{"id":2635,"date":"2015-10-27T12:17:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T11:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/en\/der-geschmack-von-erinnerung\/"},"modified":"2017-07-20T19:01:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T18:01:49","slug":"the-taste-of-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/en\/the-taste-of-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"The taste of memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

The passionate show-woman Welda Heinen has sold gingerbread, Kletzenbrot (dried fruit bread) and her famous roasted almonds for almost 40 years \u2013 and in doing so, this involves so much more…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPrinz\u201d (prince) is written in icing on one of the ginger bread hearts. \u201cIch liebe dich\u201d (I love you). And \u201cFrohe Weihnachten\u201d (Merry Christmas). At Welda Heinen\u2019s stand on the Mannheimer Weihnachtsmarkt (Mannheim Christmas fair), you almost find yourself disappearing in the midst of all the witch\u2019s cottages, elk heads, lollipops, hundreds and thousands and frog wine gums. Nevertheless, many clients know exactly what they are going to buy: Kletzenbrot. Made of dates, almonds and figs and mixed with nuts, dried pears and raisins. Not too sweet, not to sticky. A small delicacy made of rye dough.<\/p>\n

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Luscious tradition: Welda Heinen\u2019s famous Kletzenbrot<\/p><\/div>\n

When you buy candyfloss, ginger bread, Hutzelbrot (another dried fruit bread) or this special type of bread, Kletzenbrot, at the Wasserturm (Mannheim Water Tower), you are probably in search of the taste of your childhood, of Grandma\u2019s biscuits or of Christmas \u2013 and of the saleswoman\u2019s face. Welda Heinen is used to it. She lives and loves this stand. And she knows that first of all it is about what is sold here. And secondly, about who is selling it. But Welda Heinen is not just any show-woman, who sells confectionary from the stand\u2019s counter for the short duration of a Christmas fair.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my profession, the people matter,\u201d Welda Heinen says. It\u2019s about quality, local tradition \u2013 and about time.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Weihnachtsmarkt-Mannheim_Foto-Claus-Geiss\"<\/a>

Welda Heinen\u2019s work space for almost 40 years: the Mannheim Christmas fair.<\/p><\/div>\n

Around 40 years have passed since the Heinen family put up their first Christmas fair stand at the Mannheim Wasserturm. And the tradition of being in the show-people business already goes back many generations: Even her grandparents travelled as show people in a caravan. Her grandmother came from a family of actors, who wandered around with a touring company, in which her mother played the leading role. \u201cMy father was a high-wire artist,\u201d the 65-year-old remembers. Life \u201con the square\u201d was common not only to her parents but also to her grandparents and great-grandparents. \u201cI was born and grew up in a caravan,\u201d says the show-woman, who lives in the town of Worms today. Sliding doors separated the children\u2019s environment from the parents\u2019 section \u2013 theoretically. The family used to live close together, not only in spatial terms. Apart from school lessons, the parents and the children spent their time together, assembling and dismantling and travelling to kermises and fairs.<\/p>\n

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Today, Welda Heinen is still on the move 32 weeks of the year. The season starts with the springtime fair in W\u00fcrzburg and always ends here at the Mannheim Christmas fair. She does not only run her confectionery stand, but also various stands for dart and ring throwing and for shooting as well as ice cream stands, which brings her as far as the town of Straubing. \u201cMy business is my life,\u201d says the native of Worms, even though she had wanted to matriculate when she was a teenager \u2013 but then she realized: She could be really close to people here at her stand. Instead of studying psychology, she has trained as a good judge of character over the decades.<\/p>\n

Welda Heinen is aware of her special childhood. Classmates used to envy her caravan life. However, it wasn\u2019t an easy route with the constant changes in place, school and friendships. In return, certain things stayed the same in the caravan and at the square: \u201cThe kiddie kitchen and the toy shop were our realm.\u201d The wardrobe was shared by the family, the sofa bed was the parents\u2019 bedroom, just next to the kidney-shaped table and the television set. Business was usually best on Saturdays and Sundays, on Tuesdays the family left for the next town. Fried potatoes, eggs and salad was the traditional meal for the \u201cday of transport\u201d \u2013 the little details that she recalls with fondness.<\/p>\n

\"Stand_Foto-Claus-Geiss\"<\/a>

Somewhere between all of this: Hundreds and thousands and frog wine gums.<\/p><\/div>\n

Maybe this is why she has a very good understanding of what her clients look for when they come to her \u2013 the taste of memories. Her secret recipe? \u201cI have many.\u201d Her roasted almonds received an award by the German Agricultural Society DLG for two times in a row. \u201cI won\u2019t, of course, give away the flavours that I use in it,\u201d Welda Heinen smiles mysteriously. There is professional secrecy among show-people as well. The only thing she reveals about her fruit bread is that it is produced in the old, well-tried manner in Nuremberg. In a small company. And, of course, for decades already.<\/p>\n

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