Unterhaching's local curator sells original posters from the 1972 Olympics
Created: 03/09/2022, 09:00
By: Martin Becker
True rarities: Ursula and Günter Staudter from Unterhaching are holding posters from the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
© Robert Brouczek
Around 30 undamaged original posters from the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich are in the possession of Günter Staudter, home caretaker from Unterhaching. Because he doesn't have the space to hang up the sometimes huge posters at home, the 80-year-old is now selling them.
Unterhaching
– Günter Staudter has neatly labeled his exquisite collection.
Small pieces of paper are attached to the rolled-up objects with clothespins, on which information such as size, artist or motif is written.
About 30 undamaged original posters from the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich are in the possession of the Unterhachinger local curator.
Because he doesn't have the space to hang up the sometimes huge posters (including DIN A0 format) at home, the 80-year-old is now selling them;
Günter Staudter has already given around 20 more Olympic posters to the House of Bavarian History and sold them to a gallery.
The Olympic Committee provided posters
"The Olympic Committee made the posters available to me at the time," says the Unterhachinger, looking back five decades.
As a young social worker who had just finished his studies, Günter Staudter was very closely involved in the Olympic Games.
“One million Deutschmarks in budget went through my hands.” He was allowed to keep around 50 posters as a memento.
At the time, the Catholic and Protestant Churches engaged the man from Unterhaching to organize an ecumenical youth camp.
At the time, Günter Staudter was already preparing an “Olympic Jamboree” for the Boy Scouts.
The two churches then also fell back on his expertise because their youth camps "tended in the direction of total misplanning," reports the 80-year-old in retrospect.
And so Günter Staudter took over the care of about 4000 young people from all over the world plus 400 boy scouts from 13 nations.
Boy Scout Adventure
The typewritten documentation of the "Jamboree" is also one of Günter Staudter's best-kept Olympic treasures.
Under the title "The Prelude" you can read about the organizational chaos surrounding the interaction of scout associations and diocesan instructions.
As a young social worker, Günter Staudter found accommodation in Unterhaching, among other places, through one of the chief scouts, the then rector Andreas Neumeier of the pheasant school - and everything else: for a participation fee of 130 marks, the young people from all over the world not only got accommodation between the 25th August and September 12, 1972, but also breakfast, a ticket for public transport and eight tickets to Olympic events.
Series designed by artists
All of this is in Günter Staudter's documentation - and also that the billposting by the Olympic "Information Commission" cost exactly 70,624 marks.
6,800 posters in size A 0 were ordered, 19,050 in A 2, plus 90,000 so-called frame posters plus 70,000 flyers in DIN A 4 format.
They bore titles such as "sorrow", "peace", "chance" or "oases".
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"The caretakers," says Günter Staudter, "were not exactly thrilled when we taped everything up with these huge posters." So some remained completely unused in his possession - until today.
“Normally, the Olympic posters have signs of wear such as glued spots or tears, many are faded.
Mine, on the other hand, look like new, their condition is almost fresh from the press.”
A copy went for a lot on Ebay
The Staudter posters are popular with collectors.
One of the copies that the 80-year-old had sold for 50 euros is now being offered on the Internet on the Ebay platform for 500 euros.
“But will anyone really pay for it?” Unterhachinger asks himself.
On the other hand, demand is increasing in the anniversary year, 50 years after the Olympic Games in Munich.
30 posters left
He currently has around 30 of the 50 posters that are already interested: an Olympic souvenir shop in Munich, a gallery.
If there were one or two left, that would be fine, but no more - the walls in his house are pretty much all taken up already.
Günter Staudter and his wife Ursula (77), who is still an active athlete, will not part with their other Olympic leftovers.
These include various book and illustrated volumes, original brochures such as the "official folklore program" or the record "Olympic Parade" with the Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra.
And a photo of a very special camera: that of the English Queen Elizabeth II, who was 46 years old at the time.
"She stood ten meters from me in the Olympic Stadium and took pictures herself," says Günter Staudter.
