Lots of happy faces
Created: 2022-11-21 09:02
Klaudia Wittmann still has the professional cutting machine from her parents, who had a butcher's shop in Gauting.
Wolf-Rüdiger Gundelach got it going again.
© Andrea Jaksch
The organizers of the Repair Café in Gauting are a bit in limbo.
It is not yet clear how, but above all where it should continue in 2023.
Gauting
– With 46 visitors, the Repair Café in the former Gauting train station pizzeria was very busy on Saturday afternoon: 19 times volunteers got defective bikes, steam irons, laptops or model cars running again.
Organizer Christiane Lüst from Öko & Fair-Umweltzentrum is satisfied.
She is worried about the future, because at the moment she doesn't know where the Repair Café will go next year.
The municipality has not yet given the go-ahead for an extension of the usage contract for the premises in Gautinger Bahnhof.
"Throw away?
Think!” has been the motto of the Gautinger Repair Café since 2014. Since then, there has been a free offer from volunteers at the Gautinger train station, organized by Christiane Lüst and Karl-Heinz Jobst.
The Repair Café only had to close temporarily because of Corona.
It started again this year with a lot of enthusiasm: Every third Saturday of the month, volunteers repair household appliances, electronics or the rattling bicycle.
With the patience of an angel, craftsman Norbert Fiedler also screwed on the bike of a disabled elderly woman on Saturday.
The front and rear lights are defective, the chain run is dirty.
She is dependent on the bicycle, says the 69-year-old and is overjoyed when she can accept the two-wheeler for a donation.
"Now I can drive at night again," says the pensioner happily.
The former train station pizzeria is even heated, as Christiane Lüst notes enthusiastically.
Because the heating was broken.
Now it also smells of freshly brewed coffee, helpers have brought home-baked apple pie for those waiting.
"My laptop won't start anymore," says Jeannine Siegel.
Karl-Heinz Jobst is therefore in the process of disassembling the entire device.
Manfred Schaller, on the other hand, has two defective 911 racing Porsches with him: the two model cars with remote control belonged to his children, a pair of twins, says the Pentenrieder.
Now he hopes that computer scientist Hermann Schmidt will get the speedsters running again for his five-year-old grandchildren, who are also twins.
Klaudia Wittmann has parked her defective heavy butcher professional cutting machine at Wolf-Rüdiger Gundelach.
The machine came from her parents' butcher's shop, says the woman from Gauting, "I use it to cut kohlrabi or ham wafer-thin."
After three attempts it actually runs like a top again.
"I enjoy helping people," says Gundelach, who is a trained civil engineer.
His specialty is actually the repair of pendulum clocks.
He has made many older women happy by repairing their heirlooms.
Beaming with joy, Kerstin Steuer also leaves with her favorite jeans after Monika Linkert has sewn a shiny sky-blue patch of fabric onto the hole in the fabric.
That also puts a smile on the faces of the volunteers.
"We'll continue in January", Christiane Lüst looks ahead,
Christine Cless-Wesle
