Dinand Scheermeyer ran the "Klamotte" restaurant in Starnberg for 20 years.
He was frequented by (sports) celebrities from the region.
What is he doing today?
Starnberg - He knows most of the episodes of the Merkur series "Tracked down" - and their protagonists.
"They were all with me," says Dinand Scheermeyer and laughs.
As always.
The Dutchman was not a well-known athlete himself.
But for two decades it was the host for Starnberg's celebrities as well as footballers from all over the district and beyond.
His nightclub "Klamotte" on Theresienstraße in Starnberg had cult character and was the "living room" of (sports) celebrities.
His Irish whiskey was legendary.
And a visit after the players' meeting on Thursday evening is a must for countless footballers, coaches and officials.
Today Scheermeyer is well over 70 and a private individual.
The restaurateur, who was born in Sint-Annaland in the Dutch province of Zeeland, comes to the interview appointment with a fashionable flat cap à la Steffen Baumgart, a white hoodie and: in proper style with his Dutch bike.
"I'm still in great shape," he says straight away.
And immediately reveals the secret of his life, which is based on four principles: a healthy diet without meat or sausages, lots of sport, no alcohol and no smoking.
The trained hotel and restaurant manager has remained young despite many years spent behind the counter at night.
"Every winter I go skiing for more than 30 days, go ski touring, play tennis, cycle, jog and do Nordic walking," he says.
In 1969 Scheermeyer came to Germany, in 1970 he took over the restaurant "Der Holländer" in Berg, before he achieved his biggest gastronomic coup in 1977: he turned the former "Owl" in the center of Starnberg into a restaurant that became a must for everyone who wanted to see and be seen in the district town.
Boxing champion Henry Maske and boxing European champion René Weller stopped by, as did Bayern stars Lothar Matthäus, Hansi Pflügler and Hansi Flick or Bayern coach Erich Ribbeck, who was towing FCB Vice Fritz Scherer and "Sausage King" Rudi Houdek came, and like many players from TSV 1860 Munich, including coach Werner Lorant.
Karl-Heinz Wildmoser, whom Scheermeyer claims he persuaded in the “Klamotte” to become Lion President, was a regular guest.
Likewise the former District Administrator Dr.
Rudolf Widmann (Scheermeyer: "He always parked his car right in front of the bar, then there was no curfew"), acting icon Jopi Heesters ("He came because he could speak Amsterdam dialect with me") and the greats of Starnberger local sports.
Late on Thursday, when training and the players' meeting were over, they met up for an Irish coffee at Dinand's.
Always friendly served by the boss himself - he brought the secret recipe for his special drink with him from his apprenticeship in England - or by Loni, the wife of Herrschingen football legend Franz Sterl.
Assuming, of course, that you get in at all.
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Celebrities from politics were also guests in the “Klamotte”: Here the district administrator at the time, Dr.
Rudolph Widman.
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For years, the hottest rumors from the football scene were discussed in the “Klamotte”, player transfers were bagged, the past game day was worked up and the coming one was discussed in advance.
There celebrated Wiggerl Kögl, the later national player, who played half a season for the SpVgg Starnberg youth team before moving to 1860, his 18th birthday.
There, immediately after his commitment, ex-Bundesliga professional Jürgen Täuber, the new star of SpVgg, presented himself.
There the Starnberg Presidents Dr.
Gerd Wernekke and Jochen Kress.
There, the Tutzinger “Green Shirt” manager Hans Liebert – made a millionaire by winning the lottery and almost as quickly destitute again – paid the bill for countless new “friends”.
There, FT soccer boss Rudi Hack told anecdotes from his life as an athlete and official.
During the interview on the church square, where he ran the “Hannen-Stuben” for several years parallel to “Klamotte”, passers-by kept greeting him.
"Everyone in Starnberg knows me," says Scheermeyer, not without pride.
Until 1997, the "Starnberger Holländer" ran the "Klamotte".
Then the celebrity meeting in the heart of the district town was over: "20 years of working every day until four or five in the morning - at some point it's enough," he explains.
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Dinand Scheermeyer is still fashionable and fit well over 70 years old.
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But he didn't want to settle down just yet.
Scheermeyer went to Munich, took over the "Bardeli" in Schwabing (until 2004) and until 2011 the "Cappuccino" on Maximilianstraße in Starnberg.
Then he withdrew from professional life and concentrated on his own sports activities and the games of "his" TSV 1860 Munich, of which he was a "patron" for decades.
What very few know about him: He has a son named Kent who lives in South Africa, works as a sommelier there and has his own winery.
Today, Dinand Scheermeyer can look back on a fulfilled gastronomic life with countless encounters from the world of sport.
A bicycle shop is now housed in his former shop on Theresienstrasse.
“When I walk by there,” he admits, “there is always a bit of melancholy.
After all, the 20 years in the 'clothes' were the best time of my life”.
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