Dietmar Holzapfel - from teacher to queer host

43 min. Commissioned by BR

Director: Tanja v.Ungern-Sternberg

Cinematography: Johannes Kaltenhauser

Editing: Ines Seiter

 

He belongs to the Munich Gärtnerplatzviertel like barely anyone else. For more than 30 years Dietmar Holzapfel and his partner Sepp Sattler have run the legendary Bavarian restaurant, hotel and gay sauna, “Deutsche Eiche“. However the path to living freely and with equal rights as a queer man was a very long and rocky one for Dietmar.