Horst Schulze

Well, probably because we're told so, I'm not quite sure.

It was Conrad Adenauer.

who was a guest several times there, always with others and, of course, security around him.

But he looked at you and said, good morning.

He looked at you.

And he didn't just pass you by.

You actually felt that you existed.

And I found that very encouraging, too.

And so we all liked him for this very nothing that he looked at and said, recognized us.

But a huge change in that moment, that particular job too, again with that Maître D. I, a typical German, you learn this work, once a week you go to a school of your trade, in this case hotel school, where all the kids from the area came, and after two years there, the teacher asked us to write an essay, what we now think about our business.

Going back to work that night, I was cleaning a table and I watched a maitre d' that maitre d' approaching a very important table.

But they were all important.

And in that moment I realized, I'd seen it before, but I never realized it, the guests on the table were proud that he came to them.

He was a very tall man, he worked in tails and they were fantastic.

And I thought, wait a minute, this is a reversal.

Why are they, we are here, we are the servants.

And I thought about that.

I had to write an essay that night for that school.

And I thought about it and I wrote the essay.

And for the first time in my life, I came to the realization, which kind of formed my life too.