What is Starnberg's district administrator looking for in his wife's closet?

Created: 02/16/2022, 10:37 am

By: Petra Straub

What can be found in the Frey family's carnival box in Starnberg.

The district administrator also occasionally uses his wife's wardrobe to find a suitable suit.

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Starnberg – There is usually a lot going on around Lake Starnberg in the fifth season.

There is dancing and partying and the fools slip into colorful costumes.

This year, however, many balls and parades have to be canceled again due to the pandemic.

In order to conjure up a smile on the reader's face for a brief moment, Kreisbote Starnberg publishes carnival photos and stories from well-known people.

Today by District Administrator Stefan Frey.

The chief of the district of Starnberg likes to remember exuberant carnival events.

Two years ago he was there live himself and clapped along loudly when the Perchalla carnival society showed their new stage program in the Schlossberghalle and when a colorful and loud carnival procession meandered through Gauting-Unterbrunn.

He went to various carnival balls and, of course, the carnival hustle and bustle on the church square in Starnberg, he says enthusiastically.

At such boisterous parties, even the district administrator forgets the thick pile of files in his office, the topics that urgently need to be addressed and the tie and collar for a few hours.

The district administrator rummages in his children's carnival box

Then he spontaneously looks for a few suitable pieces in his three offspring's dress-up box – and in his wife's wardrobe – and combines them.

This is how the top hat (which he last wore when he threw himself into the foolish hustle and bustle as a lucky chimney sweep) in combination with his wife's black robe creates a handsome magician.

It's a good thing that his wife Ismene Martinis-Frey works as a judge and lets him go out with her work clothes on the great days.

"I'm not the mega wild disguise," says District Administrator Stefan Frey

"I'm not the mega wild disguise," admits the district administrator.

Nevertheless, before each visit to a carnival event, he thinks about which role he would like to slip into and what best suits the motto.

Why do you think he slipped into the costume of a magician for the district messenger?

Because it would be just too nice to have magical powers and clear the backlog of wishes in the pandemic that has been going on for two years?

What would Merlin Frey wave his wand for?

For the end of the pandemic and a carefree life?

For more respect among fellow human beings, also at the regional meeting table?

For sufficient funds in the district coffers to be able to start the most urgent projects immediately?

As a child, Frey did not yet harbor the desire to use a magic formula to change things for the better.

"I was always a cowboy or an Indian," he recalls as a child, when he let off steam at carnival balls with the polonaise and parlor games such as "Journey to Jerusalem".

Carnival drives away everyday worries

During the pandemic, he likes to mingle with the little Romans and the princesses at home when his boys (nine and eleven years old) and daughter (6) reach into the costume box.

"You can't get by there, the children also dress up during the year," he explains, and always has to laugh heartily when the three of them come out of the basement in a new masquerade and proudly present it.

"I like this type of celebration, where people get together in a relaxed manner, can laugh together and are free from everyday worries," says the district administrator.

There are many of these thanks to some active carnival societies in the district.

But he misses a bit the press ball that used to be there.

He liked to visit him with his parents when his father Heinrich was still a district administrator.

A raffle, a live band and dancing created a relaxed atmosphere.

"I'm not a professional dancer, but I like to dance," says Frey.

That's why the farmer's ball at the agricultural school in Herrsching was always a "highlight" of the carnival season for him.

And since these events were a while ago, Frey is all the more looking forward to the time when everything will be back to normal and events can be attended: "It will come back, I'm sure of it!"

What the employees of the district office can expect during carnival

But even in the pandemic, the district administrator does not want to have any fun taken away from the carnival season.

The self-confessed fan of carnival donuts with custard or eggnog filling wants to give his colleagues donuts on the nonsensical Thursday again this year.

But beware!

It can be assumed that not everyone in the workforce gets a donut with their favorite filling...