Richard Lugner Celebrates 90th With Expired Viagra And His Zoo

Richard Lugner is looking for a new wife. Honestly? Yes! He does receive numerous letters of application, but according to him the right one is not yet among them, he says in “Stern”, she must be at least 40 years old, if possible slightly older and come from the larger Vienna area, he is now on 90 years old no longer made for a long distance relationship, but for a relationship.

Over 40 sounds reasonable. Because “Mörtels” (as the Viennese builder is popularly called) were mostly playmates under 30 in recent years.

He wants to celebrate his birthday on October 11 in the Vienna Hofburg, he has invited 200 guests, including all his “little animals”, ie all his exes, which he gives funny names such as Mausi, Hasi, Spatzi, Deer, Hummingbird, Zebra or Baby elephant has given. Basically the Viennese version of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Bunny. Ironically, Spatzi, Lugner’s last wife and 57 years his junior, introduced herself to Hefner after her apprenticeship with Lugner and gave him her calendar, but got no further engagement.

With an estimated net worth of 80 million euros, Lugner is very rich, but not rich enough to be one of the hundred richest in Austria. He simply earns more with his money than many others. He celebrates capitalism as a spectacle. For example with his favorite hobby: since 1992 he has been decorating the Vienna Opera Ball with a star by his side.

The costs for Kim Kardashian, Sophia Loren, Paris Hilton, Grace Jones etc. range from 50,000 to 150,000 euros for a trip to Vienna, but Lugner sees this as a promotional ploy for his Lugner-City shopping center.

His ancestry is prototypical for an Austrian of his generation, his father was a lawyer, National Socialist and captain in the Russian campaign and never returned home as a Russian prisoner of war. As children, Lugner and his brother made Panini albums of Nazi figures and kept watch as prominent Nazis paraded through Vienna. Today he still has a portrait of his father in uniform hanging in the living room.

As a teenager, he says, he got along very well with the Russian occupier, as a contractor he was a politician responsible for the first mosque in Vienna and the renovation of the city temple of the Jewish community in Vienna (in 1998 and 2016 he ran as a an impartial and hopeless candidate for the cabinet of the federal president) he advocated all kinds of things, the most important was the economy.

Of all his wives, he loved only his first wife, Christine, to whom he also gave no animal name. She was his childhood sweetheart, they married in 1961, Christine helped him set up his business, they broke up after 17 years and are still good friends. Woman number two only lasted four years with him, the third fell into a coma after a nose operation at the cosmetic surgeon and died.

The fourth was Mausi, also known as Christina. And with Mausi, not only the zoo, but also the medialization of the Lugner brand really got going. With her he founded the reality soap “Die Lugners” after the model of “The Osbournes”, with her he came up with the idea of ​​​​using the opera ball as a marketing tool – and with her he now celebrates exclusively à deux on TV birthday – before going to the Hofburg.

Yet he only loved Christine, not Christina: “The mouse was stalking me quite a bit. Now I have descended from all the little critters. I think it was ten or more. They all come for my birthday and are figurines on the cake with four tiers. Just not Spatzi’, he tells the ‘Kronen Zeitung’.

And what about his Viagra consumption, which he was so excited about two years ago? Nothing anymore. “I have another one, but it’s already expired. But there’s a better one. I’ve forgotten the name now. It works for two days and not just four hours. But everything is just an amplifier and does not replace nature.” The woman over 40 he is still looking for is more to lean on.

(SME)