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Ex-boxer Schulz, model Natascha Hofmann, swimmer Elena Krawzow (at the Hofbräu Oktoberfest in Berlin on September 26th): »A wreck«
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Frederic Kern / Future Image / action press
Not much is going on in the Munich Hotel Vierjahreszeiten during these weeks of the shutdown light.
Axel Schulz, 52, is still not safe from people who want a photo with him on the eve of the first Advent.
A woman his age asks politely - and receives her picture with the tall man in front of the mighty Christmas tree in the lobby.
Schulz grins broadly, his eyes narrowed to slits, a blue baseball cap on his bald head.
A quarter of a century ago he was a big boxer.
Now he's booked for the night as an expert on the pay-TV channel Sky, the station is broadcasting "the comeback fight in boxing history" from Los Angeles: Mike Tyson versus Roy Jones junior, both over fifty, two men from the Schulz generation.
Sky wanted to book his co-commentator a hotel near the studio, on the outskirts of the city.
But Schulz preferred to rent the five-star hotel in the center, he appreciates the smoker's lounge.
The ex-athlete is a passionate cigar paffer, even has his own cigar production, "Shorties, nice and mild," he explains, the box of four at 35 euros.
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