After the death of celebrity host Toni Netzle, Kay Wörsching talks about the heyday of society, real celebrities and how social media affects nightlife.
They were all with him at some point during the three decades that Kay Wörsching had his bistro: Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger, Gina Lollobrigida, Karl Lagerfeld, Hannelore Elsner. “I could send you a list of 1000 names,” says the Munich scene host. From 1976 to 2005 he ran Kay’s Bistro, which today would be across from the Schrannenhalle, but which didn’t exist back then. Plenty of parking spaces for that. Not a bad prerequisite for a restaurant for Wörsching. He was born in 1944 and grew up in the Hacken district. During his high school graduation he was in the old Simpl two or three times a week. Toni Netzle, the Simpl landlady who had just passed away, commissioned him to look after the artists who appeared on her small stage. Wörsching can still remember Lale Andersen and Ethel Reschke well, and he says: This first contact with celebrities influenced his life.