He is the best -known Barmann, publisher of the world’s most influential cocktail book and was a passenger of the Chancellor Konrad Adenauer: Now is now Charles Schumann Guest in the infinite podcast. This episode was recorded in Munich on a Saturday, first in Charles Schumann’s day bar and then in exceptional empty Schumann’s, which closed on Saturdays.
In conversation, Charles Schumann tells how he was discovered as a model in Paris in the 1980s and why his parents wanted to become a priest. He himself dreamed of a career as a diplomat. Schumann reveals the secrets of a good bar, tells of encounters with the writers Haruki Murakami and Hans Magnus Enzensberger, with fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and Prime Minister Markus Söder. He explains why regular guests are “the worst guests” and why he keeps prices low in his bar.
Charles Schumann was born as Karl Georg Schuhmann on September 15, 1941 in Kirchenthumbach in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria. He worked as a waiter, bartender and restaurant manager in France and Italy and as a bodyguard. In the 1970s he was a bartender in Harry’s New York Bar in Munich before opening Schumann’s in 1982. Some books have been published and documentaries were made about his life and work. His standard work via cocktails has sold half a million times to date.
With the podcast guards Christoph Amend and Jochen Wegner, Charles Schumann talked about his love for Japan, for boxing and piano playing, about his life as a single father, his career as a model for fashion houses such as Commes des Garçons and Hugo Boss, about the mistakes of his life, about loneliness-and about the happiness in which he was happiest. He explains why he deleted the “h” from his surname. And how he thinks about death today.
After 4 hours and 34 minutes, Charles Schumann ends the conversation, because that can be done Said everything? Only the guest.
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Production: pool artists
Editor: Hannah Schraven, Vincent Mank, Sophie Hübner, Sophia Hubel, Carl Friedrichs
Guest management: Anna Vahldick
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