European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Chris Estes staff writer hat is a doctor of philosophy doing As an innkeeper photo by Dave Didio innkeeper Karl Kischkau plays an assortment of medieval  philosophic innkeeper the question is Karl h says with a what is an innkeeper doing As a Doc Tor of philosophy my answer if you dont learn philosophy As a Hei Delberg you never Kischkau and his family built the hotel Diana in Hei in 1953 on a potato Farmers Field his first guest was an James Surney who has since returned once a year and has become a close Friend of the Kischkau besides the hotel Diana Kischkau also owns a res Zum Gulderen Golden we found out that the living principles of the Ameri cans and germans Are very Kischkau said of the Early years of the if its possible to avoid the language Barrier there Are no problems Between Ger mans and we have the same thinking of life hard we have a proverb from our most famous Goethe hardworking weeks and Gay we never have difficulties with there Are no fundamental differences or because of his efforts to help make americans a pvt of the cultural and social life of Kischkau recently received a Usa eur scroll of the scroll was signed by Usa eur commander Glenn Otis and presented by the Deputy com Thomas in ill Tell you what americans he said As he began a tour of the hotel people who work a Man who works with his the 61yearold Kischkau definitely he earned his doctorate 10 years after opening the Kischkau was Busy working Long hours to run a disco for three and that left him with a lot of spare he had already completed his dissertation and course work but haunt had time to prepare for the Examina by the end of those three he had Lis he also works with his he painted the murals on the hotel and restaurant Walls and erected the ass photo by red Grandy the door to the inns musicians plaques and historical he also painted the Coats of arms on the doors and the hotel menu contains a message if you dont like the pictures in this dont blame the they were painted by the of there Are much better painters in the he but i painted these both the restaurant and the hotel Are monuments to Heidelberg displaying history through photo by red Grandy a Wail mural dwarfs guests in hotel dianas reception Wall maps and the restaurant basement dates Back to and its festival Hall to the the now used Only for parties reserved at least two months in is the original part of the building which was destroyed in the in the basement Are a 1400s Bathhouse sex a medieval Kitchen and crossbow an medieval musical instruments and a throne Page 14 the stars and stripes the hotels basement party room incorporates parts of original building destroyed in the july 1985 for the King and Queen of crossbow shooters the Best shooters among the there is also a whipping Block which guests Are lain across and Kischkau says it Breaks the ice when he entertains a group of Stuffy during parties and at festival times of the Kisch a and his family Wear authentic period costumes and play musical instruments and songs of the also for parties is a hallway called the Heidelberg Kur which features love elixirs from the Middle a display of Heidelberg historical highlights and a video skeet shooting the hotels rooms All have historical he to give the guests information if they Arent staying there is the poets room with a print of Carl Spitz Wegs painting the poor the painting shows a poet at meditation in an attic an umbrella propped Over his head to shield him from the rain dripping through the Leaky on the doors of the cupboard in the music room Kischkau has painted the words and music of the oldest known Heidelberg student which dates from on the Walls Are paintings of Birds and musical instr from the ceiling hangs the neck of a broken Bass the Schwet Zingen room tells the Story of an 18thcentury lady of the court who was jealous because her Prince left she spread garlic seed in the Park in and to this Day the Park smells of wild there is also a painting of mannheims Prince Karl who had 253 children none by his in Many of the rooms depicting a historical there is a map of Germany at the time that person i try to give each room a bit of personal inform Kischkau so the guest feels that he is a not a number in the before world War Kischkau studied philosophy at supporting himself As a newspaper a hard he a cartoonist has to invent a joke every during world War ii he served in the wehrmacht As a i am a very Lucky he 1 was wounded in the seven he begins there is Only one scar you after a Long Conversa i was hit on the in 1945 he was captured by the soviets in while he was a prisoner he met his future a nurse who was also a she engineered their escape from a train in Poland on the Way to i am a Lucky he i have some very courageous women around me my my wife and my his wife and his Mother came to Heidelberg in 1950 As refugees from East they arrived almost when we came my Mother worked As a bricklayer otherwise we  have made she worked As Long As we needed Money to get the stars and stripes Page 15