As of: April 6, 2024, 7:00 a.m
By: Volker Ufertinger
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Enter (from left): Hans-Georg Krause (general management), Sibylle Sommer and Rosemarie Zacher (curators, School of Fantasy) and collector Hermann Geiger invite you to an exhibition at the Bosco until April 14th. © Dagmar Rutt
The opening of the exhibition “Mousetraps for You – Cigars for the World” took place on Thursday evening. The audience was electrified.
Gauting
- Hermann Geiger doesn't know exactly how many exhibits he has transported from his depot to Bosco in the past few days. Dozens? Hundreds? What is certain is that, over the decades, Unterbrunner has devotedly collected the remains of old factories and craft businesses, tools, machines, pictures, letters, simply everything. He can finally exhibit part of it until April 14th, i.e. for ten days. You can even visit a complete shoemaker's workshop and a historic hairdressing salon. “As long as I can do it, I’ll do it. And I’m not just doing it for myself, I’m doing it for you,” he said, receiving applause at the exhibition opening.
The passionate collector has been pursuing the project together with Hans-Georg Krause for a long time. In his welcome speech, the Bosco founder thanked the two curators Sybille Sommer and Rosemarie Zacher from the School of Fantasy, who were prepared to “think along with the content”. And without the sponsors – from the Theater Forum to the community savings bank to the trade fair builder Plan3 – it would not have been possible “for us to be able to live our madness”.
Old vehicle: A Fiat converted into an agricultural tractor is in the foyer. © Ufertinger
The visitor is first greeted by a vintage car, a green Fiat from the 1920s, which its owner Otto de Crignis converted into an agricultural tractor at some point. Mowing grass and grain, turning hay, spraying potatoes, driving manure: the car that now stands so picturesquely in the foyer of the Bosco could do all of this. To save it from French occupiers, its owner hid it in straw at the end of the war.
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Up the steps and you stand in front of an old map of the Würm, which shows where hydropower was used. There are said to have once been 29 mills between Starnberg and Stockdorf, but there is no information about all of them today. One of many: The powder mill on Schlossberg, where dynamite was once produced for the construction of the Gotthard Tunnel. In 1880 it blew up. Then the manufacturer Julius Haerlin bought the ruins in order to have preliminary products made in the wood grinding mill for the paper he made in what is now the castle park.
Key information about the exhibition
The opening hours of the exhibition
are Friday, April 5th to Sunday, April 7th, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and from Thursday, 11th to Sunday, April 14th, also from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free. In the mornings, school classes and adult groups (maximum 15 people) can be booked free of charge for Monday, April 8th to Friday, April 12th (time by arrangement). Due to limited spaces, registration is required at exhibition@theaterforum.de.
Accompanying events
: Tuesday, April 9th, 8 p.m.: Eckhard Störmer, “The Future of Work: How and what we will work for in the future”; Wednesday, April 10th, 8 p.m.: “Love Letters from the Paper Factory,” reading with Gerd Holzheimer and Anna Veit; Thursday, April 11th, 7 p.m.: Archaeological Society: Lecture on the working situation of displaced people in the Würmtal.
Guided tours with Hermann Geiger:
Friday, April 12th and Saturday, April 13th, 6 and 7 p.m.; Tour with former mayor Ekkehard Knobloch: Thursday, April 11th, 10:15 a.m. Registration at exhibition@theaterforum.de. Bar Rosso is open during exhibition times.
Then we go to the large hall, the heart of the exhibition. Here the working world of yesteryear becomes literally tangible. The Gauting machine factory (Mafaga), today's global player Webasto, Leo Hänle (predecessor of Stanz Schmidt in Stockdorf), the Austrian Tobacco Directorate's cigar factory and many other companies come to life, thanks to the exhibits, but also thanks to the short and precise explanations. Difficult topics such as forced labor and the Second World War are not left out either. The view through the entrance door of the old elementary school to a reproduction of the cigar factory's ballroom creates a wow effect.
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Behind the stage of the Great Hall you will find the hub of industrial Gauting: the train station. It was opened in 1854, initially as the end point of the new railway line between Munich and Starnberg. From then on, the railway not only brought workers to Gauting, but also guaranteed the smooth transport of the goods produced. Not only are three pictures by Alfred Leithäuser from the community archives reminiscent of this, but also the completely preserved living room of the former station master Singer. Geiger once received it from his granddaughter. And behind it a model train runs in circles.
Good room: The living room of the former station master Singer has been completely preserved. © Dagmar Rutt
Down the steps and the visitor finds himself in an old hair salon. You can actually have your hair cut there with old equipment from Friday to Monday for a donation. It largely consists of the Schuldes hairdressing salon in Pentenried, which Geiger once acquired.
Finally, in the last room the focus is on the future of work. “Global megatrends” are listed there that will ensure that nothing stays the same. Artificial intelligence and robotics will at least change entire professional fields, if not make them superfluous, in a society that is determined by demographic change and increasing migration. At some point the year 2024 will also be a world of yesterday.
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