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Berlin (AP) - The widower of the Berlin celebrity hairdresser Udo Walz would like to continue his husband's life's work.
"That is very important to me," said Carsten Thamm-Walz (50) of the German press agency.
"We want to keep Udo's name up high."
That is very clear.
Two salons in Berlin and the one in Potsdam will therefore reopen on March 1, when operation is possible again after the Corona break.
Udo Walz died in November at the age of 76 after a diabetes shock and coma.
Because of the corona pandemic, his husband could only say goodbye from a distance before he died.
How is Thamm-Walz doing today?
"If I'm completely open: somehow I still haven't really digested all of this."
After almost 30 years, you couldn't do that overnight either.
"I miss him every day."
Everything is missing from him.
"When I get home, I can still see him sitting in his TV chair."
Once a week he goes to Walz's grave and speaks to him.
That also helps him not to feel so alone during the Corona period.
It is an anonymous grave in the Dahlem forest cemetery, only the initiated know where it is.
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The large rolling salon on Kurfürstendamm is closed.
In December, Thamm-Walz had declared on the bankruptcy application that there were many reasons, he mentioned difficulties with rent and the corona crisis.
Nine of the 35 employees there could therefore continue to be employed.
As far as the corona lockdown is concerned, Thamm-Walz said aid from the state had not yet arrived.
“Nevertheless, we have not lost our courage and are continuing.
Our customers are happy that we are opening again. "
In his long career, Udo Walz has done the hair of many prominent women, from star actor Romy Schneider to Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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