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Group photo with a lady: Unfortunately, the Starnberg city archives did not know the year this photo was taken.
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Memories of the great days in the district town of Starnberg.
Starnberg
– They must have been great times, back in the 1950s to the early 1980s.
The approximately 20 people from Starnberg who met this week for the storytelling café in the Starnberger See Museum immediately reminisced about the carnival theme.
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Gisela Baumann, who has been organizing the storytelling café for a year, reported on masked parades, cellar festivals and a Gaudi wheelbarrow race around Lake Starnberg.
“Carnival life in Starnberg was incredibly lively.” Baumann spoke of a “turning point” that unfortunately happened afterwards.
Everyone celebrated back then, “the traditional costumers, the riflemen, the medical columns, the women’s association,” remembers Starnberg’s long-time city councilor Gerd Weger.
“Society had some catching up to do, and there weren’t nearly as many entertainments as there are today.”
The TSV Starnberg carnival balls, which took place in the old gymnasium and always had a motto, were famous.
The equipment room was transformed into a dimly lit champagne bar.
“There were no hard drinks, you drank wine or beer or a glass of champagne,” said former mayor Ferdinand Paffinger.
And the decoration was the finest.
Hans Saegmüller, then junior boss of the electrical company, traveled to Paris specifically for the motto “Moulin Rouge” in order to be able to recreate the mill true to the original.
He himself caused endless merriment at the ball as a brothel mother.
The ball for the 100th birthday of the TSV in 1980 is also unforgettable. A real King Ludwig II and his pages from the best Starnberg society - dressed in style by Munich costume rental companies - brought the audience “to the woana”, as a participant from back then put it.
Paffinger had to smile when he remembered the exuberant youth balls of the 1960s.
They took place in the gym from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Adults weren't allowed to be there, but they were probably at the door by 9 p.m. at the latest to pick up their little ones.
There was no alcohol.
“But that never hurt our mood,” said Paffinger.
The parades on Shrove Tuesday were another highlight of the great days.
Wittelsbacherstrasse was completely closed, and the haute volee stood at the Bavarian Court to cheer on the imaginatively decorated carriages.
With great initiative, the clubs hammered and sawed for weeks and sometimes implemented completely crazy ideas.
The Munich Rowing and Sailing Club once even organized a low-loader with a swimming pool in which some club members bathed despite the cold.
Perchalla, who has always been very active and creative, sent a whole horse-drawn cart to Starnberg.
At one point the carnival was canceled due to the city's lack of money.
“Then we organized everything ourselves, and the shops actively supported us with free sausages and doughnuts,” said Angelika Frenzel.
“The sense of community was incredibly great back then.”
And people liked to dress up in costumes.
“Everyone had a carnival box full of costumes at home,” said Paffinger.
Gerd Weger liked to dress up as Little Red Riding Hood, Burkhard Schütz from the Kneipp Club dressed up as a priest.
“To hear the confessions of the pretty girls at the bar,” as he said with a wink.
“We celebrated from women’s carnival until the end of the day,” reported Paffinger.
Once he went to the gym in Wangen on Friday evening and didn't come home until Sunday evening - where his father welcomed him in great excitement.
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Yes, those were the times.
But there is hope for a renaissance of carnival in Starnberg and the surrounding area: Christian Fries, who was at the story café for the city archives to preserve the old stories, confirmed that partying through the carnival days is popular again among young people.
“In the Pöckinger Beccult everything goes from women’s carnival to sweepstakes.” If that’s not a glimmer of hope.
Ilona Ramstetter