Franz Beckenbauer's life cannot actually be told on one page: Superstar at FC Bayern Munich, European champion, world champion as a player and as a coach, advertising icon, bon vivant - and maker of the “summer fairy tale” 2006, which subsequently caused some scratches on the emperor's crown .
Today Franz Beckenbauer is 75. A journey through the decades.
The 1940s
Born on September 11, 1945 - Franz Beckenbauer is one of the first post-war children.
A Giesinger.
Address: Zugspitzstraße 6. Soccer field on the doorstep.
Bourgeois circumstances, the father, Franz Beckenbauer senior, imagines that Franz Beckenbauer junior will also work at the post office one day.
The family has a soccer relationship: Alfons, the uncle of young Franz, used to play in the workers' national team.
The labor movement had founded a rival association to the DFB, the National Socialists dissolved the workers, gymnastics and sports federation.
Giesing shapes Beckenbauer.
If later he doesn't like a derby between FC Bayern and TSV 1860, he will say: “That was down against Obergiesing.” Mother Antonie is the woman of his life.
Even when Franz resided in Austria for tax reasons in the 90s, he stayed in his old home overnight when Bayern had played and he was in Munich.
He then watches the "sports show", his mother says: "You eat too little."
The 50s
In 1954 Germany becomes world champion, the heroes of Bern travel home by train, stopping at Munich Central Station.
The city is on its feet.
Franz experiences how people celebrate Fritz Walter.
It's the kick for his career.
He plays on the street and at SC 1906, but he wants to go to the most important Giesinger club, TSV 1860. The story of Watschn, which a youth player of the Löwen gave him, is world famous.
The 13-year-old Beckenbauer then goes to the Reds.
Would Munich football history be different without the slap in the face?
It doesn't matter, several sixties from the youth team at that time want it to have been.
The 1960s
Things move quickly in the young Franz's life. Private and sporty.
You can see on the soccer field: He is highly talented, he sometimes qualifies his teammates as “mushrooms”.
He becomes a youth national player, although the DFB has moral concerns.
The young player from Bayern became a father at the age of 17.
At the DFB course he has to go to the youth national coach Dettmar Cramer in a double bed.
Virtue guard Cramer later remembers: "Franz told me a dirty joke before I went to sleep."
Franz has not yet invented the Libero, the cleaner still rules in German football.
Beckenbauer plays in midfield, sometimes in the front, he becomes a national player.
He scored four goals at the 1966 World Cup.
He feels his way into the world of the media.
The manager of FC Bayern becomes his too: Robert Schwan gets him advertising (“Kraft in den Teller, Knorr auf dem Tisch”) and a record deal (“Nobody can separate good friends”), for the first book Beckenbauer puts on tails and top hats on.
It is called: “Gentleman on the ball.” He is called the “Kaiser”.
He no longer has to work at Allianz, where he started an apprenticeship.
In the 2000s, he picks up Allianz boss Gerd Schulte-Hillen: “You are lucky that I'm away from Allianz.
Otherwise I would be sitting on her chair now. "
The 1970s
European and world champions, European Cup victories - Beckenbauer reaps sportily.
But he should be more than a footballer who achieves everything in Germany.
Beckenbauer becomes a brand.
The result is a movie in which he plays himself: "Libero".
In one scene he is jogging in a Free State of Bavaria shirt on the beach in Israel, in another he and his family walk into an inn in Bavaria.
"Yes, it's me." The figure of light.
Brigitte, his first wife, would like to see him study medicine.
Too high.
They agree on an interest in culture.
Beckenbauer visits the Wagner Festival, the features editors of Münchner Merkur and Süddeutscher Zeitung take him with them in the car.
He asks: "Can we hear Bayern3?"
Beckenbauer gets problems with the tax, the Bavarian Ministry of Finance warns him discreetly.
He moves to New York, to the new Club Cosmos, which already has Pele.
Beckenbauer wears the number 6 on his back, plays on artificial turf, which maltreats his body, and takes penalties instead of penalties.
It's a big circus, he enjoys it.
Also there: his new partner, the photographer Diane Sandmann.
In a New York taxi, Beckenbauer resists the advances of the gay ballet star Rudolf Nureyev.
Beckenbauer writes a weekly column for Münchner Merkur for an imperial fee.
The 80s
He has returned to Hamburg, HSV sponsor BP was involved.
He's an old footballer, often injured.
The groins are now called adductors.
He becomes a columnist for "Bild" and the newspaper wrote him in 1984 for the national coaching position.
At Beckenbauer, the job is just called differently: team boss.
He has to prove himself again because the Germans doubt: Can Beckenbauer lead people?
There was almost a comeback as a player in 1985.
On a trip to Mexico one year before the World Cup, one player after the other falls out, hit by a gastrointestinal infection (“Montezuma's revenge”).
DFB President Hermann Neuberger says to him: "Well, if you want to play - you have my blessing." But there are 103 international matches, the last one was in 1977. Beckenbauer will noticeably avoid playing football anyway.
Hold up a ZDF goal wall or a few balls for a commercial - he does.
He avoids celebrity games.
Dear golf.
The 90s
At 44, Franz Beckenbauer also became world champion as a coach.
And now?
He seeks.
During his time in America he began to read Schopenhauer and Hölderlin.
In an interview he says that he could also imagine existence as a plant.
It is its esoteric phase.
He no longer wants to be a coach - and still does it.
Feels connected to the businessman Bernard Tapie (Adidas) and is the coach and sports director of his Club Olympique Marseille.
The Bavarians get into a crisis and long for their former size.
Franz has to do something.
What?
Vice President.
You're welcome!
It is set to become President.
He steps in as a coach twice, becoming German champion (1994) and UEFA Cup winner (1996).
“Cup of losers” he says.
Fedor Radmann from Berchtesgaden is now also working on his career, networked in all relevant sports associations, Beckenbauer has arrived in his third life: The doer.
The politician.
He won the World Cup in Germany.
He should bring her to Germany.
Beckenbauer receives a briefcase.
The 2000s
In February 2000, FC Bayern celebrated its 100th birthday in the Prinzregentheater, with Loriot as the star guest.
President Beckenbauer invited international decision-makers from the world of football.
People laugh as he recites the Arabic names of members of the FIFA executive.
He is campaigning for votes for Germany to host the 2006 World Cup. The competitors are England and South Africa.
Then in June: “And the winner is ... Germany,” said FIFA President Sepp Blatter.
Beckenbauer travels the world intoxicated to greet all participating nations.
During the World Cup he is on the road in a helicopter and is getting married on the side.
Heidi, who worked at FC Bayern, is the third woman - and Sybille, who he met at the DFB, is in the past.
He has also become a father again, the Hallodri.
It remains secret for months, the media are discreetly silent.
When the story finally hits the world, Beckenbauer says: “God is happy about every child.” People are joking, because it should have happened at the Bavaria Christmas party (but it wasn't): “Yes, it is Christmas? ”It was his famous slogan for Viag Interkom.
He doesn't like it when people make fun of him.
He puts pressure on Bayerischer Rundfunk because of Chris Boettcher's harmless radio comedy "Lothar und Franz", and at Premiere he lowers his thumb over host Christian Sprenger.
He only tolerates the parodies of Olli Dittrich.
Beckenbauer is powerful in many ways.
He is the representative of the DFB in UEFA and FIFA.
The 2010s
In December 2010, FIFA is awarding two World Cups.
2018 will not go to England, but Russia, in 2022 not to the USA or Australia, but to Qatar.
Beckenbauer becomes ambassador for the Association of Russian Gas Producers.
He defends Qatar, controversial because of its working conditions, during a visit.
"I have not seen a slave."
When Germany won the world championship in Brazil in 2014, he wasn't there.
The ethics committee of the FIFA had banned Beckenbauer because he had ignored a list of questions from the US investigator Michael Garcia regarding the 18/22 World Cup.
The ban will be lifted during the World Cup tournament, but Beckenbauer is offended, he stays at home.
For the first time, the respected becomes the outlawed.
Then in 2015: The summer fairy tale in twilight.
"Spiegel" revelations concerning the flow of money through Beckenbauer accounts.
The Kaiser ducks, in the course of the internal investigation initiated by the DFB, he comes to the Munich branch of the Freshfields law firm.
Nothing is cleared up.
Media siege of his house in Salzburg.
Reporters drop letters with offers to talk to, they get mail from lawyers.
Beckenbauer is silent.
The "Camp Beckenbauer", the annual debating club in the Stanglwirt in Going, will be canceled.
One hears he is not doing well.
Heart surgery, eye infarction.
Do you have to write the obituary?
Or is it one of the last major staging of the Kaiser network to protect Beckenbauer from access to justice?
He escaped from it.
Statute of limitations.
He's going back to the stadium.
For a portrait he said a few sentences to ARD.
His voice has lost its strength, he's hoarse.
Franz Beckenbauer is 75. He doesn't look any younger.