37 years after the first day, Karl Heinz has one dream above all: a Europe and a world of peace, without wars. He was the first German to come to Sardinia with his great passion for beer and minerals: decades of history and research, because what is certainly the character of the week in Cagliari after the Nashville concert last Thursday, his most beautiful birthday (the 37 ) of his business after years of Covid restrictions. “It was really tough being 14 months out of work, out of touch with people, I work with clients who are longtime friends who grew up here: once children, now mothers and fathers with their children, that kind of thing happens too. I love Cagliari and now I feel partly Sardinian in every way. I love the sea, I live in the Capitana area and when the weather is good there isn’t a day that doesn’t go in search of the magic of the sea”.
Karl Heinz looks back and at 72 shows the same age in body and mind and above all the empathy that has always distinguished him. It does not need advertising, the article was born only from the desire to tell in a simple way a character respected by many citizens of Cagliari, always ready to help others. If a friend breaks down or needs a ride, they’re always there. Everyone remembers its glorious parties organized at the Fiera or Santa Margherita, special nights where the atmosphere of the German Oktoberfest was perfectly relived. “Now Covid has prevented us from repeating them but I would love to party again: more than anything I like luck, in this period I am organizing a trip to Cologne for next summer to show my closest friends the places , on which we are grown high. Then the carnival there is a great party, we recently reviewed all the videos with nostalgia. But we’ll be back soon.” Another great passion of his is chess: every year he organizes a tournament that takes place in one evening, but to the last “blood”.
A world of peace? “I’m suffering a lot from the war between Russia and Ukraine, there isn’t an evening when we don’t talk about it, between one beer and the other,” between hope and not just geopolitical considerations. For almost four decades, Karl Heinz has represented in Cagliari the story of perfect integration between foreigners and Cagliari citizens: not only between him and his boys, but also the German soldiers of the Decimomannu base, who in turn spend whole nights making friends with them entertain young Sardinians. It is a place “that hardly exists during the day”, where the night seems to end, everyone socializes, nobody argues, almost everyone knows and above all respects each other. From Michele to Francesco, from Frank to David to Cristina and then the girls who help him like Monica and Eleonora, Mary and the sweet Giulia and in the past many others who have made a collection center a unique place, shared by everyone Cagliari is recognized. The message of good wishes on Fb written for him in the last few days by Giuliano Marongiu, one of the best Sardinian artists of all time: “How many lives in a single existence and how many carefully caressed dreams have marked a man’s journey , who has moved from a small town in Germany to Sardinia to give shape to a project full of ideas and a thousand colors to browse through.His strength, his kindness and an “enveloping” temperament reveal the charisma of a man born from made the profession of art and of the place that manages its space of seduction. Among the many interests, good food, his burning passions, and carefully maintained meetings, Karl’s story unfolds, captivating with the truths that criss-cross them and the traits that characterize them. At 72, it is the desire to look to the future that hides a secret and makes it shine. Greetings!” writes Marongiu,
From politicians to engineers, from musicians to lawyers to university students, epic chats are organized by him, almost always quietly, in a low voice, as if it were easier to talk about your problems by really taking advantage of the magic of the night. Dozens of readers have asked us to wish him well and to interview him: “I will never stop hoping for a world of peace”, Karl Heinz hates any kind of war and it’s nice that in Cagliari really one real German dreams of him . “How do I find Cagliari today? I remember the 80’s, drugs, crime, AIDS. Then the economic crisis and Covid are now leading to dozens of closures, I understand everyone. Perhaps that is why there is a need for more happiness in Cagliari, as in all of Europe.” The beautiful story of a unique character who, for many citizens of Cagliari, has always been a great friend of the people.