Leonardo Bauer

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Leo Bauer

Leonardo "Leo" Bauer (born May 29, 1945 in Bologna ) is a German business economist, impresario and caterer in Bochum. Bauer is considered the founder of the Bermuda3eck there .

Life

Leonardo Bauer is the son of an Italian from Bologna and a German officer; both came to Germany in 1947 with their two children. As a result of an underground work accident at Bochum's Mansfeld colliery , his father, who was only 25 years old, had a fatal accident in 1949.

Leonardo spent most of his youth in the Langendreer district with his mother Cesarina, who hardly spoke German, and his younger sister Gabriella. "Leo" went to secondary school; this was followed by a bank apprenticeship, which he also completed at the evening grammar school . This was followed by a degree in business administration , which he completed in 1968.

Leonardo Bauer was married several times, has six children and lives in Bochum and Rio de Janeiro .

Music, literature and political culture

In 1963, when Bauer was still a minor at the age of 18 and around 40 like-minded people, he founded Club Liberitas , a self-administered cultural center, on the Nordring . Free jazz, modern art - an advanced cultural program that he staged collectively with political friends as part of the Republican Club Movement for young people in the scene. It met Claude-Oliver Rudolph , Ralf Richter , Martin rye bread and many others. Once a week organized counseling for potential conscientious objectors was held in the club ; the DFG / IDK helped. At a free jazz concert, the public order office carried out sound measurements due to complaints from neighbors, and the club had to close at 10 p.m. That is why the music manager temporarily staged his events in school auditoriums.

In 1969 Bauer began his career as a catering entrepreneur and promoter of culture with the licensed establishment of the Liberitas Club - Society for the Promotion of Cultural Events . The students at the first University of the Ruhr Area , founded in Bochum in 1965, as well as the general mood of upheaval and upheaval in the 1960s, gave Leonardo Bauer the opportunity to organize concerts and cultural events that had never existed before in this city and its surroundings. He brought the electro-pop band Kraftwerk to his club three times between 1969 and 1971. Albert Mangelsdorff , Champion Jack Dupree , Schnuckenack Reinhardt , Dietrich Kittner , Renaissance and Peter Brötzmann also performed there. Readings by authors such as Frank Göhre and Volker Degener were also part of the event program. Incidentally, the club continued to be run by Uwe Fellensiek from 1974 under the name “Spektrum” .

Even Franz-Josef Degenhardt , Otto Waalkes and Udo Lindenberg got through the music organizer Bauer opportunity before a large audience in Bochum Ruhrlandhalle occur. The impresario organized a small tour for Insterburg & Co. Herbert Grönemeyer appeared in his "Mandra". Today Bauer presents special music events in his disco and "Bermudahalle" Riff .

Gastronomy development

Bauer had student bars, restaurants and music cafés built in Bochum - depending on requirements and the spirit of the times. To him belong (s) u. a. the Pinte, the Club am Hellweg, the Clochard, the oven, the Syrtaki, Granny's Rockcafé, the Treibhaus and the Cotton Club. He is regarded as the founder, “bar king” and “father” of the Bermuda3eck there.

Leo Bauer 1988
Inner city square with Bauer gastronomy
Mandragora, Bermuda3eck Bochum

Outdoor catering

Leo Bauer also stands for an innovation in Germany that began in Bochum: He implemented the first large-scale inner-city outdoor catering in front of the Mandragora , which later became the trademark of the entire Bochum Bermuda3Eck: on Konrad-Adenauer-Platz, and This new form of urban gastronomy, to which his Italian roots had inspired him, well before the time when similar things became common in other German cities. The MARABO magazine devoted an entire leading article to the “Bermuda Triangle Captain” in 1988 and thus actually coined the term for the pub neighborhood that the city has officially given the metro stop name.

Today, on the light art stage of the Konrad-Adenauer-Platz u. a. even concerts by the Bochum Symphony Orchestra take place. In 1990, RWTH Aachen University and Arnold Voss were also involved in the planning of a new type of inner-city cultural landscape .

The entrepreneur Leo Bauer currently owns around 15 restaurants as a lessor, including the Barraquito, the Ullrich, the Freibeuter, the Riff and the Mandragora with the “KAP gastronomy”.

Culinary

Before the development of outdoor catering in various parts of the city, Bauer was already responsible for another innovation in the German restaurant scene: During his trips to Europe, he became aware of the Breton crepes and from 1974 also introduced this specialty to the Teutons. At that time, crêpes were hardly known in Germany and there were no crêpes stands at German fairs either. He developed his own flour mixture with a French mill and continues to sell this flour today. In his mandragora , the "root of the Bermuda triangle", the crêpes are still served in the original recipe.

plans

Currently (2013) Leonardo Bauer is developing a culture and gastronomy center on parts of the former Bochum main train station. These include the Bermudahalle Riff and the Rotunda event venue . The site is part of a "creative quarter" (Viktoriaquartier), which also includes the music center and the Bochum theater .

Chronology of entrepreneurial and cultural creation

  • 1967: Chairman of the newly founded Club Liberitas eV
  • 1969: Founding of the Club Liberitas Society for the Promotion of Cultural Events, later HEBA Konzert GmbH; BA stood for Bauer, HE at that time for Heerde
  • 1970: Founding of the Spectrum Gallery, later the Bauer & Pietscher Gallery
  • 1973: Foundation of HEBA Gaststätten GmbH (several student restaurants)
  • 1975: HEBA Gastro Handels-GmbH is founded, which imports crêpes baking equipment and crêpes flour from France and sells them throughout Germany
  • 1981: HEBA Gaststätten GmbH's catering establishments are leased and the company's purpose from now on is to design, furnish and lease catering establishments
  • 1987: Acquisition of the Handelshof building (point and starting point of the Bermuda3Eck)
  • 1989: HEBA Gastro Handels-GmbH (beverage wholesaler)
  • 2005: Foundation of the project company Alter Bochumer Hauptbahnhof mbH with the aim of building a cabaret with Frank Goosen (failed due to legal problems)
  • 2008: Founding of Kulturgleis Bochum GmbH (which is now the owner of the old Bochum main station) (today Rotunda ) and the Bermudahalle Riff

Awards

  • 2009: Honorary award from the Marketing Club Bochum

Memberships and functions

  • since 1969: DFG / IdK, since 1974: DFG / VK
  • since 1995: Board member in the Bermuda3eck eV initiative group, merged with ISG B3E eV in 2004
  • since 1998: Supporting member of Amnesty International
  • since 2004: ISG Bermuda3eck eV (Supervisory Board)
  • since 2007: Bochum Symphony Foundation (member of the Board of Trustees)

Literature / videos about farmer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WDR 30 years Mandragora / Bermuda3Eck from October 13, 2007 about the founder of Bermuda3Ecks ( MOV ; 5.3 MB)
  2. ↑ The B3E story - or how the former Bochum train station district became the Bermuda3eck
  3. ↑ cf. "Ruhrbarone" blog: The B3E story part 5: The Club Liberitas
  4. ↑ Fantomasz about Kraftwerk Live in Bochum ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fantomasz.republika.pl
  5. ↑ WAZ from July 6, 2009 about the bar king
  6. ↑ Article about the early farmer on "Bochum Bewegen" 2013
  7. ^ Website of the Bermuda3Eck , viewed on May 29, 2013
  8. ↑ cf. Marabo issue 6, 1997, about Bauer's beer gardens
  9. ↑ as viewed May 30, 2013
  10. ↑ “My Pott” describes the new stage (video) ( memento of the original from July 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mypott.de
  11. ↑ cf. WAZ from April 21, 1990 on the new cultural landscape of the Bermuda Triangle
  12. ↑ cf. WAZ from July 18, 2011: "As a rotunda, the former Katholikentagbahnhof is experiencing a revival as a cultural institution
  13. ↑ Creative quarters in Westphalia on the LWL side , seen on May 29, 2013
  14. ↑ cf. "Invested in the cultural track" - Ruhr Nachrichten of March 31, 2011
  15. ↑ MC Bochum reports on the award of the prize  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , as seen on May 20, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.mc-bochum.de  
  16. ↑ see also Ruhr Nachrichten of November 5, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Leonardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business economist, impresario and gastronomy developer
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna