Wolfgang Nöth (restaurateur)

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Wolfgang Peter Leonhard Nöth (born October 1943 in Lower Franconia ; † January 10, 2021 in Munich ) was a German restaurateur . As an indoor club operator, he changed the Munich night and party scene decisively from the late 1980s and made a significant contribution to shaping the nationwide club hall culture. He was mentioned in the media as a "hall mogul" and "hall king".

Life

Nöth was born to Jewish parents in what was then National Socialist Germany . His parents died shortly after his birth, and his mother broke up as a result of her concentration camp imprisonment. He grew up as an orphan with foster parents. After the end of the war he came to the Münsterschwarzach monastery and visited the Vinzentinum in Würzburg .

After graduating from secondary school, he began his professional training at Neckermann at the age of 13 . During his apprenticeship he lived in the Salesian monastery in Würzburg . After working for a haulage company, a cola factory, a brickworks , as a roofer in Nuremberg , Frankfurt am Main , the Netherlands and Israel , he went to Munich in 1978, where he initially worked for three years in the slaughterhouse and as a timber seller. In 1981 Josef Bachmair, host of his favorite Fraunhofer bar , offered him a share in the economy. He remembered his reaching for a pragmatic solution by using a circular saw to remove part of the stage after the auditorium was no longer able to cope with the crowd.

Theater factory Unterföhring

At the time when Nöth got into gastronomy, the concert-loving Munich indie scene audience commuted to concert events in clubs in the rural surroundings of the city or in the relatively remote, original Alabama Hall , not least because of the strict Munich curfew regulations at the time the BR youth show Live from the Alabama and concerts of international music bands and other performers became famous. At the end of the 1980s, the original Alabama hall closed its doors on today's BMW site in the Am Hart district . At that time it was probably unique for Munich's “hall culture”.

Nöth recognized the need for such event halls early on, invested in an old brick building immediately west of the S-Bahn station in the Unterföhrings industrial park near Munich in 1983 and opened his first indoor club under the name Theaterfabrik . In addition to dance events such as the "disco orange" held every Friday by Jürgen Birr aka " Anurakta " ( Sannyas name), the Theatron maker and operator of the Pulverturm club on the former Alabama depot site, well-known performers such as Red Hot performed here Chili Peppers , Blondie , Billy Bragg , The Kinks , The Damned , Carl Perkins , Ben E. King , The Jesus and Mary Chain , Beastie Boys and Wanda Jackson concerts in front of a large audience. The hall closed in 1992; the building is still standing today (2021).

Night work

On the site of a former car mirror manufacturer Nöth in the late 1980s at the Munich opened Landsbergerstraße west of Donnersbergerbrücke the night work , again a concert and party hall with associated Club, to 1994, especially with the organized there hit was well attended -Parties but bands like Bad Religion , Nirvana , Rammstein and Urge Overkill also served as a concert platform from the start. From here, live from the night work (follow-up series of Live from Alabama ) was broadcast by BR.

Munich-Riem cultural center

Shortly after the theater factory in Unterföhring was closed, Nöth took over the Munich-Riem airport together with “Anurakta” ​​in August 1993 for temporary use as a cultural area. With numerous events (e.g. in Terminal I or in the "old" ultrasound ) and other offers, the site attracted masses of visitors until it was closed in the summer of 1996. Around 50,000 party enthusiasts celebrated here at the same time in ten party halls and the underground connecting corridors of the site. In terms of size and scope of events, the party area was unique in Germany at the time. 89 Hit FM set up its own broadcasting studio in one of the halls for broadcasting purposes. The Messestadt Riem was then built on the site .

Despite the previously formulated objections of the city ​​administration , the then Deputy Mayor of Munich Ude decided to award the lease to Nöth based on his experience in Unterföhring. The flea market on the former airport site is now one of the largest antique and flea markets in Germany.

Art Park East

Also in 1996, the food manufacturer Pfanni , which has been part of the Unilever Group since 1993, relocated production from its Munich main plant south of Munich's Ostbahnhof to Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Nöth, together with his partners, the scene restaurateur and DJ Mathias and his wife Gabriele "Gaby" Scheffel , daughter of the millionaire Alfons Doblinger , leased the vacant factory site in a convenient location , which was owned by the consul Otto Eckart, for an initial three years and built on it the nationally known Kunstpark Ost (KPO, today Kultfabrik ), conceptually a purely profit-oriented business enterprise. The Art Park Ost as an "amusement area" attracted around 30 discos (for example the Babylon , Ultraschall II , KW - Das Heizkraftwerk , Natraj Temple or K 41 ), clubs (for example the Cohibar ), bars, restaurants, amusement arcades, around 60 artist studios and 30 Small businesses as well as concerts and art and antique flea markets attract an audience of millions. 250,000 people per month, usually between 16 and 29 years of age, around half of them from the greater Munich area and tourists, were the norm for years. In 2001 the newspaper Die Welt described the Art Park East as " Europe's largest nightlife mile". The extension for temporary use took place in 1999 for a further three years. The Georg-Elser-Hallen operated by Nöth from 2000 to 2008 were also part of the overall concept.

Optimolwerke

After the landowners did not extend the lease for the KPO any further at the end of 2002, but instead continued to operate the site with Nöth's concept under the Kultfabrik brand , Nöth and colleagues opened the Optimolwerke on January 31, 2003 on the site of the former lubricant oil factory, the Optimol Ölwerke , in immediate neighborhood, again with a similar conception (for more details see the article Kultfabrik ). In addition to numerous new locations, some of the clubs already known from Kunstpark Ost or their successors such as the Milchbar or Harry Klein moved to the new site. The successor to Nöth's former theater factory also opened in 2009 . Since January 2008 the "third" Alabama Hall has been located here, the second edition in the repair halls of the radio barracks, not least because of its flat-rate parties, which attracted thousands of visitors in the premises of the former Palacio on the Optimol site. Nöth, who did not drink alcohol himself, criticized the offer of flat-rate parties.

Art park north planning project

Since the forced relocation to the Optimol site, Nöth's plans to create another superlative Munich entertainment district have become more concrete. He and Mathias Scheffel negotiated with the Munich city administration about the possible construction of this amusement district in leasehold south of the Allianz Arena in Fröttmaninger Heide , which was originally supposed to be built before the 2006 World Cup under the name Kunstpark Nord . The implementation of the plans was delayed, the planned opening until the World Cup failed, among other things, due to the changed EU laws on long-term leases, which required a Europe-wide tender . According to their own statements, by May 2010 the two had already made € 250,000 in planning investments for architects, experts and lawyers. In addition to the allegations that Nöth could not finance the project financially, it was argued that the "creative infrastructure" could no longer be improved promptly and effectively under given circumstances. You have to look for other, faster solutions. Allegedly, from a cultural-political point of view, according to the municipal department, the youth culture scene has also developed away from hall culture to club culture close to the center in trendy districts. Nöth previously denied the allegations that the project could not be financially supported. The scope of the planning extends to 26 million euros, of which 22 million euros would be advanced by an interested bank.

In a non-representative online survey, Nöth was chosen from among ten proposed candidates with 31 percent of the votes as Munich's best cultural worker. In the following interview he was critical of the changeable attitude of the municipal department. When asked whether he would also buy the site, he replied in the affirmative, but objected that he would not allow the city administration to have a say in the case of the purchase.

Other locations

Nöth was the operator and co-operator of numerous other Munich venues, including the Kesselhaus , the Zenith halls, which he made available for the Tollwood Festival in 1999 because of the hurricane “Lothar” and in 2000 for the Münchner Kammerspiele , the mirror salon and the Postpalast in the Munich Arnulfstraße , he along with Michael beetle ( deli beetle ) and the organizer Otger Holle shek as Entertaining clients operating-Location. Initially, Nöth was also a co-operator of the Ostwerk in Augsburg-Lechhausen , which opened on October 2, 1990. In mid-2013, he leased the halls of the former repair workshop of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits sleeping car company in Munich's Aubing district , which was operated in cooperation with the German sleeping car and dining car company from 1952 until it was closed at the end of 1999 . The property was converted into an antique market . In 2018, Nöth opened the new theater factory .

Quotes

“One night, Wolfgang took a circular saw and cut a piece of the stage away. So 20 more people go in. "

- Josef Bachmair

"I'm sorry for the building authorities that I was faster with my ideas than they were with their permits."

- Wolfgang Nöth

"Wolfgang Nöth is a blessing for the city, but a strain for the administration and with his thick head he sometimes overcomes official requirements."

- Christian Ude

"Nöth has a sure instinct for what people like."

- Christian Ude

"With Wolfgang Nöth there are actually never any concepts, he sets up a room and it is then filled with a program."

- Mathias Scheffel

"Somebody has to take the stick out of his pocket for something to happen in Munich."

- Wolfgang Nöth

"I am for Christian Ude because Uschi Glas is for Peter Gauweiler ."

- Wolfgang Nöth : Election support slogan on the occasion of the city council elections in 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art instead of dumplings . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1999 ( online ).
  2. ^ Franz Kotteder: Culture in Munich: Mourning for Wolfgang Nöth. Retrieved January 10, 2021 .
  3. ↑ a b From orphan to gastro-prince , Merkur online, 22 August 2013.
  4. ^ Beat for the suburbs , Süddeutsche Zeitung youth page, 3rd week 2010.
  5. ↑ When Kurt Cobain was still playing in the village disco: Nothing going on in Munich - wild, punky and independent it was only in clubs like Circus Gammelsdorf or Ballroom Esterhofen , Süddeutsche Zeitung Jugendseite, 29th week 2006.
  6. ↑ a b c Nöth resurrects theater factory , tz-online, January 27, 2009.
  7. ↑ Parties and Events , Peter Pelunka ( 89 Hit FM ), accessed December 24, 2012.
  8. ↑ Wir über uns , Riem flea market, accessed on December 22, 2012.
  9. ↑ The Mogul Must Like , Süddeutsche, June 14, 2002.
  10. ↑ Somebody has to do it , Süddeutsche, May 17, 2010.
  11. ↑ a b c d e f You have to have the will to win , Die Welt, October 13, 2001.
  12. ↑ Kunstpark Ost München (PDF; 10.1 MB) in Martina Baumann: Urban Places Part II , Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86644-286-3 .
  13. ↑ Excesses with limited liability , taz, January 23, 2003.
  14. ^ City wants to give up Kunstpark Nord , Süddeutsche, May 17, 2010.
  15. ↑ "We'll all surprise" Art park operator Wolfgang Nöth on the future of Munich's largest cultural area and his anger against the authorities , FAZ archive, June 16, 2002.
  16. ^ Kunstpark Nord: Nöth scolds the city , tz-online, July 2, 2008.
  17. ↑ Kunstpark Nord is coming to the World Cup , Süddeutsche, May 17, 2010
  18. ↑ Our best: Wolfgang Nöth - But not Graf Lustig , Süddeutsche, May 11, 2010.
  19. ↑ Looking back: 1999 , Tollwood.
  20. ↑ Stage under Power , Focus Magazin No. 21 (2000), May 22, 2000.
  21. ↑ a b Wolfgang Nöth - A dog is he scho! (PDF; 497 kB) freshguide 12/2008.
  22. ↑ 20 years of Ostwerk - Disco celebrates with concerts , Augsburger Allgemeine, October 19, 2010.
  23. ↑ Sleeping Car Company: In the footsteps of the Orient Express , Abendzeitung Munich, September 30, 2013.
  24. ↑ muenchen.de: Concert location: The new theater factory opens. Retrieved January 12, 2021 .
  25. ^ Host of the Fraunhofer restaurant
  26. ↑ at that time deputy mayor in Munich
  27. ↑ Munich restaurateur
  28. ↑ Hit parade of Munich's cultural workers: Our best - but only one can win! South German, May 19, 2010.
  29. ^ Artists and the Mighty Artless Election Campaign , Abendzeitung Munich, June 21, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Nöth, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nöth, Wolfgang Peter Leonhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German restaurateur
DATE OF BIRTH October 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Lower Franconia
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2021