A 70-Year-old hooked on Instagram thousands

Joseph Robert Mulzer loves flashy clothes. His fashion, he presents on Instagram - and is as successful as decades younger Influencers.

Jacqueline Long, Regensburg Jacqueline Long.

born in 1990. Language in Passau and Text studies, but then a couple of years of little to do with language and a lot of coffee and cake. First Station in the süddeutsche Zeitung: The Young people's page. Responsible for the series "What makes Munich with you?". Since November of 2017, a volunteer with the süddeutsche Zeitung.

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hat A huge fur coat, an orange Teddy-bear fur coat, black, almost knee-high boots, horn-rimmed glasses with orange lenses, a black, tight pants with red and white stripes on the side and a black Sweater embroidered on the Sleeves with red and white sequins. No doubt about it: Josef Robert Mulzer has not left a Detail of this outfit at random. A look at his Instagram Account is sufficient, however, to know that this Outfit is failed by its own standards, is still relatively simple.

Since about one and a half years, Mulzer is now in the social network under the name: @j. _r._m. A little more than 4400 people to follow him, between 1200 and 1400 Likes he gets per picture. In comparison to other Accounts, this is a rather manageable number. Nevertheless, Mulzer is an unusual figure in the ranks of the predominantly young Influencer. Because he is 70 years old.

This does not prevent him, however, by no means, against an average 50 years younger than women at the first Social Influencers of the Day in the Regensburg Arcaden. And you could say that the success proves him right: At the end he finished in at least fourth place in the category "Beauty and Fashion". A little silly, he was occurred in the Moment but, Mulzer. Once again, he does not want to participate. On the numerous pictures with the other participants of the alleged sense of shame or anything.

Joseph Robert Mulzer Instagram has discovered, has become his style is even more unusual.

(photo: private)

His passion for fashion has discovered the Regensburger even as a little Boy. His mother had worked as a seamstress and fashion consultant based in Munich, says Mulzer. A large part of his Childhood he had spent in the expensive boutiques at the Munich Maximilian street.

Until seven years ago, has worked for Mulzer as a sports teacher. The Sport, which is his second passion. With 63 years of age, he went still at an early stage in Pension. The profession had become too exhausting, the behavior of the student have changed dramatically to the Negative. Sports he makes since then only to keep themselves fit.

As a sports teacher, he had worn most often tracksuits. His extravagant style of dress he had lives in his time as a teacher, but not in the classroom. "The school would not have been appropriate," says Mulzer. Since he is retired, he can live out his Hobby is quite different and since he has discovered Instagram, has become his style even more, its Outfits yet daring. "On Instagram you have to offer a little bit more," says Mulzer. Does not want to provoke even now in Winter, brown-skinned man with the bald head but allegedly. "I'm just the way I am," says Mulzer. He was of course aware of the fact that he prefer the looks and he also enjoy.

The platform Instagram is often criticized for an unrealistic view of the world. A large number of filters and image editing programs make normal people Supermodels. Also, the pictures of Mulzer, now he needs to take a good photo, up to three hours. To retouch, wrinkles, waived the 70-Year-old is nonetheless aware of. His photo Studio is usually in the living room, the images are lit with a flashlight, the camera is the Smartphone, the photographer and his partner. He wanted to stage himself, but to his fashion. He says it at least.

Although Mulzer lives in Regensburg and to feel at home here, his fashionable home in the capital. There, he also buys the largest part of his wardrobe. "In Berlin I can live me really, because I feel really comfortable," says Mulzer. His Outfits were in Berlin, much more unusual than in Regensburg or Munich.

So he can really be sure that he or she has for every occasion the right piece of clothing, swell his wardrobe. In the meantime, he had amassed so much that he had to be at least two to three days in advance to consider what he wanted to wear, so that he could look for the Outfit as well, says Mulzer.

That such a life style, money, costs a lot of money, it Mulzer makes no secret: "to be Alone with my teacher's pension I could not Fund my lifestyle" instagram collaborations, how do you maintain so many of the other Influencers, go, he, nevertheless, says he. Offers there were not many, he assured. How it is financed instead? In the otherwise so talkative Regensburger don't want to talk. There were many envious, is all what he says.

According to statistics, the majority of instagram users are between 18 and 24 years old. In his age group Mulzer is one of the few, it doesn't bother. Indeed, most of his friends, including his companion, much younger than he. "With people my age, I can do nothing. The talk only about their illnesses," says Mulzer. This is also why he spends so much time in social media. "Instagram keeps me young, I'm addicted to it," he says.