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Am 6. Oktober 2004 vor der Botschafter-Residenz in Washington D.C.: (von links) Herausgeber Theo Sommer, Verleger Detlef W. Prinz und der damalige US-Senator Richard G. Lugar mit der ersten Ausgabe von The Atlantic Times. Verleger Detlef W. Prinz übergibt ein druckfrisches Exemplar von The Atlantic Times an den ehemaligen US-Präsidenten George Bush Senior. Auch US-Präsident George W. Bush bekommt bei seinem Besuch in Deutschland im Februar 2005 bei einem gemeinsamen Mittagsessen mit Gerhard Schröder eine Ausgabe von The Atlantic Times überreicht.

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itability. Thelargest cost cuts are Germany’s retailer, Germany’s largest retailer, part of AG, the Düsseldorf-based Metro says it will slash Metro it to will boost slash company’s plan 15,000 AG, jobssays to boost prof15,000 jobs to boost profi ts by €1.5 billion over itability. The cost cutsprofare itability. The cost the next four years.cuts No are anpart of the Düsseldorf-based part of the Düsseldorf-based nouncement has been made company’s plan to boost company’s plan to boost as totsexactly where the over jobs profi by €1.5 billion profibe ts cut, byfour €1.5years. billion over will although the the next Nocomanthe next years. anpany has four said it been will No reduce nouncement has made nouncement made the by been notthe replacas toworkforce exactly has where jobs as to exactly where the jobs ing employees whothe quit or will be cut, although comwill behas cut, although retire. Thesaid company is comalso pany it willthe reduce panyworkforce has said its it will decentralizing purchasing the by not reduce replacthe workforce bywho not quit replacand logistics systems, giving ing employees or ing employees quit or managers morewho autonomy retire. The company is also retire. iswhich also in theirThe localcompany markets, decentralizing its purchasing decentralizing its purchasing range from Portugal togiving Rusand logistics systems, and logisticsmore systems, giving sia. managers autonomy managers autonomy in their localmore markets, which in their local markets, which range from Portugal to RusBigger airports ■ range from Portugal to Russia. sia. The expansion of Frankfurt International Airport began ■ Bigger airports after a court rejected suits by Bigger airports ■ neighbors to haltofthe project. The expansion Frankfurt The expansion of Frankfurt The state of Airport Hesse, where International began International Airport suits began the airport isrejected located, had apafter a court by after a court by proved thetorejected expansion plan neighbors halt the suits project. neighbors halt theand project. for astate thirdto runway new The of Hesse, where Theairport state oflocated, Hesse, where terminal in is 2007 but environthe had apthe airport located, hadplan apmental groups and neighborproved theis expansion proved thefirunway expansion ing led lawsuits. The for atowns third and plan new for a third runway new court willin hear those cases terminal 2007 butand environterminal in 2007 butneighborenvironin June,groups but workers have almental and mental groups and neighborready begun clearing woods ing towns filed lawsuits. The ing construction. towns led lawsuits. The for In thecases UK, court will fihear those court will those cases an expansion plan forhave Heathin June, buthear workers alin June, but workers have alrow Airport has also been ready begun clearing woods ready begun clearing woods approved despite opposition for construction. In the UK, for expansion construction. UK, by environmentalists and loan planInforthe Heathan expansion plan also for Heathcals. row Airport has been row Airport has opposition also been approved despite approved despite opposition by environmentalists and lo& and ■ by Schröder environmentalists locals. cals. Russia

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or tilling the land hether cutting hether cutting – traditional human is a down labor trees, trees, difficult and down dirty battle with mining iron ore iron ore nature. Buildingmining orhouses tillingand theships, land or tilling thegrain land tools and growing –forging traditional human labor is a –diffi traditional labor is ora require to break, bend cultpeople and human dirty battle with difficultmatter. and dirty battle with shape The modern-day nature. Building houses and ships, nature. Building houses and ships, lives we lead in offi ces, planes forging tools and growing grain forging tools and growing grain and clubs seem eons removed require people to break, bend or require people to break, bend or from such elementary activities. shape matter. The modern-day shapeMartin matter. Theoffimodern-day But 66, lives we leadHerrenknecht, in ces, planes lives we lead in eons offi planes knows that coming toces, grips with and clubs seem removed and clubs seem eons activities. mountains and rock isremoved where from such elementary from such elementary many a story starts. activities. But Martin Herrenknecht, 66, But Martin Herrenknecht, 66, This stocky and gray-crowned knows that coming to grips with knows that coming to grips with businessman builds giant tunnelmountains and rock is where mountains rockleviathans, is where ing machines. These many a storyand starts. many storyinstarts. constructed a factory in the Thisastocky and gray-crowned Thisofstocky and gray-crowned town Schwanau in southwestbusinessman builds giant tunnelbusinessman giant tunnelern Germany, have their ing machines.builds Thesechewed leviathans, ing machines. leviathans, way throughin These the road tunnel constructed a factory in the constructed a factory the beneath the in Elbe river in in Hamtown of Schwanau in southwesttown of Schwanau in southwestburg, projects in Kuala Lumpur ern Germany, have chewed their ern Germany, chewed their and athrough subwayhave shaft in Shangway the road tunnel way Since through theriver roadin tunnel hai. Herrenknecht beneath the2002, Elbe Hambeneath thehave Elbe river grinding in Hammachines burg, projects in been Kuala Lumpur burg,away projects inshaft Kuala their through Switzerland’s and subway inLumpur Shangand hard aSince subway in world’s ShangGott massif for the hai. 2002,shaft Herrenknecht hai. Since 2002, been Herrenknecht largest transportation tunnel. machines have grinding machines have been grinding Fifty-seven kilometers of rock their way through Switzerland’s theirtotal, way massif through in now mostly accomGott hard forSwitzerland’s the world’s Gotthardtransportation massif for the world’s plished. largest tunnel. largest transportation tunnel. “No point in letting of wimps Fifty-seven kilometers rock Fifty-seven kilometers rock do the job,” Herrenknecht said. in total, now mostly of accomin total, now accom“Wimps” is onemostly of his favorite plished. plished. words. conveys message: Her“No Itpoint in aletting wimps “No point ingetletting wimps renknecht willHerrenknecht through anydo the job,” said. do the “Building job,” Herrenknecht said. thing. machines that “Wimps” is one of his favorite “Wimps” is onethe his favorite overcome even worst adverwords. It conveys aofmessage: Herwords. It conveys sity is fascinating,” he said. Herrenknecht will geta message: through anyrenknecht will getmachines through anyIn bygone days, when tunnels thing. “Building that thing.still “Building machines that were made using dynamite, overcome even the worst adverovercome evenpneumatic the he worst pickaxes and drills, sity is fascinating,” said.adversity isbygone fascinating,” he said. the of thumb one dead Inrule days, was when tunnels In bygone days, when tunnels worker permade kilometer. Dynamite were still using dynamite, were still made using dynamite, could go and off by chance, rockpickaxes pneumatic drills, pickaxes pneumatic slides could occur –was accidents of the rule ofand thumb onedrills, dead the kinds rule per ofcould thumb wasDynamite oneWork dead all happen. worker kilometer. workergo peroff kilometer. Dynamite underground still remains dancould by chance, rockcould could go by rockgerous to off this day.chance, “Something slides occur – accidents of slides could occurhappen. – accidents of can happen every day,” Herrenall kinds could Work all kinds could Work knecht said. He feels a certain underground stillhappen. remains danunderground still remains dankinship with workers toiling gerous to thisthe day. “Something gerous this day. “Something away into the dark. “Those are can happen every day,” Herrencan happen every day,”a Herrenhands-on straightforward people knecht said. He feels certain knecht He feels a certain you cansaid. countthe on.” kinship with workers toiling kinship with workers toiling The in biggest machine Herrenaway the the dark. “Those are away in straightf the dark. “Those are knecht’s company ever built hands-on hands-on straightforward people measures more than 15 meters you can as count across, tallon.” as a four-story The biggest machine Herrenapartment building. On the front knecht’s company ever plate, built of this giant is a gigantic measures thanarmed 15 meters the shield. more It rotates, with across, as and tall teeth. as a four-story steel claws Company apartmenthave building. Onsomething the front engineers welded of this gianttois the a gigantic like armor gaps inplate, the the shield. rotates, armedbeing with shield, to Itkeep it from steel clawsby and Company destroyed theteeth. immense presengineers have welded something sure. The entire machine could be like armor to the gaps in the shield, to keep it from being destroyed by the immense pressure. The entire machine could be

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Building a career German firms are bending over backward to attract more engineers By Anja Maier Germany lacks about 70,000 engineers, so politicians and managers are trying to exploit untapped sources of talent. They are also trying to sweeten the profession’s image by offering less hierarchy, quick career advancement and family-friendly working hours.

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a giant fear-inducing object from outer space that touched down to annihilate the earth. The monster chews its way through the mouna giant fear-inducing object from tain; resistance is futile. outer space that to Engineers calltouched these down devices annihilate the earth. Theand monster tunnel-boring machines they chews its the mouncome in way all through shapes and sizes. tain; resistance futile.the small “No one writesisabout Engineers these devices ones,” Achimcall Kühn, spokesman tunnel-boring machines and they for the company, said. They drill come inforallgasshapes and pipes, sizes. tunnels and water “No one writes about the small electricity and telecommunicaones,” Achim Kühn, spokesman for the company, said. They drill tunnels for gas and water pipes, electricity and telecommunica-

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tions lines, projects that are usually remote-controlled and rather mundane. But the giant machines are capable of realizing projects tionsside-by-side lines, projects that are usufor subway tracks, ally remote-controlled and rather high-speed railway lines and mundane. highways. But the giant machines four-lane are capable realizing projects The most ofcomplicated projfor side-by-side subwaythrough tracks, ect so far is drilling high-speed railway lines the Alpine Gotthard massif.and In four-lane highways. some places, 500-meter high The weigh most down complicated projpeaks on the boring ect so farand is tunnel. drilling Athrough machine nearly the Alpine Gotthard massif. on In half-kilometer long factory some places, high buttresses and 500-meter rails is churning peaks weigh downthe onrock the boring its way through – the machine and tunnel. A nearly half-kilometer long factory on buttresses and rails is churning its way through the rock – the

The fine art of tunneling through miles of mountains By Hannes Koch The fine art of tunneling through miles Breakthrough: of mountains boring machine in A Herrenknecht “shield” front reducing granite By being Hannes Koch dismantled after and gneiss to fist-sized chunks while farther boring steel machine in behind, anchors, front reducing metal grids andgranite struts gneiss toare fist-sized and concrete put in chunksOnce whilethefarther place. giant behind, steel advances, theanchors, crudely metaltunnel grids is and struts built in place, and concrete in ready for railare orput road place. Once the giant engineers to work their advances, the crudely magic. built in place, Thetunnel new is railroad ready for rail or road route is scheduled to engineers work their open in to2017. Not magic. only will it cut travel time from The in new railroad Zurich the north to Bellinzona route is scheduled to in southern Switzerland by an open toinone 2017. hour and aNot half hours. It onlyalso willhelp it cutthe travel time from will people breathe the north to Bellinzona aZurich little ineasier as thousands of in southern Switzerland an polluting trucks no longerby belch hour to onethrough and a halfSwiss hours.vilIt their way will also help the people breathe lages. a Herrenknecht’s little easier as machines thousandscost of polluting trucks no tens of millions oflonger euros.belch The their way through Swiss vilentirely family-owned company lages. to secure a major project in hopes Herrenknecht’s machines circcost Russia – a fourth expressway tens Moscow of millions of euros. The ling – valued at between entirely €70 andfamily-owned €100 million.company hopes secure a major project in The tocompany, which calls Russia the – a fourth itself worldexpressway leader incircits ling valuedpeople, at between fi eld,Moscow employs–2,500 and €70 andrevenue €100 million. boosted of about €1 bilThe which calls lion lastcompany, year. Herrenknecht does itselfappear the too world leader in the its not worried about eld, employs people, and financial crisis.2,500 He says signing boosted revenue about new deals is moreofdiffi cult€1 at bilthe lion last year. Herrenknecht does moment but no current projects not appear too worried about the have been cancelled. financial crisis. He says signing Basically, Herrenknecht lives new his deals is more diffi the for company. Butcult at at some moment but no current projects have been cancelled. Basically, Herrenknecht lives for his company. But at some

drilling a part of the tunnel through the Breakthrough: Gotthard massif. A Herrenknecht “shield” Over 13 kilometers being dismantled after of rock remain. drilling a part of the Company chief Martin tunnel through the Herrenknecht (left). Gotthard massif. Over 13 kilometers researchers and their of rock remain.Germany companies. Company chief Martin has to invest more in Herrenknecht (left).

point he got bored with pounding rocks day in and day out and with corporate life. He wanted to move onto more challenging point he vistas – sogot hebored tried awith run poundfor the ing rocksparliament day in and for daythe outconand German with corporate life. of HeChancelwanted servative CDU party to move onto more challenging lor Angela Merkel. vistas – so he tried a run for He believes Germany is, the to conaGerman certainparliament extent, onfor thethe wrong servative CDU party offulminates Chanceltrack. Herrenknecht lor Angela Merkel. against what he calls the antiHe believes Germany is,stuto technology crowd of former a certain extent, on the thepolitical wrong dent revolutionaries, track. Herrenknecht generation of formerfulminates German against minister what heJoschka calls the antiforeign Fischer. technology crowd of former stuOne example is the Transrapid dent revolutionaries, political magnetic levitation the train – a generation of former project developed by German foreign minister Joschka Fischer. engineers that was subsequently One example is the Transrapid shelved at home. Herrenknecht, levitation – a amagnetic mechanical engineer,train feels deep project developed German frustration that the by only counengineers try wherethat the was trainsubsequently operates is shelved at home. Herrenknecht, China. a mechanical deep Had he beenengineer, elected, feels he would frustration the onlysupport counhave backedthat increasing try where the train operatesand is for engineers, inventors China. Had he been elected, he would have backed increasing support for engineers, inventors and

young people; researchers and spend their researchers and their more money to improve companies. Germany companies. Germany schools universities, has to and invest more in has said. to invest more in he Herrenknecht young people; spend young people; spend himself sets an money example donatmore toby improve more money to improve ing to a school inand hisuniversities, hometown schools schools and universities, and endowing university profeshe said. Herrenknecht he an said. Herrenknecht sorships. himself sets example by donathimself an example bydid donatBut political not ing to the asets school in hislife hometown ing to a Lothar schooluniversity in his hometown happen. Späth, the profesformer and endowing and endowing university profespremier of Baden-Württemberg sorships. sorships. and company trustee, appreButa the political life did not But the political lifethedid not ciates what Herrenknecht has happen. Lothar Späth, former happen. Späth, theBut former done as Lothar aofbusinessman. that premier Baden-Württemberg premier of Baden-Württemberg does mean hetrustee, backs him as a and anot company appreand a what company apprepolitician. “I Herrenknecht willtrustee, do everything ciates has ciates Herrenknecht has to keep you from winning seat done aswhat a businessman. Buta that done as amean businessman. But in parliament,” saidthat does not heSpäth backsishim astoa does not mean he backs him The as a have told politician. “IHerrenknecht. will do everything politician. will winning do everything businessman then failed toa seat win to keep you“Ifrom to keep you from winning a seat the necessary party support for in parliament,” Späth is said to parliament,” to ainBundestag seat.Späth is saidThe have told Herrenknecht. have Backtold fromHerrenknecht. his unsuccessful run businessman then failed to The win businessman failed to win for public offithen ce, Herrenknecht the necessary party support for the necessary party support and for to expand his company aplans Bundestag seat. a Back Bundestag seat. eventually it on to his son. frompass his unsuccessful run from hisce, unsuccessful run HeBack cannot complain about a lack for public offi Herrenknecht for public offi ce, Herrenknecht of work. As long as the world plans to expand his company and plans to expand his company and population continues eventually pass it on totohisgrow son. eventually pass it onabout to his and urbancomplain populations with it, He cannot a son. lack Hewill cannot complain about a lack so theAs need foras construction of work. long the world of work. Ascontinues long as the ■ underground. population to world grow population continues towith grow and urban populations it, and urban populations with it, so will the need for construction so will the need for construction ■ underground. ■ underground.

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arah Radau wants to do “something concrete.” To reach that goal the 21-yearold chose to study engineering. Now in her fourth semester, in three years she will be an expert in her field with the doors of corporate advancement wide open to her. Human resource departments will practically fight over her because university graduates like Radau – well-trained, eager to learn and career-oriented – are few and far between in Germany. German industry has too few engineers − it needs 70,000 more to be exact – a gap that increases by 12,000 each year, according to a recent study. The economy is suffering as a result – the Association of German Engineers (VDI) and the private Institute for the German Economy (IW) say the costs add up to €7.2 billion annually. The dearth of specialized staff means that projects have to be turned down or can only be completed with delays. Customers are increasingly turning abroad to get the work done. A fateful trend, since outsourcing is already costing the German economy 74,000 jobs a year. How can it be that Germany, a country with a long engineering tradition, has so few young

people interested the field? The sector simply has a bad reputation, analysts believe. The private sector has therefore been recruiting political help to rid itself of that notoriety and bringing in new blood. About 40,000 new engineers join the ranks of the German workforce every year, barely enough to fill the positions vacated by those retiring. But with the German economy having grown significantly in recent years, industry needs far more well-trained people. Not even the recession that just began can change that. The situation is perfect for women like Radau, since both policy makers and managers have recognized the harm in choosing to do without young women in the workforce. Just 11 percent of Germany's 654,000 engineers are women. The industry can no longer afford such a low quota. And so companies are working hard to improve perks for female graduates. Aside from a good salary – engineers earn 26 percent more money than liberal arts grads – companies advertise flat hierarchies, fast-track promotions and family-friendly

working hours. The latter can be decisive for people in their early 30s. By the time she reaches that age, Radau says she wants a husband and two children, in addition to a job with substance. Another heavily courted group is Germans who have moved abroad after graduating. Officially, 155,300 Germans turned their backs on their country in 2006.

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Of those, 84,800 were between 25 and 50 years old, the most productive years for employment. Politicians are doing their best to turn that tide or at least stem it. But still far too many newly minted German engineers are pulling up stakes and moving

abroad. One reason is the higher pay, another the professional climate – firms are less hierarchical than traditional medium-sized firms in Germany. On the other hand, this opens up new and unexpected opportunities for immigrants to Germany. The battle for younger talent is finally giving these people a chance to establish themselves more quickly in German society. But complex immigration laws for non-EU citizens are keeping out many would-be immigrants whom the engineering sector would otherwise welcome with open arms. At the same time, immigrants already living in Germany face higher hurdles because the country’s selective education system gives them fewer chances to qualify for higher education. Among those who do succeed, boys generally have worse grades than their German counterparts. And since they are not accepted into overflowing liberal arts programs, many are now applying to engineering programs. German firms are pulling out the stops to court these potential employees. Some cover engineering students’ tuition fees; others underwrite scholarships and even scout high school corridors for the brightest minds. Steelmaker Thyssen-Krupp, for example, sponsors a competition “Young People Think About the Future.” There, talented students figure out for themselves how their generation chooses its course of study. The arrangement substantially benefits both sides. Taken together, all these measures should help reduce the lack of engineers in Germany. First reports of success are beginning to trickle in. According to the VDI, 86,000 young people began studying engineering in 2007 – a 5.5 percent increase over the previous year. Word is getting around in Germany that the engineering sector has a lot to offer. Radau has every reason to hope she’ll accomplish “something concrete” in the ■ future.



Organic goods keep growing…

Despite the economic crisis, the organic food sector continues to enjoy growth, although at a slower rate last year than in 2007. Sales of organic food rose 10 percent in 2008 to €5.8 billion, according to preliminary figures from the ZMP price statistics agency, a decline from the sector’s 15 percent growth rate in 2007. Despite the slowdown, experts say interest in organic food and production methods among consumers and farmers is still growing. ■

…green tech too

In the global market for environmental technology, Germany has increased its lead slightly. The country’s market share has risen to 16 percent, 5 percent over Germany’s overall market share for industrial products. For the first time, Germany’s Ministry for Environment recently published a report on the environmental economic outlook. In it, Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said the markets of the future were green and had enormous potential. The report said the demand for eco-friendly goods is set to double between 2005 and 2020, reaching €2.2 trillion. ■

Get on the bus!

The rise in gasoline prices in the first half of 2008 encouraged more Germans to use the public transportation instead of their cars, according to the VDV transport association. Last year, the group registered 10.4 billion public transport rides, or over 28 million passengers per day, a 1 percent increase over 2007.

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■ Jury complete The jury for the Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale, has been announced. The panel to select the winners of the Golden Bear, Silver Bears and the Alfred Bauer Award, is headed by actress Tilda Swinton. Other members include Spanish writer-director Isabel Coixet, Swedish best-selling author Henning Mankell, German director Christoph Schlingensief and California food guru Alice Waters.

The 59th Berlinale means glamour and great cinema | By Klaus Grimberg Famous directors, movie stars and films dedicated to the effects of globalization on the individual – the 59th annual film festival in Berlin promises once again to be a feast for cinema fans.

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wo major international productions largely made at Babelsberg Studios just outside Berlin are having their big premiere at the Berlin Film Festival – German director Tom Tykwer (“Perfume,” “Run Lola Run”) opens the Berlinale with “The International.” This action thriller, about criminal activities in the financing of war and terrorism, has an all-star cast that includes Clive Owen, Naomi Watts and Armin Müller-Stahl. Another star-studded lineup graces the film adaptation of the international bestseller, “The Reader,” by Bernhard Schlink. British director Stephen Daldry (“The Hours”) has interpreted the ambivalent story of love between a youth and a former concentration camp guard with Kate Winslet, David Kross and Ralph Fiennes in the main roles. European cinema is putting up some strong competitors for the Golden and Silver Bears. British director Sally Potter (“Orlando”) has put together a promising ensemble of Judi Dench, Jude Law, Dianne Wiest and Steve Buscemi in “Rage.” And veteran Greek director Theo Angelopoulos got Irene

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Jacob, Michel Piccoli, Willem Dafoe and Bruno Ganz for “The Dust of Time.” The international jury, chaired by Scottish actress Tilda Swinton, will also be judging the latest offerings from British director Stephen Frears, French directors Bertrand Tavernier and François Ozon, Danish director Annette K. Olesen and her Polish colleague Andrzej Wajda. And fans can look forward to seeing plenty of stars on the red carpet outside the Berlinale Palast, including Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Tommy Lee Jones and John Goodman. The world’s movie superpower, the U.S., is making only a modest contribution to this year’s festival. Alongside newcomers Mitchell Lichtenstein with “Happy Tears” and Oren Moverman with “The

Messenger,” there is Rebecca Miller with “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” with a cast including Robin Wright Penn, Keanu Reeves, Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder. And to wind up the festival, Steve Martin gets to save the world again using Inspector Clouseau’s unconventional methods in “Pink Panther II.” Entries from Germany are Maren Ade’s “Alle Anderen,” and HansChristian Schmid’s “Storm.” Also, a compilation by 13 German directors makes its premiere under the title, “Deutschland 09” – it aims to report on the current situation in the country. In its 30th year, the Panorama section also has famous names on offer. Julie Delpy, Tom DiCillo, Michael Winterbottom and Michael Glawogger will be

showing their latest works from the director’s chair. Panorama also traditionally offers young filmmakers of art house films the chance to reach a wider audience. At the Forum, where independent cinema is based, a world of experimentation is reflected – 31 nations are represented here. This year’s Berlinale retrospective is dedicated to the power of wide-screen images, under the title “70 mm.” The program includes 22 greats, including classics such as “Cleopatra (196163), “Lawrence of Arabia” (1961-62), and “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1965-68). The selection is also an homage to the great movie houses of the past, among which the International remains one of the favorite festival cinemas.

A movie on the risks and side effects of reading: “The Reader” based on the novel by German writer Bernhard Schlink. The leading roles are played by Kate Winslet and David Kross.

To mark this year’s 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Berlinale is also showing the series “After winter comes the spring – Films presaging the fall of the Wall,” featuring German and Eastern European films from the last decade of the Cold War – which hint at the tumultuous changes to come. Some of these films were made at official studios in Bulgaria, Poland, Rumania, Hungary, East Germany, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia; some were created in the underground artistic ■ scene.

■ Go for the Oscar The German movie “Baader Meinhof Komplex,” a true-life account of the 1970s leftwing Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorist group, is among five nominees for best foreign language film at the Oscars. The movie is based on the true story about RAF founders Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, whose radical leftwing movement terrorized Germany in the 1970s with its kidnappings and murder of prominent politicians and business leaders. Four other German productions are nominated, including Werner Herzog with “Encounters At the End Of The World” for Best Documentary, as well as Jochen Alexander Freydank for his 14-minute-film “Spielzeugland” (Toyland) and Reto Caffi’s “Auf der Strecke” (On The Line), both in the category Short Film – Live Action. The German-U.S. co-production “The Reader” was nominated among others for Best Film and Best Director (Stephan Daldry).

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In the years after World War II, there was no one the Germans preferred to laugh at more than Heinz Erhardt (19091979). For no one was better at making jokes without reminding people of the past.

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Out with popcorn S 1/2 page across € 12,000 290 mm [w] x 260 mm [d] ome of his best poems are very short – just four lines. A scene is outlined in a few words, brought to a small, dramatic climax – and followed up by a dry punchline. The man on the stage is small, round, and blinking at his audience through thick glasses. He barely waits for the laughter to end before calling out “Another poem!” At a time when Germans were only just learning to laugh again, Heinz Erhardt walked the tightrope of language with cunning and hidden meaning. He was a

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Astor the theater has become an oasis of relaxation. The comfortable atmosphere comes at a price, though. Tickets cost between €10 and €15 depending on the film. Surprisingly, Hans-Joachim Flebbe, the very man who a decade or so ago played a key role in establishing multiplexes in Germany, is behind the project. The erstwhile boss of Cinemaxx wants to attract back that part of the public, which until recently, preferred to make themselves comfortable in front of the widescreen TV at home. Flebbe, 57, has pepped up the traditional movie theater to a level of absolute luxury at a cost of €800,000. Now the movie theater, which was built in 1951 and is a protected building, accommodates just 250 seats. Before, there were almost twice as many. Though the projection and sound technology is stateof-the-art, much of the charm of the 1950s has been preserved. A curtain in front of the screen rises and falls before and after screenings – cinema gets back its style. Flebbe’s investment is preserving one of the last Ku’damm

movie theaters still left in Berlin at the 11th hour. Since the fall of the wall, one traditional movie theater after another has been forced to close since large fashion chains can afford to pay far higher rents. This theater has remained unscathed as it is set back from the boulevard and is accessed via a narrow passageway. The previous owner actually wanted to close the theater because screenings seldom sold out. In the two weeks since the cinema’s re-opening as the Astor Film Lounge, much has changed in this respect. Over Christmas and New Year, the cinema’s two daily screenings of the melodramatic epic “Australia” were sold out. In the event of his idea prevailing in the long-term, Flebbe is planning an elaborate program design with short films or standup comedians on hand to warm up audiences before the main feature. Assuming success, the entrepreneur wants to bring his idea of high-end movie theaters to other large cities. KG

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verbal acrobat who could find a joke in even the most banal of situations. Erhardt was the humorous backbone of Germany’s economic miracle. He was not a man to wade through the swamp of Germany’s recent history. His masterful wordplay was honed on the little problems of everyday life, on absurdities and ambiguities. Erhardt was always in tune with ordinary people. And he hurt no one – his wit was sharp but did not cause injury. That may well be the reason why he was so popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Yet it would be wrong to dismiss him as harmless. Erhardt, born in Riga (then part of Russia), wrote verse in the tradition of Rainer Maria Rilke and Joachim Ringelnatz, Kurt Tucholsky and Erich Kästner, and of the many cheeky chansons and couplets of the 1920s. Erhardt perfected the rhyming joke, and, settling in

Hamburg after the war, added a pinch of Hanseatic understatement. Erhardt got his big break in Berlin shortly before the war. Until then, he had been just getting by, running the music shop in Riga he had inherited from his grandfather. With the encouragement of his wife, Gilda, he accepted an offer to perform at the famous Kabarett der Künstler in 1938. His talent for entertainment helped him get through World War II, which he spent on tour, entertaining the troops. After the war, he worked in radio as a musician, presenter and comedian. British censors told him: “You are the only German we can laugh at without understanding a word you say.” What greater honor could there be for a comic? Soon, Erhardt was back on the big stages of Germany, building on his earlier success. But Erhardt really became a household name because of the many movies he made from 1957 onward. Seen from today’s perspective, this was the down side of his career. In these corny romantic comedies with their predictable plots, Erhardt’s spontaneous wit is almost completely lost. The quick-thinking humor that was his trademark on stage was trapped in a cage of silly, bombastic scripts. But the audience in those days did not mind. His films were hits at the box office. His recordings and volumes of poetry still sell well today, and in a survey by Germany’s ZDF television network, Erhardt was voted the German’s secondfavorite comic of all time, after Loriot. His movies often pop up on German TV, even more so these days just before the 100th ■ anniversary of his birth. The economic miracle’s funnybone: Heinz Erhardt.

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Three years ago, a British investment company moved aggressively onto the German newspaper market, buying the venerable and profitable Berliner Zeitung. Now the Brits have bailed out and sold the paper to a German grand seigneur of publishing, for whom the acquisition is a longtime ambition come true. aily papers are dear to Alfred Neven DuMont. “Newspapers are more than a commodity, that is what I learned from my father,” he said when he acquired the Frankfurter Rundschau, a regional yet nationally circulated, liberal paper in 2006, rescuing it from insolvency. DuMont buys what others no longer can or want

to continue. He is a winner of the financial and newspaper crisis, no doubt about it. That’s one side of the story. The other resonates in his commitment to journalistic quality. In March, DuMont turns 82. His publishing company M. DuMont Schauberg operates the fourthlargest newspaper group in the country with a daily circulation of more than a million. He is considered an old-school publisher, one of the last or even the very last of his kind in Germany. He is a patriarch in his family, in the publishing company and in his hometown Cologne. The Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper has dubbed him “Sir von Print.” In Cologne, he practically has a newspaper monopoly. His company is one of the few publishers that still invest in quality, he told the magazine Cicero a few weeks ago. “The quality of most papers can be improved. That

is why I notice with regret that the greatest urge currently evident among media managers is the urge to cut costs,” he said. DuMont loves newspapers, the opportunity to make a difference journalistically, and of course the profit and attention they earn him. But the profits are becoming less certain in this business. The newspaper trade is “experiencing not a crisis but a frightening downswing,” said DuMont. A few days after the interview, news broke in mid-January that he would invest hundreds of millions of euros in this slumping sector to buy the Berliner Zeitung. He had already made a bid for the paper three years ago but lost. The paper went to the British investment group Mecom, which was acquiring dozens of newspapers throughout Europe. But then, dragged down by the financial crisis and needing cash fast to repay debt, Mecom accepted

DuMont’s reduced, €152 million offer. His new holdings, along with the Berliner Verlag publisher, include the tabloid Hamburger Morgenpost, city magazines and 10 websites, among them the online newspaper Netzeitung. The Berliner Zeitung’s news staff, based in Alexanderplatz in the city’s east, hailed the news of the sale as if DuMont were their savior. Now they wait for their new owner to follow up his commitment to quality with action. Whereas the family owners of the leading broadsheet Süddeutsche Zeitung have sold their publishing company, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is owned by a foundation and spooked publishers everywhere cut their editorial budgets, DuMont is reaffirming that publishers need to invest in their editorial departments. However, critics point out that DuMont is no savior who simply hands out money. He definitely would have streamlined the Berliner Zeitung’s editorial offices had he had the opportunity earlier, they argue. DuMont represents his family’s 11th generation to run the publishing company. Politically, he is considered a liberal and close to the Free Democratic Party (FDP). The company was built around

the Kölner Stadtanzeiger, which he has led editorially since 1955. After his father’s death in 1967, he became sole publisher and turned the staid, conservative, provincial paper into a respected liberal news source. He also founded the tabloid Express in Cologne in 1964 to compete with the mass-market tabloid Bild. He also purchased a stake in the Kölnische Rundschau. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he bought the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung in Halle in the former East Germany (a regional newspapers with one of the biggest circulation numbers at 350,000). In 2006, he acquired the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Bundesanzeiger. In the same year, he expanded abroad and acquired a quarter of the shares of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Beyond that, DuMont produces radio and publishes books. More than 3,500 employees generated revenues of €626 million in 2007, the group’s best-ever result. Net profit for the year was €9.1 million. In 2008, the company again posted solid results. DuMont gave up daily operations almost 20 years ago, handing them over to a managing director as well as his son Konstantin Neven DuMont, 39, and his nephew Christian DuMont

Schütte, 51. Recently DuMont also made the two heirs publishers. They run the newspapers together, he says, because the cohesion is the basis of a familyrun enterprise. DuMont stopped coming into the publishing house in Cologne on a daily basis long ago. He runs the supervisory board and divides his time between his other homes in London, on Mallorca and in the Caribbean. But insiders say that no important decisions are made without his consent. Wherever his interests are concerned or if he feels attacked, his liberal ideals take a back seat, they report. Then he intervenes vigorously, they say. The alternative daily taz calls him the “patriarch with the iron hand.” Profit margins may be shrinking but “money isn’t everything in life,” DuMont emphasizes. A grandson of the painter Franz von Lenbach, he cherishes art and literature. During his student days studying philosophy, history and literature in Munich, he once wanted to become an actor and worked at a theater. He wrote novellas, essays and stage plays. Years ago, he wrote his first novel under a pseudonym and plans to finally publish a novel under his n own name in March.

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Jacob, Michel Piccoli, Willem Dafoe and Bruno Ganz for “The Dust of Time.” The international jury, chaired by Scottish actress Tilda Swinton, will also be judging the latest offerings from British director Stephen Frears, French directors Bertrand Tavernier and François Ozon, Danish director Annette K. Olesen and her Polish colleague Andrzej Wajda. And fans can look forward to seeing plenty of stars on the red carpet outside the Berlinale Palast, including Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Tommy Lee Jones and John Goodman. The world’s movie superpower, the U.S., is making only a modest contribution to this year’s festival. Alongside newcomers Mitchell Lichtenstein with “Happy Tears” and Oren Moverman with “The

Messenger,” there is Rebecca Miller with “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” with a cast including Robin Wright Penn, Keanu Reeves, Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder. And to wind up the festival, Steve Martin gets to save the world again using Inspector Clouseau’s unconventional methods in “Pink Panther II.” Entries from Germany are Maren Ade’s “Alle Anderen,” and HansChristian Schmid’s “Storm.” Also, a compilation by 13 German directors makes its premiere under the title, “Deutschland 09” – it aims to report on the current situation in the country. In its 30th year, the Panorama section also has famous names on offer. Julie Delpy, Tom DiCillo, Michael Winterbottom and Michael Glawogger will be

showing their latest works from the director’s chair. Panorama also traditionally offers young filmmakers of art house films the chance to reach a wider audience. At the Forum, where independent cinema is based, a world of experimentation is reflected – 31 nations are represented here. This year’s Berlinale retrospective is dedicated to the power of wide-screen images, under the title “70 mm.” The program includes 22 greats, including classics such as “Cleopatra (196163), “Lawrence of Arabia” (1961-62), and “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1965-68). The selection is also an homage to the great movie houses of the past, among which the International remains one of the favorite festival cinemas.

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■ Go for the Oscar The German movie “Baader Meinhof Komplex,” a true-life account of the 1970s leftwing Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorist group, is among five nominees for best foreign language film at the Oscars. The movie is based on the true story about RAF founders Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, whose radical leftwing movement terrorized Germany in the 1970s with its kidnappings and murder of prominent politicians and business leaders.

A movie on the risks and side effects of reading: “The Reader” based on the novel by German writer Bernhard Schlink. The leading roles are played by Kate Winslet and David Kross.

Four other German productions are nominated, including Werner Herzog with “Encounters At the End Of The World” for Best Documentary, as well as Jochen Alexander Freydank for his 14-minute-film “Spielzeugland” (Toyland) and Reto Caffi’s “Auf der Strecke” (On The Line), both in the category Short Film – Live Action. The German-U.S. co-production “The Reader” was nominated among others for Best Film and Best Director (Stephan Daldry).

To mark this year’s 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Berlinale is also showing the series “After winter comes the spring – Films presaging the fall of the Wall,” featuring German and Eastern European films from the last decade of the Cold War – which hint at the tumultuous changes to come. Some of these films were made at official studios in Bulgaria, Poland, Rumania, Hungary, East Germany, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia; some were created in the underground artistic ■ scene.

The Oscars will be awarded in Los Angeles on Feb. 22.

A joker for the economic miracle Heinz Erhardt taught the Germans to laugh again By Jan Kepp In the years after World War II, there was no one the Germans preferred to laugh at more than Heinz Erhardt (19091979). For no one was better at making jokes without reminding people of the past.

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ome of his best poems are very short – just four lines. A scene is outlined in a few words, brought to a small, dramatic climax – and followed up by a dry punchline. The man on the stage is small, round, and blinking at his audience through thick glasses. He barely waits for the laughter to end before calling out “Another poem!” At a time when Germans were only just learning to laugh again, Heinz Erhardt walked the tightrope of language with cunning and hidden meaning. He was a

Berlin is enjoying the first luxury movie theater in the world You can only find it in Berlin. In the Astor Film Lounge on Kurfürstendamm, servers dish up exquisite finger food and champagne to movie buffs.

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t is not possible to imagine a more comfortable theater seat. Film lovers can watch as Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman get more closely acquainted in the Australian outback from the extra wide, reclining leather armchairs. If you rest your legs on the leather stools when you’re in the Astor Film Lounge, you feel like you’re flying first class in an Airbus. Servers bring tantalizing morsels of finger food, ranging from €15 to €18, until the main feature gets underway. Someone looking for something a touch more exclusive can find wine or champagne on the wine list for up to €590. Out with the super-sized popcorn charm of multiplex cinemas. From the doorman to the cloakroom attendant to the hostess who shows you the way to your seat, in the

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Astor the theater has become an oasis of relaxation. The comfortable atmosphere comes at a price, though. Tickets cost between €10 and €15 depending on the film. Surprisingly, Hans-Joachim Flebbe, the very man who a decade or so ago played a key role in establishing multiplexes in Germany, is behind the project. The erstwhile boss of Cinemaxx wants to attract back that part of the public, which until recently, preferred to make themselves comfortable in front of the widescreen TV at home. Flebbe, 57, has pepped up the traditional movie theater to a level of absolute luxury at a cost of €800,000. Now the movie theater, which was built in 1951 and is a protected building, accommodates just 250 seats. Before, there were almost twice as many. Though the projection and sound technology is stateof-the-art, much of the charm of the 1950s has been preserved. A curtain in front of the screen rises and falls before and after screenings – cinema gets back its style. Flebbe’s investment is preserving one of the last Ku’damm

movie theaters still left in Berlin at the 11th hour. Since the fall of the wall, one traditional movie theater after another has been forced to close since large fashion chains can afford to pay far higher rents. This theater has remained unscathed as it is set back from the boulevard and is accessed via a narrow passageway. The previous owner actually wanted to close the theater because screenings seldom sold out. In the two weeks since the cinema’s re-opening as the Astor Film Lounge, much has changed in this respect. Over Christmas and New Year, the cinema’s two daily screenings of the melodramatic epic “Australia” were sold out. In the event of his idea prevailing in the long-term, Flebbe is planning an elaborate program design with short films or standup comedians on hand to warm up audiences before the main feature. Assuming success, the entrepreneur wants to bring his idea of high-end movie theaters to other large cities. KG

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verbal acrobat who could find a joke in even the most banal of situations. Erhardt was the humorous backbone of Germany’s economic miracle. He was not a man to wade through the swamp of Germany’s recent history. His masterful wordplay was honed on the little problems of everyday life, on absurdities and ambiguities. Erhardt was always in tune with ordinary people. And he hurt no one – his wit was sharp but did not cause injury. That may well be the reason why he was so popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Yet it would be wrong to dismiss him as harmless. Erhardt, born in Riga (then part of Russia), wrote verse in the tradition of Rainer Maria Rilke and Joachim Ringelnatz, Kurt Tucholsky and Erich Kästner, and of the many cheeky chansons and couplets of the 1920s. Erhardt perfected the rhyming joke, and, settling in

Hamburg after the war, added a pinch of Hanseatic understatement. Erhardt got his big break in Berlin shortly before the war. Until then, he had been just getting by, running the music shop in Riga he had inherited from his grandfather. With the encouragement of his wife, Gilda, he accepted an offer to perform at the famous Kabarett der Künstler in 1938. His talent for entertainment helped him get through World War II, which he spent on tour, entertaining the troops. After the war, he worked in radio as a musician, presenter and comedian. British censors told him: “You are the only German we can laugh at without understanding a word you say.” What greater honor could there be for a comic? Soon, Erhardt was back on the big stages of Germany, building on his earlier success. But Erhardt really became a household name because of the many movies he made from 1957 onward. Seen from today’s perspective, this was the down side of his career. In these corny romantic comedies with their predictable plots, Erhardt’s spontaneous wit is almost completely lost. The quick-thinking humor that was his trademark on stage was trapped in a cage of silly, bombastic scripts. But the audience in those days did not mind. His films were hits at the box office. His recordings and volumes of poetry still sell well today, and in a survey by Germany’s ZDF television network, Erhardt was voted the German’s secondfavorite comic of all time, after Loriot. His movies often pop up on German TV, even more so these days just before the 100th ■ anniversary of his birth.

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After the A380 mess, say hello to the next headache at Airbus | By Jens Flottau Europe’s chief planemaker agreed to build the A400M transport craft without having had any experience in military programs. The company thought it would be “a flying truck.” Now it’s realizing how wrong that assumption was.

W 1/4 Seite quer 6.600,– Euro 290 mm [B] x 130 mm [H] hen Airbus finally delivered its first A380 to launching customer Singapore Airlines after a two-year delay, many hoped it would mark the end of a phase dominated by production problems, design issues and other flaws at the world’s biggest aircraft manufacturer. But now, with twelve A380s in service at Singapore, Qantas and Emirates, another Airbus crisis of similar scale has emerged. It is called the A400M. The aircraft is supposed to replace ageing models such as the Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules or the Transall, mainly in European air forces. It was launched by a manufacturer who was and still is specialized in building civilian aircraft and had no experience in military programs. “We thought it was a flying truck,” EADS CEO Louis Gallois admitted recently. “But it’s much more complex than that.” Delays have become commonplace in the aerospace industry, at the latest since the extensively reported A380 and Boeing 787 cases. But the A400M issues go deeper. Not only is the aircraft late (by around 3-4 years according to the latest Airbus plans); it seems the manufacturer can no longer build the aircraft according to the specifications demanded. Germany, in particular, is insisting on payload and range characteristics that the currently envisaged A400M cannot fulfill, according to sources familiar with

It flies, on the monitor at least: computer animation of the Airbus A400M.

the program. If Germany would get its way, Airbus would have to design a new wing or a new fuselage for the aircraft, those sources claim. The A400M was ordered by several European countries such as Germany, the UK, France and Spain. Airbus was hoping it would get many export orders on top of the 192 firmly committed aircraft. But new orders are highly unlikely as customers will have serious doubts about the A400M’s operational capabilities on top of the schedule woes that won’t see it fly before the fourth quarter of 2009 and delivered before the end of 2012 at the earliest. To make matters worse, the British government appears to be seriously considering can-

celing its order for 25 aircraft and instead buy more alternative jets: the larger Boeing C-17 and the smaller Hercules. What is holding up the program right now are issues surrounding the TP400 engine. A consortium of European engine manufacturers combined in the Europrop International (EPI) group was created to build the engine, not only based on capabilities, but also according to allocation of work share proportional to the size of orders placed by the various countries. The A400M however has proven to be too complex an aircraft to be handled via such legacy offset deals. As a result, the engine software is not ready yet and the gearbox has to be partially redesigned. That is why

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bout 120 years of automotive history, concentrated in the space of more than two football fields − can you hold your breath in the face of so much history? When you enter the MercedesBenz Museum in Stuttgart, you hear the noise of children instead of respectful silence. The kids all want their picture taken in front of the Formula One winner. If you stand in the foyer and look up, you get a clear view all the way up to the ceiling, 42 meters above you. With the audio guide dangling around your neck, you ride up in the elevator – because the journey through automotive history begins right at the top. In the lift, you hear the sound of traffic, which becomes the clopping of horses’ hoofs before you alight. Stepping out of the elevator, you stand face to face with a life-sized white horse – the ultimate in mobility before Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler turned their vision into reality and began constructing horseless carriages. The audio guide takes you through auto history in eight languages, outlining the development of the car in the usual European tongues as well as in Chinese, Japanese and Russian. “More than 80 percent of visitors The birth of the brand: oldest Mercedes known, a Simplex 40 PS built in 1902, boasts a place of honor in the new museum.

the aircraft has not flown even more than a year after the original target. But while the engine may be the most urgent problem for the time being, it’s by far not the only one. It may also not be the most difficult one to solve. Industry sources claim that the A400M is also too heavy, threatening mission targets set by the customers. Airbus is understood to have tackled some of the weight issues but is still likely to miss its design weights. Therefore, the A400M may not be able to fly as far as planned or carry as much as expected. Airbus and parent EADS offer no detailed explanations, saying only that such issues are normal in any aircraft development program.

History of a household name The Mercedes-Benz Museum showcases 120 years of automotive development By Eva-Maria Burkhardt say the museum exceeded their expectations and that they will recommend us to others,” said museum director Michael Bock proudly. “There is no greater compliment than that.” The 120-year history of the car is spread over nine levels. The architects of the exhibition, van Berkel & Bos (Amsterdam) and HG Merz (Stuttgart, Berlin) have pulled off a stroke of genius. Two tours lead from the top back down to the lobby. You walk in a relaxed fashion along curved paths from one era to the next. There are no awkward stairs to navigate. There are seven “Legend Rooms,” each of which covers a specific period in chronological order and five “Collection Rooms,” in which vehicles are arranged according to theme instead of era. In all, there are 1,500 exhibits. The focus is

on the 160 vehicles, which include 80 cars, 40 utility vehicles and 40 racing cars. At the top, in “The Invention of the Automobile” section, you see the fascinating Daimler riding car and the Benz motorized carriage, built in 1886. The next hall contains vehicles from 1914 to 1945. With its elegant silhouette, long hood and the extravagant curve of the wings, the Mercedes-Benz 500 K special roadster is a dream. Built in 1936, it was the luxury sports car of the rich and famous. In the same room, you can find the Lo 2000 diesel platform truck, built in 1932. The juxtaposition is no accident – the museum intends to display the broad spectrum of the Mercedes brand in all its halls, bringing trucks, buses, and vans together under one roof for the first time.

The fourth hall, “Post-war Miracle” also has its share of automobile treasures – for instance, the car of former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. This 1952 Mercedes-Benz 300 is more than five meters long, imposing and elegant. There is also the 1953 300 SL and the SL Coupe built two years later – dream wheels by anyone’s standard, even today. The Collection Room next door presents the “Gallery of Celebrities,” including the bus used by the German national football team in 1974, the Pullman of Japanese Emperor Hirohito and the 190 SL, driven by stars such as Grace Kelly and Zsa Zsa Gabor. The hall is also home to the pope mobile from which Pope John Paul II waved to the crowds on his visit to Germany in 1980.

Airbus CEO Thomas Enders seems to be facing a triple challenge. He needs to alleviate those operational concerns and sell an aircraft to customers that may not fulfill all their wishes. He will also have to convince them that the aircraft is one still “worth waiting for,” as Airbus executive vice president of program, Tom Williams, puts it. However, the German and French governments have promised help. Paris will provide €5 billion to banks for credits to airlines bying from Airbus, while Berlin is planning credit guarantees for Airbus customers. Gallois indicates that EADS and Airbus may offer some kind of interim solution and mentioned that Airbus could provide the much larger Airbus A330-200 freighter to the military. That aircraft can obviously carry goods and people but no tanks and it can’t land on sand strips like the A400M would have to in war scenarios. The third challenge is of a purely financial nature. Enders’ and Gallois’ predecessors signed an unusual contract in 2002. They agreed that EADS would carry the full commercial risk of the program. Suppliers such as the engine consortium were included, but only to a limited degree and customers could theoretically insist on big penalty payments because of the delays. Enders, on his part, says the program based on the original contract was a “mission impossible” and needed to be revised. Not only should governments drop penalty payments, he believes, but Airbus should also revert to a more typical military contract in which payments are made according to development milestones and not only when the aircraft is ready to be delivered. Those negotiations will determine whether Airbus will be further weakened financially for many years. The company can hardly let those talks fail. It is still carrying the burden of the A380 ■ delays.

The past three decades take a more down-to-earth approach. Mercedes as a brand aims to present itself here as a safety and technology pioneer and as a guarantee of reliability. One example of this is the 1988 Mercedes-Benz 200 D. Via a headset, you can hear its former owner, a Portuguese taxi driver. He tells you he drove this car 1.95 million kilometers over 14 years. In that time, the doors opened and shut roughly 120,000 times. His son practically grew up in this car. The museum had a tough job convincing the man to part with it! Bock says visitors particularly love the emotional ending of their time journey: “Forty racing cars show the breadth of fascination for motor racing.” The first racing cars stand next to one another on a ramp – the Silver Arrows and the current Formula One racecars. Bock says the separate exhibition area, “The Fascination of Technology,” also captivates thousands of visitors. Once you have bought a ticket to the museum, the technology section is free as are special exhibitions and the tour through the main Mercedes plant nearby. Just before Christmas, the “S 400 Blue Hybrid” special exhibition ended. “Demand was so great that we extended it by a month,” said Bock, adding that he is pleased that there is so much interest in new, alternative energies. “This means the museum is bridging the gap between the past, present and future.” This is the connection the “E Class History” exhibition – planned for 2009 – aims to make. The show’s opening is set to coincide with the market launch of the new mid-range model. The museum does not want people to just revel in memories – it encourages them to buy new cars ■ as well.

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he economic crisis has its good sides too, says Nikolaus Piper, the Süddeutsche Zeitung’s U.S. correspondent. Anyone who buys two suits at Mohan’s on 42nd St. in Manhattan receives either a third one or a cashmere coat free of charge. On the manufacturing side, one man making a better living is Bill Gendler, a toolmaker. He used to sell three of his products a week, now he moves 12. He makes safes. People seem to have decided that their money is more secure in those than in a bank.

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any people will also be leading safer lives once Bill Gates has reached his next goal. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged €195 million. Rotary International, together with the British and German governments, have added $375 million (€292 million), to eradicate polio. Last year, about 1,600 children (20 years ago it was 350,000) were infected with the virus, mostly in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan. Europe, America and Australia are considered polio-free.

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lso disappearing is fog, at least in Europe. Visibility under two kilometers exists only 10 days per year, half as many as 30 years ago, researchers reported in Nature Geoscience Online. They gathered their data from 342 weather stations throughout Europe. The reason, they found, is reduced sulfur dioxide emissions from industries. The continent’s air is cleaner.

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lean air isn’t even all that expensive. By 2030, €810 billion – about 1 percent of global GDP – must be invested to cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 70 percent and minimize global warming, said consulting group McKinsey in a report presented in Brussels. “Deep emissions cuts are both technologically feasible and economically affordable,” the study concluded.

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itigroup, once the world’s biggest banking company, also wanted to spend a pack of money – $50 million – on a new corporate jet. Problem was, the troubled company had just been rescued by the U.S. taxpayer to the tune of $45 billion. A wave of protests had the desired effect. The company canceled the airplane order. Perhaps the days of arrogance and aloofness really are over. A good sign.

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ptimism has been a commodity in short supply in the Middle East. In a studio in Jerusalem, however, four Israelis and four Palestinians have been producing a radio program since 2004, sponsored by the EU, the Belgian government and various foundations. The program, which remained on the air during the recent fighting in Gaza, is called “All for Peace.” Sixty percent of its 40,000 listeners are Palestinian, 40 percent Israeli. A reporter from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung asked whether the working atmosphere has suffered. “The people who work here believe in peace,” was the response.

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For months, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il vanished from sight and analysts believed he was gravely ill. Then he returned to the public eye – just as Barack Obama was sworn in. A mere coincidence?

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Lasantha Wickrematunga, one of Sri Lanka’s most influential media figures, knew he was a marked man. On Jan. 8 he was shot dead.

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Pledging to close Guantanamo, extending a hand to the Muslim world, engaging in the Middle East: President Obama’s foreign policy has hit the ground running. Yet the constraints holding him back are huge.

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Schütte, 51. Recently DuMont also made the two heirs publishers. They run the newspapers together, he says, because the cohesion is the basis of a familyrun enterprise. DuMont stopped coming into the publishing house in Cologne on a daily basis long ago. He runs the supervisory board and divides his time between his other homes in London, on Mallorca and in the Caribbean. But insiders say that no important decisions are made without his consent. Wherever his interests are concerned or if he feels attacked, his liberal ideals take a back seat, they report. Then he intervenes vigorously, they say. The alternative daily taz calls him the “patriarch with the iron hand.” Profit margins may be shrinking but “money isn’t everything in life,” DuMont emphasizes. A grandson of the painter Franz von Lenbach, he cherishes art and literature. During his student days studying philosophy, history and literature in Munich, he once wanted to become an actor and worked at a theater. He wrote novellas, essays and stage plays. Years ago, he wrote his first novel under a pseudonym and plans to finally publish a novel under his n own name in March.

wo major international productions largely made at Babelsberg Studios just outside Berlin are having their big premiere at the Berlin Film Festival – German director Tom Tykwer (“Perfume,” “Run Lola Run”) opens the Berlinale with “The International.” This action thriller, about criminal activities in the financing of war and terrorism, has an all-star cast that includes Clive Owen, Naomi Watts and Armin Müller-Stahl. Another star-studded lineup graces the film adaptation of the international bestseller, “The Reader,” by Bernhard Schlink. British director Stephen Daldry (“The Hours”) has interpreted the ambivalent story of love between a youth and a former concentration camp guard with Kate Winslet, David Kross and Ralph Fiennes in the main roles. European cinema is putting up some strong competitors for the Golden and Silver Bears. British director Sally Potter (“Orlando”) has put together a promising ensemble of Judi Dench, Jude Law, Dianne Wiest and Steve Buscemi in “Rage.” And veteran Greek director Theo Angelopoulos got Irene

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■ Jury complete The jury for the Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale, has been announced. The panel to select the winners of the Golden Bear, Silver Bears and the Alfred Bauer Award, is headed by actress Tilda Swinton. Other members include Spanish writer-director Isabel Coixet, Swedish best-selling author Henning Mankell, German director Christoph Schlingensief and California food guru Alice Waters.

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Business Stimulating times

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Whether economic stimuli work or not depends on where the money goes. The German government’s approach of focusing on infrastructure is the right one, Uwe Jean Heuser writes.

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Establishing ‘bad banks’ for toxic credit would amount to a definitive admission of real crisis, argues Alexander Hagelüken. Most importantly, don’t let the banks off the hook while imposing crushing burdens on taxpayers.

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Punctuated by volcanoes and hot springs, Indonesia’s geothermal energy potential nearly equals its annual power generation from fossil fuels. German companies are helping develop the renewable resource.

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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, one of the giants of Romantic music, would have turned 200 in February. Axel Brüggemann asks why his legacy is so neglected in his hometown of Berlin.

Oligarchs out!

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Deep-pocketed investors are fast expanding their presence in Europe’s football leagues – except in Germany. There, a hallowed rule limits the magnates’ influence. Now it, too, has been forced on the defensive.

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2009 kicked off in Berlin with two stunning film festivals: Asian Hot Shots, January’s showcase of independent Asian cinema, and the 59th Berlinale in February. Roll ‘em!

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Asia, especially China, feels the brunt of the global economic crisis | By Christoph Hein

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en Jiabao was the first Chinese premier to attend the Davos World Economic Forum, the annual gettogether of the high and mighty in the snowy Swiss Alps. Great hopes were pinned on him: Could and would China, by now the workshop of the world, be able to pull the international economy out of the present crisis? Despite Beijing’s stimulus package pledging $586 billion (€455 billion) to crank up the economy, the facts behind Premier Wen’s message were sobering. He made no bones about them, although he ended his address on an optimistic note: “The harsh winter will be gone. Spring is around the corner.” China’s growth slowed to a critical 6.8 percent during the last quarter of 2008, making it unlikely that the country would once again attain its longstanding 8 percent minimum rate. Job losses are mounting; thousands of factories are closing; and millions of migrant workers are heading home from the urban centers hit by the downturn. And domestic consumption in China can hardly be expected to increase as long as consumers, lacking a social safety net, tend to save a large part of their earnings. Small wonder, then, that business people, lawmakers and media representatives assembled in the Davos Congress Hall were in a rather gloomy mood. In Davos as in Berlin – Wen’s next stop on the European tour he called his “journey of optimism” – the premier reaffirmed his country’s interest in closer cooperation. Germany and China have a special responsibility in overcoming the global economic and financial crisis, he announced in a joint statement with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The leaders of the world’s two top exporting nations pledged to confer more closely on the fundamentals of economic, trade, monetary and financial policy. Wen invited foreign companies to enter bids for China’s planned infrastructure projects and said they would be treated as equals. German executives surely liked what they heard. China’s current growth forecasts are furrowing the brows of these once so confident managers. No top German manager had been more bullish on China than Jürgen Hambrecht, CEO and chairman of BASF as well as chairman of the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business (APA), an umbrella organization

of Germany’s leading business associations. Yet recently he said that “the real disappointment is Asia,” bluntly acknowledging that his earlier enthusiasm had been misplaced. BASF is the largest German investor in China. Until last fall, China, and Asia as a whole, was regarded as a safe haven in the event of economic storms in the Old World. The managers’ creed was that one had to invest in Europe, America and Asia to weather a steep decline in one or the other, or even in two other, markets. Not much remains of that belief. Rajat Nag, head of the Asian Development Bank, puts it starkly: “A decoupling of Asia from the rest of the world is a myth.” By now it is obvious: When China sneezes, Germans are the first but not the only ones to catch cold. The world’s third-largest economic power is Germany’s most important trading partner in Asia. Conversely, Germany is China’s most important trading partner in Europe. But if exports stall, if the tourists stay away, if unemployment in China rises to record heights and share and property prices fall – then its people don’t have money in their pockets. That’s not a propitious time to try to sell expensive Western goods in Asia. And if Chinese banks refuse to grant credit, and markets suffer meltdowns, it’s not a propitious time to shoulder long-term investments, such as buying Germanmade machines. The Western automobile industry has been hit particularly hard. For market leader Volkswagen, for example, China is a source of revenue second only to Germany. VW had intended to increase its Chinese sales by 20 percent this year but now VW president, Winfried Vahland, talks only of an increase greater than overall market growth. According to CSM Worldwide analysts in Shanghai, though, China’s growth could be as little as 6 percent. The Chinese will buy fewer cars. In December alone, car sales fell by 12 percent year-on-year. The Chinese state is also saving, one example is the state-run airlines. While China presses forward in building its own airplanes, directives from the Civil Aviation Administration of China have prompted various airlines to cancel or delay orders for aircraft they had placed with Airbus or

Boeing. Airlines like Lufthansa were already disappointed with revenues from travel to and from the Beijing Olympics, and things didn’t improve afterward either. When fewer bankers and managers fly business class, profit margins suffer. Freight transport is not filling the gap. Cargo volume at Lufthansa was 6.7 percent lower in November than the year before. According to Fraport AG, which operates Frankfurt International Airport, total cargo volume declined there by 25 percent relative to 2007. Seaports and shipping companies are feeling the pinch too.

In search of a silver lining, Peters expressed what is on the minds of many managers: “We will not decouple ourselves permanently from globalization. Even in the future, we shall not start sewing our own shirts in Germany again.” But not one of the 2,600 world leaders, managers and pundits gathered in the Swiss mountains this year was unaware of the fact that this is globalization’s first big crisis. There is no way to decouple globalization from the worldwide downturn and only one way to overcome the current predicament: a concerted effort to salvage the world’s financial system and prop up ailing national economies. Seaports and shipping companies are feeling the pinch too. HHLA, Hamburg’s commercial port and logistics company, projected a growth rate of 9 percent for 2008 but the first nine months of the year yielded an increase of only 5 percent. For this year, CEO Klaus-Dieter Peters predicts “a clear dip in growth.” Germany’s flagship industrial sector, mechanical engineering, is feeling the slowing of Asian demand especially acutely. Textile machinery is particularly hard hit, with Chinese orders having declined by 42 percent just in the first half of 2008. Some branches of German industry are placing their hopes on fighting the crises by availing themselves of the economic stimulus packages governments are providing. The

billions are meant to flow above all into infrastructure expansion, thereby possibly helping German suppliers – all of which have been active in the Asian markets. “The question is just when the money will actually arrive,” one company manager said. Even Siemens might profit from the public funds. Its management cleverly formulated its growth goals, saying they should be twice as high as China’s GDP growth rate. Last year, at 19 percent, the company almost reached that goal. If the analysts are correct, this year Siemens will only need to grow by about 12 percent in China – and would still reach its stated target. In search of a silver lining, Peters expressed what is on the minds of many managers: “We will not decouple ourselves permanently from globalization. Even in the future, we shall not start sewing our own shirts in Germany again.” But not one of the 2,600 world leaders, managers and pundits gathered in the Swiss mountains this year was unaware of the fact that this is globalization’s first big crisis. There is no way to decouple globalization from the worldwide downturn and only one way to overcome the current predicament: a concerted effort to salvage the world’s financial system and prop up ailing national economies. Salvation won’t come from China alone, but the country has a momentous role to play in the international rescue operation. In Europe, Wen assured the world that his country won’t duck its n responsibility.

corner tabs € 2,500 / € 2,750 (frontpage) China has a 94 role mm [w] x 100 mm [d] momentous to play in the

international rescue operation. HHLA, Hamburg’s commercial port and logistics company, projected a growth rate of 9 percent for 2008 but the first nine months of the year yielded an increase of only 5 percent. For this year, CEO Klaus-Dieter Peters predicts “a clear dip in growth.” Germany’s flagship industrial sector, mechanical engineering, is feeling the slowing of Asian demand especially acutely. Textile machinery is particularly hard hit, with Chinese orders having declined by 42 percent just in the first half of 2008. Some branches of German industry are placing their hopes on fighting the crises by availing themselves of the economic stimulus packages governments are providing. The billions are meant to flow above all into infrastructure expansion, thereby possibly helping German suppliers – all of which have been active in the Asian markets. “The question is just when the money will actually arrive,” one company manager said. Even Siemens might profit from the public funds. Its management cleverly formulated its growth goals, saying they should be twice as high as China’s GDP growth rate. Last year, at 19 percent, the company almost reached that goal. If the analysts are correct, this year Siemens will only need to grow by about 12 percent in China – and would still reach its stated target.

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