Illness and bankruptcy approach him

If you look closely, you will discover some: Traces of the Golden Schuhbeck period at the Munich Platzl. At the glass entrance door to the former South Tyrolean parlors, the red sticker of the Michelin Guide sticks from the 2010s. Back then cooked Alfons Schuhbeck Here at the star level. Above the rammed ice cream parlor on the other side of the square, his name is large on a sign above the shop window. Just like via « Schuhbeck’s spice » shop, which is still open as a lot of remains of this crumpled cooking empire. However, with a new operator, at least this company Schuhbeck was before the insolvency saved.

Since August 2023, the 76-year-old has been far from his former empire. As is well known, he has to serve a prison sentence in the correctional facility in Landsberg due to tax evasion on a large scale. But Schuhbeck’s health has made a suspension of detention necessary. Because medical treatment in prison is not to be affected, the ex-TV chef is at least until the beginning of June and is said to live again in his apartment on Platzl.

Nothing stirs behind the high old building windows this morning. In front of one of the many restaurants around the square in the old town of Munich, a waiter spans the parasols. Is he still present here, the former « Platzlhirsch », as the media and Schickeria Schuhbeck used to be called? « The Schuhbeck sometimes runs around here, » says the waiter. « But even if he would run into my arms: I ignore the. Such a crook who cheated on his staff, his suppliers and the state. » The waiter has already heard of Schuhbeck’s disease. « Heart problems », someone told him who also works on Platzl.

According to reports, the convicted cook was recently seen in the car of a medical care center, which specializes in cardiovascular diseases and internal medicine. A few days ago the reported Picture-Zeitung that Schuhbeck is currently being treated in the hospital.

The new trial against Schuhbeck should start at the end of June

It is unclear how his state of health is on the new process has an effect, which should start at the end of June. It is planned that Schuhbeck must be responsible for subsidy fraud, bankruptcy, fraud and attempted fraud. Among other things, he is said to have misused state corona wages of several hundred thousand euros. So far, the presumption of innocence has been valid.

If the accused is not fit again by the start of the trial on June 24th, the procedure will be temporarily discontinued. In the extreme case it could even be completely placed on the filesSchuhbeck would get away without further punishment. To do this, a medical appraiser would have to attest him a « permanent inability to negotiate ».

It could be doubted whether the view out of the window in his apartment above the Platzl Square. There are garbage cans in front of the long -closed ice cream parlor. In the rooms of the South Tyrolean parlors, behind the faded Michelin stickers, out broken bricks are stacked. Soon The Weihenstephan brewery takes over here.

At Starbucks you don’t know Alfons Schuhbeck

System catering has moved in on the square, on which Schuhbeck liked to be photographed in bright sunshine or in the golden evening light. At the Starbucks coffee chain, Munich vacationers are getting their breakfast cappuccino. The barista behind the counter says in the place that stands for the past success of the entrepreneur Alfons Schuhbeck like no other: « Unfortunately, I don’t know Schuhbeck. »