If Bavaria were still a monarchy, he would be its king. The head of the Wittelsbach family will soon be celebrating his 90th birthday and looks back on traumatic childhood days in a concentration camp, a life dedicated to art and a late confession to his homosexuality.
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Susanne Hermanski
If I were King of Bavaria…? Franz Herzog von Bayern does not ask himself this question in his memoirs. Anyone who has ever met the tall, slender man with the smiling smile – for example, on a walk through the Pinakothek der Moderne, which would not exist without him – knows that such vanity is too silly for him. Others he confesses frankly and freely.