He was unique, his salon an institution: Now "Bader" Konrad Babl has finally stopped.
Gmund - The small hairdressing salon on Wiesseer Straße was an institution in Gmund and would also have been a good home museum. And master hairdresser Konrad Babl is and was a number in itself - more than that: he is unique, a picture of a “badger”, an original.
Babl has been commuting every day from his home in Munich to Lake Tegernsee for 54 years. Then he sat - always with a white shirt and a blue velvet bow around his collar - in his salon in front of the large mirror with the memorabilia, the chamois knickknacks, postcards and Kini portraits, waiting for his regular customers. Many remained loyal to him for a lifetime. Some, he told the Tegernseer Zeitung, when she last stopped by on his 85th birthday, he had known since his apprenticeship. And that was a long time ago, since Babl had been working in his profession for 72 years.
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Appointments were not necessary. You came by and in the worst case you had to wait briefly on one of the swivel chairs held together with tape until Bader Babl picked up a comb and scissors. Customers trusted him, who came not just from the place, but from everywhere. While Babl then trimmed the men's hair and beard, they revealed all kinds of secrets, after all, they were in good hands with Konrad Babl. Images of men from all walks of life and professions came under his knife. He once said that he knew Franz Josef Strauß personally, as well as Ludwig Erhard, who was known to spend a lot of time in his villa on Ackerberg.
Bader Babl: The lettering on the house is already gone
It's all history now. Out and over. The salon is closed, the lettering on the house wall has already been painted over. Even before the corona virus forced hairdressers to pause, Konrad Babl terminated his tenancy. He was forced to do so for health reasons, he told the landlord through his lawyer. “The lease would have expired anyway at the end of September,” reports Ekaterina Zacharova-Näser. The renowned artist intends to use the rooms as a studio after a thorough renovation.
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We wanted to chat a little with Konrad Babl to say goodbye and on the occasion of his 89th birthday - about past times, his life as a hairdresser in Gmund, his hours at the regulars' table in Café Wagner, his friends with the Gmund mountain riflemen, or his lifelong enthusiasm for König Ludwig II .. But unfortunately he lets his lawyer say again that he would rather not tell anything anymore. He chatted and rattled enough during his long life as Bader Babl.
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