FRM Magazine Spring 2011

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The magazine on the
FrankfurtRhineMain metropolitan region
Networks FRM, the digital hub
Discoveries The world of the Celts
English Theatre
Excellence Thomas Reiter, the new director of ESA
FRM Series Main-Taunus-Kreis
Excursions Garden RhineMain
Rainer W. Schlegelmilch
Event The Excellence The Formula 1 photographer
Plus FRM Pocket Guide Regional Park, festivals, events and more
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Welcome to
the Digital Hub
www.frankfurt-rhein-main.net
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Editorial
Dear Readers
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As far as competition between metropolitan regions is concerned,
FrankfurtRhineMain has an excellent chance of becoming one of the
major hubs of globalization. And not just with regard to mobility, logistics and
finance, but as a meeting place for IT technology, as a knowledge center in the
worldwide networks of the digital era. As a result of the highly efficient and competitive IT infrastructure, data flows together in our region; the Internet exchange
De-Cix in the east of Frankfurt is the world’s number one. Three of the five
biggest German software companies operate in FrankfurtRhineMain. The region
boasts the highest concentration of companies in software development, IT consulting, system integration and IT services. All these are achievements which we
have worked hard to realize, and of which we can be proud. In order to remain on
the cusp of developments, the “Digital Hub FrankfurtRhineMain” start-up initiative recently began its work. The experts responsible for it aim to optimize the
networking of the players along the digital value added chain in FrankfurtRhineMain, making it fit for the future. The opening of the House of IT in Darmstadt is
another piece of good news. This is a science center that sees itself as Europe’s
meeting place for the interdisciplinary design of innovative information and communications technologies. The information and communications sector in the region will receive a wide range of new impulses from this “Silicon Valley”. FrankfurtRhineMain is a hub in both the analog world and the digital.
At 8.45 p.m. on July 17, however, the world will turn its eyes to Frankfurt for a dif-
ferent reason. This is the exact moment when the FIFA Women’s World Cup Final
kicks off at the city’s arena. FrankfurtRhineMain is delighted to be hosting this
major sporting event. Over the past few years, Steffi Jones, President of the Organizing Committee and herself a Frankfurt native, has done everything to ensure
that the World Cup comes to a crowning and, in sporting terms, successful conThe magazine on the
FrankfurtRhineMain metropolitan region
Networks
FRM, the digital hub
Discoveries The world of the Celts
English Theatre
excelleNce
FrM series Main-Taunus-Kreis
excursioNs Garden RhineMain
Thomas Reiter, the new director of ESA
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excelleNce The Formula 1 photographer
clusion in Frankfurt. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for the German team and
wish everyone in the region an unforgettable summer of soccer.
Plus FrM Pocket GuiDe Regional Park, festivals, events and more
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I look forward to reading this latest issue of FRM with you.
Sincerely,
Welcome to
the Digital Hub
The title reveals a humanlike figure standing in the
Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt
(Cased). Here, research is
conducted into IT security –
for example into how a
person’s health-related data
can be protected
Petra Roth
Mayor of Frankfurt am Main
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Networks >
The Digital Hub
iscoveries >
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The world of the Celts
How FRM connects the digital world
Where the time 2500 years ago comes to life
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FRM Series >
Main-Taunus-Kreis
Excellence >
Thomas Reiter
What makes the Main-Taunus-Kreis so attractive
What “our astronaut” is planning in Darmstadt
Martin Hunter
Bundesbank
Bundesbank
President
Douglas
Gordon
Jens Weidmann has taken over the helm at the
Bundesbank, the German Central Bank. He moved
to Frankfurt from the Chancellery in Berlin. The
defender of a stable currency is familiar with the
region from his time as Secretary-General of the
group of “five economic experts” in Wiesbaden.
Video artist
Douglas Gordon runs the film class at the Städel
Academy. The video artist from Glasgow has had
offers from international art academies for years.
The new rector, Nikolaus Hirsch, however, succeeded
in getting him to come to Frankfurt.
Mickey
Rourke
Ahmad-Reza
Sadeghi
Fraunhofer
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New in FRM
Jens
Weidmann
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Hollywood Star
Mickey Rourke has apparently bought a second
home in Wiesbaden. According to the news
paper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
the “enfant terrible” of American movies is
moving to FrankfurtRhineMain because his
girlfriend’s parents live in the region.
IT expert
Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi will be devoting
himself to the new subject “System Security”
at Darmstadt Technical University. The worldrenowned researcher comes from Ruhr Uni
versity in Bochum. The Hessen promotional
program Loewe made the appointment possible.
Advertisement
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06People >
Für nachhaltige
Lebensqualität haben
wir den stärksten
Partner: die Natur.
Nadia Qani
Andrea Petkovic
10Networks > The Digital Hub
20Discoveries >
The world of the Celts
26FRM Series >
LIMBURG
Glauburg
Main-Taunus-Kreis
34 FRM news
35 FRM Pocket Guide
36 Excellence > Thomas Reiter
40Events >
Broadway on Taunusanlage
46Excursions > Garden RhineMain
52Excellence >
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Die Natur gibt uns alles, was wir brauchen. Wenn wir nicht zu viel
BAD HOMBURG
von ihr verlangen. Deshalb ist es Zeit, zu handeln. Die HSE hat
OberUrsel
Kelkheim
Wiesbaden
MAINZ
sich
Eschborn
HOFHEIM
FRANKFURT
OFFENBACH
RÜSSELSHEIM
klassischen
DARMSTADT
für
Versorger
verantwortungsvollen
zum
Vorsorger
für
Wandel
entschieden:
vom
mehr
Lebensqualität.
Mit
einem ganzheitlichen Blick auf Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Umwelt.
ASCHAFFENBURG
GROSS-GERAU
frühzeitig
Oder einfach gesagt: HSE. Das Ganze sehen. Mehr unter www.hse.ag
HEAG Südhessische Energie AG (HSE)
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People in FRM
NaDIA QANI
A strong woman who spent her youth in Afghanistan,
escaped to Germany, and rose to entrepreneur in Frankfurt
It’s like with a kaleidoscope. When Nadia Qani talks about her life, new facets of it become visible
like the colorful stones inside the children’s toy, forming a fascinating overall picture. Individual
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colors shine particularly brightly. Her childhood and youth in Afghanistan. In 1980, her escape to
Germany from the Russians. Her life with two children in Frankfurt. And finally building up a
successful company. Her experiences make for nuances in the color spectrum. In Afghanistan she
was married to the grandson of the former viceroy. She arrived in Germany with just a handbag and
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a thin dress. She kept her head above water as a housekeeper, cashier, decorator and nurse for the
elderly – always carrying a rucksack with clothes with her in order to be dressed appropriately.
Nadia Qani is sitting in the office of her nursing service in the Frankfurt district of Bornheim as she
talks about the pictures and certificates on the walls, her commitment to Afghan women and her
company – 54 employees from 23 countries who care for the elderly and speak their patients’ mother tongues. She talks about how proud she is at having given some 700 people a job, and as such a
livelihood, since becoming self-employed. A successful career “made in Germany”. “I have become
a happy person here.” Nadia Qani leaps up. She has to get to her next appointment where she’ll be
reading from her book which appeared last fall, “Ich bin eine Deutsche aus Afghanistan” (I am a
German from Afghanistan). It’s a long story . . .
www.ahp-qani.de
I STARTED OUT
DOING MENIAL
JOBS AND
HAVE SINCE CREATED JOBS FOR
OVER 700 PEOPLE
The recipient of
numerous awards:
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Jonas Ratermann (2)
Nadja Qani at a reception with former
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Powerful and
quick-witted:
Andrea Petkovic calls
her Facebook friends
„Petkorazzis“
The mind
needs to be
trained just
like everything else
Andrea Petkovic
A true personality at home in South Hesse,
successful in the tennis world as well as in her studies
She is not a tennis princess. “I’m just not the girly type!”, says Andrea Petkovic. Rather the tomboy.
Honest and direct. Loved by her fans and fellow professionals. At the same time she’s an entertainer
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who has enchanted the public from Miami to Melbourne, most recently with the “Petko” shuffle she
performs upon winning. She still keeps her home in Griesheim, near Darmstadt. Andrea was born
in the former Yugoslavia in 1987, coming to Germany when she was just six months old. At school
she skipped a grade and graduated with top grades. Her father Zoran wanted her to study law, but
Andrea had other plan. She made a bet with her father that if she didn’t make it to the international
top 50 within two years, she’d give up professional tennis. Andrea won that bet. Today she’s 15th in
world rankings and is considered the great tennis hope for Germany. She masterfully led German’s
women’s tennis team to a 5:0 victory over the USA. In large tournaments, she’s beaten world-class
Markus Hintzen (3)
players like Marija Scharapowa and Caroline Wozniacki. “The mind needs to be trained just like
everything else”, she says of her mental strength. Alongside professional sport, Andrea Petkovic is
also pushing ahead towards a degree in Politics from the Open University at Hagen. She’s not reliant
on tennis. It’s the sport that needs people like her.
www.andreapetkovic.de
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Networks
A JOURNEY TO THE INNER
CORE OF NETW ORKS
The Digital Hub
FrankfurtRhineMain
2011: An odyssey into the foreign cosmos
of digital infrastructure, to computer centers,
control rooms and security checks
By Martin Orth and Michael Hudler (photos)
So this is how the journey into the world of networks begins. “Close the security
gate!” In a quiet voice, the security guard relays instructions to the control room.
The cylinder closes behind us. Inside the building it’s claustrophobic. The corridors are clinically white. A strong steel door seals off an air-conditioned room in
which the high-performance computers, lined up like in a warehouse for US-size
refrigerators, are busy flashing away. “De-Cix” is written on the computer cabinets and Frank Orlowski, who is guiding us on our way into this IT underworld,
announces succinctly, “This is the world’s largest Internet hub.” We look on reverently, pondering how superfluous and disruptive mankind is in a world in which
computers converse with other computers. In this cosmos, things are enough for
each other. The whirring of the air conditioning and computer fans make up for
the lack of visual activity. Then, from an almost galactic distance, we perceive our
travel guide’s voice again, “Whether you’re Googling in Dubai or contacting
friends in Iowa on Facebook – just assume that the data passes through Frankfurt,
measured, incidentally, in terabytes and petabytes per second. A petabyte is a
number with 15 zeros,” he informs us as we make our way back to real life. We
note down a number with 15 zeros, so 1000,000,000,000,000 bytes.
Digital Hub
With its super-efficient fiber optic
network and high concentration of
computer centers, FrankfurtRhineMain has the biggest confluence
of data worldwide. The House of IT
was established in Darmstadt (l.)
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Networks
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Frank Orlowski
Peter Knapp
In the next few years the
manager of De-Cix, the
world’s largest Internet exchange, anticipates a
rapid increase in traffic data
The managing director of Interxion,
a leading computer center operator, is focused on expanding.
A seventh computer center in
Frankfurt is being planned
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Networks
Helmut Kahl
Frank Orlowski, responsible for business development and marketing at Deutsche Commercial In-
The Service Manager of Deutsche
Telekom’s International Net
Management Center sees the beginning of the success story in
terms of a long-distance cable
that inters ected in Frankfurt
ternet Exchange (De-Cix), is sitting in the meeting room located in the docks east of the city, and as
a matter of routine lets the figures speak for themselves. The company looks after over 400 Internet
service providers from more than 40 countries. In 2010, 63 new Internet service providers signed up
with De-Cix. The data traffic from existing clients is growing exceedingly fast at 100 to 200 percent
per year. On top of that there are new clients. “By the end of 2015 I’m expecting 20 times the volume
of data – primarily as a result of the increasing broadcast of high-resolution TV content.” The facts
flow from the Internet manager with professional emphasis. “The De-Cix hub”, he says reassuringly,
“is already designed to handle data throughput of up to 40 terabytes per second.”
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telling him to hurry. The company operates independent computer centers and is one of the German
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Telekom (INMC)
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so to speak” for their computers. In it, the temperature might also be an issue, but the main con-
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protection against down times, a state of affairs which immediately gives the shivers to anyone
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B + S Card
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battery-operated networks and generator stations ensure maximum failure safety. All data can be
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Peter Knapp does not have much time today. The Managing Director of Interxion’s BlackBerry is
market’s leading provider. He says that he provides his clients with “a large air-conditioned room,
cern is optimum security, high connection security, and primarily reliable electricity supplies as a
who has ever had anything to do with it. Independent electricity sources together with back-up
mirrored in other Interxion computer centers. Every month, for example, Interxion client De-Cix,
switches to a different site for security reasons.
Peter Knapp is a business man, but a “driver” as well. “With a fiber optic cable network hundreds of
kilometers long, the highest concentration of computer centers, and the largest Internet exchange,
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the digital world revolves around FrankfurtRhineMain,” he says. This is why more and more companies are settling in the region. B+S Card in the Bürostadt Niederrad district processes 60 percent of
non-cash transactions in Germany; its computers are located at Equinix in Kruppstrasse. Atos Origin, the IT partner of the Olympic Games, is looking for a computer center in the region. Major clients
such as Commerzbank, Neckermann and Thomas Cook welcome the local operator. The creative sector has also discovered the advantages. The success that Crytek, the showpiece games developer, has
enjoyed would have been unimaginable without the company’s proximity to De-Cix.
“Strengthening strengths”. This could well be the motto of the recently founded association
“Digital Hub FrankfurtRhineMain”. It goes without saying that Peter Knapp is involved. Together
with Frank Orlowski from De-Cix and business promoter Peter Kania he forms the trio running
it. The association intends to give the sector a name. Ancotel, Goethe University, Netzdienste
Rhein-Main (a subsidiary of the utility company Mainova), Infraserv, the Institute for New Media
and the Frankfurt Biotechnology Innovation Center all belong to it. As its trump card in terms of
international competition, the region can also bring to bear legal security and energy supply, of
existential importance for the sector. City councilor Markus Frank, in whose ambit the digital
economy falls, sees the opportunities for the region and the future of the “Digital Hub” as rosy.
At no. 18 Schmickstrasse, we meet someone who knows just what holds things in the inner core of the
digital world together. Michael Klein, director of the Institute for New Media, has been living in this
universe ever since the Internet’s “Big Bang”. “Put very simply you have to imagine the world like this:
Planet Earth is surrounded by a gigantic network of cables and satellites, which are connected to each
other by hubs. The hubs are computer centers housing the computers of big international telephone
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Networks
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Volker Lindenstruth
Lubna Kabir
The professor of architecture
for high-performance computers
has now built a supercomputer,
which is quicker, cheaper and uses
less energy than most others
The marketing expert at B+S
Card, one of the leading IT service
providers for non-cash trans
actions is banking on expansion
in Europe – from Frankfurt
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Networks
Peter Buxmann
companies, search engines and social networks, where they can exchange data securely and in a neu-
The professor of business
information (l.) is building
up the House of IT. The Center
for Advanced Security Research (Cased) is part of it
tral place, as the global Internet consists of 45,000 sub-networks”, he explains.
The next stop on our journey lies at the foot of the telecommunications tower in Frankfurt. Here,
Deutsche Telekom controls its international voice, Internet and data traffic in the International Net
Management Center (INMC). A gigantic 70-square meter screen in the control room displays the
operational status of the worldwide net. If an error is indicated, the system automatically searches
for substitute routes in other nets and in milliseconds switches to other transmission lines. HowFrankfurtRhineMain
Digital Hub
ever, the quickest route is not always the best. In that case, things are done manually. 25 employees
The “Digital Hub Frankfurt
RhineMain”, an association
of partners from business,
science and the City of Frank
furt, intends to reveal and
advance the unique qualities
of the region’s digital infra
structure.
occurred in Japan, the warning lights began flashing in the Frankfurt district of Ginnheim. Data
www.digitalhub-frm.de
manage the net around the clock, calmly and as a matter of routine. When the recent earthquake
could no longer be transferred to the Japanese net. As Helmut Kahl, the INMC Service Manager
explains, “there was a lot of news traffic there, and faults in the net, which meant that at times it
was too overloaded to accommodate additional foreign traffic.”
Together with Clemens Jochum, Wolfgang König, head of the House of Finance at the Campus West-
end in Frankfurt, runs the “Frankfurt Cloud” research consortium. With the support of Deutsche
Bank, 15 top researchers from various disciplines are looking for future solutions in “cloud com-
Frankfurt Cloud
With the support of Deutsche
Bank, the “Frankfurt Cloud”
research consortium, affiliated
with Goethe University in
Frankfurt, is attempting to
develop cloud management
technology aimed at better
utilizing computer capacities.
www.frankfurt-cloud.com
puting”. König is sitting in his office on the 4th floor of the House of Finance. He leans back and gets
right to the point of the ambitious project which is basically about using computer capacities more
effectively. “Networking computers with one another, identifying those that are not working to
capacity, sending them computing jobs and having the results sent back. That is what ought to happen.” The team has already landed a coup.
Volker Lindenstruth opens the old measuring station on the Infraserv site in the Höchst district of
Frankfurt. On the first floor the former Hoechst AG control room, with its dials and meters, has been
preserved for posterity. On the converted ground floor, the future hums. This is where the Loewe CSC
works. “Part of the Loewe CSC computer hub runs under Frankfurt Cloud management” he says en-
House of IT
thusiastically. He is so stirring when he talks about dynamic computer center concepts that laymen
are left breathless. The supercomputer he’s developed is one of the 25 fastest in the world and, at five
Like the House of Finance
and the House of Logistics
and Mobility, the House of IT
in Darmstadt, a project initiated by business, science and
the Hessen state government,
intends to bundle the sector’s
strengths in the region.
million euros, is two thirds cheaper than comparable computers. On top of that, Loewe CSC can pride
www.house-of-it.eu
the biggest cost factor in operating a mainframe computer.
itself on being Europe’s best mainframe computer in terms of energy efficiency. Lindenstruth achieved
this with several tricks that are as simple as they are ingenious. As processors, he primarily used
standard PC graphics boards which he says “achieve up to 50 times the computing power of the main
computing unit in a PC”. To this end he devised an innovative, intelligent cooling system that uses just
a fraction of the energy usually required. An enormous advantage for “Frankfurt Cloud”, as energy is
The Digital Hub also promotes Karl-Heinz Streibich’s vision of establishing a new “Silicon Valley”
in FrankfurtRhineMain. In March, the head of Software AG announced the founding of the House
of IT in Darmstadt, with which the office of the Federal Government’s Cluster of Excellence “Software Innovations for the Digital Company” and the Center for Advanced Security Research (Cased)
are affiliated. Peter Buxmann is a business information specialist at Darmstadt Technical University and the project leader for the start-up initiative. He looks forebodingly out of the large windows and across the university’s new IT campus. “The future Internet is going to be our subject
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Discoveries
Far-reaching views
The “Keltenwelt am Glauberg”
showcases spectacular archaeo
logical finds and provides insights
into life 2,500 years ago. Further
more, the new museum offers
a wonderful view over the distant
countryside in the Wetterau region
The world
of the Celts
A journey through time
in the Wetterau region
Who was the ferocious Celtic prince?
How did he acquire his wealth? How did people
live 2,500 years ago? The “Keltenwelt am
Glauberg”, the newest museum in Frankfurt
RhineMain, answers these questions and
more. It takes us on an exciting journey into
the early history of the region
By Janet Schayan and Markus Hintzen (photos)
The Middle Ages
The Migration
Period
The Roman
Empire
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The Franks
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The way to the past leads upwards. With gentle twists and turns, past meadows, fields
and flowering rapeseed. Two buzzards circle above in the blue sky. A perfect day in
the Wetterau region. The Glauberg is 270 meters high, which is not exactly spectacular, but this
striking ridge has something unique. In the mid-1990s, at the bottom of a steep, narrow gravel path
that leads to the plateau, archaeologists made a find that attracted the world’s attention to the
region: They unearthed an almost completely preserved 1.86-meter high sandstone statue from
around 450 BC. The image of a ferocious looking “Celtic prince”. The corners of his mouth, drawn
downward as they are, give us an idea of why the Romans feared the Celts’ “furor”, their lust for
The New Stone
Age
fighting. The statue had been lying in the ground for 2,500 years. It was a sensational find. No one
had any inkling that a Celtic princely seat ever existed as far north as Germany. Traces of the Celts
were discovered as far back as 800 BC through to the beginning of the Common Era. They were
based in Upper Austria and Switzerland, from where they spread across what is now France
(“Gallier”), as far away as Great Britain and the Iberian Peninsula, as well as to Eastern Europe and
Asia Minor. They had a common language and culture, but “the” Celts were as little united as “the”
Scholars had long assumed that the Glauberg could be an archaeological treasure chest. The
The Middle
Stone Age
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Germanic peoples.
nearly level 800-meter long and up to 200-meter wide plateau was a sort of natural fortress,
inhabited repeatedly from the New Stone Age to the Middle Ages. Time and again, excavations
had unearthed the remains of ceramic vessels (to date more than three tons), but nothing
sensational. It was an exploratory flight by local historian Werner Erk that provided the impetus
to investigate not the plateau, but the ground to the south of it. In 1988 Erk detected large circular
areas of discoloration in a field. The last visible traces of a burial mound 48 meters in diameter.
The Paleolithic
Age
There, and in a smaller neighboring grave, the team headed by the former Hessen state archaeologist Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann uncovered the sumptuously filled graves of three Celtic warriors. The burial objects are extraordinarily grand and are proof of the fact that even though, like
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all Celts, they had no written culture, the ancient inhabitants of the Wetterau region certainly
Source: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege,
Hessen
appreciated beautiful things. A bronze beaked flagon boasts delicate figures and is still filled
with the remains of mead. There are delicately worked bronze brooches, rings, bracelets, a gold
neck ring with human heads, remains of shoe buttons and textiles indicating close contacts
with southern Europe. The archaeologists also discovered traces of a 350-meter long processional way and an entire set of mysterious graves nearly three-meters deep which run throughout the site. A short distance away they came across the statue of the “Celt prince” – as well as
Modern treasure chamber
The striking museum building
pushes its way into the past
from Glauberg. In the archaeo
logical park, the burial mound,
mysterious graves and piling
were all reconstructed
fragments of three similar figures. The most unusual thing was that down to the very last detail,
the neck ring, bracelet, shield, and dagger of the preserved statue, all are identical to those of an
approximately 50-year old male in one of the other graves. Remains of the mysterious bulging
entity that frames the statue’s head were even found – a cap-like “crown of leaves”. Is the sculpture of the dead man? Who was the ferocious Prince of the Wetterau? Was Glauberg a seat of
power or a shrine? What was everyday life like for the Celts there? Where did they come from
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and why did they disappear after 200 years? “Keltenwelt am Glauberg” opened in May as a
museum, 30-hectare archaeological park, and research center all in one, providing answers
to these questions and more.
The museum building sports a rust-brown Corten steel facade – “a reference to the Celts’
metalworking skills,” says its architect Gerhard Wittfeld from Aachen. The edifice literally
pushes its way out of Glauberg like a telescope into the past. It points its focus, a giant panoramic window, southward to the reconstructed burial mound. The architecture plays with our
notions of inside and outside. On the inside everything leads to the statue of the “Celtic prince”.
Unlike the other treasures, it’s not behind glass and can be openly observed from all sides. The
whole room is bathed in darkness, and the exhibits are presented with a feeling for dramatics
and visitors are taken on an archaeological expedition. The walls are based on layers of earth.
There are vivid illustrations of the meticulous efforts put in to uncover the burial chambers,
compressed to just a few centimeters under the pressure of the earth, by archaeologists from the
Hessen State Archaeology Office’s restoration workshop in Wiesbaden. There are views of holograms of reconstructed finds, audio niches and film animations of what the Celtic settlement at
Glauberg, where 400 people lived more as farmers than warriors, could have looked like. The
museum is a state-of-the-art adventure trail leading to an unimaginably distant era. The history of the excavations on Glauberg under the Nazis is not neglected either, and is subjected to
critical appraisal.
The fact that on this journey through time to the 5th century BC the valuable finds from Glauberg
can be viewed at their source, and not in the state museum in Darmstadt, or in Frankfurt or Bad
Nauheim, is of great help. All these ideas formed part of the at times lively discussion, and the fact
that the Wetterau region would one day have a state museum of its own was by no means a matter
of course. This is thanks to the “HessenArchäologie 21” concept devised by the state archaeologist
De-central state
archaeological
museum
01 K
eltenwelten am
Glauberg
The museum, archaeological park and research
center at Glauberg offer a
wide range of interactive
guided tours and workshops for all age groups.
Opening hours:
daily, 10.00 a.m.
until 6.00 p.m.
www.keltenweltglauberg.de
02 S
aalburg Roman Fort
The only Roman fort world
wide to have been restored
and the archaeological
museum are located at the
Limes World Cultural Herit
age Site, the ancient border
separating the Romans
from the Germanic peoples.
Opening hours:
March – October: daily,
9.00 a.m. until 6.00 p.m.
November – February:
daily except Monday,
9.00 a.m. until 4.00 p.m.
www.saalburgmuseum.de
Egon Schallmayer. He places importance on a “de-central state museum” and individual historical
epochs should be presented in various places. Together with the Saalburg Roman fortress in the
Taunus hills, the “Keltenwelt” is now the second important element whose significance extends far
beyond the region itself. As the crow flies, the two archaeological highlights in FrankfurtRhineMain are only 40 kilometers away from each other. High academic standards and a popular, informative experience, this is a formula that applies to Saalburg and Glauberg in equal measure. In
“Keltenwelt” the affiliated research center headed by Ines Balzer will ensure that new findings will
feature in the exhibition as quickly as possible. As has been the case to date, the universities of
Mainz and Frankfurt, as well as numerous volunteers from the region will be involved in the
research work. In addition, Balzer is establishing a network of international experts. Excavation
is due to begin again soon on Glauberg. There are still so many unanswered questions – Balzer
would like to find out why the rather inconspicuous settlement became such a monumental cult
site. Or where the wealth in the graves came from – from iron, from salt? What purpose did the
strange graves serve? There are bound to be several more surprises slumbering underground on
Glauberg. The way to the past often also leads downwards.
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Mysterious traces
By means of numerous interactive
modules, the museum brings the
era of the Celts from Glauberg to
life. Original finds such as swords,
jewelry and the fascinating sand
stone statue of the “Celtic prince”
are also on display
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FRM Series
frm Series
MainTaunusKreis
Bad Soden
Eppstein
Holger und Ralf HENRICH
“OBSTHOF” MANAGERS // KRIFTEL
Schwalbach
Eschborn
Kelkheim
Sulzbach
Liederbach
5 0 °4 '4 3 . 2 8 " N
8 ° 2 7 '4 0 . 1 8 " E
Hofheim
Krif tel
Hattersheim
Flörsheim
OPPOSITES
ATTRACT
Hochheim
A DISTRICT AND THE STORY BEHIND IT
In terms of opposites, the Main-Taunus-Kreis district has a lot
to offer: High-tech and craftsmanship, countryside and culture,
economic clout and agriculture, local specialties and global players.
A small district, with a lot going for it
BY ULRICH MÜLLER-BAUN and JONAS RATERMANN (PHOTOS)
>
Looking back. The area that now comprises the
227,055 inhabitants from 160 countries live between towering
Main-Taunus-Kreis district can look back on a dis-
glass façades and fortified castle walls, high climbing rocks and
tinctly tumultuous territorial history. For centuries it came un-
vineyards facing the sun, between strawberry fields and dark
der the influence of various secular and religious rulers. The forests, between the River Main and the wind-beaten ridges of
archbishops and electors of Mainz had their hands in the pot just
the Taunus hills.
as much as the masters in Eppstein. Furthermore, the Landgrave
of Hessen and the House of Isenburg were heavily in on the act. As such, Germany’s third most economically powerful district is
The imperial city of Frankfurt and the Archbishopric of Mainz,
carefully defined at the heart of FrankfurtRhineMain. With agri-
on the other hand, exerted a joint protectorate over the imperial
cultural land and forests making up 60 percent of its surface area,
villages of Soden and Sulzbach. It was Napoleon who, in tune
it offers idyllic nature. 17,300 registered companies provide its
with the times, finally put an end to the system of city states in
economic pulse. And as if it were par for the course, the geo-
the Rhine-Main Region, and by 1806 the area became a single en-
graphic proximity to the major German transport hubs (Frank-
tity, the Duchy of Nassau, for the first time. More than 100 years
furt Airport, the Frankfurter Kreuz interstate interchange and
later, on April 1, 1928, under the insignificant number 13321, the
Frankfurt Central Station) mean the entire world is within easy
Prussian State Law defined the 222.4 square kilometers that had reach, bringing the region its cosmopolitan flair. Groups with
been determined on the drawing board as its territory. Today,
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global operations particularly appreciate the central location.
HOFHEIM am taunus
District town
38,265 inhabitants
If young people need role
models, the next generation
in this district town has an
invaluable advantage. The biochemist Hartmut Michel,
who in 1988 was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for
the determination of the threedimensional structure of a
photosynthetic reaction center,
lives in Hofheim.
KRIFTEL
Fruit-growing community
10,742 inhabitants
Favorite color: Strawberry red.
This also applies to local resident
Lutz Wagner. The former
German football league referee
from Kriftel, who refereed a total
of 197 first division matches
and more than 74 second division ones, even managed to redcard footballer Diego Klimovicz
no less than four times during his
career.
Year for year, 200 tons of strawberries are
harvested on the fruit farms in “MTK”,
enough for half a million juicy strawberry
cakes. Not enough to be satisfied, however, at least for Holger and Ralf Henrich,
heirs to the fruit farm “Obsthof am Berg”
in Kriftel. The two drinks technology engineers stand for both tradition and the future in the community. The two brothers
considered the cooperative marketing and
direct sale of their products, which had
been successful for decades, to be anything but in tune with the times, “The soil
couldn’t be better; fruit has been grown in
this district for ages. For this reason alone
the tradition must be continued.” But it
was also time to face the changed market
conditions, they say in unison. They recall
that the foundation for the positive trend
in business was laid in 1983 with the acquisition of distilling rights and a distillery,
taxed not on the basis of the quantity produced but the type and amount of material
used. Together with their father Horst
Henrich, they switched the fruit farm’s focus to pressing and distilling. The good
thing about it is that, “The scent and taste
of our distillates is 100 percent from the
fruit used. We’re against added sugar and
fruit essences in the finished distillate. After all, good schnapps shouldn’t be unpleasantly sharp and doesn’t need enhancements,” they say, underscoring their
ecological mindset. Next year, Holger and
Ralf Henrich are planning a very special
surprise. They’re to launch the very first
Kriftel single malt whisky, currently maturing in wooden casks and due to be bottled in 2012. And before it’s forgotten,
there’s also always fresh fruit on sale at
“Obsthof”. Not just strawberries, but also
raspberries, redcurrants, sour cherries,
mirabelle plums, damsons, peaches, pears,
apples and quinces, from mid-May to November.
www.obsthof-am-berg.de
SULZBACH
Market town
8,391 inhabitants
Even in the Middle Ages, production of the regional cheese “Handkäs'” was widespread in Sulzbach.
Back then the Sulzbach farmers’
wives sold the cheese at markets
in Frankfurt, earning the village
the nickname “Käsbach”. Reason
enough for the inhabitants, as
part of the 950th anniversary
celebrations, to erect a bronze
statue and, since 2010, elect a
female “Käsfraa”.
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Hochheim
Wine town
16,874 inhabitants
But far more visitors. One of
them: the 3rd President of the
United States and co-author
of the American Declaration
of Independence, Thomas
Jefferson. He liked the taste of
the wine from the banks of the
River Main so much that he even
took some vines with him so as
to export it to his homeland
.
Gunter Künstler
VINTNER // HOCHHEIM
Nele neuhaus
DETECTIVE STORY AUTHOR //
KELKHEIM
5 0°0'39.6 6"N
8°20'50.05"E
5 0 ° 8 '4 4 . 9 2 " N
8°27'25.42"E
Vinters are if anything basically eloquent
people. And Gunter Künstler is no exception. “Among the big names in Rheingau
wines, the Rüdesheimer, the Johannisberger, and the Hochheimer, there can be no
discussing the order of ranking …”, he says,
quoting Goethe. And that’s not because the
burden of proof that his wines deserve special recognition would be on him. The annual national and international awards do
that. The Künstler vineyard in Hochheim is
without a doubt one of the most renowned
in Germany, and Künstler wines are among
the best. Since 1992 he and his wife Monika,
together with a committed team, have continued the philosophy of this family-run
business with a long-standing tradition (“I
want only the best”). And this in a region
which can produce top wines like scarcely
any other due to its extraordinary location.
The best product results if “you apply a firm
but sensitive, intuitive hand to the wine at
just the right time,” says Künstler. He’s
nothing but affectionate in his description
of the location’s advantages. He emphasizes the way the light reflects and the how the
Rivers Main and Rhine store heat, the protection the Taunus hills offer from cold
northerly winds and the longer amount of
sunshine. “All natural reasons for the grapes
becoming particularly mature and the acidity being pleasant.” A fact that in 1845 even
attracted the Queen of England, Victoria,
after whom a vineyard in Hochheim is
named, to the town on the banks of the River Main. A fact that also ensured that from
1870 until 1914 wines from Hochheim were
even on sale under the name Hock at the
wine merchants Berry Brothers in London.
Even greater is that, along with red Bordeaux, the Rheingau wine was one of the
top wines in the world. As such, Künstler
knows that he’s among good company in
his profession, one that goes back 2,000
years and more. The discovery of a Roman
vine knife proves that even the ancient Romans grew wine in Hochheim.
Nele Neuhaus has always written. First by
hand in school workbooks, later with an old
portable typewriter. Nowadays on a laptop
at the kitchen table. Neuhaus was born in
1967 in Münster, Westphalia, the second of
four children of the Löwenberg family. She
grew up in Paderborn and became familiar
with the setting for her Taunus-based detective stories when her father was elected
district administrator of Main-Taunus-Kreis
when she was 11. And she did so properly:
“I’ve always ridden and for that reason alone
know all the nooks and crannies,” she says
in explanation of the detailed descriptions
of places in her novels. At her readings,
she’s often asked whether it really is so idyllic in the Taunus. Then the positive attributes just spout forth. From the clean air
to the wonderful people there. Many of
them, like the figure of the Director of the
Opel Zoo, crop up in her novels, though
Thomas Kauffels is one of those Nele Neuhaus asked beforehand. His answer was
simple, “As long as I’m not the murderer ...”
And we can give this much away, nor is he in
her new detective story. As an author, her
love of the Taunus only blossomed after her
debut novel “Unter Haien” (Among sharks).
The book tells the story of a female investment banker from Germany in New York
City. “There was a lot of research. Then I
had the idea to set my novels here in the future.” Not without success. Since early
2008 Nele Neuhaus has been under contract with the publishers Ullstein Verlag in
Berlin and her books are now sold in 20
countries. On the back of “Wer Wind sät”
(Whoever sows the wind) there could well
be a few more, and not only because she reveals an almost prophetic sense for social
questions in it. When she finished the book,
which takes the reader as far as the Hessen
Ministry of the Environment, the disaster at
the Japanese nuclear power station was
still an unimaginable nightmare and the energy debate was ongoing without any real
direction.
www.weingut-kuenstler.de
www.neleneuhaus.de
KelkhEim
Furniture town
27,537 inhabitants
Several of whom were honored
with the Heinrich-Freiherr-
von-Gagern Award for their
services to democracy and their
facilities in the town. Not by
chance: The first President of the
National Assembly in Paulskirche in Frankfurt (1848) was the
well-known descendant of the
von Gagern family, who for many
years lived on Hornauer Estate.
EPPSTEIN
Castle town
13,254 inhabitants
A wonderful fairytale surrounds
the town’s interesting history.
According to the story, a knight
named Eppo built the fortress in
the 10th or 11th century. On the
spot where he freed a Fräulein
von Falkenstein from the hands
of a giant and, it’s said, buried its
bones in the walls.
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s Top-Management
THOMAS MÜLLER
ENTREPRENEUR // BAD SODEN
Dr. Jörg C. Uhl
CORPORATE COMMUNICATOR //
SCHWALBACH
50°8'15.68"N
8°30'34.88"E
50°8'3 8 .0 4"N
8 ° 3 1' 5 1 . 0 4 " E
No, Thomas Müller is not a particularly
good dancer. “Best not go down that road,”
the 61-year-old says, avoiding the subject.
He doesn’t have to be. He has other fish to
fry. For 32 years now the fourth-generation
head of the family-run company Diamant
Tanzschuhe in Bad Soden has ensured that
people in 37 countries can skillfully flit
across the dance floor wearing shoes that
weigh just a couple of hundred grams.
Müller has been involved in the manufacture of shoes for over 40 years, having
learned the trade at the ARS Suttoria
School in Milan. The history of the Müller
family began with the founding of a “business for the production of natural shoes”
by the master shoemaker Eberhard Müller
in 1873 in Frankfurt’s Ziegelgasse. The only
manufacturer of dancing shoes in Germany
moved to Bad Soden in 1958 when Angulus
Otto Müller KG was founded. 17 years later,
under the name “Diamant”, a collection of
dance shoes was launched that renowned
German dancers, male and female, had
helped design. Having specialized in dance
shoes, the company changed its name to
Diamant Schuhfabrik Otto Müller KG in
1982. Thanks to improved process automation and the use of cutting-edge technology, there is now a choice of over 80 different models. A wide range of materials,
heels and widths enables in excess of 1,000
versions. “Made in Bad Soden” has long
since become a special quality seal. Several million shoes have already been dispatched throughout the world from this little spa town. And they’re also affordable.
“They don’t have to be expensive,” the boss
says. Despite high-tech advancements, a
Diamant dance shoe still involves a lot of
craftsmanship of up to 40 stages – performed by employees who in some cases
are themselves part of the family. With regard to the future, Thomas Müller doesn’t
need to worry. His wife Petra Müller-Unger
is just as much by his side as their children
Bianca and Oliver.
The Procter & Gamble success story can
normally be told quickly with figures, data,
and facts. But what’s actually normal about
P&G? Founded in Cincinnati in 1837, the
road to success in Germany began in Frankfurt in 1960 with five employees responsible for two brands. Not for long. Just ten
years later the company relocated to
Schwalbach. Today, throughout the country, more than 14,000 of the 127,000 employees worldwide work on expanding P&G’s
position as one of the leading suppliers of
consumer articles, 2,000 in Schwalbach
alone. The large ratio of women employees
extends to the top management, and a
woman, Pirjo Väliaho, runs the entire operation. P&G products fill shelves across the
country, with on average almost ten per
household. From Wella hair setting lotion
and Tempo paper tissues to Pampers. “We
play in the Champions League,” says Jörg
C. Uhl, head of corporate communications
and a member of the executive board, pointing to an almost ten-meter long graphic
work of art in the hall. They are all featured:
Klementine, Meister Propper and co. – it’s a
rendezvous of famous brand names. In
front of it there’s an oversized bench: “From
R & D”, the doctor of natural sciences says,
grinning. A group with global operations in a
small town? “At first sight it might well seem
that a group with global operations and a
small town do not suit each other, but we
see things differently. The location is ideal
for us. The proximity to the airport, the Taunus hills for living and working. The familyfriendliness. The people that live here. It all
suits us. After all, more than half our employees live in Main-Taunus-Kreis. In the
place where our employees live and work
it’s important for us to make a contribution
to the common good in a spirit of partnership. For example with the “Schwalbacher
Gespräche” discussions,” says Uhl. “Not
without reason do the former employees,
who meet almost every two years in Schwalbach, feel they are coming home.”
www.diamant.net
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Bad Soden
Spa town
21,657 inhabitants
Was an international spa town
and meeting place for famous
guests from around Europe even
in the mid-19th century. The
town makes particular reference
to the fact that Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy enjoyed the
summers of 1844 and 1845 in
Bad Soden. And incidentally,
world famous painter Elvira
Bach was born in Neuenhain.
FLÖRSHEIM
Town on the banks of
the River Main
20,220 inhabitants
As long as there’s no proof to
the contrary, Flörsheim can secretly claim that one of the biggest shoe manufacturers in the
world, the “Florsheim Shoe
Company”, has its roots in the
town on the River Main. The
small workshop was founded in
Chicago by Milton Florsheim
and his father Sigmund in 1892.
HATTERSHEIM
Celtic town
25,493 inhabitants
In earlier times there were
Celts, as finds have revealed.
Later on there were inventors,
like Anton Flettner, whose
Flettner rotor is still a household
name in aviation and seafaring
today. The teacher, engineer,
and tinker from Eddersheim
went to the United States in
1947. The house where he was
born is now a kindergarten.
Schwalbach
Town on the Limes
14,694 inhabitants
A pretty middle-class environment for a small girl called
Sabrina Setlur. But there’s
more to it than that. Born in
1974 in Frankfurt, the daughter
of Indian immigrants has sold
more than two million CDs, making her the most successful
female interpreter of Germanlanguage Rap.
www.pg.com
Dr. Bernd Eisenblätter
MANAGEMENT BOARD SPOKESMAN //
ESCHBORN
5 0 ° 8 '47. 4 1" N
8°33'12.19"E
LIEDERBACH
Old town
8,731 inhabitants
Small, but very old. The oldest
traces of human existence
in Main-Taunus-Kreis were
found on a spur of land on the
boundaries of Liederbach.
The pebble tools found to the
south of the location are
estimated to be an amazing
300,000 to 600,000 years old.
ESCHBORN
Exchange town
20,789 inhabitants
In 1988 Eschborn set itself the
task of taking art from museums
and putting it where the people
are. One year later, the town’s
citizens came up with another
idea: the Eschborn Sculpture
Axis. In the summer of 1992,
Gisela Weber installed the first
sculpture. Since then, ten of
these impressive monuments
have been created.
Even from a distance of 100 meters it’s difficult to make out the difference between
the old lettering GTZ, which hung for 35
years on the building of the Society for
Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Eschborn,
and the new combination of letters GIZ,
with which it was replaced at the beginning of the year. And yet the new year
brought about many changes for the location on Dag Hammarskjöld Weg. The
merger of GTZ with the two other development aid organizations DED and Inwent to
form the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit was the “difficult birth of a giant baby”, as a secretary of
state from the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development in Berlin put
it. Hardly flattering, but to the point. A big
coup. The GIZ operates from Eschborn in
130 countries worldwide. It has a total
payroll of almost 20,000 employees and
has an annual turnover of around €1.9 billion. In Eschborn alone there is a workforce of 1,700. One of them is Bernd Eisenblätter, born in Mainz in 1944. Since January 2011 he’s been the spokesman of the
GIZ Management Board, a man for whom
the term global player has acquired a very
personal significance. Someone who’s at
home in the world and yet who still needs
no explanations when it comes to HQ in
Eschborn. “No, not at all,” he says. “Frankfurt and the region are a brand with which
everyone is familiar. Of course he also
rates Eschborn for mobility reasons. But
there’s more to it. “At GIZ we’re reliant on
mobility. With the airport, train station and
interstate interchange we’re perfectly catered to here. The fact that our employees
in the district can also get to the HQ by bicycle is outstanding. We actively support
this, and two years ago won an award for
being the “most bicycle-friendly company” in the Rhine-Main region,” the head
development expert says in praise.
www.giz.de
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From Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble and Samsung to Deutsche
between Eschborn and Hochheim. The district offers younger in-
Bank, part of whose HQ is based in Eschborn, and from the Ge
habitants, a diverse school system with 55 efficient schools, and
sellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to the Deut-
purposely pursues the objective it has set for itself to provide a
sche Börse, which recently relocated to “The Cube” its new cor-
high level of education that promotes the skills of all its children.
porate headquarters in Eschborn, there are more than a dozen
From school social work to furthering the academically gifted,
global players in Main-Taunus-Kreis. There are also tremendous
from the “science offensive” to the “musical primary school”,
advantages for small and medium-sized companies, not that
every child should be given the best education possible and be
these have to be any less international. When it comes to paper-
able to develop his or her talents. At Graf Stauffenberg High
cutting machines, dancing shoes, bottling plants and diamond
School in Flörsheim, for example, a genetic laboratory is being set
drills, companies in “MTK” are among the world’s best. There is
up, and the students at Konrad Adenauer School in Kriftel have
no shortage of people who tell you that economically the district
their own teaching restaurant.
is nothing if not healthy, so it’s hardly surprising that thanks to
its low unemployment rate and high purchasing power it regu-
So it’s not without reason that, with an average of 1.69 children
larly achieves top spots in national rankings. Take for example
per household, Main-Taunus-Kreis is clearly above the national
the volume of income tax paid. On a nationwide basis, Main-Tau-
average of 1.47. In this case, the phrase “family friendly” applies
nus-Kreis comes second, behind the neighboring Hochtau-
to an entire region, starting with the residential environment all
nuskreis, but ahead of Starnberg. And it has done so for years. So
the way through to child care, whose rate for under three-year-
it was almost logical that the first shopping mall to be built in
olds in “MTK” is well above the average for Hessen. Culturally
Germany was the recently extended Main-Taunus-Zentrum
too, the district has performed well in catching up. From the
(MTZ) on the A66 interstate in “MTK”.
“Shorts at Moonlight” film festivals in Hofheim and Bad Soden,
not to mention the “Gallus Concerts” in Flörsheim, there are fre-
Changing the subject, however, it’s not just the strong economic
quent series and gatherings of small but exquisite cultural de-
situation that makes the district so attractive. Generally speak- lights at ateliers and galleries, for example the “Zauberberg” in
ing, you can contemplate the future with amazingly little worry
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Cultural and creative industries in FrankfurtRhineMain sector report published
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Hollywood films were
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than 82,000 people (who are subject to social insurance contributions) working in the sector.” And this is far off the real figure, as many are self-employed or working as freelancers. There
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and proximity to clients.
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Nikolaus Hirsch & Tobias Rehberger
Culture Campus
Kulturbox
A design debut by Nikolaus Hirsch
and Tobias Rehberger
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Decision made on the use of university land
in the Frankfurt district of Bockenheim
Member institutions of
the Forum Kulturcampus
Bockenheim
01Hochschule für Musik
und Darstellende Kunst
02 Ensemble Modern
03 Frankfurt LAB
04Hessische
Theaterakademie
05 The Hindemith-Institute
06The Institute for Social
Research, Frankfurt
07Junge Deutsche
Philharmonie
08Senckenberg Gesellschaft
für Naturforschung
09 The Forsythe Company
Frankfurt is taking advantage of the situation. With aid from
the state of Hessen, a culture campus is to be constructed on
university land in Bockenheim. “In terms of urban development this culture campus represents a unique opportunity to
create an attraction with international flair – comparable with
the Museumsufer development,” says Mayor Petra Roth. Nine
culture institutions, which have since aligned themselves as
the “Forum Kulturcampus Bockenheim”, will be located on the
site. All are distinguished by their international prestige and
large networks. Later this year a “Kulturbox”, which will put
the construction plans and proposed development of the
campus on public display, is due to be installed there. Nikolaus
Hirsch and Tobias Rehberger of the Städel Academy will be responsible for the design.
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Strasse 5, 64293 Darmstadt. It sounds very down to
imaginable – via the Russian space station MIR and the interna-
earth. Rooted in the ground. In his life to date though, grounded
tional space station ISS.
is one thing he’s most definitely not been. The astronaut and en-
The Frankfurt astronaut Thomas Reiter is
the new director of ESA in Darmstadt
gineer is now responsible for human spaceflight at the European
The 53-year old has spent almost a year of his life in the extrater-
Space Agency in Darmstadt. Dubbed “Germany’s Houston”, it
restrial. All because of a life-changing experience he had as an
coordinates European space travel and promotes research
11-year old child. In the early hours of the morning of July 20,
projects about the Earth, sun system and universe. Basically,
1969, the young boy sat mesmerized in front of the TV, watching
Thomas Reiter is now back where he came from: in Frank-
as Neil Armstrong’s small step became a giant leap for mankind.
furtRhineMain, as he was born in Frankfurt and grew up in
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like lots of other boys,” but Reiter held on tightly to his dream.
Reiter is one of the few to have been granted the opportunity to
After high school, he signed up for the German Air Force, trained
behold the globe from the infinite space of the universe. Some peo-
as a jet pilot in the USA, and became one of the four astronauts sent
ple become philosophers during their time in space, others mystics.
to Russia by the ESA to prepare for the MIR mission in 1993. From a
Some, following their return from far orbits, have never been the
childhood dream to a frontier-crossing adventure. For two years,
same again. Reiter, however, still has both feet firmly on the ground.
Reiter underwent intense physical and mental training in Star City,
The engineer, with the rank of Brigadier-General, is a pragmatist,
Russia. His space adventure finally began on September 5, 1995.
emphasizing the value of space travel for the development of new
Reiter conducted scientific experiments on-board the MIR 40 and
technologies. “It’s curiosity that drives us, that thirst for knowl-
completed two spacewalks, the first German to do so. Ten years
edge.” Thomas Reiter now makes his contribution with his feet back
later, Reiter flew to the ISS, staying in space for another 166 days.
on Planet Earth. At Robert Bosch Strasse 5 in Darmstadt.
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Events
Broadway on
Taunusanlage
Frankfurt’s English Theatre
The theatre’s the place to meet up for the international crowd –
and is home to exciting performances
By Johannes Göbel and Jonas Ratermann (photos)
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Excellent attention to detail
Managing Director Daniel Nicolai
prioritizes quality when choosing
actors, plays and directors, as
well as in his precision planning
of the stage sets (on the l.: a
miniature model of “Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Woolf?”)
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We produce practically with a
balancing act across the Channel:
a great opportunity to experience
real English theatre.
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Daniel Nicolai
Managing Director of the English Theatre
Coming soon at English Theatre
The Dead Guy
A multi-media extravaganza
by Eric Coble
runs through June 24, 2011
A DramaClub production:
The Threepenny Opera
A musical by Bertolt Brecht
and Kurt Weill
August 12 – 24, 2011
The Importance of Being Earnest
A trivial comedy for serious people
by Oscar Wilde
Sept. 9 – Oct. 29, 2011
The Who’s Tommy
A legendary rock musical by Pete
Townshend and Des McAnuff
Nov. 12, 2011 – Feb. 12, 2012
Theatre work
From careful makeup to
superb costumes and refined
stage technology, everything
has to be just right for major
shows in the playhouse at
Gallusanlage, on the corner
of the Kaiserstrasse
The Collector
A thriller by Mark Healy adapted
from a novel by John Fowles
Feb. 24 – April 1, 2012
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They’ve had enough! The students simply don’t want to obey any longer. Chairs fly
through the air, exercise books get torn up, people get shown the finger. The teacher
gets his ass spanked accompanied by guitar riffs and teenagers’ joyful voices. The audience at the
English Theatre loves it. “Spring Awakening”, the brash musical version of Frank Wedekind’s eponymous melodrama on puberty, got off to a great start with its German premiere in Frankfurt. An enthusiastic following has blossomed, celebrating the musical even after the last performance – online,
in blogs and video sites. The visitor’s book on the theatre’s Website is crammed full of praise. The
multilingual spectrum of positive comments ranges from “totally awesome” to “Es war großartig!”
The organizers of the largest English-speaking theatre on the Continent have once again landed a real
hit with audiences. Well over 60,000 theatregoers attend the performances each season. The team led
by Managing Director Daniel Nicolai still has to contend with some prejudices.
All the plays in English? It puts some people off. Daniel Nicolai puts a different spin on it, “We’re a
really leisurely place of learning,” he says with a wink. “Some people think you have to order beer
at the theatre’s bar in English too. But you can get by here just as easily in English and the plays are
easily accessible by what you see as much as by what you hear on the stage.” Variety rules here with
thrillers and dramas, comedies and musicals. The classics are masterfully presented, as well as
experimental theatre, as in the multimedia TV satire “The Dead Guy”, which runs through June 24.
“Entertainment with a twist” is how Nicolai describes the product. “Sure, we seek to entertain, but
our guests also want to have more than just a pleasant evening out.” The twist is something Nicolai’s team regularly achieves. Take the classic musical “Hair”, performed from its political side, or
Rain Man
A play by Dan Gordon based
on the 1988 film
April 20 – June 17, 2012
“The Full Monty” dished up not just as a stripper comedy, but as a piece of British social drama. The
www.english-theatre.de
The theatre organizers manage to produce all this without a house ensemble or permanent artistic
program for the new season (see box) certainly has a lot to offer, from the rock opera “Tommy”
through to the stage version of the Oscar-winning movie “Rain Man”.
directors. The international team led by managing director Nicolai consists of 23 full-time staff
members whose work is supported financially by the Cities of Frankfurt and Eschborn and by
Commerzbank, among others. The actors tend to be successfully cast in New York and London, and
usually from the rich theatre world of the latter’s West End. There, Stage Manager Maureen Dienst
even organizes a trial stage on occasion. Like the top theatres in the US and UK, the English Theatre
has no permanent ensemble and instead a team of players is specially assembled for each piece, and
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Be it on stage (here: a
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successful “Spring Awak
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party for Oscar Wilde’s
“An Ideal Husband”
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arrived in Frankfurt, fine-tuning their performance. “Our productions are a kind of balancing act
across the Channel,” comments Nicolai, “A great opportunity to experience real-life English theatre.”
The English Theatre is considered the Frankfurt playhouse with the youngest and best-educated
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audience. And it regularly gets offered top-rate theatre productions, be it in the southern mood of
Tennessee Williams or the perfect dialogs of Oscar Wilde. “We have a kind of purchasing power in
London’s high-end theatre world,” says Daniel Nicolai, “as just a few actors are regularly employed
in the West End. We’re an interesting option for many actors as we offer something they don’t get
in London.”
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rently all the international rage. In Germany, the company is the English-language venue, puling
crowds in from well beyond the region. “Spring Awakening” even attracted 130 students from
Düsseldorf’s International School. Such examples show not only the edge the city offers, but also
the success of all the effort put into the educational side of the project, with Deutsche Bank as the
exclusive sponsor. Around 1,100 English teachers are invited to previews of each play free of charge.
The theatre also offers workshops and provides teaching materials. In the “DramaClub”, adults and
students regularly practice performing the plays and in August they’ll be performing a version of
Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera”.
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The theatre is far more than just a meeting point for fans of acting and theatregoers. It’s a place for
everyone who likes an evening in English, as in the case of the “International Jour Fixe”, which
helps new arrivals to the region get settled in, or at any of the numerous parties held in the elegant
in-house “James Bar”, where there’s also a live TV feed for things such as the Eurovision Song
The regional channel reports live
on events and trends – presenting
things hands-on, as they are
Contest or the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. There are also poetry slams, English-language readings and exciting photo exhibitions – on August 18, works by star photographer Steve McCurry
will be on show. The “cultural lighthouse”, the label the Hessen State Government has given the
institution, thus gleams in many different colors. Perhaps it will also light up things on the other
side of the Channel. “We would like to present our performances in Great Britain, too, one day,”
comments Daniel Nicolai. Then the Brits could see just what the theatre company in Frankfurt
RhineMain has achieved.
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All over the world FrankfurtRhineMain is synonymous with internationality, dynamic
drive and change. So what makes FrankfurtRhineMain so special? "FRM" presents
new ideas, casts a fresh light on what’s familiar, and focuses readers’ attention to details
well worth exploring.
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Excursions
GARdEN
RHINeMAIN
Great panorama
By BEATE TAUDTE-REPP
Simon Koy
The palace park in Bad
Homburg is one of the
region’s garden treasures
In summer, FrankfurtRhineMain truly blossoms
From the tranquil monastery gardens to the simple spa parks: Anyone seeking
beauty and leisurely calm will find a paradise in the region’s garden
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Excursions
Alzenau-Wasserlos
Palace park
Aschaffenburg
Altstadt cemetery
Park Schönbusch
Park Schöntal
Palace gardens
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Whether a breathtaking castle park or a secluded manor garden, a shady arboretum or
a swift bike ride through the forests and fields, with its superb transport links, Frank-
furtRhineMain has a marvelous and diverse range of gardens to offer. Well over a hundred islands
Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe
Forstgarten
Spa garden
Landgräve’s gardens
Orangery in the palace park
Palace park
Bad Nauheim
Art Nouveau ornamental courtyards
Spa garden
Bad Soden am Taunus
Spa garden
Bad Vilbel
Spa garden
of nature can be found between the Spessart and the Rhine, the Taunus and the Odenwald. This
heartland totals over 5,000 hectares of greenery, and there are countless plants to be discovered,
just as the “Frankfurt colonial domain” and the “arcadia of Aschaffenburg” wait to be enjoyed.
Although it may sound strange, a quick look through the “Pinien, Palmen, Pomeranzen – Fremde
Welt in heimischen Gärten” booklet explains more. Under the heading “Garden RhineMain”, the
section of Kultur-Region GmbH proudly details over 600 guided tours, lectures, special days and
festivals that will take place through the end of the year in the region’s gardens. Often, the focus is
on a passion for plants and botany, business prowess and scientific ambition – and of course the
Bensheim-Auerbach
Fürstenlager national park
Bingen am Rhein
Grounds of the
State Horticultural Show
magic of foreign flora.
Green paths: Where better to foster wellness, to which health is now referred, than outdoors in
nature, even if it has for centuries been designed by man. The many branches of the green path run-
Büdingen
Garten Kölsch
Darmstadt
Botanical Gardens
of the Technical University
Herrngarten
Mathildenhöhe
Orangeriegarten
Park Rosenhöhe
Prinz Emil Garten
Prinz Georg Garten
Palace gardens and deer park
Kranichstein hunting lodge
Waldfriedhof
ning through the region include not only the Regional Park project, set to boast 1,200 kilometers of
bike and hiking paths, or the 333 allotment garden complexes that have arisen since the 19th century
thanks to the ideas of Leipzig doctor Daniel G.M. Schreber which argued that health could be promoted through gardening and as a way for people to sustain themselves. Expansive cemeteries such as
those in Wiesbaden, Mainz or Frankfurt with their grand old trees also provide invaluable ecological
oases for flora and fauna, as well as those who enjoy a walk. The “people’s parks”, garden cities and
playgrounds created in the 20th century were consciously established to facilitate local recreation. As
Dieburg
Palace gardens
Dreieichenhain
Hayn Castle in Dreieich
Eppstein
Bergpark Villa Anna
Altangarten Burg
long ago as Roman times, people relied on the curative properties of the spas in the Taunus, whose
heyday began in the 18th century. In many towns, spas sprang up with superb parklands that to this
Eltville
Gardens and open spaces
Eberbach monastery
Flörsheim-Bad Weilbach
Former spa garden
Florstadt-Staden
Palace park
worldwide thanks to the exploits of famous guests. For example, in Wiesbaden, Fjodor Dostoyevsky
almost gambled away everything he owned – and came away with the basis for his novel “The Gambler”. In Bad Homburg, English and Russian aristocrats rubbed shoulders, strolling around the 44
hectares of the spa’s park. Laid out according to plans by Prussian landscape gardener Peter Joseph
very day are a paradise for those escaping the hustle and bustle of city life. Some became renowned
Lenné, the Bad Homburg Spa Park was one of the most beautiful English gardens in Germany. In to-
Frankfurt am Main
Former airfield Bonames
Bethmann Park
Bolongaro-Garten Höchst
Bonifatiuspark am Riedberg
University Botanical Gardens
Brentanopark
Chinese Gardens
Grüneburgpark
Green belt
Günthersburgpark
Main Cemetery
Holzhausenpark
Frankfurt/Main
Huthpark
Korean Gardens
Lohrpark
“MainÄppelHaus Lohrberg”
“Nizza”
Ostpark
Palmengarten
Peterskirchhof
Poelzig Park University
Rebstock Park, extension
Römerstadt,
Green planning
Rothschildpark
Volkspark Niddatal
Former city fortifications
day’s wellness age, imaginative Asian therapies are all the rage. But as far back as 1910, King Chulalongkorn of Siam thanked his hosts for the successful therapy he had undergone in the Taunus with
the “Thai Sala” fountain temple, which remains one of the garden kingdom’s landmarks even today.
Southern flair: Nice, that city of flowers on the Côte d’Azur, was the symbol of northern yearnings
in the 19th century. At the time, Mediterranean flora could be seen closer to home, however. The
rather mild microclimate of the River Main’s banks enabled the region to have two historical
southern worlds: “My Bavarian Nice” is what King Ludwig I of Bavaria called Aschaffenburg, which
had an ancient villa built in 1850 on a prominent position above the banks of the Main only a few
steps from Renaissance Castle Johannisburg. The Pompeiianum, as it’s called, even boasts fig trees,
vineyards and pines, a Mediterranean world en miniature. Anyone today wandering around the
Perfectly idyll
KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain GmbH
Along with the FrankfurtRhineMain regional asso
ciation, 31 local communities and cities in the states
of Hessen, Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate have
joined forces to offer the 3.5 million people in the gre
ater region “sophisticated cultural events” under
the motto “the best is at your fingertips”. Among the
six project groups such as “Route der Industriekul
tur” (Route of industrial culture), “Burgen, Schlösser
und Paläste” (Lodges, castles and palaces) and
“Wege der Kultur” (Cultural paths), “Garten Rhein
Main” (Garden RhineMain) by Heidrun Merk is one
of the most successful.
www.krfrm.de, www.gartenrheinmain.de
Places with exotic flora
02 Schloss Weilburg Orangery
Boasting two magnificent orangeries, Weilburg
castle is one of the most fully preserved resi
dences of Absolutism located high above the
River Lahn. The summer attraction is the exten
sive collection of citrus plants which adorn the
terraced gardens.
www.schloesser-hessen.de
03 Orangeriegarten Darmstadt
Established in the 18th century by the landgrave
Ernst Ludwig, the gardens, complete with Baro
que orangery and a quaint plant tower, boast
many Mediterranean plants such as palm trees,
myrtles, oleander, bay trees, bitter orange trees,
lemon trees and fig trees.
www.darmstadt.de
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almengarten Frankfurt
Established in 1868, the show garden combines
botany and education, culture and leisure acti
vities across 22 hectares. Exotic highlights in
lush abundance include the Palmenhaus, Tropi
carium and a fascinating hill of succulent plants
exuding summertime flair.
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Finding your way
around green labyrinths
and enjoying Mediterra
nean views
Beautiful moments
www.palmengarten-frankfurt.de
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ad Homburg palace park,
Seligenstadt monastery gardens
Both gardens possess beautiful historical oran
geries, used to protect sensitive citrus plants
in the harsh winter months. Each summer they
can be admired in the outdoor grounds again.
The spa park in
Wiesbade, a paradise
for strolling
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Excursions
Landscape design
at its purest
Henry Nees
The Schönbusch landscaped
gardens (Aschaffenburg) and
the palace gardens in Weilburg
(right) are well worth a visit
Friedberg
Burggarten
Groß Karben
Palace park
Hanau
Alte Fasanerie Klein-Auheim
François Gärten
Historical cemeteries
Kinzigaue
Orangery
Philippsruhe castle
Altstadt palace gardens
Philippsruhe palace park
Wilhelmsbad state park
Hattersheim am Main
Historischer Bürgergarten
Nassauer Hof
Heusenstamm
Palace park
Königstein-Falkenstein
Park Kempinski Hotel
Park Villa Rothschild
Kronberg im Taunus
Gardens and yew groves
at Kronberg castle
Castel Park Friedrichshof
Quellenpark Kronthal
Viktoriapark
Lorsch
Medicinal herb garden
in the monastery
Main-Taunus
Arboretum
Mainz
University Botanical Garden
Main Cemetry
Natural Science Garden Lindenmühle
City Garden
Botany for all
The Botanical Gardens
offer a nature experience
of a special kind
Spa gardens well worth visiting
01 Bad Nauheim spa garden
The town of thermal springs and flowers attracts
visitors not only with its rose museum and rose
gardens, but also with its spa garden. Tip: The
Art Nouveau ornamental courtyards of the foun
tain buildings, where architecture and southern
flora come together in perfect harmony.
Beautiful landscaped gardens
01 Alte Fasanerie Klein-Auheim
In 1967, the two former electoral pheasant
runs were combined to form a 100-hectare
wooded deer park in the state of Hessen.
On the quiet nature trails, 35 species of wildlife
wait to be discovered.
www.erlebnis-wildpark.de
www.bad-nauheim.de
02 Bad Vilbel spa garden
A lush green belt, the park, with its precious
exotic woods of cork and yellow wood trees, ad
orns the town of thermal springs and festivals.
The mosaic of an ancient Roman public bath has
been beautifully restored.
www.kultur-bad-vilbel.de
03 Hanau Wilhelmsbad State Park
The town was never a spa because the Sauer
brunnen discovered in 1709 was found to have no
therapeutic effects. To make up for this, the buil
dings and park turned out all the more beautiful.
02 Wiesbaden-Biebrich Palace Park
In the 19th century, Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell
transformed the former Baroque pleasure gar
den in the Principality of Nassau into a romantic,
35-hectare landscaped park.
www.hi.hessen.de
03 Schönbusch Aschaffenburg
The 168-hectare landscaped park complete with
romantic lake, panoramic tower, castle, maze,
boat rental and restaurants is one of the earliest
English gardens in southern Germany. The
legendary view from Schönbusch to Aschaffen
burg castle is especially breathtaking.
www.schloesser-bayern.de
Miltenberg
Stadtpark
Nidda-Bad Salzhausen
Spa garden
Offenbach
Old cemetery
Dreieichpark
Grünring
Leonhard-Eißnert-Park
Lilipark / Büsingpark
Rumpenheim palace park
Rüsselsheim
Verna-Park
Schlüchtern-Ramholz
Palace park
Seligenstadt
Monastery gardens
Orangery
Wasserburg Klein-Welzheim
Usingen
Palace park
Weilburg
Castle orangeries
Palace gardens
Wiesbaden
Old Cemetry
Spa Park
North Cemetry
Russian Cemetry
Castle Park Biebrich
Animal and Plant Park Pheasantry
„Warmer Damm“
City Palace Winter Gardens
carefully restored gardens among agaves and fragrant angels trumpets, beneath a pergola of glycinias and the patio with its red angels trumpets may well think they’re in a country where lemon
trees really do grow. But lemon trees do flourish in the picturesque company of pines, olives, laurels, eucalyptus and pomegranate trees in the grounds of Frankfurt’s “Nizza” further downstream.
This Garden of Eden on the lower banks between the Untermainbrücke and the Holbeinsteg bridge
was created in 1875. Since its marvelous restoration in 2005, the grounds have been considered the
subtropical gardens with the greatest variety of flora north of the Alps.
Landscaped countryside: The hillside park of Villa Anna in Eppstein is a little wild, even if a group
of patrons has had the brush cleared around most of the 200 old trees like the 40-meter-high giant
sequoias with trunks as thick as barrels. For decades, these botanical treasures had become completely overgrown and good as forgotten. It was Herbert Picard, former director of the Municipal
Archive, who a few years ago discovered the enchanted forest that the Neufville Frankfurt banking
family had planted around their summerhouse in 1875. While most landscaped gardens like the
Mainz Stadtpark, Darmstadt’s Herrngarten or the park at Schloss Philippsruhe in Hanau tend to be
flat, and the green paradises of the Taunus lie on undulating hills, the climb from the bottom of the
gardens on the steep flanks of Eppstein’s Jähenberg to the top means an ascent of 100 meters. Since
2003, what were once the Neufvilles’ grounds are now listed, with a 2.5-kilometer long path offering marvelous views of the castle and town of Eppstein. A flyer available at the entrance gives an
overview of its trees, highly exotic and rare when the gardens were created: Douglas firs, Weymouth firs, Caucasian spruces, Greek pines, Paulownia Tomentosa and Amelanchier. The buildings
in the Romantic manor-house style such as Villa Anna and the Schweizer and Kavaliershaus have
been used by the Frankfurter Jugendhilfe since 1981.
Botany for everybody: There’s no need to fear botany, the science of the origins of plants, of how
they live and their taxonomy. Anyone who wishes to find out about a particular plant in the garden
will find a wealth of knowledge in the region’s three botanical gardens with their systematic presentations and the botany lecture programs they offer. An event in Darmstadt’s Hortus Botanicus
centers on the immense range of foreign plants that have been in monastery, apothecary and aristocratic gardens since the age of discovery. The institution’s director Stefan Schneckenburger will
be talking on August 28 about “Colonialism and Botany”, where he’ll discuss the collectors and
plant hunters who traveled the world to bring together the “green gold” which laid the foundations
for famous European gardens. In Darmstadt it was Carl Albert Purpus. Over a century ago, he
traveled America and Mexico as a plant hunter, sending the newly discovered plants among others
to his brother Joseph Anton. The latter had stayed at home in Darmstadt as the garden’s superintendent, which meant he was very grateful for every package of botanical delights he received.
Today, many of the exotic plants of that era are to be admired in the gardens, including a fourmeter high yucca rostrata. Since 1874, the teaching gardens attached to the Darmstadt Technical
University have been an idyllic, lush oasis close to the Lichtwiese Campus. Here, some 8,000 different plant types can be studied – the outdoor area is 4.5 hectares in size, while various species are
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Rainer W. Schlegelmilch’s
archive allows for interesting
comparisons: race preparations
and pit stops
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The eye
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Rainer W. Schlegelmilch doesn’t need a diary. Bernie
Slung across the back of the chair in his studio in Frankfurt’s
Ecclestone sets all the dates for him. As soon as the
Dornbusch district is the photographer’s bib he wore over the
race schedule for the Formula 1 season has been fixed, Schlegel
weekend in Australia. Behind him is an enormous shelf unit
milch is busy packing his suitcase. Arrival on Thursday, first train
crammed with folders holding race negatives. On the opposite
ing session on Friday, qualifying on Saturday, race on Sunday, re
wall is an exposure table next to a humming drum scanner.
turn flight on Sunday evening. 20 times a year from Bahrain to
Schlegelmilch has thousands of shots that he still wants to digi
Brazil. Yet he follows the racing world not as a technician or engi
tize, a very time consuming project between races. “My pension
neer, but as a photographer. Rainer W. Schlegelmilch is “the eye of
scheme,” he says with a smile, as many of his historical 1960s
Start and finish at Dornbusch. The Frankfurt photographer
has been documenting the Grand Prix for almost 50 years
Formula 1”. His enormous archive holds just under half a million
black and white shots are real treasures.
by Martin Orth
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photographs. He takes between 3,000 and 5,000 pictures on any
race day. Usually, two thirds of these are deleted before his plane
Each picture has its own story to tell and for each story Rainer W.
touches down at Frankfurt Airport. No one knows better than he
Schlegelmilch has a matching picture. He points at a photo show
what’s important in racing photography. His “eye” is incredibly
ing Jacky Ickx, one of the greats in the 1970s. “Jacky lives in
sharp. His interest is quality. On the Tuesday following the Grand
Monte Carlo now and we have considered ourselves friends for a
Prix, the top 250 shots can be viewed on his website.
long time.” Indeed, as a photographer Schlegelmilch knows all
Rainer W. Schlegelmilch (4)
2008
//
Excellence
1966
2008
Comparing race cars
Ferraris from the past and the
present no longer have any
thing in common – above all
owing to the aerodynamics
He succeeded in capturing the Golden
Age of Formula 1 in a way that is both
elegant and descriptive.
Jackie Stewart
//
Racing legend
Life in step with Formula 1
2005
Rainer W. Schlegelmilch in his
Frankfurt studio – surrounded
by over 400,000 photographs
www.schlegelmilch.com
1966
Jonas Ratermann (4)
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1965
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2007
Comparing races
At the start on the Nürburg
ring, four racing cars are
lined up – and men in hats.
Today, the race cars are
staggered at the start
//
Excellence
2005
1963
Comparing drivers
Nick Heidfeld (r.) is jittery
before the start, while Innes
Ireland in the Lotus is as
relaxed as if he were taking
a trip to the countryside
Despite all the competition there
is human companionship in the
Formula 1 family.
//
Race photographer
2010
the cars and all the drivers. He has photographed them all – from
made his way to the heartland of advertising, Frankfurt, where
Jim Clark to Sebastian Vettel. He is particularly proud of a dedi
he went to school as a boy. He began working for the industry
cation that triple world champion Jackie Stewart wrote for one of
and agencies, living life alongside Formula 1 ever since.
his books: “Schlegelmilch is one of the best known people in the
business and is highly regarded.” The ultimate accolade.
Today, his archive enables extraordinary comparisons. His docu
mentation of all the cars that have raced in the Monaco Grand Prix
1969
2007
Comparing rituals
Champagne spraying has
remained the same, something
that cannot be said of the
female fans in Monte Carlo (l.)
and Hockenheim
1963
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And of course he is also the most senior photographer in For
since 1975 is a masterpiece. Schlegelmilch took all the shots at the
mula 1, one of the outstanding chroniclers in motor sport. His
same bend, always from the same perspective. “It’s a very accurate
career began almost 50 years ago when, in 1962, a friend took
reflection of how things have changed over the years,” he says. The
him along to the 1000-km race at Nürburgring. In those days,
spot between Loews and Portier where Schlegelmilch takes his
the drivers inside the cockpit were men aged between 30 and
photographs has come to be dubbed “the Schlegelmilch bend” by
their late 40s, driving their laps around the track while wearing
insiders. His motion shots are another specialty. At each Grand Prix
motorcycle goggles and an unfastened helmet. Schlegelmilch
training session he takes close up long exposure shots of the drivers,
was in the process of completing his degree in photography in
“I let the guys whiz past me and only try to get a sharp picture of
Munich, when he became infected with the racing bug. So he
their helmet; the rest is simply a colorful blur of speed.”
\\
Preview
Issue 02
Discover our vision
as your future.
Roman Bezjak/sanofi-aventis
Fall 2011
The knowledge region
For a long time FrankfurtRhineMain was
considered the “world’s pharmacy”. Now
the pharmaceutical industry is reinventing once again.
Editorial News
//
Well done to Hösbach! In the
New ideas
experimentation //
The
INNovaTIoN
RegIoN
last issue of FRM in the arti-
hanns-seidelGymnasium
cle “The Innovation Region”,
where new ideas are created
Whether in school laboratories, seminar rooms or
research departments, intensive and successful experiments are being researched and developed throughout
the knowledge region of FrankfurtRhineMain.
we reported on the Hanns
>
Seidel
Mainland-Churfranken e. V./Tom River
Bavaria’s Lower Main region mixes
quality of life, high-tech, cultural,
wealth and innovation – far away from
the hustle and bustle of the city but
well connected nonetheless.
near
Aschaffenburg which has
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Regional
portrait
Gymnasium
participated in the Jugend
forscht (Youth researches) competitions for years with great
success. Now the students under teacher Roland Full have landed
another coup. Gabriel Salg (16) and Nicolas Scheidig (16) came out
as the winners in the Bavarian competition. They showed that the
food additive cyclodextrin can help reduce bad breath considerably. Their chemistry teacher Full had a feeling that this could
“turn into something big” and thus got into contact with the TU
Darmstadt. Now there’s scientific evidence. The students, along
with their teacher, are also very optimistic about their chances at
the national competition in Kiel. Congratulations are also due to
product designer Sebastian Herkner, 29, whom we introduced as
Post scriptum
FRM IN literature
a young talent in the article
//
Business
“Offenbach – Fertile Soil for
Ideas” (FRM 2009). Herkner
won the Newcomer Award of
Presenting two strong voices from Frank-
the Design Award of the Fed-
furtRhineMain: Those convinced that grad-
eral Republic of Germany in
uates in German Studies are not actually
February 2011
FERTILE SOIL
FOR IDEAS
OFFENBACH
The former working city is emerging as a creative center on the
banks of the River Main. Old factories and warehouses are becoming
chic lofts and workshops where ideas are born.
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good writers need to have a rethink. These
two are very talented – and luckily they
didn’t pursue careers in science, but in literature. “Das Zimmer” (The room) by AnAndreas Maier:
Das Zimmer,
Suhrkamp,
€ 17,90
dreas Maier is a modern regional novel set
in the Wetterau region – as his novels tend
to be. It tells of the life of “Uncle J.”, who in
his mind has always remained a child, and
his Volkswagen Type 3, which he loves to
take for a drive through the rapeseed fields.
Maier’s narrative is colored with dry humor
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Publisher Publisher FRM – The magazine on the FrankfurtRhineMain metropolitan
region is published by FrankfurtRheinMain GmbH International Marketing of the
Region in cooperation with Societäts-Medien, Frankfurt/Main. For FrankfurtRheinMain GmbH: Dr. Hartmut Schwesinger
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formance”, Silke Scheuermann, from Of-
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fenbach, takes us from the art business in
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IMPRINT
ing less than art and love – and the lives of
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Printed in Germany, Copyright © by Frankfurter Societäts-Medien GmbH 2011. The
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three women in the here and now.
Cover-page image Michael Hudler
voice, subtle irony and a gripping style, the
38-year-old writer tells a story about noth-
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