Morizz

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The Morizz was a restaurant in Munich's trendy Glockenbachviertel in the Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt district , which was also run as Club Morizz .

The Morizz had mostly gay guests. The typical Morizz visitor was in their thirties or forties, sophisticated, and worked in a creative job. Some celebrities also frequented the Morizz , such as B. the entertainer Alfred Biolek , pop singer Patrick Lindner , comedian Hape Kerkeling and politician Guido Westerwelle .

history

The Morizz was opened in 1991 in the former rooms of the megalomania dance hall at Klenzestrasse 43 under the name Maxx . The restaurant was founded and initially operated by Ricci Scholze and Thomas Bedall. Bedall had already started the megalomania . In the 1980s, the megalomania dance hall had a shrill audience; from punk to chic . In the early days of the establishment, the still unknown chansonnier Tim Fischer gave a mini concert there and the then unknown Ina Müller and Thomas Hermanns also performed at the Morizz . There, young DJs like Helmut Geier, who later became known as DJ Hell , experimented with new wave and electro . Due to legal naming problems, the restaurant had to be renamed from Maxx to the name Morizz , which was then continuously used.

Although the Morizz often a so-called gentlemen's club in the English style ( Gentlemen's Club was called), there were welcome as guests women. Due to the desolate prehistory of the restaurant megalomania in these rooms and also due to the special clientele, there was initially a bell on the door of the restaurant, which was soon no longer needed. The megalomania excesses with guests who danced on the cars parked in front of the restaurant should not be repeated. Nothing has been changed at the restaurant for almost two decades. This also created difficulties.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, the restaurant had to struggle with a visitor discount, despite numerous guests and reputation in the gay scene, as no outdoor area could be used in the summer months. However, the change and change in the gay scene brought greater difficulties. Homosexuality became more and more accepted, so that the gay guests of the pub could publicly show themselves to be gay even in heterosexual bars.

In 2009, after 18 years, the operators Ricci Scholze and Thomas Bedall finally decided to close the Morizz bar for economic reasons due to these changes . That is why the scene restaurateur Dominik Linneweber, previously a regular at Morizz, and Claudia Limbrunner, previously head chef at Morizz for many years , took over the restaurant in 2009, convinced Ricci Scholze of the continuation and tried to maintain the Morizz with private funds. Even an extensive renovation in 2011, in which other regular guests took part, and the Berlin artist Christopher Winter modernized the restaurant, did not bring any improvement. From July to September of the same year there was Morizz Beach, a branch on the Isar at the Reichenbachbrücke / corner of Fraunhoferstrasse (formerly The Lodge, formerly Osteria Santini). The restaurant was closed three years after the takeover.

Events

The Morizz was known for its Rose Monday Ball and his so-called Puff party. The restaurant was completely emptied for both events, because the queue of the festival community dressed in lacquer, leather and other things stretched partially to the Gärtnerplatztheater . The red leather armchairs so typical of the Morizz for 20 years also had to give way on these two days.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Holy chair! sueddeutsche.de, November 15, 2011, accessed on June 16, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c Thomas Oßwald: Club with a bell on the door. tz-online.de, October 16, 2011, accessed on June 16, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Searching for traces: Munich minus thirty. Thomas Bedall, night café megalomania. (PDF; 336 kB) flashtimer.de, August 2009, accessed on June 16, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b Tobias Dorfer: Birthday party. sueddeutsche.de, November 15, 2011, accessed on June 16, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Beach party until the excavator arrives. In: tz online. June 29, 2011, accessed on July 13, 2013 : “Munich is getting its first gay beach. On Friday at 3 p.m. the Morizz restaurant (Klenzestrasse) will open its summer outlet on Reichenbachbrücke. "
  6. ↑ http://service.isarfunk.de/index.php/archivartikel-publisher/1396-rubybar ( Memento from April 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Sudden end for Morizz after 20 years. tz-online.de, February 7, 2012, accessed on June 16, 2013 .