Glockenbachviertel

This guide to the Glockenbachviertel in Munich follows a waitress named Gusti Wirsing, who in 1967 took over a shabby old beer hall on Müllerstrasse that had been pouring drinks since the eighteen fifties. It traces what she did with the place two years later, just as West Germany softened its law against homosexuality, and how a district once zoned out of sight for the Olympics became something else entirely. Listen for the buried stream the neighborhood is named after, and the tanners and bell-founders who worked here long before.