hanseatic diary

YOU are Germany!

2005-09-30T14:17:00.000-07:00

As it to the predecessor state of our republic more than 50 years ago already once much, many more badly than us today, have the governing criminals did not go at that time the slogan "you are anything - your people is everything!" spent.
That was stupid, like much different one, because also twelve millions times "anything nothing" "does not remain".
Since then fortunately changed very much. But stupidly slogans did not become extinct unfortunately.
The newest slogan, which runs by the republic and goes past at in the next weeks none, reads "Du bist Deutschland" ("You are Germany"). And this is also stupid.

Behind it is a whole campaign. Initiated brought by 20 German medium enterprises and together with numerous advertising and PR agencies "on the way" it concerns to the German the "positive self perception".
Because positive individuals are immensely importantly for the culture and, above all, for the German economy.
And if not soon each particular together-tears itself to work against by a postive basic tendency of the enterprise drifts also the German advertising economy can pack up soon. From Olli Kahn over Reinhold Beckmann and Guenther Jauch up to the author Walter Kempowski takes part in apparently everything, which decorates itself with a prominent name.
The campaign seems expensive; it concerns however a community project of intelligent heads, which might be thereby "priceless".
It harms that thereby only so little seems come out.

On the Campaignesite are not only beautiful words and sumptuous press materials to download, but also for each debt-conscious German the possibility, itself by means of own photo Upload publicly to outen and itself virtually sign.
The reason for it must supply with to everyone in addition.
That can look then in approximately so:

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through mean contributed genetically caused pessimism to the negative basic tendency and economic drift, too - nevertheless now I am clear:
I AM GERMANY and thus that I am merrier, have the purge of our country at least now a maintenance seed value. Finally I know: Germany is nothing - I am everything and am pleased to be able to overcome by total egoism the misery valley of the Stupidly. Thanks!

The Germans look for thus, in order to avoid the term "national pride" consciously, still for a common "character", can it however obviously not find.
Because as from Nothingless to the egoism the Campaign-Creater does not seem many further to have come .

Even in the favourite photo portal of the Blogosphere FLICKR one makes oneself merry over the campaign. With merry Parodien, those around some more erheitern than the originals. Appropriate Jokes as "You are Gerhard Schroeder" like rather at the core of the thing passing and nevertheless sensational as "You are thiefed" (!) and starting from next summer on many t-Shirts in - Germany, exact!

Agreement!

2005-09-23T06:12:00.000-07:00

Politically, thus federalpolitically, prevails at present already nearly as as agreement. Amusingly, otherwise it employ itself always in such a way and if it concerns existenzielle questions of the keeping in power, then the differences are polemic and taken up "naturally" gladly also times the Greens in the FDP - whereby soooo many more badly the "Jamaica" thing cannot become also...
In Luebeck are itself also suddenly those united, which differentiate otherwise rather distance hold.
The Social Democrats of the city delay the volunteer fire-brigade city center for years.
The volunteering aids need urgently a new guard; the old building on the northern barrier peninsula, directly beside the left cultural center "alternative", is down.
After long search decided the fire-brigade for a property at the channel route - there are however still parking lots. And these parking lots seem to some SPD politicians incomprehensible-prove than the security of the citizens of their city to be more important.
Now announces himself also the chairman of the Luebeck Managemenst, Alexander Maak, to word: The parking lots are also more important to that.
And in addition, so Maak, concerns it a "freiwillige" fire-brigade nevertheless anyway.
And since the occupation fire-brigade nevertheless, so Maak could move forward further, than first at the place were became, the volunteer fire-brigade city center nevertheless directly from outside of the city center. That in Luebeck volunteer and occupation fire-brigade in a federation (city fire-brigade federation Luebeck) are summarized and in addition also in case of application together is alarmed and to disengage, is not the specialist for city marketing thereby not clearly. Power in addition, nothing.
Perhaps believes Maak also at the Santa Claus; he will believe in any case in numbers.
And it determines also to the theory that at a higher number of park surfaces around a "purchase and an experience city" also the number of frequenting consumers will rise.
This hear be created also gladly the investors, and concomitantly equal facts, wish themselves Mr. Maak probably many more multi-storey car parks.
And completely bad tongues whisper now, which one something with the other one add to have. Because new multi-storey car parks are only with difficulty interspersable in Luebeck and the editions of the monument conservators leave in the historical landscape architect only reduced possibilities.
Where thus a "cold" outline is as officially with difficulty interspersable politically at some places, the "warm" outline opens undreamt-of possibilities - and is in addition also still very inexpensive.
Clearly, then it is further-whispered that each fire-brigade is there wrongly at the place.
And therefore it would be evenly also better to wish itself the city center guard equivalent completely far away.
But evenly only completely bad tongues whisper that...

Justice - not Revenge!

2005-09-20T03:58:00.000-07:00

Simon Wiesenthal is dead. In its House in Vienna the Holokaust reconnaissance Simon Wiesenthal at the age of 96 years deceased peacefully.
That communicated yesterday the Simon Wiesenthal center in Los Angeles.
Wiesenthal was the "Conscience of the Holokaust" and survivor of the Shoah.
After 1945 it created and sought out briefly late information center designated after him to the Holokaust numerous war criminals, as for example of the mass murderers Adolf Eichmann. 1947 it created a center with further survivors in Austria for the collection of documents over the fate of Jews and their pursuer. The further development during the time of the cold war reduced however the effectiveness of this dokumentationszentrums. He resigned and transferred his documents provisionally Jad Vashem Jad-Vashem-Institut in Israel. The then following spectacular seizure and condemnation of SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Adolf calibration man (which was realized considerably by those its documentations) used Wiesenthal as an opportunity to establish a new "Center for Documentation of the federation of Jewish pursuing of the Nazi regime" in Vienna.
About 1100 Nazi authors were unmasked according to own estimate by him and brought before their judges, examined 6000 cases altogether on its references.
Among the most important Wiesenthal beside calibration man and the SS leader Rajakowitsch, the representative of calibration man in the Netherlands, the commander of the concentration camp Treblinka, ranked Franz Stangl, which was arrested in March 1967 in Sao Paulo and condemned to life imprisonment.
Its motivation however always was: "right - not revenge".
That reached certainly Wiesenthal. Its inheritance is protected Paris and Jerusalem by the Simon Wiesenthal centers in Los Angeles, Vienna, the search for justice is not limited for a long time any longer to Shoah and Holocaust.
Partner for documentation and search is since already 2003 Efrahim Zuroff.
Burying of Simon Wiesenthal will take place in Vienna.

German Elections: All the same

2005-09-19T11:18:00.000-07:00

Today's Sunday was choice day in Germany.
In Luebeck, due to the local ballot, may make the citizen even with three crosses its political choice official: With the first and secondary voice for the German Bundestag as well as in the choice to the Luebecker mayor. Here the acting (and and blogging) mayor Bernd Saxe and its challenger of the CDU, Michael cook, to the choice stood.
After the first computer forecasts Saxe was confirmed thereby decisively in its office - here therefore "a congratulations" and the express recommendation to make it in the future still better! Election to the Bundestag Luebeck, Erststimme - computer forecast Thomas man school with the CDU meanwhile "cooks" it in the truliest sense of the word: The failed candidate gives himself as good losers, the famous "observers" reports however of clear positions, which formed themselves in the election campaign with the Christian democrats.
Therefore the next months could become interesting, if from positions positions and will unfold the internal struggles for power. Thus it remains hoping that the illness situation of the Luebecker CDU will recover thereby and the Luebecker Christian democrat strengthened will election to the Bundestag and also country wide was the choice stretching. The pleasing at the results of the first Luebecker computer forecasts of the elections to the Bundestag are only the clearly good per cent of the liberals. It becomes however for a seat for the Luebecker FDP candidate Dr. Michaela Blunk is not enough, unfortunate - contrary to CDU candidate Anke Eymer earned itself Mrs. Blunk a mandate fairly!

Just as clearly can be rated the embarrassing, however small and thus lost voices for Reinhard Jahnke of the Nazi-follower "NPD" (National Democratic Party) - an indication that it gives no need of quite-extremistic nazi necks in Luebeck.
Jahnke probably grimmend over the reasons of its failure.
Was there the anti-fascist conspiracy, which out-praised a free beverage on the destruction of an NPD election poster during a Live meeting? A handbill of such contents would send me Nazi Jahnke this evening without being asked. Indeed - such a thing one does not make in a democracy also! Which might be however all the same, because frequently enough ruin the lampoons of the right-wing extremists still for weeks after elections the townscape - a clearing up actions are thereby times praise-worth anti-fascist actions.
Jahnke sees the public prosecutor's office here however clear coming to the course, which does not do these however.
And therefore Reinhard Jahnke insults a Luebecker office judge: Because this Jew is, it would tolerate left provocations approximately right - he, from whom the public ignores predominantly, spread this and provoked other anti-Semitic Tyraden this morning during a demonstration (rather "meetings") its Nazi-Comradship in the Luebecker pedestrian precinct - and promptly collisions of left-wing extreme anti-fascists.
The whole went out, like usually still in Germany, like always and fortunately peacefully. Of, the extremist, State of paid police officer separated the both bearings "hated" and provided for peace. To choice to read off is however clear that the past right voters of past years drifted obviously to the left wing party.
Whether those are proud left-wings from the Luebecker Hundestrasse (the office from the "Linkspartei") on it?
But same associates evenly with same; with which also directly with politically at present the not funny Stream is to be entered: A ghost goes over (east)Germany!

The ghost of communism in form of the new "left wing party"
And as "communism" can be only designated, what with last consequence by the left-wing extremists of the former GDR-Party "SED" successor organization "Party of Democratic Socialism" would be accomplished.
And it cannot be placed often enough clearly the fact that left-wing extremism cannot be equated perhaps with right-wing extremism in addition, in no case is better.
But country widely also a clear east trend shows up off in the results of the "left wing party". And somewhat eternally "stupid German" steps thereby to the appearance: As after 1945 the "Germans entirely" despite war and concentration camp only heavily of the ideology of the national socialism, seems the "German east" separated today to be able itself to separate despite Eastern Bloc isolation, wall and death strip, just as heavily from communism. "the stupid ' Wessis ' reorganized, now can the failure the shop also again be made" - to seem nearly nevertheless a third of the voters in the "new Lands of the Federal Republic" to think.
That will provide in the Bundestag for chaos and wasting of time, can be fought on the other hand against the others however by an effective policy.
Comfort: SPD boss Muentefering closed a co-operation with the left-wing extreme ones decided out - hopefully it remains itself faithfully. And the thing with the word is with German Social Democrats unfortunately so a thing...

Anyhow: Probably no Merkel - which now, chancellors?

A Major as Blogger!

2005-09-02T14:46:00.000-07:00

... shout the legendary reporter Helmut "Helmi" Lux at Luebeck probably now.
And actually - the "current", and in all probability on coming Sunday re-elect mayor Bernd Saxe, carries not only amusing hats (photo), but bloggt apparent also completely gladly!.
Mayor Saxe is a blogger under the network address http://berndsaxe.blogspot.com/
On this site writes the Luebecker Social Democrat his virtual choice diary.
And, although the SPD'ler of the Hanseatic city uses meanwhile also PHP and SQL, he take a Hostingsolution under blogger.com.
Which marks naturally on the other hand the man than Internetfreak; at least its handling.
For nearly fourteen days Mr. Saxe writes down there its experiences and thoughts - so well completely off the public. Both actually indications for a constituted Fake.
On the other hand however the used moderate, shallow clay/tone speaks:

and during in things election campaign began finalkept in track, is again back turned the summer. How beautifully! With the road election campaign humans are many open and friendlier, if the Somnne seems. If the weather remains in such a way, the SPD plans to shift their Wahlfete on Sunday starting from 17.00 h after outside. In the mild evening sun on the Luebecker celebrate market a good election result - that would be nevertheless which! Ueberigens: To the choice party everyone and everyone can come.

Anyhow it gives itself.
And that without reason, because not only in the inquiries he does not lie in front. Because contrary to Bernd Saxe do not offer the two free Candidates, a Green as well as in, straight only from recent union and puberty awake to banker any alternative.
And straight therein are appropriate for Saxes strengths.
While thus country widely the trend stands against SPD, isolate the choice alternatives are not genuine alternatives.
And therefore the man wants to also win in Luebeck...

The Blog Marathon

2005-02-18T13:22:00.000-08:00

Today someone asked me nevertheless via email whether I would not like myself to take part in a Blog Marathon.
I found that only amusing and thought, there someone merry of me would make myself: Finally the fact that someone from its Blog also still another English translation there offers, would seem to me also plentifully amusingly.
During view of the whole thing under the indicated link address it seemed however nevertheless more interesting, than at first assumed.

To participate can do all Blogs, those ready is at least every 30 minutes in each case an entry on-line to place at least over 26,5 hours.
Even a Marathon!
Start is on Friday, 11 March 2005 at 19:30 o'clock of Greenwich (20,30 o'clock of German time).

Perseverance is with us!

Expensive shirts for VFB Luebeck

2005-02-18T13:14:00.000-08:00

View all posts in art and culture in Luebeck Luebeck wants to become culture capital 2010.
And around to also create the responsible persons no means is too embarrassing; it seems to be worthwhile oneself also for all involved ones.
Newest piece of it: The financing of leotards for the VFB Luebeck at a value of euro 75,000, -!
Actually - seventeefivethousands of euros!
As much Luebeck was worth the commitment of the regional league to the Hanseatic city, although it was to have concerned thereby only 20 leotards, the advertising media the proud price of euro 3750, - to have would have.

The parliamentary group of the Greens in the Luebecker "Bürgerschaft" finds that fortunately strange and inquires , since one can not imagine simply and wants that even most expensive silk would estimate a such price.
Willi Meier of the CDU already does not want again reproaches however now stinking to hear - one is on a strand to rather pull and to the psoitivly advertisment for Luebeck think.
The Senatorin of fount answers the green inquiry with the relieved message that no urban means would have flowed into this budget.
Which it is to probably be called that donation funds must to finally be jubilant and not notice the citizens anyway that tax fundses flowed already already for a long time before into the culture budget, finances for the culture capital application places.
The topic then in the today's meeting of the training and sport committee rather in nonpublic part further-discussed - that´s clear, folks.

Olive Fraederich of the Luebecker CDU seems meanwhile the responsible person for this Sponsoring to have constituted : Peter Reinhardt of the SPD considerably with the application of Luebeck actively and at the same time (naturally) member of the VFB Economic committee.

Astonished however also the ladies of the hand ball on riser are TSV Travemuende. Those are already ofizielle sport Ambassadors of the Hanseatic city for culture capital application 2010.
And completely besides and in contrast to the VFB L also successfully practice-hit a corner.
The hand clenching gutters are not also paid against the soccer players, but recruit apart from their sport completely honorary for Luebeck.
A Sponsoring was never topic for discussion.
The more surprises it that the TSV Travemuende on the Website for culture capital application is not mentioned at all - in a contrast to the VFB Luebeck.

What now, Mr. Prosecutor???

2005-02-18T12:47:00.000-08:00

Now a small supplement to the public privatangelegenheit on 11 this monthly already in same place: It becomes interesting, because now nevertheless still movement apparent comes into whole history.

If it looked for the citizenry still at the end of of February completely in such a way, as if selling of the public footpath in Luebeck Travemuende under Luebecker Circumstances, thus completely usually, one would have completed, the selected rule must now change again.
Apparent only by the public criticism, hold it the citizenry members of the SPD moved and FDP only now for meaningful to place against the responsible persons questions.
The insight comes late, but better than never.
Only after also SPD and FDP unanimously for the disputed sales were correct, closed the SPD delegate Pluschkell one evertheless not completely out.

But the FDP suddenly places Questions. Exactly nine .
And demands at one time investigation, one would be now strange Questions covered.

It is whispered that the sales of this property is already enough to the businessman Dreyer FORWARDS this citizenry resolution one completed.
Completely in styles of old Hanseaten are in November yearly passed some CDU Buergerschaftsmitglieder, among other things the Mr. Puschaddel, Sauter, Halbedel as well as building senator soil, on board a launch of its party friend and prospective buyer Dreyer the Deal perfectly: One decided, urban property at a superelevated price Dreyer too since this sees itself by the transit traffic of the pedestrians.
With which it would be proven that the CDU Politics without local-politically legal bases realized and any resolutions to be therefore annuliert would have.

The FDP (liberal) hopes now to come by their question catalog now into the role of the reconnaissance aircraft.
Some Opportun calls that.
Because they apparent see themselves now in the obligation and as a Sign for cleverness, due to public criticism previous decisions too reviseted, so anyhow Nils Kassube from the Luebecker liberals in a reader letter.
Strangely, if one remembers at the beginning of mentioned press release of Thomas Schalies.

Today it became now also admits that even the mayor Bernd Saxe with halfnoble and soil requested a report to thing.
Saxe, which sees itself as Talkmaster to the local government policy, also only by the public critic see forced to act now.

The Mr. Dreyer is by the way a boss of the container and port terminal enterprise Combispeed and has only before a short new, loud terminal directly at the gentleman bridge opened very much for the displeasure of the adjacents resident.
That Dreyer, which makes thus gladly elsewhere noise shows up with its own silentness more tolerantly, may be doubted now.

Rather it looks however like the fact that the local politicians are overtaxed with itself the call after the public prosecutor become loud.
Because in theory, thus after the law, a public-prosecutor would have to determine immediately, as soon as he experiences from the possibility of a criminal offence also in Luebeck?
That seems the Time...

Neo-Nazis marching - and nobody see it...

2005-02-14T10:15:00.000-08:00

Today, sixty years after of cruel like logical destruction of Dresden on WWII, goes around again the ghost of the right-wing extremism in Germany.
Although the historical conditions are completely different, the fear of second seems "Weimar" "again once acute".
But which do - the "rebellion of the decent ones", desired of the policy, does not seem to be any more than sound and smoke.
Thus a new attempt to forbid the NPD?
An aggravation of the meeting right, in order to get neo-Nazis from the roads to?
Or simply right propaganda ignore.
A prohibition only for new flags, colors and symbols to provide, a still so sharp be meeting left gone around.
Ignoranz and neglect would however be something, with which the "Hitlers and Himmlers in the spirit" would become probably most badly finished.
Thus happen on the weekend in Luebeck.
The city-well-known Neo-Nazi Joern Lemke, for years in changing functions of various naofascist parties and groupings actively and naturally also relevantly previously convicted, organized for the NPD under the slogan "against multiculture and Hartz 4 - vote on 20-February for NPD" a marching-up by the historical City of Luebeck.
Finally is Saturday in the morning the "people" on the way, and with which the primitive nationalists would like to score, inform and possibly also new party comrades to recruit.
The anti-fascists of the "Luebecker alliance approximately right" slept probably still deeply and firmly, as approximately 20 old and young Nazis from various vehicles on a parking lot at the falcon road, directly at the edge of old part of town gotten out of, around itself "form".
The little Group of German embarrassingness was accompanied on their way to the pedestrian precinct by a strong police presence, when it began to rain quietly.
In the pedestrian precinct then NPD posters were high-held, slogans murmured and with the police supervise puddles evaded.
Joern Lemke, which might have been proud probably only for a very short instant times again something "on the legs" to have placed planned still another "short demonstration" and a small speech - the bring along handbills did not even want to have the drunken ones under the city hall arcades.
Which the Lemke wanted to say there now the people in the pedestrian precinct, cannot be delivered, because the rain suddenly did not use more strongly and, in order still annoyance with the wet "comrades" too gotten, the whole thing thereby was broken off.
Nobody took note of the rights.
The fact that it is also well so because thus is proven that Ignoranz leads in relation to neofaschistischer agitation to the grind of the responsible persons.
And the "Antifa" of Luebeck?
Fully straight was with the points of the CDU (Christ-Democratic Party) on the way to find a "relocation site" for the "alternative" on the barrier peninsula with itself busy and to this time.

Food goes now times before the moral...

Somewhere in Travemuende

2005-02-11T05:13:00.000-08:00

The Baltic Sea

A public Privacy

2005-02-11T04:37:00.000-08:00

As from democracy again genuine Feudalism becomes in Travemuende is one (more exactly: the citizen to speak thus also the female) generally well on selected decision makers. Who became to strike however so far not of the predominant unwill for politics, it became at the latest now.
Thereby goes it only around approximately 30 meters.
So long a footpath, which connects the Travemuender "Kaiserallee" with the Beach-Promenade, is.
An inconspicuous way, since decades however an important connection for the hotel and holidays guests of the health resort.
Mean at least the adjacents resident.
That is, nearly all adjacents resident.
One those, i.e. the entrepreneur Klaus Dreyer from Luebeck, feels disturbed by the recovery-looking for.
The property of its mansion borders directly at this way, and also the limiting high hedges do not seem to ensure the peace of the businessman.
That would normally be pitch to hardly change but. Differently however in Luebeck, where relations was always already famous "A" and "O".
The Luebecker citizenry treated therefore in its last meeting the quiescent need of the Mr. Dreyer: At the edge the representatives of the people of the selected parties CDU, SPD, FDP and the Greens should co-ordinate ways on the "Entwidmung" this.
The gentlemen and ladies with exception of the green parliamentary group agreed - and provided only now thereby for unrest.
By this following "conversion" now this public footpath, which could not so naturally be sold simply by the city, becomes completely simple a "closed" urban reason. And the Mr. Dreyer may buy these then completely simply from the Hanseatic city Luebeck and cause to its recovery-donating garden. Sent contrived. And for the money the mayor buys then no new service car, but in new, public toilets and showers are invested with the Luebecker yacht club. It is to be returned to the kurgast thus also somewhat: For now soon several one hundred meters the detour may the people now shower free of charge.
The Lord (Dreyer) hat's taken, the Lord (Dreyer) will given. And nevertheless the Travemuender cannot be pleased about it at all; why only? Perhaps because everyone it became clear at the latest now that did not guarantee democratically rights and a free participation nevertheless to everything openly stands, but evenly only that, which has capital and (above all) influence. Because different had already tried for years already to be able to buy this way of the city - in vain. And to the investment of new toilets obviously only the few citizens believe.
But the Travemuender local advice was only correct, what equals for the Luebecker citizenry of a recommendation. Without entering now more in greater detail with possible relations between Klaus Dreyer and the Luebecker CDU, becomes thereby some clearly: The local government policy of Luebeck is interested not in the interests of the citizens, but only in what would like the economy; if this "invests" then, please-beautifully, also accordingly.
Then the mechanisms of the power function and by skillful out-play democratic tools become suddenly things truely, which wants to believe again times none afterwards.