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Celebrity costume shop in Munich has to close: 74-year-old is kicked out – out of greed for profit

2022-04-12T08:11:10.877Z


Celebrity costume shop in Munich has to close: 74-year-old is kicked out – out of greed for profit Created: 04/12/2022Updated: 04/12/2022 10:05 am By: Andrea Stinglwagner Ursula Fröhmer and the Obststandl-Didi in "Tracht und Heimat" © Markus Götzfried More and more traditional shops in Munich have to close. Many of them will be laid off - the rooms will be luxuriously renovated. "Tracht und He


Celebrity costume shop in Munich has to close: 74-year-old is kicked out – out of greed for profit

Created: 04/12/2022Updated: 04/12/2022 10:05 am

By: Andrea Stinglwagner

Ursula Fröhmer and the Obststandl-Didi in "Tracht und Heimat" © Markus Götzfried

More and more traditional shops in Munich have to close.

Many of them will be laid off - the rooms will be luxuriously renovated.

"Tracht und Heimat" at Oberanger will soon be over.

Munich – Ursula Fröhmer looks into the corner where her cot used to be.

On the old wooden staircase that her cousin hemmed himself through the ceiling.

The whole house in which her parents and grandmother lived and worked... "When I think to myself: these rooms, I'll soon never go through them again..." Another traditional Munich shop is dying: after more than 40 years, Ursula Fröhmer's shop "Tracht and home" soon history.

She had been given notice that the building would be renovated soon and that it would be more expensive.

And the 74-year-old shop manager still has tears in her eyes.

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Traditional shops in Munich are dying out:

The shop in the pretty Orag house on Oberanger (old town*): Fröhmer's father worked there as a tailor after the war, renting out clothing from tailcoats to Stresemanns to wedding dresses.

In 1979 Ursula took over and founded her heart's project "Tracht und Heimat".

Real traditional costumes are tailor-made here, not modern dirndls, just for the Oktoberfest.

Traditional costume clubs and bands are regular customers, but countless celebrities have also been outfitted by Fröhmer: Erni Singerl, Willy Harlander, Helmut Fischer, Hape Kerkeling, soccer stars like Klaus Augenthaler and Jupp Heynckes.

But last year in June the shock: the termination!

Fröhmer has to leave by the end of December.

Even the city council dealt with the case: the CSU asked the city administration to support the preservation of the tailoring.

After all, Mayor Dieter Reiter* even awarded Tröhmer the "Medal of Honor for Services to Folk Culture in Munich" in 2018!

CSU City Councilor Thomas Schmid railed: "The city cannot first award a prize for cultural merits and then turn a blind eye when this merit is trampled on." That probably didn't help anything.

At least Fröhmer got an extension until June, but then it should be over.

End of a traditional Munich business: the owner wants to renovate rooms and rent them out more expensively

The landlord is the Bavarian tailoring cooperative Orag.

From there, Ursula Fröhmer heard that they wanted to refurbish the rooms - and then rent them out again at a much higher price.


"Everything must go": These signs now hang in the shop window.

There are discounts.

And a one-of-a-kind from Munich* is now helping with the sale: the Obststandl-Didi from the university, also known as the TV weatherman, hurries through the rooms, advising customers and making them laugh.

If you like, you can still meet Didi there today.

He says: "I've known Uschi for years, we're friends.

I want her to be able to laugh a little again..."

How it goes on?

Ursula Fröhmer doesn't know.

She doesn't want to stop.

New rooms, somewhere - a new "home" so to speak?

That would be great.

“My dream would be if I could still continue.

But a miracle would have to happen for that.”

*tz.de/muenchen

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Source: merkur

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