At the nearby Cream Music instrument shop, Bernie Hahn, 44, agrees.
Mr Hahn is the fourth generation in his family to run the shop. He has seen plenty of ebbs and plenty of flows in the German economy. He tunes a ukulele in front of a black and white picture of Elvis Presley, who once bought a guitar from here.
“There is lots of crisis talk at the moment. But from here it feels like a crisis in the banks. Maybe it hasn’t hit us yet.”
On the issue of the bailout funds, he says there is no alternative but to chip in.
“Germany lives off its exports. If people don’t have any money who is going to buy our stuff?” he asks.
“Germany needs the euro. If the euro goes down, Germany’s economy goes down. It is easy to slag off the Greeks and say hands off our money, but come on.”
It’s not pure altruism or idealism: exports need customers, and so Germans don’t want poor neighbours.
It is a perspective that resonates with Stefan Schneider, chief economist for Deutsche Bank Research.
“Germany has, together with France, still has the deepest pockets and they have to be used,” Mr Schneider told us.
“If Greece was the get rid of the euro, it would multiply the problems involved.”
- Backpackers' guide to the eurozone crisis: Frankfurt, BBC.co.uk, October 31, 2011.
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