Repair Café team highly motivated for the new year
Created: 01/05/2023 13:05
From knives to fairy lights to remote-controlled cars: all objects are given a second chance in the repair café.
© Repair Café Tutzing
After the first eight months, the Tutzinger Repair-Café has drawn a successful interim balance.
The volunteers took 30 orders per appointment
Tutzing
– In May 2022, the facility in the art space on Bahnhofstrasse opened for the first time.
This was followed by around 30 repair orders on average.
A good reason to continue the sustainable offer.
In a press release, member Sonja Bonneß announces the first dates for 2023: January 21, February 18 and March 18.
The Repair Café takes place every third Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
It was supposed to start in 2019. A remarkable team of enthusiastic hobby craftsmen and organizers had come together, knowing that there were successful role models in Starnberg and Herrsching.
They developed concepts and looked for premises.
"Everything was in the starting blocks - and then came the pandemic," writes Bonneß.
In 2022, a smaller but no less motivated team took a fresh approach to extend the life of all broken items.
A woman who benefited from the Repair Café calls the volunteers Heinzelmann.
One “was able to repair the special charging USB plug on my handheld vacuum cleaner (had to be soldered), and so a working device can be used again.
I try to fix as much as possible myself.
It always hurts me how much is quickly thrown away because a small defect makes a commodity unusable.”
Bonneß reports that the response was good right from the start.
The concept is simple: you bring the item with you, register and then work with a repairman to bring the item back to life - and maybe learn a trick or two yourself.
To shorten waiting times, coffee, tea and homemade delicacies are available in the small café area.
Numerous lamps, vacuum cleaners and toasters have been repaired so far, but also robots, label makers and a Chi machine.
At the last event of the year, knives were even sharpened and clothing sewn.
Bonneß: "Unfortunately, some things couldn't be saved - that's part of it." A nice side effect: In the Repair Café, there are often interesting discussions about throwaway mentality and sustainable consumption.
