑ Christian Ude: My premature memoirs, satires. Paperback edition, Piper-Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-492236-46-4 ; also quoted by Bettina Musall in Munich: A stenz in the town hall. In: Der Spiegel 23/1999, June 7, 1999.
  3. ↑ Most influential milieu of the city: The Godfather of Munich. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 19, 2010.
  4. Jump on the heart. In: Der Spiegel 9/1992, February 24, 1992.
  5. ↑ Pressure on prostitutes. In: Die Zeit , April 14, 1972.
  6. ↑ a b The only naked one. In: Der Spiegel 19/1972, May 1, 1972.
  7. ↑ police detained prostitute quarters in Munich , AZ archive., 1972
  8. ↑ "We will starve the ladies". In: AZ archive . ( Memento from January 19, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  9. ↑ La "guerra de las prostitutas" de Munich. ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Expres Español, AG Fitel, July 1972 (Spanish). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / agfitel.es
  10. ↑ Prostitutes on the roof of the lyre box in the so-called "Whore War". Photo from the AZ archive, Munich 1972.
  11. ↑ Prostitutes flee in Munich's villa district. In: AZ , April 12, 1972. ( Memento from January 19, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  12. ↑ No scandal in the restricted area - on the trail of Munich's darker side. ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: TripsbyTips.de , May 22, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tripsbytips.de
  13. ^ French 50, Verkehr 60 ( Memento of July 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Der Spiegel 44/1989, October 30, 1989.
  14. ↑ 40 years after the 1972 Olympics: Puffalo Bill cleans up. In: Abendzeitung Munich , April 11, 2012.
  15. ↑ The "Bavarian Hulk": Matador on the mat. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 19, 2010.
  16. ↑ a b Construction site in the brothel - The “organ grinder” is tight! In: AZ , October 28, 2013 (photo gallery).
  17. ^ History. Schiller sports café
  18. ^ Criminal law as a method of bullying. ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Uncomfortable Edition 42, June 2000, Federal Working Group of Critical Police Officers , p. 19 ff. (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kritische-polizisten.de
  19. ^ "A rioter on the edge of the field" - sports reporter Rolf Töpperwien. Interview by Frank Rauscher. ( Memento of December 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  20. ↑ Quotes from Harald Schmidt
  21. ↑ Bartender charged with manslaughter on guest. In: Die Welt , June 26, 2001.
  22. ↑ Brothel employee convicted of manslaughter. In: FAZ , July 10, 2011.
  23. ↑ The Versace Murder: The Trail Leads to Munich. In: Hamburger Morgenpost , July 17, 2001.
  24. ↑ Banking in the brothel: The tax tricks of the red light kings. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 11, 2010.
  25. ↑ The new organ organ and query via denic.de.

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