The dining room of the spouses Krämer in Siegen is considered to be the smallest Beatles Museum in the world. Now there is a reason to celebrate: 50 years Ago, the first Single of the Band appeared.
By Monika Salchert
Significant addresses of the Beatles: the Cavern Club in Liverpool, Abbey Road in London, Candlestick Park in San Francisco, Sohlbacher road in Siegen-Geisweid. The performances in the Cavern Club-marked from 1961 to the meteoric rise in the Abbey Road Studio was in San Francisco they gave in 1970, their last concert. And in Siegen-the smallest Beatles Museum in the world. It measures 27 square meters and was formerly the dining room of the spouses Krämer. Eaten for years in the living room or in the kitchen.
On Friday of this week, the 65-year-old Harold Krämer gets in front of excitement, perhaps even a bite down. On Friday, the gripper arm is in its Wurlitzer is pull-Jukebox Time to Time, the number 307 out and on the platter lay: Love Me Do. The title was released 50 years ago, on 5. October 1962, as the A-side of the first Single of the four hitherto unknown British musician. There should be a competition in which the biggest Fan of the Beatles is being determined, would be Harold Krämer certainly on the shortlist.
“I’ve always been a hunter and collector. First, there were vinyl records with the music of the sixties,” he says. Only records up to 18,000 copies. “I’m a crazy squirrel gathers and hoards, until the apartment is bursting at the seams.” When he had deposited part of his booty in the bedroom and in the kitchen – living room and dining room looked like as long as record stores – it was wife Ilona to colorful. It imposed a lock Plate.
The collective passion of her husband, she could not stop, only in the other channel. Harold rushed to the “Fab Four”. Your dining room should get, Ilona Krämer, never to return. He actually leads the smallest Beatles Museum of the world, he has in writing – by the Guinness book of world records.
Harold Kramer was a Director in the year 1998 to the Museum, after he had borne thousands of Beatles Souvenirs. First tape he graced the exhibition little. This would not have been necessary: On the walls, not a shred. Where no posters, newspaper clippings, photos, or record covers to hang, display cases and shelves. There are stamps, autograph cards, figurines, glasses, cups, pens, lighters, pillows, signs, and watches. And of course instruments, as they had the idols.
In addition, ties, socks, ladies silk buckles, stockings, brooches and belts, T-Shirts, Jackets and Sweatshirts. In Victories, the Beatles greet comrades as inflatable dolls, as cardboard, as the Bravo star cut, and as puppets. “I’ll show here is a mixture of Kitsch and art”, says Krämer, who has worked until his retirement as a press spokesman and head of advertising at a company for hardware and ventilation technology.
The entrance to the apartment and the Museum is located in the backyard. So that approaching visitors not to run, she directs Krämer from the kitchen window to the door. Most of the trips from the Ruhr area. “Beatles Fans know me. Also abroad,” he says.
Pride, he presents to you an Original stage Board and a piece of the dance floor of the legendary Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany. The Beatles had on the 13. April, played in 1962 for the opening of the club in the Grosse Freiheit 39. The Board and the gray stone slab with a certificate of authenticity from the St. Pauli Museum auctioned Krämer at auction.
Much he finds at flea markets, on the Internet or through tips from friends. One day, the granddaughter of a Federal railway called the inspector and asked whether the interest of a couple of things which have to get the grandfather in 1966, during a railway journey from the Beatles given. Harold Krämer asked what it was, but jumped into the car and drove to Frankfurt. 1966 – the mention of the year was enough for him. “It was clear to me that it had to have something to do with the Bravo – Beatles-blitz-tour.”
24. to 26. In June 1966, the Beatles were driven to your single Tour through Germany by train to concerts in Munich, Essen and Hamburg. On the trip from the Ruhr to the Elbe river, George Harrison had the car a menu of the German sleeping and dining car company signed and Paul McCartney embellished two cards with ballpoint drawings. These cards and a press he has the photo to Tour with the signatures of the musicians for Harold Krämer is of inestimable value, especially since there’s also the rare original poster for the tour.
His collection grows and grows. Already need to wind the visitors in the Slalom through the dining room. What to do? In larger spaces, he can’t Dodge. Then, the Status of “the smallest Beatles Museum of the world would be gone”. In addition, the waiver of the honorary title that could jeopardize his marriage. Woman shopkeeper has announced that it is to defend the Rest of the 100-square meter apartment with John, Paul, George and Ringo.
Here is Museum Link : http://www.the-beatles.de/en/index.html
