Cult to currywurst.

The icon of German culture Buden chips will be a monument to: mid-August in the capital, opened the first German Currywurst Museum. The future director wants all the dimensions of the sausage light, will help her Berlin star chefs.

 

Berlin - The currywurst belongs to such as Hertha BSC Berlin, Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Bear. At hundreds of stalls and refreshment stands will be in town the sausage in the Würztunke sold - up from Kreuzberg Charlottenburg, up from Marzahn Mariendorf. And also the official inventor of the ingeniously simple court was a Berliner. Reason enough for a small private initiative, Germany's number one snack at last to put a monument on 16 Of August in Berlin the first German Currywurst Museum.

"Our goal is to provide all aspects of the currywurst to light," says the cultural sociologist and director-designate of the museum, Birgit Breloh, at the presentation of the approach on Wednesday. After all, Germany would be in 800 million per year curry sausages eaten. "This means that in every minute curry sausages verspeist 1500." Moreover, the currywurst more than a symbol of Berlin. "There is so much to tell."

Located near the Checkpoint Charlie, on an area of 1100 square meters, the building manager, a trendy, colorful panorama, which literally makes the sausage goes: In a snack bar make accessible the visitors with all necessary utensils acquaintance. On tables are listening in the form of ketchup bottles set up in which celebrities love their currywurst to explain.

Stylized sauce drops hanging from the ceiling, sausage sofas invite you to linger, and a sauce track runs through the exhibition. "The secret of currywurst is in the sauce, which we have taken as a guiding principle," says Stefan Weil Markgraph by the Agency, which has the concept of co.

Sausages Curry of star chefs

A cinema will give it with scenes from the television series like "Three ladies from the grill", a spice and its own board room for Herta Heuwert, the official inventor of the Currywurst. According to legend, stood on a rainy evening in September 1949 in their snack wagon in American occupied the western part of Berlin in the legs and belly began to out of pure boredom, spices and tomato puree zusammenzurühren.

The result was the "Chillup sauce, a curry sauce which they served with Brühwursten - the first currywurst the world, a reference to the steak with ketchup, the U.S. soldiers ate and so happy until the postwar occupation in Germany was completely unknown .

Naturally, the museum also on the "Currywurst-war" between Berlin and Hamburg to the actual authorship of which, says the director-designate Breloh. But the Invention of the Currywurst in Berlin was the best historical evidence.

And of course, the visitors are also a lot of curry sausages can eat. Berlin's star chefs Thomas Kammeier and Kolja Kleeberg mixte extra for the museum's own sauces together. In addition, there are several variants of the German regions, as well as vegetarian sausages and even a composition with gold leaf.

With big gains the initiators of the museum currywurst not. "We take the more athletic," said curator Martin Löwer. "It is a funny and an interesting theme." About 20 friends and fans currywurst, the 54-year-old business consultant for the project. Around 50 million euros, the group had the museum cost.

To the encouragement of visitors to the organizers not afraid: Around 350,000 visitors are expected the museum annually. "I already have a source on the folder full of requests from school groups from Sweden and America," says Breloh. Certainly this was the craziest idea of his life been committed Löwer. But he seems so very happy: "I had a lot of serious ideas, but for which nobody has been so interesting as this one."

Marion Meyer-Radtke, AFP