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 A hero with feet of clay: Michael Schumacher won the Formula One championship seven times but hasn’t had much to celebrate this season. Ever since his return to Formula One, Michael Schumacher has been bringing up the rear – By Frank Bachner
He was received like a Messiah: The return of the seven-time world
champion Michael Schumacher after three years was supposed to jazz up
Formula One racing. Yet half a year later, disenchantment is all there
is.
The telephone switchboard simply collapsed. It was rather modern,
designed to cope with a large amount of incoming calls, yet it was not
up to the Michael Schumacher myth. Everybody wanted tickets for the
German Formula One Grand Prix in Hockenheim to see Michael Schumacher,
41, the seven-time world champion. He had announced his comeback a few
days prior to the event, after a three-year break. The return of the
superstar in a silver Mercedes: a human legend in a legendary car.
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 Alongside original segments of the wall, a row of steel stanchions marks the former border on Bernauer Strasse. The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse is getting a facelift – By Klaus Grimberg
Where exactly was the Berlin Wall? How did it work? What happened along it? Since 1989, visitors to Berlin have endlessly posed such questions. And the newly designed memorial on Bernauer Strasse is intended to exhaustively answer them.
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 Only a dune seperates the family-owned inn from the beach near Wustrow (left). The indigo of this typical Ahrenshoop artist’s house enchants visitors (right). Traditional beach baskets at the beach near Zingst. The Fischland-Darss-Zingst peninsula has been attracting Germany’s elite for years – By Michael Winckler
Only 300 kilometers away from Berlin, the endless interplay of wind and water has created a unique landscape on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
The panorama from the top of 35-meter-tall Darsser Ort lighthouse is in sharp focus, and magnificent. On the faraway horizon, piles of snow white clouds dramatically accent the azure sky that arches over the blue-black Baltic Sea.
To the north, the contours of Danish island Mon’s chalk coastline are visible, and to the northeast lies Hiddensee Island in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The spires of the churches in Stralsund, one of the cities belonging to the Hanseatic League, tower above the surrounding flat countryside. Sand dunes stretch far to the south.
“For millennia, the wind and waves have been shaping the area surrounding the lighthouse – and the result is a one-of-a-kind landscape,” said author Kristine von Soden, an authority on the region. The elements carry sand away from the place where the path to the lighthouse leaves the forest of giant ferns and spiring fir, birch and beech trees, and deposit it to the north.
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A quirky outdoor music event leaves Berlin’s multi-million euro city campaign looking tired – By Anne Hansen
The costly “be Berlin” campaign pitches the German capital across the globe as a young, creative and unconventional metropolis. A karaoke party in the city’s Mauerpark is all this and more – and doesn’t cost anyone a cent.
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Young Israeli musicians and artists have discovered Berlin as a cool place to live and work – By Robert Rigney
They are used to neighborhoods in which different cultures mix. But what young Israelis aren’t used to is cheap living and an anything-goes mentality. That is why they love Berlin.
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