After 64 years, a 76-year-old woman has to leave her apartment in Schwabing, where she lives with her disabled daughter (46) - because of her own needs.
An emotional video calls for help.
After 64 years, a 76-year-old woman has to leave her apartment in Schwabing, where she lives with her disabled daughter (46) - because of her own needs.
An emotional video calls for help.
Hundreds have seen it and want to help.
Munich - Where has humanity gone in Munich?
You ask yourself that sometimes - when you hear stories like this: A 76-year-old woman has to
leave her apartment in Schwabing
after
64 years
, in which she lives with her disabled daughter (46) - because of the landlord's personal needs.
But: there is still compassion and hope!
A man from
Munich shot
a very emotional video of the women and put it online to fight for them!
Hundreds have seen it and want to help.
It was in 1956 when Jara S.'s parents moved into the two-room apartment on Viktor-Scheffel-Strasse with the then twelve-year-old girl.
Her parents died, Jara stayed - over the years her roots have grown here.
With her daughter Nina, who was born in 1974, the center of
life of
the former chief secretary is here on the first floor of the beautiful old building.
Munich: Jara S. has to get out of her apartment because of her own needs
But the landlord dies, the daughter in Switzerland inherits the apartment.
Two years ago Jara S. received a letter: Termination due to personal use!
The new owner's son is supposed to move in.
“That was a shock!”
The
trial starts
, but the judge agrees with the landlady.
In a month, Jara and Nina will have to leave the apartment for good.
But they have not yet found a new one: "This year it was extremely difficult to get an apartment due to Corona," says the 76-year-old.
There were also many rejections because of her age!
“I'm too old to get a new apartment, but not too old to be thrown out of my old one.”
Jara hopes that the eviction will be postponed and an apartment (definitely in Schwabing or Milbertshofen!) - 1200 euros could be they pay at most.
Now
Michel May
(37, operator of an online shop for organic textiles, www.aizomebedding.com) comes into play: His father Rudi (80) is Jara's neighbor.
When he heard of her desperate situation, the
hobby filmmaker
May produced a film that went to the heart.
Jara talks about her happy time in Schwabing, scenes from the wild nights in the cult district alternate with a fearful look into the future.
“Jara is a piece of Schwabing history,”
says the film.
"You are threatened with uprooting and homelessness."
Dozens of people in Munich saw the film.
Your comments are full of compassion: “
Terrible
!” Or:
“I'm angry!”
Will the film make it possible to find a new apartment for Jara and Nina?
If you can help, please contact: schwabingsucht@gmail.com.
Click here for the video or the Facebook post.
This is what the tenants' association says:
“There seems to be a real
emergency here
.
At her age, with limited financial resources and a daughter with a disability, it would have been very difficult for the tenant to find an apartment on the extremely tense Munich rental market.
Now there is also the Corona crisis, in which viewings were difficult and sometimes still are and in which many landlords are still waiting to see how the situation develops before offering their apartments again.
A legal possibility to help the woman would be to try to stop the enforcement of the eviction - a so-called
enforcement protection
.
This is possible if the evacuation, taking into account the
need for protection of
the creditors, i.e. the
apartment owner
, means a hardship that is incompatible with good morals.
A debtor must
file the application for protection
against enforcement no later than two weeks before the
eviction
date
.
It is only granted in a few cases, but in that case there could be opportunities.
If the tenant is granted enforcement protection, she could hope that moving out will be postponed for two to three months.
But even then, she would probably have extreme difficulties in finding a new affordable apartment.
The situation on the rental market in Munich is brutal
: Older tenants with small pensions in particular have almost no chance of finding affordable apartments.
We get this reflected again and again from the members in our deliberations.
Often these tenants cannot keep up with the speed of the market: Many apartments are only offered on the Internet.
These tenants have often been living in their neighborhoods for decades and are
uprooted
by moving
and losing their social contacts. "