FRM Magazine Fall 2009

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DEAR READERS
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At the end of June, FRM – the magazine on the FrankfurtRhineMain
metropolitan region – appeared for the first time, and was extremely
well received. For the most part the first issue was no longer available after just a
few weeks. Many readers, not only from the region itself but from all over Germany and even abroad have subscribed to FRM, as they wish to find out more about
FrankfurtRhineMain. Thank you – this excellent response is a tremendous incentive for us for the future.
In this edition too, it was our intention to portray the region from the most extra-
ordinary perspectives and point out particular trends well worth your attention.
Did you know, for example, that Offenbach is home to one of the region’s creative hotbeds? FRM visited the entrepreneurs in their lofts. And did you know that
FrankfurtRhineMain is one of Germany’s key regions for organic produce? Allow
us to take you on a tour of the farms and health food shops. And did you know that
almost 250,000 people in FRM are employed in the logistics sector? In this issue,
we introduce you to the House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM) – the hub that
will bundle all the industry’s strengths together.
On the other hand Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s biggest media event and mar-
ketplace for writers, publishers, booksellers, agents and film producers, has an
international reputation. In October of each year, they all convene in the city of
Goethe. However, the days when the Fair was only about books are long since over
– “content” is the current buzzword. Not quite as well known, but certainly of
the same unparalleled and multifaceted nature, is the region’s literature cluster.
FRM is home to prominent publishing houses and writers. It’s where the Germanspeaking world’s most significant book and literature awards are bestowed. The
National Library is located in FrankfurtRhineMain, as is the German P.E.N. Center.
Pocket Guide
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In an attempt to weave all these threads into a finely spun web, FRM has again
2009
succeeded in creating a most interesting edition that will take even insiders by
surprise.
EVENTS, CULTURE,
ENJOYMENT,
EXCURSIONS AND
MORE
I hope you enjoy reading this latest issue of FRM
Fotos:
Yours most cordially,
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Book Fair as the world’s
leading meeting place.
Petra Roth
Cover photo Michael Hudler
Mayor of Frankfurt am Main
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Kreativwirtschaft
GEODATEN
IDEENSCHMIEDE
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Die ehemalige Fabrikstadt entwickelt sich zum
Kreativ-Zentrum am Main. In alten Hallen und Schuppen
entstehen schicke Lofts und Ideen-Werkstätten.
Jetzt kommt der neue Hafen
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Die Kreativen erobern die alten
Produktionshallen in Offenbach.
Hier: das Loft von Sensory Minds,
einem überaus erfolgreichen
Start-up, in einer ehemaligen
Lederwarenfabrik
VON MARTIN ORTH UND MICHAEL HUDLER (FOTOS)
FRM 02 I 09
LITERATURE CLUSTER
FRANKFURTRHINEMAIN
OFFENBACH – FERTILE
SOIL FOR IDEAS
What makes the region a literature epicenter
How the factory town has emerged as a
creative center
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Wissenschaft
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FrankfurtRheinMain ist ein europäisches Drehkreuz. Mit dem
House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM), das zwischen Flughafen
und Frankfurter Kreuz entsteht, rückt die Logistik-Region an die
Weltspitze vor
VON MARTIN ORTH UND MICHAEL HUDLER (FOTOS)
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Die Macher
Stefan Walter und Jack Thoms
treiben das Projekt „House of
Logistics and Mobility“ in den
Gateway Gardens voran
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HOUSE OF
LOGISTICS AND
MOBILITY
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Lebensqualität
SO
VIEL BIO
STECKT IN DER REGION
Vom Biohof bis zur Öko-Supermarktkette: In FrankfurtRheinMain konzentrieren sich mehr Bio-Unternehmen und Öko-Verbände, als man denkt. Eine
Rundreise zu den Orten, an denen FRM sich von seiner natürlichsten Seite zeigt
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Lebendige Ökobranche
Kuh „Andorra“ mit Kälbchen
auf dem Dottenfelder Hof und
glückliche Schweine auf der
Domäne Mechtildshausen
„Trinkt sie noch nicht?“, fragt Margarethe Hinterlang
und schaut in die Eckbox im großen Kuhstall des
Fläche lag im vergangenen Jahr bei 9,1 Prozent; nur Berlin und
Brandenburg bieten noch mehr Bioanbaufläche. Allerdings
Dottenfelder Hofs. Auf dem Stroh steht Kuh Andorra mit ihrem sind nicht nur die rund 1600 landwirtschaftlichen Bio-Betriebe
vor zwei Stunden geborenen Kälbchen. Leicht tapsig bewegt sich erfolgreich, sondern auch die übrigen 600 Bio-Unternehmen in
das Jungtier durch die Box, saugt am Hals der Mutter – aber nicht Hessen. Das in Fulda gegründete und heute im südhesssischen
dort, wo es soll. Margarethe Hinterlang beobachtet die Szene
Bickenbach ansässige Bio-Lebensmittelunternehmen Alnatura
noch ein wenig, öffnet das Gatter und springt in die etwas tiefer
etwa, das mit 50 Biosupermärkten deutschlandweit vertreten
liegende Box. „Jetzt werden meine ganzen Sachen dreckig“, ruft
ist. Tegut aus Fulda wiederum hat in den vergangenen 30 Jahren
sie lachend, während sie mit beherztem Griff das Kalb zum Euter mit 300 Filialen eines der größten Bio-Sortimente unter den
VON MARC-STEFAN ANDRES UND MARKUS HINTZEN (FOTOS)
führt. Margarethe Hinterlang kennt sich aus mit Tieren, denn sie
Supermarktketten aufgebaut. Für weiteres Knowhow sorgen
ist nicht nur Öffentlichkeitsarbeiterin des Demeter-Hofs in Bad
in der Region die Öko-Test-Redaktion in Frankfurt, das Öko-
Vilbel, sondern neben dem Schulbauernhof auch für die Kälber Institut, das neben Freiburg und Berlin auch in Darmstadt
zuständig. Die freundliche und zupackende Landwirtin ist ein forscht und berät, oder der Demeter-Bund, ebenfalls in Darmgutes Beispiel für viele engagierte Bioarbeiter in Frankfurt stadt.
RheinMain.
Die bundesweit 5000 Bioland-Mitgliedsbetriebe kommen ebenHier lebt die Biobranche – und das nicht erst seit dem Boom
falls über ihren Verband in FrankfurtRheinMain zusammen.
der vergangenen Jahre, in denen sich der Bio-Lebensmittelum-
Dessen Sprecher Gerald Wehde sitzt in Mainz unweit des Bahn-
satz in Deutschland von 3,5 (2004) auf 5,8 Milliarden Euro
hofs mit seinen Kollegen auf einer Etage eines hübschen Altbaus.
(2008) steigerte. Hessen nimmt dabei eine Spitzenposition ein:
Wehde und weitere rund 120 Mitarbeiter beraten die Bioland-
Der Bio-Anteil an der gesamten landwirtschaftlich genutzten Unternehmen und machen Lobbyarbeit für Bio-Produkte, die
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FRM 02 I 09
THE ORGANIC REGION
FRANKFURTRHINEMAIN
Where FRM reveals its natural side
Where the sector’s international knowledge center
is to be built
03 Editorial > Petra Roth
06 People in FRM
GIESSEN
FULDA
Beatrice Weder di Mauro
Tobias Rehberger
Ariane Friedrich
FRIEDBERG
12 Literature cluster FRM
20 Offenbach – Fertile soil for ideas
30 FRM Interview
> Daniel Cohn-Bendit
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People in FRM
I ONLY COM
ON MATTERS
ON WHICH I
SOMETHING
SAY
Meeting of the economic experts
Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 11, 12th
floor, Wiesbaden is where the advisory committee meets. It convenes in
the Federal Statistics Office building
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On the website of her chair of economics at the University of Mainz George
Washington is ruffl ing his hair on a one dollar bill. Th is woman has a sense of humor. And yet she is repeatedly described as reserved and disciplined. But does one
not need to be as one of the five members of the “Council of Experts observing the
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overall Economic Situation”? Over the next few weeks the economic experts will
be convening again in Wiesbaden before publishing their fi ndings in November.
picture-alliance/dpa (2), laif/Tim Wegner
A year down the road from the major bank crash these are awaited more eagerly
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than ever before. Beatrice Weder di Mauro, is 44 years old, speaks seven languages and can already look back on a top international career: Harvard, the United
Nations, the IMF. She can also: hang vertically from a steep wall and still climb
higher. The characteristics she needs for her climbing hobby can only be of advantage to her in her job as an economic expert: Self-confidence, prudence, strength
of will. But primarily: ability.
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Used to pioneering roles
Beatrice Weder di Mauro is
the first woman and first foreigner in the political advisory committee
BEATRICE
WEDER DI MAURO
She aims for the top when climbing – as well as in her role as an economics
teacher. Washington, Tokyo, and Harvard have been the stages in her career
so far, now the Swiss national is teaching in Mainz and is one of the leading
economic experts in Germany
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People in FRM
W
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TOBIAS
REHBERGER
He creates superb artistic spaces At the 2009 Venice Biennale
Tobias Rehberger, Professor at the Städel School, was awarded
the title Best Artist
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Walk-in spatial sculpture
Where does the space begin,
where does it end? Tobias
Rehberger’s Biennale café
is a visual maze of in the
“Dazzle Paintings” style
2009 Best Artist
The Golden Lion at the
Biennale di Venezia is the
ultimate accolade for any
artist. Tobias Rehberger
won it. The art exhibition
in Venice is open until
November 22
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Under some circumstances a café can be art. Like the cafeteria in the main exhibition venue at the Venice Biennale. Tobias Rehberger designed it in psychedelic
black and white stripes and dots with sprinklings of neon. A walk-in sculpture, a
maze of the senses. The work is called “Was du liebst, bringt dich auch zum Wei-
F
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nen” (what you love also makes you cry). Rehberger however, made it shine out,
as for his spatial art work the 43-year old received the Golden Lion for Best Artist.
The Professor of Sculpture and Deputy Rector at the Städel School in Frankfurt
picture-alliance/dpa (2), Dieter Schwer
loves humorous teasing with and in space, including a change of perspective and
always in search of what is special in everyday life. The Swabian also fi nds this for
himself in Frankfurt: He studied here, also at the Städel School and is an avowed
Eintracht fan. At one time ha also had an apartment in Berlin. But then, he told the
Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper, he worked out that on his many international
fl ights, from Berlin he would be on the road two weeks longer every year than
from Frankfurt. And then he changed his perspective.
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People in FRM
PEOPLE TH
I’M AN ARR
GANT COW
DON’T THE
GEODATA
What a scene. Th is was something special. Pure adrenaline. Compressed and made
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into a short fi lm. The women’s high jump fi nal at the World Athletics Championships in the summer in Berlin. In the main role: Ariane Friedrich. The blonde ath-
Getty images/Andy Lyons/Michael Kappeler/afp, picture-alliance Sven Simon
lete from Frankfurt fl irts with the camera, mumbles something to herself, would
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appear to be in a trance. The TV zooms in on her face. She is competing against
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her greatest opponent Blanka Vlašić. With superb performances, tremendous
gestures and thundering applause – for both of them. The Croatian takes Gold,
Ariane Friedrich Bronze. But even with third place she had achieved a great victory and given German athletics a face again: pretty, extravagant and headstrong.
Ariane Friedrich is the topic of conversation far beyond the World Championship.
She will ask a reporter: “People think I’m an arrogant cow don’t they?”, only to
immediately answer: “I know where they get that impression. I always wear sunglasses. And headphones. The music – mostly Hip-hop – really boosts you.” And
where is the fun? “Jumping is fun. Winning is fun.”
FRM 02 I 09
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Goes her own way
Sunglasses and headphones are
the trademark of the charismatic athlete from Frankfurt
World Champion
of hearts
At the Athletics World
Championships in
Berlin Ariane Friedrich
took Bronze in a nailbiting final
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ARIANE
FRIEDRICH
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for Frankfurt The LG Eintracht Frankfurt high2
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jumper is giving German athletics a new face: pretty, extravagant
and headstrong
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Literature is everywhere in FrankfurtRhineMain
In the spirit of Goethe, Gutenberg and the Grimm brothers
the Book Fair, publishers and writers ensure there is a lot
going on in what is one of literature’s strongest epicenters
BY MATTHIAS BISCHOFF (TEXT) AND CAEPSELE (ILLUSTRATIONS)
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Andreas Maier
Institut für
Jugendbuchforschung
Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
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Literary Scene
Get a free ride: Nine major language
and literature routes plus selected stops
– the dense network of the FRM
literature cluster
ROUTE 1 > THE EXHIBITION TOUR
FRANKFURT Frankfurter Buchmesse
MAINZ Mainzer Minipressen-Messe
ROUTE 2 > THE AWARDS TOUR
FRANKFURT Deutscher Buchpreis
LudwigFriedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels
Börne-Preis
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Preis
Alfred-Kerr-Preis für Literaturkritik
Robert Gernhardt Förderpreis
Frankfurter
Autorenstipendium
Hessischer Bibliothekspreis
Stadtschreiber von Bergen (2009/10: Ulrich Peltzer)
Wettbewerb „Die
Schönsten Deutschen Bücher“ DARMSTADT Georg-Büchner-Preis Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis Hermann-Kesten-Preis
Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preis für Literarische Kritik und Essay Johann-Heinrich-Voss-Preis für Übersetzung Literarischer März
Paul-Celan-Preis Ricarda-Huch-Preis Karl-Dedecius-Preis für polnische Übersetzer deutscher Literatur HANAU BrüderGrimm-Preis MAINZ Josef-Breitbach-Preis Mainzer Stadtschreiber (2009: Monika Maron) Aspekte-Literaturpreis des ZDF
OESTRICH-WINKEL Rheingau Literatur Preis
BAD-HOMBURG Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis
LIMBURG Hans-im-Glück-Preis
für Jugendliteratur GELNHAUSEN Johann-Jakob-Christoffel-von Grimmelshausen-Preis WIESBADEN Junges Literaturforum
Hessen-Thüringen
DIETZENBACH Literaturpreis des Bundes Deutscher Schriftsteller
WEINHEIM Peter-Härtling-Preis für
Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
FRANKFURT Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels
Schulen des Deutschen
Buchhandels
Literaturgesellschaft Hessen e.V.
Goethe-Institut
Peter Suhrkamp Stiftung
Hessische Leseförderung
WIESBADEN Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache Hessischer Literaturrat e.V. Hessischer Verleger- und Buchhändler-Verband
e.V. MAINZ Stiftung Lesen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur DARMSTADT Deutsche Akademie für Sprache
und Dichtung P.E.N.-Zentrum Deutschland Zentrum für junge Literatur DIETZENBACH Bund Deutscher Schriftsteller
ROUTE 3 > THE ORGANIZER’S TOUR
ROUTE 4 > THE CLASSICAL TOUR
FRANKFURT Goethehaus Heinrich-Hoffmann-Museum - Struwwelpeterhaus StoltzeMuseum
RIEDSTADT / GODDELAU Büchnerhaus
STEINAU Brüder Grimm-Haus
MAINZ Gutenberg-Museum
BAD
HOMBURG Sinclair-Haus OESTRICH-WINKEL Brentano-Haus OFFENBACH Klingspor-Museum GELNHAUSEN Grimmelshausen-Geburtshaus (Hotel) WALD-MICHELBACH Karrillon-Zimmer im Alten Rathaus
ROUTE 5 > THE BUSSINES TOUR
FRANKFURT S. Fischer Verlag
Verlag der AuSuhrkamp Verlag (bis 2010) Campus
toren Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt Eichborn Societäts-Verlag Stroemfeld Verlag weissbooks.w Peter Meyer Verlag
Frankfurt University Press Büchergilde Gutenberg Axel Dielmann Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Verlag Literaturca Verlag
Zweitausendeins
Schöffling & Co.
MAINZ Verlag Hermann Schmidt
WEINHEIM Verlagsgruppe Beltz
DARMSTADT
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft HANAU CoCon Verlag WIESBADEN Tre Torri Verlag
FRANKFURT Martin Mosebach Eva Demski Bodo Kirchhoff Alissa Walser Eckhard
Henscheid
Dietmar Dath
Zsuzsa Bánk
Jan Seghers/Matthias Altenburg
Alina Bronsky
MÖRFELDEN Peter Härtling
DARMSTADT Gabriele Wohmann MAINZ Jens Schumacher BAD NAUHEIM Andreas Maier
ROUTE 6 > THE CREATIVE TOUR
FRANKFURT Hessisches Literaturforum im Mousonturm e.V.
Romanfabrik
Literaturhaus
Literaturm 2010
OFFENBACH Bücherfest Rhein-Main WIESBADEN Wiesbadener Literaturtage Literaturhaus Villa Clementine MAINZ SWR-Literaturfestival SWR „Literatur im Foyer“-Sendung LIMBURG Limburger Lesedom NIDDA Nidda
literarisch
ROUTE 7 > THE EVENT TOUR
FRANKFURT Institut für Jugendbuchforschung
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Stiftungsgastdozentur Poetik MAINZ Institut für Buchwissenschaft Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Poetikdozentur WIESBADEN Poetikdozentur
ROUTE 8 > THE SCIENCE TOUR
ROUTE 9 > THE POETRY SLAM TOUR
WIESBADEN Where the wild words are
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FRANKFURT Slamffm: Café an der FH
MAINZ Poetry Slam Mainz
DARMSTADT Darmstädter Dichterschlacht
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> THE CLASSICAL TOUR
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We are here in one of the most venerable and significant places of national intellectual
tradition.” Those were the words used by writer Thomas Mann to mark the opening of
the extended Goethe Museum in 1932. Notwithstanding Goethe’s equally famed living quarters in
Weimar, Großer Hirschgraben in Frankfurt may indeed be regarded as the epicenter of German
literature. When, on the eve of what is probably the darkest chapter of German history, Thomas
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The ultimate writer – “Godfather” of German Classicism.
Sets the backdrop for everything the FRM literature cluster
is essentially composed of.
Mann admonished the state of Prussia and the City of Frankfurt “to do everything in their power
to shield Frankfurt’s Goethe House from the misery and decay of the times,” just 12 years were to
remain before Frankfurt was finally struck with disaster: As early as November 1943 the roof truss
of the house was destroyed in air raids, while in March 1944 large parts of Frankfurt’s old town
center, including Goethe’s birthplace, was flattened. Ernst Beutler, who was in charge of the “Freie
Deutsche Hochstift” at the time, had enough foresight to have the furniture moved to alternative
storing facilities and the building’s structure documented to the last detail before it also fell victim
to destruction. His efforts during the War and his commitment to reconstructing the building
means that today tourists from all over the world can make a pilgrimage to the house located on
Großer Hirschgraben. Thanks to his prudence, we can experience the spirit of Goethe’s times between these walls. Once you step across the threshold and into the building, you can imagine yourself at the center of the literary universe, if only for a moment.
Who else could it be but Goethe, who, time and again in and around the city of Frankfurt sets the
scene and provides the backdrop of countless places located in the literary landscape that is Frank
furtRhineMain. However, even beyond Frankfurt’s city walls, following Hölderlin’s footsteps as he
walked out to Bad Homburg in worship of his Diotima, or doing a memorial tour to trace the historical whereabouts of the Romantic women and men associated with the families of Arnim and
Brentano, we come across countless literary landmarks. And if, in the middle of the 19th century,
the town had been put into a fairy-tale slumber, if it had withstood the industrial development
into a city complete with factories, villas and Gründerzeit quarters extending beyond the old city
walls, we would be wandering through it as if it were the literature-merry town of Rothenburg ob
der Tauber, where Germany’s Classical and Romantic Period had its heyday.
There is no reason to get upset that things did not quite turn out that way, instead, FrankfurtRhine
Main has remained a vibrant literature hub to this day, resisting even the attraction of Berlin in the
wake of German reunification. There are many writers living in this region, amongst them Martin
Mosebach, Matthias Altenburg alias Jan Seghers, Eva Demski, Bodo Kirchhoff, Alissa Walser in
Frankfurt, Peter Härtling in Mörfelden, and Jens Schumacher in Mainz – to name but a few. There
is definitely no reason why anyone in FrankfurtRhineMain should glance over to Berlin. After all,
for almost half a century, the cities on the rivers Main and Rhine were reaping the benefits from
Germany’s political divide – the countless institutions, foundations and associations that came to
settle in the region after the war originally hailed from cities in the east, such as Berlin, Leipzig and
Dresden. It was thanks to them that Frankfurt emerged as the most prestigious city of books and
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Literary Scene
If you set out to identify
all the activities, initiatives and
people in the literary scene,
you would not reach an end
the book trade in the German-speaking world alongside Munich. The main initiators behind this
trend were the publishing houses S. Fischer Verlag and Suhrkamp Verlag, a later offspring. While
S. Fischer initially had its focus on the literary heritage of Classical Modernism, Suhrkamp evolved
into the kind of institution that, for the next four decades, would be pivotal in shaping – even
ROUTE 6 > THE CREATIVE
TOUR
dominating – intellectual life in the old Federal Republic. For many years, the so-called “Suhrkamp
culture” was synonymous with German contemporary literature – Lindenstrasse in Frankfurt’s
Westend being the central location for post-war literature. And several of the smaller publishing
houses headquartered in and around Frankfurt have sprung from the two publishing giants
Suhrkamp and Fischer (at times in a less than amicable split). Having worked as an editor for Fischer
for several years, Vito von Eichborn established his own publishing house in 1980, while Joachim
1
Matthias Altenburg
is better known to thriller fans
under the pseudonym Jan Seghers. He used to work for Verlag
der Autoren as an editor. Lives in
Frankfurt
Unseld took over the “Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt” after the split from his parent company and,
finally, editor Rainer Weiss founded Weissbooks some years ago. Nonetheless, Schöffling Verlag,
Stroemfeld Verlag, Axel Dielmann Verlag (to name but a few) also rank among the distinguished
publishers, without which our literary landscape would be a good deal poorer.
Last but not least, it is no coincidence that the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (The
German Book Publishers and Booksellers Association), which in 1948 split from the original Leipzig
Association founded in 1825 and merged again in 1990 following the German reunification has its
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Martin Mosebach
Was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 2007 and is regarded as a gifted stylist. Born and
raised in Frankfurt, he succeeded in creating a formidable portrait of his home town in the novel “Westend”
quarters in the immediate vicinity of the Goethe House on Großer Hirschgraben. As an umbrella
organization representing all German publishers, book traders and distributors, the Börsenverein
is the brain and the heart of the book industry, the powerful lobby in the world of literature. What’s
more, in endowing the “Deutsche Buchpreis” (German Book Prize), the Association succeeded in
establishing the long overdue equivalent to the British Booker Prize or the Prix Goncourt. The winner, who is awarded the title “Best German-language novel of the year”, will find that the prize
money worth EUR 25,000 comprises but a small part of the overall benefit – high print-runs, inter-
3
Eva Demski
Is the “Grande Dame” of the
Frankfurt literary scene; her latest book “Gartengeschichten”
(Garden Stories) was inspired by
the greenery outside her balcony door
national attention and translations are an added bonus not to be underestimated. Within a very
short time, the Deutsche Buchpreis has shot to recognition as the most prestigious German award
for monographs. On the six days following the award ceremony, the Book Fair indeed turns Frankfurt into the epicenter of the literary world. At the Frankfurter Hof, one of the city’s most prestigious hotels, for the duration of the exhibition one can witness the non-intellectual, in other words,
the business side of the literary circus.
Just a few hundred yards from the “Frankfurter Hof”, the Book Fair’s top event takes place on
Sunday morning: The Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book
Trade) is awarded in Frankfurt’s Paulskirche. If you are in the lucky position to join the illustrious
audience at the award ceremony, you will find yourself amongst the top representatives of the state
who have come to Frankfurt to demonstrate their affinity with literature. Nonetheless, this in itself
does not turn the Paulskirche speech into a political issue. Those who have the honor of speaking at
this event are certain that their words will be heard all over the world.
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Zsuzsa Bánk
used to be a bookseller, studied
literature in Mainz, now living in
Frankfurt as a writer (“The
Swimmer”)
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Bodo Kirchhoff
From his “writer’s apartment” in
Sachsenhausen he has a fabulous view of the Skyline
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The sheer wealth is impressive
as it is overwhelming. Including
the institutions, the literary scene is
almost impossible to grasp
While the Frankfurt Book Fair is renowned the world over, another literary event is known only by
few despite the fact that it is the biggest of its kind in the German-speaking world: Every two years,
ROUTE 2 > THE AWARDS
TOUR
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Georg Büchner Prize
Since 1923 the prestigious prize,
named after the gifted writer
from the town of Goddelau, is
awarded in Darmstadt
attracting more than 300 exhibitors, the “Mainzer Mini-Pressen-Messe” (Mainz Mini Letterpress
Fair) takes place just several hundred yards away from the Gutenberg Museum. Compared to the
Goethe House on Hirschgraben, the museum constitutes a rather different epicenter, not only of
German literature but of the entire literary western world. Just consider the following: Without the
art of book printing with movable letters, there would be no Bible editions, without Bible editions
there would be no proliferation of Lutheran Bibles, hence no language norms to standardize the
German language – in short: without the letterpress there would be no publishing industry.
Book printing was invented in Mainz, while the office of Town Writer was invented in Frankfurt.
There are many cities now that for a full year provide a writer with lodgings and a sizable allowROUTE 1 > THE EXHIBITION
TOUR
2
Frankfurt Book Fair
On six days in October, the international book industry convenes
in Frankfurt’s exhibition halls –
and surroundings
ance. By the way, Mainz also joined their ranks in 1984, with Monika Maron currently inhabiting
the town writer’s apartment. However, the original idea is claimed by the Bergen-Enkheim district
of Frankfurt, which is where the office of Town Writer was invented in 1974, when Bergen had not
yet been incorporated into Frankfurt. When Ulrich Peltzer, Bergen’s current town writer, takes a
walk in the orchard meadows at Berger Hang located just a few steps to the back of the small town
writer’s house, he literally has the whole region at his feet. From this vantage point it soon becomes
clear that FrankfurtRhineMain is but one interconnected natural area, bordered in the south by the
Odenwald and in the east by the slopes of the Lower Franconian Spessart. If Darmstadt had a skyline similar to that of Frankfurt, from up here the region’s southern edge could even be made out in
good viewing conditions. On the far side, in the distant city of Darmstadt, we see the Mount Olympus of Germany’s literary gods, as it were. It is where Germany’s most prestigious literature prize
– the Büchner Prize – is awarded once every year. The award ceremony marks the highlight of the
fall conference held by the Deutsche Akademie für Dichtung und Sprache (German Academy for
Literature and Language).
In any case, the concentration of prizes in FrankfurtRhineMain is highly impressive: If you attempt-
ed to explore all those literary activities and initiatives, the people and institutions comprising and
shaping the literary scene, you would hardly come to an end. The sheer wealth is as impressive as it
is overwhelming and attempting to grasp it all borders on the impossible, if you include the universities and specialist publishers, the libraries, literature houses and the media in the equation. Literary
life as it is now is the sum of what happens at the interfaces between the creative minds, publishers,
academies, cultural departments, festivals, exhibitions, institutions and, last but not least, the temporarily or permanently resident writers and the interested public. In this regard, there is scarcely a
region where literature is found to be flourishing more than in FrankfurtRhineMain.
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Creative Economy
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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Creative minds are taking over
the old factories in Offenbach.
Here: The loft of Sensory Minds,
a highly successful start-up
company, in a former leather
goods factory.
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Wolfgang Henseler
A graduate of the Hochschule
für Gestaltung (HfG) in Offenbach, his first Internet company
made him a millionaire. He now
develops innovative Websites
and is in international demand.
www.sensory-minds.com
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Knut Hartmann
In 2002 the brand designer relocated with his agency from
Frankfurt to Offenbach, halving
his rent in the process. In the
meantime he has handed over
the running of the business to
his daughter (right) and now
concentrates on photography.
www.khdesign.de
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Creative Economy
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Sebastian Herkner
The product designer graduated
in 2007 in Offenbach with the
reinterpretation of an armchair. In
2009 the design magazine Wallpaper voted his table (above)
among the 20 best products at
the Milan furniture fair.
www.sebastianherkner.com
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On Tuesday, the people from Google were in Offenbach looking for new Internet so-
lutions. At Sensory Minds in Ludwigstrasse. Within a short space of time, Wolfgang
Henseler’s start-up company has emerged as a major player in the field of natural user interfaces. This
is the term used for the change that takes place at the man-machine interface: Mice and keyboards
are truly yesterday, today it’s all about touch-screen operation using fingers, hands, or a pencil –
“natural use”, as the name implies. As Wolfgang Henseler says, “there are no longer any long ways
round via menus and input commands, handling becomes simpler, quicker, more efficient, and more
fun. Anybody, young and old, gets to grips with it intuitively.” This development also affects the
Google business model. How do Websites change? What must the interface be like? Sensory Minds
has the answers, which is why Google was in Offenbach on Tuesday – and Youtube on Wednesday.
Offenbach in late summer 2009. A city about to witness the greatest transformation in its history?
A working city yesterday, the hot spot of the creative scene tomorrow? Offenbach is shedding its
skin, wiping the sweat from its brow. While mechanical engineering companies such as Manroland
(printing) and GKN Löbro (automotive) are still two of the biggest employers, the large-scale production of leather goods, with which the city of 120,000 inhabitants made its name, is history.
Today all that bears witness to it is the Leather Museum. In its place, but hardly perceived beyond
the city limits, what is known as the creative economy is assuming an ever more prominent position. Artists, musicians, and photographers are attracting attention. IT firms, designers, and advertising agencies are developing ideas for products. As a study reveals, with 4,000 people working
in 900 companies, Offenbach is disproportionately represented in the sector. A cluster is taking
shape. Empty factories are becoming chic lofts, a former hall for storing oil is used for exhibitions,
workshops are springing up in backyards, an industrial wasteland is now an open-air cinema and
a disused engine shed a trendy meeting place.
Wolfgang Henseler’s premises are on the second floor of a former leather goods factory. The
rooms are spacious, open, everything is black and white. He is the Bill Gates of Offenbach, the icon
of the creative scene; there from the word go, art student, founder, millionaire – always at the cutting edge of developments. Even as a student at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) in the city he
was working on the future of computers. In 1988 he presented his professors with a piece of black
Plexiglas that responded to touch. At the time this was a case of either genius or madness. In 1994
he founded the Pixel Factory and designed the first Internet pages for Deutsche Bank, MercedesBenz, and Lufthansa. At its peak the company had a payroll of 120 in Offenbach and branches in
London and New York. In 1999 Henseler was appointed Professor of Visual Communication at the
Hochschule für Gestaltung in Pforzheim – and sold his company at a profit. Following a brief interlude as managing director of an Internet agency in Bad Homburg (“I would have missed the boat in
terms of developments there”) he is back with a bang. The big names are standing in line at Sensory
Minds, which was only founded in May 2009. AMG Mercedes plans to use his Natural User Interface
Design in a big way, and the German Army (the Bundeswehr) is interested in his projects. 12
employees are working away feverishly on innovative Websites for MLP and Arte. Only in July,
Sensory Minds installed the world’s biggest multi-touch and multi-user wall at the Nürburgring –
45 meters long and 11 meters high. It was just the warm-up for a big race.
But why in Offenbach? Short distances, quick decisions, creative potential, multi-cultural flair –
and low rents. Like in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. In 1997 the painter Johannes Kriesche
moved his studio from Frankfurt to Offenbach, to the Mato factory, a former machine factory on
Bieberer Strasse. It was meant to be demolished and its use as a studio a temporary solution. Today
there are over 40 painters, sculptors and musicians working in the factory, which has all the charm
of Kunsthaus Tacheles in Berlin. It still smells of metal, but it is art that is produced there. The
artists’ group “Kunst Raum Mato” champions Offenbach as a center of creativity; Kriesche, who
rose to national fame with his paraffin works, is its Chairman. Shirt-sleeved, unpretentious,
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Creative Economy
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Wilfrid Kreutz
In 1998 the metal sculptor founded
his studio Hammer Art in the Mato
factory in Offenbach. In 2009 he
designed a cup for the German
Football Association.
www.kunst-raum-mato.de
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Bernd Kracke
The Professor of Electronic Media
has been President of the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach since 2006. In fall 2009 he
is hoping for a decision in favor
of the move to the former docks.
www.hfg-offenbach.de
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Johannes Kriesche
The painter, who enjoys an
international reputation
through his paraffin works,
relocated to the Mato factory
with his studio in 1997. He
is now the highly committed
head of the “Kunst Raum
Mato” group of artists.
www.johannes-kriesche.de
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The HfG
The Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) in Offenbach is
one of Germany's largest art
academies. It trains 600
students in Visual Communication and Product Design
and awards the prestigious
German Diplom qualification.
It deliberately maintained
this form of degree to ensure
high standards and international mobility. As of the
2009 winter semester students will also have an opportunity to study for a doctorate.
As of the 2010 summer semester there will also be an
endowed chair of Creativity
in the Urban Context initiated
by the city of Offenbach.
"there’s a lot going on here". He has long since been living in Offenbach as well. He has just got back
from an exhibition in Nuremberg. On the site of the former AEG works a new art center based on
the cotton spinning mill in Leipzig is being set up. He would love to see Offenbach in the same
league.
Knut Hartmann, founder and owner of khdesign, relocated his brand agency from Frankfurt to
Offenbach in 2002 - and halved his rent in the process. His studio is in the former Heyne screw factory close to the docks. Once the third largest factory in Offenbach, when production came to a halt
in 1968 the site was renovated and awarded numerous architecture and listed building prizes. Today more than 200 companies work in the chic lofts and showrooms, developing trends in
design, fashion, architecture and advertising. Knut Hartmann’s accounts include major clients
such as the pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline and the drugstore chain “dm”. Offenbach’s
financial advantage has long since taken a backseat. Creative networks are a convincing factor for
the city. Hartmann has just as much considered joint projects with the furniture dealer on the
ground floor as he has with the ad man above him – albeit through art happenings. The agency
business has made him reflect on things. Hartmann would like to get back to his roots. He has
transferred the management of the agency to his daughter, and is now doing photography. “City
Lights”, blurred urban images with bright lights, are his trade mark.
Art is the real argument in favor of Offenbach. With its long-standing tradition, the Hochschule
für Gestaltung (HfG) is the core of the creative center. It is the country’s leading communications
design institute and – just to compare – five times as big as the renowned Städel Schule in Frankfurt. With 22 professors and 15 lecturers, the HfG instructs 600 students in visual communication
and product design and is continually producing top people and talents, including the artist
Thomas Bayrle and the designer Oliver Grabes, who designed the Xbox for Microsoft, the film
director Carsten Strauch and only recently the product designer and graduate of 2007 Sebastian
Herkner. In April he presented three designs at “Salone”, the world’s largest furniture fair in Milan.
Wallpaper, the world’s leading design magazine, promptly voted one of the exhibits one of the 20
best products. Herkner is currently in negotiations regarding two other designs with manufacturers
in the Netherlands and Spain. Born and brought up in Bad Mergentheim, Herkner – like so many
others – has stayed on in Offenbach. He lives and works in a loft in a back-yard building on Geleitsstrasse – barefoot and wearing jeans and a T-shirt. An Offenbach Bohemian. “Lots of graduates
go to Berlin of course,” says Herkner. “But the region around Offenbach has far more financial clout.
And then all the major exhibitions are held in Frankfurt.” On his desk there is already a design for
a sideboard made of wood and beveled brass for the next Milan furniture fair.
As Professor Bernd Kracke, President of the Hochschule für Gestaltung says, “There’s a sort of
Kreuzberg effect in this city. The potential is to be found in HfG, the freedom in the city. Both benefit from each other.” His biggest project is HfG’s move to the now disused docks. Things are becoming too cramped on the old site with the idyllic Isenburg Castle. According to an expert opi nion, an additional 5,000 square meters of space are needed. “If we don’t expand now, in ten to
15 years we are going to have problems and will fall behind in the competition with other universities,” Kracke says. Discerning, headstrong, but convincing, and convinced of his plans. The
docks are ideal for the project, which is set to cost millions. With 26 hectares of land and 6 hectares
of water, it is one of the largest and most attractive area for building on in FrankfurtRhineMain –
twice as large as the Westhafen site in Frankfurt, and about a quarter of the size of the Hafencity
development in Hamburg. Building plans have been drawn up, the site is currently being made
accessible, and construction could commence in the coming year. At the moment the state government is examining the Creative Campus project. A decision is due to be made in the fall. If it is in
favor – something all the creative minds from Henseler and Kriesche to Hartmann and Herkner
hope – it really would be the Big Bang for urban development in Offenbach.
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FRM Interview
The European
Laif/Reporters
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, born in Montauban,
southwest France, in 1945, is regarded
as one of the most dazzling figures of the
1968 movement, one who “commutes”
between Germany and France. Since
1994, “Dany le Rouge” has been an MEP,
representing in turns the German and
the French Green parties. At the 2009
European elections he won 16.9 percent
with his party Liste Europe Ecologie,
triggering a veritable “Dany boom” in
France. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, co-chair of
the Green Party, lives in Frankfurt
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WHY FRM IS INTERNATIONAL
An FRM interview about Frankfurt, its strength and the possibilities it offers
> For somebody who, more than anybody else from the re-
> Won itself a place in my heart is not the same thing as
gion, is active in and for Europe, how is Frankfurt perceived becoming my home.
internationally? How do people in Brussels, Strasbourg,
No, of course not. For me, that feeling has more to do with people
London and Paris view FrankfurtRhineMain?
and certain locations than it has with assignment to a specific
In the fi rst instance, Frankfurt is perceived through the vehicle urban domain. For my son the situation is admittedly different.
of the European Central Bank, which is seen as something of a
He was born here. Frankfurt is his home. Generally speaking,
European trademark. The second thing is Frankfurt airport.
Germany does possess a strong sense of region, a local conscious-
These are the two fi xed points in the European consciousness. For
ness. People like to distinguish themselves from the others, for
certain groups, the Frankfurt Book Fair also plays an important
instance, the Bavarians from the rest of the Germans. According-
role.
ly, it is easier for a Turk living in Frankfurt to defi ne himself as
a citizen of Frankfurt than as a German Turk.
> How do you explain your personal connection with Frankfurt to your colleagues in the European Parliament?
> In France, the Netherlands, and even in Berlin people with
To begin with, people do not primarily live in a city but in certain
a migrant background have quite obviously been relegated
personal circumstances. For me this has a great deal to do with
to ghettos. How has the region here succeeded in creating a
my history, my marriage, my child, my relationships, my friends.
social climate that seems to balance out all these enormous
I mean at some point in my life I wound up here, I liked it here,
tensions?
I fell in love here and I ended up living here. Within this relation- Th ings do vary from district to district, even in Frankfurt and the
ship network I fi nd that it is possible to live very pleasantly in
fact that even in Frankfurt Turkish youths do have problems
Frankfurt.
should not be underestimated. But it is true that in Frankfurt
people no longer only need an “Apfelwein (local cider) identity” in
> Can Frankfurt become home to somebody who moves here?
order to be accepted here. Th is has a lot to do with what has been
For me, the term home is a difficult one and the sense of mission, so
done on a political level for integration. Generally, however, it is
to speak, that some people in Germany seem to have about it is
true that the high proportion of foreigners protects everybody.
very foreign to me. Frankfurt can grow on you, certainly. You can Foreigners do not feel foreign here, simply because there are so
feel comfortable in Frankfurt. At some point, its provincial quality
many other foreigners. Th is also clearly defi nes the relationship
does perhaps get on your nerves – but of course Frankfurt has won between locals and foreigners. There are so many foreigners that
itself a place in my heart.
everybody has the feeling that foreigners belong here.
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FRM Interview
the kind of freedom that promotes every talent, every initiative
– these are some of the characteristics of the city of tomorrow.
> Does Frankfurt have the right preconditions for this?
Frankfurt does have good preconditions, if it solves certain
problems. The good preconditions are the fact that Frankfurt is a
very interesting mixture of town and village. The village can
provide a feeling of security and the town can provide the freedom of anonymity. That is positive explosive force and quality.
> In view of global challenges such as climate change and
Laif/Reporters
financial crisis, does the local and regional dimension really
still have a place on the European stage?
All changes in behavior that are necessary to deal with the ecological crisis will have to be dealt with in the towns. In this conDaniel Cohn-Bendit
Former head of the Department for Multicultural
Affairs: “You can feel comfortable in Frankfurt.”
text there is no contradiction between what needs to be handled
globally and the necessary dimension of activity on the metropolitan or urban level.
> Although people are always saying that Europe is far
away...
> Richard Florida, the US sociologist, came up with the theory
That is just something that people say, that Europe is far away.
of the three Ts: Florida demonstrated that creative people
But that is absurd. To begin with, we do not live in “the” world.
are particularly attracted by towns and regions where new
We live in a much smaller context than we think. And none-
technologies, talent and social tolerance are in evidence to
theless Europe is in Frankfurt. If, for instance, you are in Paris,
a large degree. In your opinion, to what extent are these
then Paris is in the middle of Europe. And if you are in Frankfurt,
three attributes present in FrankfurtRhineMain?
then Frankfurt is in the middle of Europe. And then you
Of course, talent is relevant and in evidence. And the fact that the
cannot say: Frankfurt is far away.
new technologies engender incredible creativity goes without
DANIEL COHN-BENDIT WAS SPEAKING TO FRANÇOISE GIBERT.
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saying. But at the same time, today, they are to be found almost
everywhere. In my opinion though, Florida underestimates the
social component. I believe, for example, that a town where there
is a great social divide between rich and poor cannot be so very
FRANKFURT AM MAIN
productive in the long term. For me, a town is creative and in motion when social mobility is real – for example, when schools
Total population: 674,604
function as a means of upward social mobility. Here, this is only
the case in a limited sense and accordingly, Frankfurt has not yet
164,163 foreign residents
in Frankfurt, that is 24.3%
fully realized its creative potential; in order to do this, it would
have to be more compact in social terms. Young migrants for
example, possess talents that cannot be discovered so easily
without encouragement.
> To your mind, what is it that makes up the quality of a city,
a metropolitan region of the future?
In order to provide a proper basis for existence, the first thing
that a city must do is to get the ecological dangers under control.
This is very difficult because an ecological city demands a completely different approach to traffic, noise, and CO2 emissions.
However, the city of tomorrow is also a city that is able to combine solidarity with freedom. There should also be a sense of
public spirit that protects the weak and also, so to speak, offers
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Foreign residents with their main residence
in Frankfurt am Main by nationality:
The top 10
1. Turkey: 31,066
2. Italy: 13,661
3. Croatia: 11,861
4. Serbia: 10,245
5. Poland: 9,321
6. Greece: 6,411
7. Morocco: 6,183
8. Bosnia and Herzegovina: 5,260
9. Spain: 4,494
10. Portugal: 3,423
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Event
INNOVATION NIGHT
EXPERIENCE THE FUTURE
Just how much potential knowledge is there really in
FrankfurtRhineMain? Innovative 2009, the fair for creative
minds in Darmstadt, provides the answer
>
A firework display of creativity: For the first time,
universities, research institutes and companies are
jointly presenting the region’s innovative power. The exhibition,
which premieres on October 2 from 10 a.m. through 9 p. m. goes by
the name of Innovative 2009. In the darmstadtium anything and
everything scientists, service providers, and engineers develop
and research day in day out between Mainz and Aschaffenburg
and between Gießen and Darmstadt will be on display. Over 60
participants are presenting exhibits and hands-on experiments
and providing information in the form of lectures and video presentations. “Edutainers” accompany visitors through the exhibition and explain the complex world of science in a simple vivid
manner. The list of participants reads like a “Who’s Who” from
FRM. Those attending the event in the darmstadtium include the
universities of Frankfurt, Gießen and Darmstadt, the Mathematikum in Gießen, the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information
Technology SIT, the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, as well as
Heraeus, Schott, Continental and Software AG. Innovative 2009 is
not intended to be a one-off event. Following the premiere this
year, in future there are plans for the Innovative exhibition to surprise visitors every year.
A region presents its creativity
The darmstadtium provides the right
setting for Innovative 2009
Darmstadtium/Jürgen Mai(2)
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Pocket Guide
for FrankfurtRhineMain
Fall
2009
Fotos:
EVENTS, CULTURE,
ENJOYMENT,
EXCURSIONS AND
MORE
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For the After Work Logistics!
With useful information and
recommendations
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Tangible ideas. The former
Koziol ivory factory in
Michelstadt now produces
fashionable luminaires,
trendy partitions and colorful gifts. The classic: The
dream sphere. The world
famous snow globes are also available with gold dust
and silver stars – and on
request with your very own
motif.
Verboten gut aussehen
(look forbiddingly good):
The current advertising slogan for the Braun razors
from Kronberg applies just
as much to the customers
as to the appliances themselves. The razors have enjoyed international success
ever since the 1960s – with
regard to industrial design
as well. “Mr. Braun” Dieter
Rams gave the products an
unmistakable face - elementary functionalism.
www.koziol.de
www.braun.com
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Wella creates trends. In the
1970s the hair care products from Darmstadt enable the afro-look, in the
‘80s the wet-look, and today a highly individual hair
fashion worn by several international style icons.
“Virtual Life” is the name of
the current vision – visually
somewhere between reality
and the virtual world.
Leica is a legend. Among
several professional journalism photographers the
cult cameras from Solms
are known particularly for
the superb visual and mechanical quality of their
lenses. Seven Leica galleries worldwide – including
New York, Tokyo and
Frankfurt – present masterpieces by photographers who use Leica.
“At home outdoors”: You
could be forgiven for thinking Jack Wolfskin, a leading
supplier of outdoor clothing, was based in Canada
rather than Idstein. The
company with the wolf’s
paw trademark started out
as the brand of the Frankfurt company Sine. Today
over 200 Jack Wolfskin
stores worldwide sell rucksacks, tents, and fashionable all-weather clothing.
www.wella.de
de.leica-camera.com
www.jack-wolfskin.de
“Brands are like machetes.
They cut a path through the
brand jungle. ”
FLORIAN LANGENSCHEIDT
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Sinn watches are different.
Not knickknack, not plain
fashion, not jewelry in the
traditional sense. Made
in Frankfurt, these chronographs are, though, unadorned engineering, pure
innovation. With his financial
center watch models Sinn
also reveals a sense of
FrankfurtRhineMain.
Not only for FrankfurtRhine
Main is Opel a marque with
tradition and a future. Opel
must gleam again, says
state Prime Minister Roland
Koch in the wake of the
turbulence of the past few
months. With the Insignia
and the new Astra the Rüsselsheim work force has
optimistically made itself
the topic of conversation
again. Per aspera ad astra.
Or: the beginning of a
new era.
www.sinn.de
www.opel.de
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108 years old and still
sprightly. The frog from
Mainz is probably the oldest in the world. But it is
still making great claims.
“Erdal – polished shoes
have it”, the red frog
maintains. It has stood for
uncompromising quality
for over 100 years now.
The shoe polish has a fairly
constant market share of
80 percent.
And the winner is: a kettle.
Ever since the 1920s the Offenbach company Rowenta
has stood for shapely
household appliances with
innovative functions, which
are self-explanatory in their
use. The “red dot Design
Award” was bestowed on
the M-Edition only recently.
Even today the revolutionary
steam irons are a big sellers.
Masterpiece in leather. One
thing can be said of the luxury articles by the Offenbach leather goods manufacturer Seeger for certain:
they are second to none in
terms of softness. Specially
treated top-quality lambskin nappa guarantees this.
Star conductor Leonard
Bernstein only ever put his
baton down if his special
Seeger case was close by.
A name goes round the
world. 40 years ago, when
Heinz Hankammer came
up with the idea of filtering
tap water in order to rid it
of lime and chlorine, he
simply named the young
company after his daughter. Today the name Brita is
known throughout the
world. There is a water filter from Taunusstein in almost every household.
www.erdal.de
www.rowenta.de
www.seeger.de
www.brita.net
Science
Yuliyan Velcher
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FrankfurtRhineMain is a European hub. The emergence
of the House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM), situated between
the airport and Frankfurter Kreuz, is transforming the region into
a world-class logistics center
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The doers
Stefan Walter and Jack Thoms
are moving the “House of Logistics and Mobility” project at
Gateway Gardens forward
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Science
The region is focusing on its strengths.
First the House of Finance and now the House Of Logistics and Mobility – a research, education and knowledge
transfer center that will be unique in the world
>
Frankfurt Airport. Gateway Gardens. The flowery name still conceals a huge area of
derelict land. Hoarding, demarcated building land and a few deserted apartments.
Only the freshly tarmaced roads give any indication that the future is to be built here. At one time
2,500 US soldiers and their families lived here. There was a movie theater and a church, an elementary and a middle school, Coca Cola and barbecues. That is all history. Gateway Gardens now stands
for a vision. By 2016 an urban neighborhood for over 10,000 people is to be built close to the airport,
1
The location
Gateway Gardens, the new
neighborhood at Frankfurt
Airport will be the most easily
reachable in the whole of
Europe
a center for the future. Featuring offices and hotels, cafés and restaurants – and the House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM).
2
A poster on one of the surviving ochre barracks and a sign reading second floor points the way to
the future. This is home to the HOLM project office, to be more precise the Director, Prof. Stefan
Walter, the Head of Marketing Dr. Jack Thoms and their 12 employees. In five apartments that have
been turned into a single refurbished, state-of-the-art office. There is no stopping the young acade-
The model
There is a model of the “House
of Logistics and Mobility” in the
project office. Construction work
is due to begin in the coming
year
mics-come managers, directors of the Supply Chain Management Institute (SMI) at the European
Business School (EBS), talking, almost waxing lyrical about “their” project. “First the House of Finance and now the House of Logistics and Mobility“, says Professor Walter. “The region is focusing
on its strengths.” The HOLM is intended to become a Silicon Valley for logistics, a spearheading research, education and knowledge transfer center that will be unique in the world.
The framework for such an ambitious project could scarcely be better. FrankfurtRheinMain is a
European hub, competing directly with Dubai and Singapore. The sector employs 245,000 people in
the region. Four of the five largest regional employers are in the business. With the airport, the
Frankfurter Kreuz intersection and Frankfurt’s main station FrankfurtRhineMain is one of the
most easily reachable regions in Europe. Its economic clout is enhanced by academic expertise – at
the University of Frankfurt, the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt Technical
University and the European Business School (EBS) in Wiesbaden, the founding universities of
HOLM. Professor Hans-Christian Pfohl, the co-founder of logistics management in Germany, no
less, teaches in Darmstadt. And the Supply Chain Management Institute (SMI) at the EBS, which is
headed by the President of the university Prof. Christopher Jahns, is one of the world’s leading
purchasing, logistics, and supply chain management institutes.
Walter and Thoms are fascinated by the idea of creating a closely networked, integrated cluster
from the geographical proximity of companies and universities. After all, only a cluster with a capable management team is going to make all those in it successful. Stefan Walter likes drawing a comparison with sport. “It’s like saying that a group of 11 professional players make a successful football
team: That is not the case. Only successful club management like that of Uli Hoeness at Bayern Munich has established the club at the top on a long-term basis. That applies just as much to clusters.“
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The vision
A new urban center for over
10,000 people is due to be built
on the former US housing area
Frankfurt-West
Fair ground
Frankfurt-South
Airport
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And Walter goes one step further. “According to the latest academic findings the strength of the
local logistics clusters determines just how efficient industry clusters are. In the age of global sourcing and global supply & distribution networks, purchasers and sales people rely on smoothly running supply chain management. And it is precisely this that networked logistics clusters are unique
in offering. Recent research even reveals that for all other industry clusters logistics clusters are
decisive in corporate success and established companies settling somewhere – and as such decisive
for the region as well.“ Walter quotes Michael E. Porter, the well-known Harvard economist and
“father of the cluster theory“, whom he visits once a year.
At the moment, however, the project office is busy with its own “logistics”. “Events, conferences,
meetings and talks, talks, talks “, says Stefan Walter. You can sense the momentum. 70 project partners have already been acquired. All 15 universities in Hesse are now on board, covering over 90
logistics and mobility-related areas. 50 professors, for the most part from the founding universities,
will work at the House of Logistics and Mobility on a long-term basis. Another 40 will work in project offices. These will be joined by over 200 academics from around the world, one of them from
Harvard. At the HOLM he will expand Michael E. Porter’s cluster ideas. Construction work is due to
commence as early as next year, almost 90 percent of the planned gross surface area 20,000 square
meters already having been earmarked. In 2012 it will then be a case of “Go HOLM!“
DOCKS
Frankfurt Airport is one of the
central European hubs. Over 50
million passengers take off or
land there every year
The docks in the region
handle far in excess of ten million tons of goods per year. The
boats have access to the North
Sea and the Black Sea
MAIN STATION
FRANKFURTER KREUZ
Frankfurt’s main station
is the largest in Europe. Some
350,000 people use it and its
excellent regional transportation links every day
The Frankfurter Kreuz intersection is one of the busiest in
Europe. Far more than 300,000
vehicles pass it daily
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AIRPORT
LOGISTICS
& MOBILITY
IN FRM
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Visions, ideas and dreams come in different sizes, but putting them into practice is great at
any rate. To promote your success FrankfurtRhineMain offers a first-rate infrastructure right
in the heart of Europe. Whether it’s road, rail, water, air or state of the art data highway –
our means of transportation in FrankfurtRhineMain are as diverse as your objectives may be,
but they share one destination: your success.
Discover how to make the most of your business. Join the network of FrankfurtRhineMain.
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Quality of Life
PACKED WITH
ORGANIC PRODUCE
FRANKFURTRHINEMAIN
From organic farms to organic supermarket chains: FrankfurtRhineMain
is home to far more organic companies and organic farmers’ associations
than you may have thought. So come and join us on a tour of the places
where FRM is at its most natural
BY MARC-STEFAN ANDRES AND MARKUS HINTZEN (PHOTOGRAPHS)
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The green industry is thriving
“Andorra”, the cow, pictured
here with her newborn calf on
Dottenfelder Hof, and happy pigs
in the Domain Mechtildshausen
“Is it not sucking yet?” asks Margarethe Hinterlang,
land constituted 9.1 percent of the total agricultural area in Hesse;
peering in the box in the corner of the massive cow- topped only by the states of Berlin and Brandenburg. However,
shed at Dottenfelder Hof. There, on the straw, we see “Andorra”,
success is being enjoyed not only by the roughly 1,600 organic
the cow, with her calf, born just two hours ago. Still somewhat
farms but also by organic companies, of which there are 600 lo-
awkward on its feet, the young calf is stumbling across the box cated in Hesse. The organic food manufacturer Alnatura, for inand sucking on its mother’s throat – but not where it’s supposed
stance, originally founded in Fulda and today headquartered in
to suck! Margarethe Hinterlang watches them a bit longer before the town of Bickenbach in southern Hesse, owns 50 organic suopening the gate and jumping into the box below. “Now my permarkets all over Germany. Moreover, having opened 300
clothes are ruined”, she laughs, while guiding the calf to its
stores in the last 30 years, Tegut from Fulda has succeeded in es-
mother’s teat with a hearty grip. Margarethe Hinterlang knows a
tablishing one of the biggest ranges of organic produce in the su-
lot about animals. Not only is she the PR representative for the permarket segment. The region’s organic expertise is further enDemeter farm in Bad Vilbel, in addition to running the school hanced by the editorial department of Eco Test magazine based in
farm she is also responsible for the calves. With her friendly dis-
Frankfurt, the Ecological Institute with research and advisory
position and hands-on attitude, the farmer is a perfect example capacities located in Darmstadt, Freiburg, and Berlin, as well as
of the enthusiasm and commitment shown by many people em- the Demeter Association, also headquartered in Darmstadt.
ployed in the organic industry in FrankfurtRhineMain.
The 5000 associated Bioland farms nationwide also have ties
The organic industry is thriving – and not just since the boom of
with FrankfurtRhineMain – the Association’s spokesman Gerald
recent years that saw sales of organic produce in Germany climb
Wehde is based in Mainz, where he and his colleagues have set up
from EUR 3.5 billion in 2004 to EUR 5.8 billion in 2008, with office in a beautiful old building not far from the city’s railroad
Hesse spearheading the trend: Last year, organically cultivated
station. Together with his roughly 120 employees, Wehde advises
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Dottenfelder Hof
For a good 40 years, organic
principles have been applied on
the Demeter flagship farm in Bad
Vilbel, which has its own livestock,
dairy and bakery
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The Domain Mechtildshausen
Fancy farm shop, extensive
stables, good restaurant –
everything is 100 percent
organic, from vegetables right
down to boxes of chocolates
ALNATURA
BICKENBACH
Bergstrasse,
District of
Darmstadt-Dieburg
Manufacturing and
Trading Ltd.
BIOLAND
MAINZ
Association of
eco-producers
DEMETER
DARMSTADT
Association for
ecologic crop cultivation
based on Anthroposophic
principles
HESS NATUR
BUTZBACH
Clothing made from
natural fibers
INSTITUTE FOR
APICULTURE
OBERURSEL
Research
ECO INSTITUTE
DARMSTADT
Research
ECO TEST
FRANKFURT
Consumer magazine
TEGUT…
FULDA
Trade company
Gutberlet Foundation & Co
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Target group with an affinity
for organic produce
In FrankfurtRhineMain, the
organic industry is thriving because those inclined to buy organic live in the region – welleducated people with high
incomes who care for healthy
eating habits and buying regionally grown produce
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the Bioland enterprises and does the lobbying work for organic
roughly 3,000 customers spread across the entire FrankfurtRhine
produce, manufacturers and an additional 800 Bioland farms.
Main region. Each morning, four delivery vans leave the Pappel-
With a hint of pragmatism, Wehde, an agricultural engineer, ex-
hof to take the orders to the customers; including freshly baked
plains the choice of Mainz as the association’s headquarters: “We
goods supplied by an organic bakery. 13 years ago, Thomas Wolff
are ideally located in terms of transport as Mainz is right in the
came up with the idea for an organic delivery service – now
center of Germany.”
Querbeet shares the market with other organic suppliers such as
“Novum” in Bischofsheim and “Paradieschen” in Geiselheim.
For Wehde, the reason there are so many organic farms, enter-
After completing his training as a Bioland farmer, Wolff, 48,
prises and associations located in FrankfurtRhineMain lies in the joined the Pappelhof in 1992. Having worked in crop production
region’s high purchasing power – with the Hochtaunuskreis dis- for some time, it became clear to him that he preferred the martrict having the highest purchasing power in Germany and the
keting side of the business. Wolff, an avid long-distance runner
district of Main-Taunus-Kreis lying in fourth place. “On average,
and astute business man, teamed up with other companies to
organic products are still more expensive than conventionally supply the athletes competing in the Frankfurt Marathon with
produced foodstuffs, which is why they are more likely to be
organic fruit. As a marketing man, his initial task was looking
consumed by well-educated people with high incomes”, says
after the market stalls. Soon after, he set up the fi rst all-organic
Wehde. Renée Herrnkind, spokeswoman of the Demeter Associ-
market stall at Frankfurt’s farmers market at Konstablerwache
ation, also argues in the same vein: “Marketing strategies are so (today, 15 out of the overall 55 stalls are organic) and organized
successful because those inclined to buy organic – our target the large Querbeet stall in Frankfurt’s Kleinmarkthalle.
group – live in this region”, she explains. Th is is likely to be the
reason why Dottenfelder Hof in Bad Vilbel is also doing so well.
The Domain Mechtildshausen, which is affi liated with the Wies-
Since it was founded in 1968, the farm has been operating accord-
baden youth workshop, also knows a thing or two about market-
ing to the principles of biodynamic agriculture and now has 130 ing. Located in the vicinity of Erbenheim airfield the manor
staff. The farm was fi rst mentioned as a convent estate in 976 and
farm, which has three branches and a total of 600 hectares of
oozes romantic appeal. It provides a home and livelihood to some land, has devoted 22 years to establishing a biological farming
100 people. The Dottenfeld family includes 30 children and sev-
system. Horst Freund, who manages the fruit and vegetable pro-
eral seniors who enjoy the right of lifelong residence and provi-
duction, has been there from the word go. When taking a tour of
sion of food there. When farming became increasingly industri- the farm, he briefly stops at the cream-colored Charolais cows or
alized in the 1960s, they established the farm, as they were keen casts his expert eye over the tomatoes and cucumbers in the
on experimenting with an alternative, sustainable and ecologi- greenhouses. “We only have top organic produce on offer,” he
cally diverse model of agriculture.
emphasizes. Freund, who is 53, fi nds that Mechtildshausen is a
perfect example of organic living put into practice. “Everything
A few kilometers down the road we come across Querbeet, an
in our farm shop is organic, even the chocolates.” The concept is
organic delivery service operated from Reichelsheim. The Quer-
borne out also by the social dimension on the farm. In the Do-
beet workers are dashing from one shelf to another, picking up
main Mechtildshausen, about 80 permanent staff comprising
yellow zucchinis, shiny purple-black eggplants and dark green master craftsmen, engineers and other experts are currently givcucumbers which are packed in delivery boxes. The organic veg-
ing 300 young people on-the-job training, while many long-term
etables along with other organic produce are delivered to their unemployed are given a chance to work again.
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Quality of Life
Working in the countryside
FrankfurtRhineMain is so much
more than just finance and big
business
Andreas Schneider is an organic farmer by conviction. Now 39
purpose again. “The flax is made into linen, which in turn is used
years old and running a cider farm, he was fascinated by the idea
to make our clothes”, says Verena Kuhnert, 37, spokeswoman at
of ecological living even as a youngster. “Around the time that
Hess Natur, a company that since 1976 has aimed to manufacture
Chernobyl and other environmental disasters were happening, I
ladies’, men’s and children’s clothing purely from organically
knew I wanted to do something different with our farm”, he
grown materials and eco-friendly fabrics. 310 employees in
says. After completing conventional training in pomology he
Butzbach and branches in the United States and Switzerland look
took over the farm, which the family has owned since 1965. In
after some 700,000 customers who purchase the organic cloth-
1994, he switched his six hectares of orchards and 2.5 hectares of
ing predominantly by mail order. Hess Natur is continuously
natural fruit meadows over to organic farming procedures and,
striving to improve its standards, has had several inspections
following the transition period, was certified in 1996. The other
performed by independent bodies and will persevere until all
remarkable thing about Schneider: He is one of the few apple
textiles have become organic. Moreover, the Butzbach company
farmers who only use single varieties to achieve very sophisti-
uses no harmful dyes, chlorine bleaches, chemical moth repel-
cated ciders that are excellent on the palate. His products are
lents or non-iron finishing for its clothes and is keen on helping
made either of the organic apples from his orchards or, if his own
to improve working conditions in the producing countries. “So
crops are not enough, of apples from natural fruit meadows. In
far, we are the only company in Germany to agree to being con-
doing so he protects the more labor-intensive method of crop
trolled by the Dutch Fair Wear Foundation,” Verena Kuhnert is
production that is so characteristic of the majority of the land-
proud to say. The company philosophy is even reflected in the
scape in FrankfurtRhineMain.
company building, which was built according to Anthroposophic principles and reflects the ecological approach so typically
Another product almost forgotten in Germany grows around
common in the FrankfurtRhineMain region: Located not far
the town of Gießen. Since 2005, ten organic farmers have been
from the A5 interstate and close to the Butzbach exit, in what
cultivating and harvesting a crop that is not meant for consump-
seems to be your average industrial estate, the building, with its
tion – flax. The plant, which had more or less disappeared from
reddish, blue and yellow hues, provides a matt yet very relaxing
German fields since the late 19th century, is now serving a useful
colorful contrast to the surrounding green of the countryside. \\
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Niederheimbach Champtoceaux
Nieder-Hilbersheim
Bouchet
Niedernberg
Santes
Niedernhausen
llfeld
Niedernhausen
Wilrijk
Nieder-Olm
Recey
Nieder-Olm
Bussolengo
Nieder-Olm
L'Alcudia
Nieder-Wiesen Salorney-sur-Guye
Nierstein
Gevrey-Chambertin
Nierstein
Freyburg
Oberdiebach
Tröbsdorf
Oberheimbach
Chargé
Ober-Hilbersheim
Bonavigo
Ober-Hilbersheim
Winterstein
Obernburg a. Main
Aszód
Ober-Olm
Ramonchamp
Ober-Olm
Schloßvippach
Ober-Ramstadt
Cogoleto
Ober-Ramstadt Saint-André-lesVergers
Ober-Ramstadt
Pragelato
Ober-Ramstadt
Vermezzo
Ober-Ramstadt
Zelo Surrigone
Ober-Ramstadt
Thurm
Obertshausen
Laakirchen
Obertshausen
Meiningen
Obertshausen Sainte Geneviève
des Bois
Oberursel (Taunus)
Epinay-surSeine
Oberursel (Taunus) Lomonossow /
Oranienbaum
Oberursel (Taunus)
Rushmoor
Oberursel (Taunus) Koggenland /
Ursem
Ockenheim
Povegliano
Oestrich-Winkel
Denicé
Oestrich-Winkel
Tokaj
Offenbach
Offenbach
Offenbach
Offenbach
Offenbach
Offenbach
Offenbach
Offenbach
Offenbach
Esch-Sur-Alzette
Köszeg
Kawagoe
Mödling
Nahariya
Orjol
Puteaux
Rivas
Saint-Gilles-LezBruxelles
Tower Hamlets
Velletri
Yangzhou
Zemun
Offenheim-Stutzheim
Adnet
Calpe
Givry
Sant Ambrogio
Werder
Ortenberg (Baden)
Mirebeau
Lencloitre
Langenweißbach
Troissy
Billère
Sa-
Offenbach
Offenbach
Offenbach
Offenbach
Offenheim
Oppenheim
Oppenheim
Oppenheim
Oppenheim
Oppenheim
Ortenberg
Osthofen
Otzberg
Otzberg
Partenheim
Petersberg
Petersberg
biñánigo
Pfungstadt Figline
Valdarno
Pfungstadt
Gradignan
Pfungstadt
Héviz
Pfungstadt
Retford
Pohlheim
Admont
Pohlheim
Strehla
Pohlheim
Zirc
Poppenhausen
Poppenhausen
(Bayern),
Poppenhausen
Poppenhausen
(Thüringen),
Poppenhausen
Poppenhausen
(Baden),
Rabenau
Nans-les-Pins
Rabenau
Plan d'Aups
Rasdorf
Himesháza
Raunheim
Le Teil
Raunheim
Trofarello
Raunheim
Shiramine
Reichelsheim (Odenwald) Dol-deBretagne
Reichelsheim (Wetterau) Reichels
heim (Odenwald)
Reinheim
Cestas
Reinheim
Fürstenwalde
Reinheim
Licata
Reinheim
Sanok
Reiskirchen
Wandersleben
Reiskirchen
Muttersholtz
Reiskirchen
Goleszow
Riedstadt
Brienne-Le-Château
Riedstadt
Sortino
Riedstadt
Tauragé
Rimbach
Colwich-Haywood
Rimbach
Thourotte
Rödermark
Saalfelden
Rödermark
Tramin
Rödermark
Bodajk
Rodgau
Donja Stubica
Rodgau
Hainburg
Rodgau
Puiseaux
Rodgau
Nieuwpoort
Romrod
La Coquille
Rosbach v. d. Höhe
Netzschkau
Rosbach v. d. Höhe Ciechanowiec
Rosbach v. d. Höhe St. Germain les
Corbeil
Roßdorf
Vösendorf
Roßdorf
Reggello
Rüdesheim am Rhein Meursault
Rüdesheim am Rhein
Swanage
Rüdesheim am Rhein
Julienas
Rüdesheim am Rhein
Oingt
Rüsselsheim
Evreux
Rüsselsheim
Rugby
Rüsselsheim
Varkaus
Rüsselsheim
Kecskemét
Saulheim
Beire-le-Chatel
Saulheim
Neukirchen
Schaafheim
Richelieu
Schaafheim
Mansfeld
Schlangenbad
Craponne
Schlitz
Bogyiszlo
Schlüchtern
Jarocin
Schmitten
Courtomer,
Schmitten
Moulins la Marche
Schmitten
Ste. Gauburge
Schöllkrippen
Kochanowice
Schöneck
Anould
Schöneck
Gyomaendröd
1
Schotten
Schotten
Schotten
Schotten
Schotten
Schwabenheim
Arco
Quevaucamps
Crosne
Rýmarov
Maybole
ChambolleMusigny
Schwabenheim
Schmerbach
Schwabenheim
Minerbe
Schwalbach am Taunus
Avrillé
Schwalbach am Taunus
Yarm
Schwalbach am Taunus
Olkusz
Schwalbach am Taunus Schkopau
Seeheim-Jugenheim Ceregnano
Seeheim-Jugenheim Villenave d'
Ornon
Seeheim-Jugenheim Kosmonosy
Seeheim-Jugenheim Cunersdorf
Seligenstadt
Brookfield
Seligenstadt
Triel-sur-Seine
Selters (Taunus)
Mohlsdorf
Sörgenloch
Ludes
Spiesheim
Sprendlingen
Genlis
Sprendlingen
Longecourt-enPlaine
Stadecken-Elsheim
Rupt-surStadecken-Elsheim
Bovolone
Stadecken-Elsheim
Ershausen
Stadecken-Elsheim
Wilbich
Staufenberg
Pusztaszabolcs
Steinau an der Straße
Sarród
Steinau an der Straße
Naszály
Steinau an der Straße Szederkény
Steinau an der Straße
Welsberg
Steinbach (Taunus)
Pijnacker
Steinbach (Taunus) Saint Avertin
Steinbach (Taunus)
SteinbachStockstadt
Villa Lagarina
Stockstadt
St. André sur Orne
Stockstadt St. Martin de Fontenay
Stockstadt
May sur Orne
Sulzbach (Taunus) Jablonec nad
Jizerou
Sulzbach (Taunus)
Pont Sainte
Maxence
Sulzbach (Taunus)
Schönheide
Sulzbach am Main
Urrugne
Sulzheim
Canton Ste. Suzanne
Tann
Kaltennordheim
Taunusstein
Herblay
Taunusstein
Yeovil
Taunusstein
Caldes de Montbui
Taunusstein
Wünschendorf
Trebur
Verneuil
Udenheim
Blaisy-Bas
Udenheim
Dolcè
Usingen
Chassieu
Usingen
Overbetuwe (früher
Valburg)
Vendersheim
Bruley bei Toul
Viernheim
Franconville
Viernheim
Potters Bar
Viernheim
Rovigo
Viernheim
Satonévri
Wächtersbach
Châtillon-surChalaronne
Wächtersbach
Vonnas
Wächtersbach
Baneins
Wächtersbach
Troizk
Wächtersbach
Roßleben
Wackernheim
Roncà
Wackernheim
Daix
Waldalgesheim
Ratten in der
Steiermark
Waldaschaff
Clonakilty
Waldems
Szikszó
Waldems
St. Bonnet en
Champsaur
Wald-Michelbach Montmirail sur
Marne
Wald-Michelbach
Hassocks
Walluf
La Londe les Maures
Wehrheim
Werischwar
Weilburg
Privas
Weilburg
Zevenaar
Weilburg
Käsmark
Weilburg
Colmar-Berg
Weilburg
Kizilcahamam
Weiler
Lugangano
Weilmünster
Le Cheylard
Weilrod
Billy-Berclau
Weinbach
Debrzno
Weinolsheim
Brochon
Weiterstadt
Verneuil sur Seine
>
Without doubt FrankfurtRhineMain is a
level. Heading the international FRM twinning rank-
gateway to the world. The airport links the
ings is France with 287 (!) partnerships, followed by
region with the entire globe. 130 airlines fly to 317 des-
Italy with 63 and Great Britain with 47. Hardly surpris-
tinations in 105 countries from here. Impressive figures.
ing, after all, when World War II ended, such twinning
And as regards international networking another fact
agreements largely served as a vehicle for reconcilia-
is no less impressive. The cities and municipalities
tion with former wartime enemies. Indeed, it was the
in the FrankfurtRhineMain region have partnerships
Germans and French who specifically promoted such
with 760 municipalities – 649 of them abroad. Argua-
municipal friendships. And indeed, FrankfurtRhine-
bly no other region in Germany cultivates such twin-
Main was among the pioneers of city partnerships.
ning agreements as intensively and at such a high
Amittedly, the honor of the first partnership involving
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FrankfurtRhineMain is one of the
best networked regions in Europe
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FRM Internationa
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FrankfurtRhineMain is very active when
it comes to town twinning. Frankfurt,
Darmstadt, Wiesbaden, Bad Homburg
and Offenbach combined can boast
an amazing 64 twin towns
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Germany and signed and sealed back in 1925 goes to
ceived the symbolic European Flag and in 1975 the Euro-
North Germany, more precisely to Kiel. But number two
pean Prize from the European Council in Strasbourg.
comes from Wiesbaden. As early as 1930 the spa town
Since 1975 it has borne the title City of Europe.
sealed its friendship with Klagenfurt in Austria. Today,
But it is always the citizens who form the heart of every
politan outlook. The Olfen district of Beerfeld (in the
city partnership. Oberursel’s citizens engage in exem-
Odenwald), for example, boasts the “smallest partner-
plary efforts for their twinning cities. This year on
ship in Europe”. with Trévignin in France. But other in-
October 10 there will be a big party to celebrate three
teresting facts emerge on perusing the region’s extensive
anniversaries. 45 years jumelage with Epinay, France,
partnership list. Hardly anyone is surprised that Frank-
20 years partnership with Rushmoor, Britain and five
furt has close ties with Toronto and Birmingham, or that
years with Lomonossov, Russia. Incidentally, in Sep-
Bad Homburg and Dubrovnik are partnered. But Offen-
tember the partnership between Oberursel and Lomon-
bach’s connections with the city of Rivas in Nicaragua,
ossov produced the first matrimonial connection. Na-
or those of Mainz with Kigali in Ruanda or Ginsheim-
talya went to Oberursel in 2005 as a trainee. Now she is
Gustavsburg with Ballou, Senegal sound much more ex-
happily wed to Oliver, an engineer from the town near
otic. Some FRM cities have even earned prizes for their
Frankfurt. Their honeymoon is just one good example of
international networking efforts: In 1964 Darmstadt re-
cultivating partnership.
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Community
The Journalist
Olga Wilms informs the community and visitors about the
region with a Russian-language
magazine
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MOSCOW ON THE MAIN
The Russians’ preference for FrankfurtRhineMain has
a long-standing tradition. Even Dostoevsky recorded his experiences in the region in the novel “The Gambler”. Since the Berlin
Wall came down the Russian community has been growing
continually
BY CHRISTIAN SÄLZER AND TIM WEGNER (PHOTOGRAPHS)
>
What do Russians think the first time they land in
the Rhine-Main region? “They are astonished that
Frankfurt is so much smaller than Moscow. And they are amazed
by the quality of life and the diversity of the region”, says Olga
Wilms. The 31-year old, who was born in Novosibirsk, has been
working in the Frankfurt office of the MK publishing house, the
largest in what is today the Russian Federation for five years. She
recently became editor-in-chief of “Life in Rhein-Main”, a new
Russian-language magazine guide to the region. From the castles
along the Rhine, the vintage car rally, the Deutsche Klinik für
Diagnostik in Wiesbaden and the Frankfurt Christmas market –
the themes indicate who the target group is: “In addition to
well-heeled Russians living here we also target business people,
visitors and medical tourists.” Their numbers are clearly not insignificant. From the first to the second issue the publisher
almost doubled the print run to 12,000.
To Wiesbaden or Bad Homburg to recuperate – this is not the
first time that wealthy Russians are discovering the region for
themselves. In the last decades of the Czar’s regime the bourgeoisie and nobles of Moscow and St. Petersburg enjoyed life in
the spa towns in the region. For writers such as Turgenev, Tolstoy
and Dostoevsky, and later on the Expressionist painters, the
journey to FrankfurtRhineMain was well worth while. In many
places the heyday of the ties between Hesse and Russia has
left traces: the orthodox churches in Darmstadt, Bad Nauheim,
Bad Homburg and – architecturally outstanding – on Neroberg
in Wiesbaden. Then there is the novel “The Gambler”, in which
Dostoevsky dealt with his “bad luck” in the casinos in Wiesbaden
The Organizer
Michael Friedmann brings Russian
culture, from pop singers to ballet
ensembles, to Germany
//
Community
The Kindergarten Teacher
Alexandra Basova raises the
children of Russian parents in
the German-Russian kindergarten “Nezabudka”
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and Bad Homburg. And then again there are the pictures by
Alexei Jawlensky, which even today are the most valuable in the
federal state capital’s museum. The two World Wars put an end to
this intensive exchange though with the demise of the
Soviet Union the page has turned again.
Nobody knows this better than archpriest Dimitri Graf Ignatiew.
Every Sunday for several decades now he has been holding services in St Nicholas, the church of the Frankfurt Russian orthodox
community. “For a long time our parish was not getting bigger,
just older”, he says. Nowadays the church with the onion domes
in the Hausen district of the city is bursting to the seams. “We're
now a very young community”, Ignatiew says.
In the past 18 years lots of people from the former Soviet republics
have left their home country and built a new life for themselves in
FrankfurtRhineMain. Whereas in 1991 there were just 1,183 registered in Frankfurt, today there are six times as many, more
than 10,000 in the region. Michael Friedmann has also noticed
the growth. The concert organizer, who has been in Frankfurt
since 1991 on account of its central location, stages events in Germany featuring the best-known Russian pop singers, folklore and
The Priest
Dimitri Graf Ignatiew looks
after a parish that is becoming
ever bigger in the Frankfurt
neighborhood of Hausen
cabaret groups, as well as ballet ensembles. Almost every other
day a performance he has organized now takes place in Germany
or elsewhere in Europe – and the number is increasing.
Government and business have played an active role in the
strong upswing in relations between Russia and Hesse. By way
of example, as early as 1991 representatives of Frankfurt and
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Moscow signed a cultural agreement, while in 1995 the
Business Development Bureau in Frankfurt and the Finance
Agency of the city of Moscow concluded a cooperation agree-
The Businessman
Sergei Rodionov heads the Russian
Chamber of Commerce in Frankfurt
and swears by it as a business center
ment. The German-Russian Business Forum, an initiative set
up by major Frankfurt banks, Deutsche Börse, the Center for
the Promotion of foreign Investments in Russia (ZfAR) and
the Frankfurt am Main Business Development Bureau, has
emerged as a driving force in economic cooperation. There is
no shortage of success stories – on both sides Companies
from FrankfurtRhineMain are committed to the growth market in Russia, while today there are well over one hundred
firms from Russia operating between Aschaffenburg and
Wiesbaden – from the watch manufacturer “Alexander Shorokhoff” in Alzenau to the east of Hanau, to major finance institutes.
Just how important FrankfurtRhineMain is from a Russian
perspective is revealed by two other decisions in its favor: In
early 2008 a Russian Consulate General opened in downtown
Frankfurt for the first time. Two years earlier the Chamber
of Industry and Commerce of the Russian Federation opened
a second representative office in Frankfurt after Berlin.
“This makes Germany the only country in the world in
which we have two offices”, says its general manager, Sergei
Rodionov. And why is that? “Entering the German market is
only possible through the Rhine-Main region.” And what
standing does the region have on a European basis? “Russian
billionaires buy a villa in London”, Rodionov explains, but as
far as business is concerned Frankfurt is far more important.” \\
“The Gambler” is set in FRM
“The main thing is moral strength. I only need to think
about my state seven months ago in Rouletteville, in the
period before my complete breakdown. Oh, what remarkable proof of decisiveness it was! I had gambled
away everything, absolutely everything. Leaving the
Kurhaus I noticed I had one more guilder in my inside
pocket. “Aha“, I thought, I have something to buy lunch
with after all!” Having gone one hundred steps, however, I had different thoughts and turned round. I put the
guilder on manque (manque had come up trumps the
previous time), and really, it is a very special feeling, all
alone in a foreign country, far from home and all your
friends, betting your last guilder, your very last one,
without knowing to what you’re going to eat that day!
I won, and after twenty minutes left the Kurhaus with
170 guilders in my pocket to my name. That is a fact!
This shows what you can do with your very last guilder!
But what would have become of me, if I had lost
my courage and not dared to make a bold decision?
Tomorrow, tomorrow, everything will end well!”
From the novel “The Gambler”, in which Fyodor
Dostoevsky (1821-1881) wrote about his addiction
to gambling and his experiences in the casinos in
Wiesbaden and Bad Homburg. It is unclear which of
the two places “Rouletteville” refers to.
//
CHILL OUT IN FRM
Lifestyle
PLACES TO RELAX
It does not have to the lounge and an exotic drink. You can find peace and
quiet in many places in the busy region, for example here:
BY JANET SCHAYAN
Smit, SpJotocz, Carlos E. Santa Maria, Anna Diederich, Stephen Sweet, Nikateron,
Jule Berlin, Mark Yuill, Stepanov, Ivan Ponomarev, Sergej Razvodovskij
1
To the park bench
in Grüneburgpark to
decelerate
2
To Kloster Eberbach
to gather spiritual
strength
3
To the Opel Zoo in
Kronberg to keep the
children happy
You can get to the park by bike, but
OK it is true, that it is not exactly a se-
In a white dress in front of the game
when you do please get off it. It’s best
cret tip. Nonetheless, it is always nice
enclosure, holding a bag of animal
of all fi rst thing in the morning. It
here. It need not be at the weekend
feed like cooked almonds. A wide
will revitalize your spirit. Particularly
when everybody is out and about. A
grin. A child’s happiness in summer
in the early fall, when the sun still has
free day during the week is far better.
1972. Driven up in the yellow Opel
enough power to disperse the mist.
When everybody else is working, to
Rekord with mummy, daddy and the
Then there are sometimes those magi-
just go to the monastery for an hour or
little brother. Unforgetable. Some-
cal moments in Grüneburgpark.
two, to linger on one’s own for at least
times it is supposedly quite normal
Breath in, breath out. Ignore the fit-
a moment in the strict Romanesque
things one remembers particularly
ness freaks jogging round and sit
basilica and collect one’s thoughts.
well. Like a relaxed family trip to the
down on a park bench for a few min-
And to sense the amount of time these
Opel Zoo. Incidentally, it works the
utes. Provocatively, without any sem-
walls have existed. For more than 800
same way today as it did 40 years ago.
blance of a workout. The green of the
years now the mighty nave has been a
And not just with children at the pet-
park shines. Very british. On the grass
place of prayer, song and thought. The
ting zoo age. Even older boys enjoy
a Tai-Chi artist is practicing his slow
place’s aura is tangible. “Porta patet,
watching the elephants. They are
movements. And just watching helps
cor magis” –the door is open, the heart
cool, there is no beating them, they
you become calm. The skyline in the
even more so. A motto of the Cistercian
are the epitome of calm. Th ick-
background does not let you forget
monks who founded the monastery in
skinned, after all. The longer you
that downtown is really close. Let the
the 12th century. A mantra for visitors
watch, the more your blood pressure
day begin.
to it.
drops…
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To the KaiserFriedrich-Therme for
total relaxation
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08°05'03.18"E
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0 8 °4 8 ' 3 5 . 4 8 " E
4
50°08'51 .10"N
0 8 ° 24 ' 0 3 . 47 " E
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50°0 4'52.35"N
08°19'90.62"E
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5 0 ° 1 8 ' 8 8 . 1 1" N
0 8 ° 5 1' 2 2 . 5 9 " E
To Schierstein
marina to get a
breath of sea air
2
3/6 1
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4/5
6
To the Schlosshotel
Kronberg for Royal
Tea
Tepidarium, sudatorium, sanarium,
This is not an illusion. And we haven’t
Relaxing with style and elegance. Dig-
lavaorum, frigidarium. Now decline
even had a drink yet. They really are
nified, pleasurable – and with cu-
them please. No, don’t worry you don’t
parrots, a swarm of them, green, yel-
cumber sandwiches. It goes without
need to have done Latin at school to
low, screeching. The rose-ringed para-
saying that the term “English After-
understand these chill-out classics. A
keets gather in the dusk before flying
noon Tea” in the Kaiser’s library in
visit to the Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme in
to the tree to sleep. It’s not surprising,
Schlosshotel Kronberg is pure un-
Wiesbaden teaches you this very
because we are in the south here.
derstatement inspired by the British.
quickly. Between lessons please don’t
Spotlessly clean sail boats are ancho-
The small culinary work of art in this
forget to gather your strength in the
red. On the terrace of Yachtcafe Goethe
noble setting was at least able to be
warm water of the Adlerquelle. And
it is as if you were on the deck of a
called Royal Tea. And the venerable
enjoy with all your senses the won-
schooner enjoying the view of the wa-
walls were designed and lived in by
derful 1913 Art Nouveau baths that
ter and the Alpes-Maritimes, sorry,
Princess Royal Victoria, who was
have restored in such an exemplary
the gentle hills of the Rheingau. When
born in Buckingham Palace and was
way. Afterwards you may well cer-
it’s windy and the weather is poor the
German Kaiserin for 99 days. Th is tea
tainly fall gently asleep on one of the
view also works from the warmth ge-
time has to be well planned: It is only
comfortable black recliners in the Lu-
nerated through the large panorama
held on selected weekends, and it is
menarium, the quiet room with chan-
windows. For a short time-out in bet-
best to inquire by phone fi rst
ging colored spots on the arched cei-
ween Schierstein the marina is just the
(0 61 73/7 01 01). Coffee is served as
ling. Latin is fun like this. Lumenari-
place. It’s like being on the Côte.
well – and Charles has already been
um, lumenarii, lumenario…
here.
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Lifestyle
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Pakhnyushcha, Lena Rozova, Ultrashock, titelio, Olaf Rehmert
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To the Kempinski
Falkenstein for a
panorama view of FRM
8
7
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5 0 ° 1 1' 76 . 3 4 " N
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0 8 °4 3 ' 6 1 . 0 5 " E
To Fleming’s for an
after-work drink overlooking Frankfurt
7
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9 8
9
To Hofheim to take
a deep breath on the
Meisterturm
The view from the terrace would cer-
Take the paternoster up. Where
If you want to chill here you have to
tainly have deserved a sixth star. The
can you still do that? It is nostalgic in-
sweat fi rst. That is because you only
Kempinski-Hotel Falkenstein already
deed. Then order an Aperol Sprizz at
reach the Meisterturm on foot – and
has five anyway. For anyone wishing
the bar on the seventh floor and gaze
only uphill. To a height of 292 meters.
to observe the FrankfurtRhineMain
through the window. It’s nice just as
From Hofheim. If you do make it, an-
region and the Frankfurt skyline from
the sun is going down and the Taunus
other 35 meters takes you to the top of
a distance, this is the place. After-
hills are bathed in red. Are they really
the Meisterturm. Not having vertigo
wards the best thing to do is plunge
that close to the city? A totally new
is advantageous, the spiral staircase is
into the heated outdoor pool. Or take
perspective. Then the big city lights.
surrounded by lots of space on all four
the underground tunnel to the Ascara
At the same level as the top of Eschen-
sides. The steps are open – and there
Spa in the next building. Anti-aging,
heimer Turm. You don’t experience
are 173 of them to be precise. When
fitness, bio-spa and beauty all feature
that very often either. From this angle
there is a clear view, directly above
on the pampering program here. Pha-
Frankfurt looks like a really big city.
the tree tops you can see far as the
raonic milk baths and lomi-lomi-nui
But we will not be affected by stress
Odenwald. And of course over the
massages. Even though one can no
here. We are above it all.
hills of the Taunus. One should take a
longer abide the word wellness: A
deep breath here and then perhaps
day of luxury can sometimes work
take a stroll through the woods.
wonders.
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