Freddie Mercury's former apartment

Hi everyone,

I was just reading the bio of Freddie Mercury and it mentioned that he lived in Munich near Marienplatz for a few years. Does anyone know where his apartment used to be?

Don't worry I'm not about to go and hassle the current occupants, I was just curious.

Thanks for any hints.

Maybe they used to live Next door

Nah... that was the apartment next to Madonna

he lived next door to alice

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I THINK that his best girlfriend (a Bavarian actress whose name escapes me for the moment) inherited his flat when he died and lived in it until she died of drink a couple of years ago.

The flat is qùel surprise, in Glockenbachviertel, corner of the next street to mine.

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Umm... You don't need an accent there...

And it's "Quelle surprise", thank you very much...
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Here's a quote from an old interview (dated May 29, 1986) with Limahl:

The complete(ly irrelevant) interview can be found here.

His Iranian friend was Miss Bavaria, wasn't she?

I think his name was Farrokh Bulsara originally, and he often ate at the only gay-owned restauarant near the Viktualenmarkt.

Only?
But aye the most famous was Sedlmayers.

He filled his boots in a lot of local places.

Think he shared the apartment with Barbara Valentin.

@tnook is right. He was a very close friend of the German actress Barbera Valentin. Her flat was in the Hans Sachs Strasse in Munich (in the gay area). (I know because when I first came to Munich, I had a short relationship with a guy who was staying with her in her flat and invited me back

Apparently he helped plan the design of the flat but never actually got to see more than photographs before he died. Although I have heard that he was often on the gay scene in Munich - places such as STUD club...

Was kinda weird seeing all the photos signed by him to Barbera Valentin! :}

Back in the day when I was a chicken the building where Stud is now was actually housed New York. But yes, Freddy went there and various other similar ocal bars in the area.

I forgot the name Barabara Valentin's name but yes, that was her. She was formerly a really famous "sex-goddess" actor but she lost a lot of the plot after Freddy died. You'd often see her around GBV, usually half cut on Asbach.

Official story was that she wasn't feeling well in Nil in the Hans Sachs Strasse and went home and died. Word on the street is that she had a stroke etc during a massive drinking binge in a less saloubrious location.

Barbara Valentin stayed with Freddie until he died. He was often hanging out in Munichs gay scene. In the beginnigs Barbara and he shared a flat in Hans-Sachs-Straße. They both loved to hang out in "Nil". Later on he had his own flat. Babara Valentin died in 2002 because of brain bleeding. She was only 61.

I cycle down Hans Sachstr regularly- I will remember this next time I do and it will put a big smile on my face

perhaps it was the only one back then.

They actually bought the flat together but he only got to see the flat on photos before he died... this came from someone who lived in the apartment with Barbara before she died...

Are you people implying that Freddie Mercury was gay?

No, just a little happy

Are you sitting down? I need to tell you something about Liberace and it might come as a bit of a shock.

You mean he couldn't really play the piano?

Now it's time to find out where Donna Summer lived at the beginnings of the 70ies in Munich...

Worse. He thought Santa wasn't real.

The place where he lived in Munich is called Stollberg Plaza on Stollbergstr number 2-4.
My wife was living in the building (Hotel - Apartments) at the same time as Freddie Mercury in 1985.
http://www.stollberg-plaza.de/

I being a big Queen fan ,was impressed to hear that freddie had an apatment in munich.I will ,wheni´m carrying out tours will put that address on my itinery.yours paddy bear

That´s nowhere near Hans-Sachstr though...

Maybe he moved and lived in 2 flats in Munich?