As Condoleezza Rice zusetzten students.

Sometimes rich quick, simple questions, to even a former U.S. foreign minister into a corner to drift. Is water boarding torture? Stanford students insisted, a YouTube video shows the reaction of Condolezza Rice. Featured, find blogs editor Jan Friedmann.

 

The column is serious this time, it is about ancient virtues and modern torture methods such as simulated drowning. Jeremy and Sammy Cohn Abusrur, students at Stanford University near San Francisco, had the chance, with her ex-foreign minister and now-again professor Condoleezza Rice to speak. The following dialogue is transmitted on YouTube.

Student: "Is water boarding torture?"

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Rice: "The President gave us the instruction to take no action, which is contrary to the Convention against Torture. By the way was no authorization from me. I have only the statement of the Government of the CIA given, that they have from the Ministry of Justice had the green light. More I have not done. "

Student: "Okay. Is water boarding torture?"

Rice: "I've just been told that the United States of America was instructed not to undertake, which is contrary to the Convention against Torture. So it is by definition so that an order by the President was not against the Anti-Torture Convention could. "

Student: "Good. Thank you! All clear."

Everything clear? The politician entlarvt with their dialectical dislocation, and the questionable methods of the Bush administration like this. How? Following a simple question.

The ancient philosophers called the emergence of truth in other people "Mäeutik" Midwives art. The questions were targeted at the beginning of each course, Socrates is brought to life principle. Today, this skill is buried somewhere under the Credit-Points and master modules.

Jeremy and Sammy are elected by their peers on the Internet and celebrated as heroes - because they demand.

The agency quoted starts at 5:28 minutes after the apparent annoyed ex-Secretary of State Rice a hard handles critical students that he should "do its homework." The recording was at the end of April into the network - a few days earlier had
Media reports show that water boarding Rice, the brutal interrogation method of simulated drowning of terrorism suspects on behalf of the Bush administration had authorized.

Germanistik Doctor on the 90th Birthday.

70 years ago gave Franz Schrage Nazism in his studies on theology, was the architect. Although he is nearly blind, made the now Schrage Doctorate in Dusseldorf - with exactly 90 years, an energy performance in old age.

 

For the test were then small but special arrangements because of the doctoral candidate Franz H. Schrage, 90, hard to hear and see almost nothing more, he allowed his examiners at the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf two keywords donor Interior - during his 20-minute lecture to replace them his PowerPoint presentation.

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Dr. Franz H. Schrage, 90: fresh Ph.D. in Germanic

"The speech was surprisingly fluid," said Dieter Birnbacher, philosophy professor and expert in the examination. Even with the written work, "Edith Stein, philosopher and saint in the tension between Jews and Christians" had Schrage "as a great stylist shown.

Birnbacher suggested even before the candidate, his text as a monograph to be published. He was just as "not by the professional culture burdened", praised Birnbacher. The work authored the aged specimen in the tray Germanistik.

"I wanted to be cultural philosopher"

Birnbacher describes the gray chin beard doctoral student with a devout Catholic and Schrage thesis as a reappraisal of its own history. Schrage had in the autumn of 1937 in Bonn began studying theology, but abandoned in the summer of 1939, the same year he was for his study from the Hitler Youth had been excluded, Schrage writes in his biography. "Actually, I wanted to be cultural philosopher," he said of the "Rheinische Post".

Schrage is not wanted "could be crystallized with the National Humanities common," says his auditors. That's why he chose architecture as a "bread job" and worked in this field for the city administration in Cologne and Dusseldorf.

Until 1995 he moved back after a severe illness at the university in December 1998, Schrage his master's exams in German literature and philosophy. An eye disease since he was four years "in the legal sense blind", is in his CV. 2006, his dissertation - and went on Tuesday, exactly on his 90th Birthday, with the oral defense of his work came to an end.

At Edith Stein Schrage fascinated that they are informed by the Catholics as a saint and martyr venerated, although as a Jew by the Nazis and was murdered, a victim of a "latent Christian anti-Semitism" was, writes the 90-year-old in the abstract of his doctoral thesis.

As an "orthodox Catholic God seekers" who wrestles with his church, describes him Birnbacher examiner. An internal donor keyword Schrager is his partner, to him also in the literature search and helps him aloud sources. Also, the woman is "very Schrage - and academically handicapped: You doctorate in 1998 in the age of at least 70 years.

Who is the elite?.

For many politicians and business education masters, it is a positive term - for more students to a shudder. By "elite" are more than 200 young artists and designers apart. ONLINE blogs shows the best poster from a student competition.

 

The Elite is usually where the top. But where is the top, which is often relative. An iceberg has around its small tip on top of water - but can easily tilt down when the temperature only a little change.

Elite is uncertain and shaky, like an iceberg - so in any case it looks Florian Beddig, student at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig and participants on 23 Poster competition of the Deutsches Studentenwerk (DSW). Theme this year: "Elite: For all?"

Pure luck is the way to the elite or just into mediocrity for Henning Kreitel - his poster shows four matches, one of which is the word "ELITE", a hand holding the match calling out: "Put simply", and look what you kriegst. With its theme won the Stuttgart art student took first place in the poster competition.

Positive falls art students to elite hardly a

And another thing, the elite university education in school and bring with them: the pressure to be better than everyone else. The is sometimes so strong that a student does not remain as deeply to bend over the toilet and their frustration rauszulassen, "said the motive of Therese Bartelmann of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.

218 students made the competition with. For business representatives and politicians elite is mostly positive: You are thinking of intellectual elite, elite universities, the elite of tomorrow. Quite different, however, the student artists to compete mostly negative associations when it comes to the concept is elite.

For them, the search for the best, especially for selection, exclusion, inequality increased. Because the parents were academics and elite, and also what the children - social advancement, as has been for decades, as well as excluded. Who's with the golden spoon in your mouth is born, it has been easier, so does the art of the Berlin student Stefan Schaubitzer.

Who fits the Elite scheme?

The other posters are characterized not a positive picture: Since touches an elite student as bloodthirsty Mutant around, students have to like the police can photograph and measure whether they are in the Elite scheme fit. Or they must be on the streets begging for alms, because access to the elite university in vain not to acquire.

Total of 344 designs sent to participants from 35 German universities. Five winners shared a prize of 5500 euros. The best 30 posters of the competition are now on tour through the Studentenwerke.

Through the university like a headless chicken-less.

The note of their legitimate intermediate to the most academic aspirations: a smooth 1.0. Nevertheless, said Barbara Schöneberger University Adieu. "Where is this life?" She asked - and was starting a career as a television presenter and singer.

 

Somehow this must have been a misunderstanding, between her and the students. Because it was not that she was a bad student or that the content they are not interested. Nevertheless - ask Barbara Schöneberger what in retrospect was the best in the three subjects that they studied, she said once: "Nothing, to be honest, nothing."

However, the 35-year-old does not miss her studies. It was a "great opportunity, a crazy social event, every day full of action," says Barbara Schöneberger. The television made them funny as fast known speaker, she is now the "NDR Talk Show" and is part-time singer: 2007 she published her first album called "Now they even sing," a jazz-pop record with horns, strings and German , ironic lyrics. You will find: Every man should study.

A solid career goal Schöneberger Barbara had no eyes. After graduating in 1993 in Munich, she erstmal an internship at a fashion magazine. They have appealed to study, went for four days to Paris, then looked again and again into a thick book in which all possible courses of study were described. Every evening she subjects by which it is not liked. Remaining at the end of sociology, communication sciences, history of art. In 1994, her first semester at Augsburg: And now they are still studying.

"Was not in advertising, media and so?"

Its three subjects were studied a great generale, with insights into many areas, politics, history, psychology. Today would recommend Schöneberger, times three semesters of one of these three subjects to do, but also something else. Or you need to know in advance where you want to land these subjects.

She knew it not: "It really runs like a chicken with a severed head by the university, has no plan, what all this is where it leads, why I ever do and what the others all. You think all the time: Where is this life? Is it already happening, or I have not heard the shot? " Barbara Schöneberger had no idea what it should be. She had only the feeling that it will fold.

"Was not on the advertising in the media and so?", She sings self on stage. "Sass is not around on the sofa, in a television show? Flashy and colorful, lush and blond." With momentum shifting and evening dresses she goes from one corner to another, sings and tells of her life. Some believe that their mother every two years on the new friend, said: "It is now" - until he and glass on a Formula-1-car as a table when you decided to move.

These live performances with the program like it. "I'm incredibly touched every time, even if the people stand up, scream or sing along," she says in a black cotton sweater, her blond curls tied to horse's tail.

Dear advertising agency as a student assistant job

Five years they lived in Augsburg in a four-WG, they liked the study, as time passed in flight. "I liked then go to the library and know that by 16 clock I go over, and then I drink a coffee with a Snickers." You liked the structure, the fixed periods in which it was incorporated as a student. "I have hated myself to leave." After the school had their structures, a fixed time schedule and the truth. Even so she thought: Man, now you studierst times.

Only her study, says Schöneberger retrospect, quite the practical and realitätsfremdeste what they can imagine. No professionals told times in the lecture hall, which he does all the time and how he then came into being. So Schöneberger found no reference to any kind of occupation. "There was talk about deviant behavior, about terrorism, about the system of bureaucracy by Max Weber, I do not know about everything - but you did not know what that actually is," she says: "Why should I know about and how can I apply? I'm afraid it can not apply. You can thus only to some standing pose. "

Specify on the fetus should Studienabbrecherin Schöneberger not be a problem. Finally, she was a good student, even a very good: The intermediate existed as only one with a grade of 1.0. The professor gave her a team-Hiwi body at the chair on. Schöneberger refused - the body was not lucrative enough.

From her parents she was awarded 500 marks per month, while her roommate room already cost 450 marks. To the car, cell phone and apartment to finance, she worked at the university instead prefer at an advertising agency. During her studies she stumbled on the first small step of their television career: it was Assistant Elmar Related in the game show "Jack, Queen, Hörig, a Sat.1-morning broadcast.

"I simply wanted to work"

After ten semesters was then concluded with sociology, because real life was waiting: Schöneberger was studying race and went to television, then moderated the "Wake Up Show", on Sunday morning went on Sat.1. It had all the power they already receipts together, only the master's thesis and Testing lacking: "I had no destination, but I have a long way, and I think now it is somehow so that it says: man, cool, where me the way hingeführt has. "

Their catwalk is the television was known as Schöneberger and "Blondes Gift", one of her self-developed Talk format, which from 2001 to 2005 in the first local program window of a private channel, ran and then in the WDR, and most recently at ProSieben. Your "Schöneberger Show" on ZDF on the other hand, was terminated after 17 impacts. Thereafter, she was increasingly in various formats, comedy and quiz shows as a guest.

Like the current crop NDR Ina Müller was somehow Schöneberger long to find a show format that makes it quite the entertainer as a big breakthrough brings. It has more or less to wait to see what happens. "I wanted to just work," says Schöneberger. "I went there, five days a week to be busy, and I succeeded." Since 2008 she once again, the "NDR Talk Show". That gave her, she says: "I would not otherwise make. I am away, to think that the RTL primetime broadcast the right place for me."

Schöneberger, the blonde from blackbird Othmarschen "seems to have found long after they did not know where, how and what they are actually here and there makes. In her words: She sits on the sofa now rum, in a television show. One item that was actually a little too complacent for its temperament.

The typewriter kidnapped.

A typewriter, a flyer, a cancellation request - Helau from Mainz. A satirical allusion of students, the CDU in Rhineland-Palatinate as a mockery of RAF victims. MPs attempt to Petitesse from a political affair rooms.

 

Wanted is a typewriter - the superficially Model "Erika", produced in the GDR, presumably in the machinery factory VEB Robotron computing and Write Technology in Dresden. Dringend must in Rhineland-Palatinate CDU Group in the House of Representatives in Mainz.

Student persiflage: Hups, a Flugi Gate

How to allegedly stolen from a typewriter and a satirical pamphlet affair a political attempt to knit, which is currently at the CDU in the House of Representatives visited Mainz. The final set on Friday, Hans-Josef Bracht, parliamentary secretary of the CDU Group. He called on the SPD parliamentary group deputy Carsten Pörksen to refrain from any political group offices resign.

Bracht says quite seriously. His allegation: Pörksen was a comment on a student satirical pamphlet, the reputation of victims of the Red Army Faction (RAF) denigrated. The SPD politician advocate "the feelings of the families of the murdered man with feet." He had been "disqualified as an internal," as stated in the press release of the CDU on.

But how could this happen? Some because of an old typewriter? This is happening ...

Wednesday: Demo in the House of Representatives - the CDU group is outraged

The education strike 2009 "is driving more than 100,000 pupils and students on the street. They demand more money for education, protest against tuition fees, turbo-baccalaureate and bachelor's degrees. Wednesday is the
Main action. Nationwide are the protests of students and pupils consistently peaceful, sometimes quite happily. True, there are no riots, it only comes in smaller ensembles as the Berlin Humboldt University and the Dortmund Town Hall. Property arise, but remain manageable. The demonstrators accuse of paper, not with stones.

On Wednesday also penetrate about one hundred students in the Mainz Deputies On. They hang banners on, throw toilet paper around, painting walls, call slogans and then pull again.

House damaged in parts of a photo exhibition "20 years of peaceful revolution" of the CDU to the popular uprising in the GDR. Moreover, the GDR was a typewriter as an exhibition piece was stolen, according to a spokesperson for the CDU. A purse was made a Member of the office have been stolen, says a CDU spokesman for the "Frankfurter Rundschau". That was "not a harmless crime." The total damage to buildings and exhibition puts the state administration with a "four-digit sum."

The Rhineland-Palatinate's Minister of Education Doris Ahnen (SPD) shows understanding for the peaceful demonstrators around 4000 in Mainz, but criticized the action in the House of Representatives. "With their invasion, the participants have abused freedom of demonstration," says Genealogy.

Thursday: A pamphlet - the CDU group is outraged

While students elsewhere
Bank raids simulate dives on a demonstration Mainzer labels on one hand, the CDU for the start of the "pamphlet affair" highlighted.

The leaf is in the style of a Drohschreibens held by the RAF during the kidnapping of the employers president Hanns Martin Schleyer 1977 used. "Since 1 days prisoners," is under the typewriter along with RAF logo. The self-exposure by the student protesters: "The release of this valuable typewriter, we call everything. And now!" - Clearly a replica of the outrage on the eve of the CDU. Approximately an additional bumpy reads: "If our demands were not met, we can no longer eligible for the welfare of its typescript guarantee."

Scandal? Scandal! The Rhineland-Palatinate CDU responded upset, almost like to order: "Highly disgusting" mentions a CDU spokesman for the handout.

Later on Thursday calls SPD Vice Pörksen on its Internet site on serenity. On Wednesday, he protests that such a demonstration "with Chaoten always are," is annoying and should be pursued consistently. It should but the "serious protest" of young people not "retrospectively criminalize" such as the CDU try.

The presence of the demonstrators was "peaceful" been so Pörksen continue, but if you are of cast or storming speak overdraft "a lot". Only on demand of the "Allgemeine Zeitung" brings the social democrat in the firing line. He says the paper, the text of the pamphlet shows that the author of "humor" would have.

Friday: A newspaper article - the CDU group is outraged

Humor is a matter of taste and also in Carnival-strongholds unevenly distributed. Rather little of it resides in the commentator of the "Allgemeine Zeitung". There appears an article on Friday with the headline "an allusion to RAF angered politicians." In it the CDU Landtag-by: The Members Bettina Stout is quoted as saying that the pamphlet "trivialize a brutal and inhuman crimes by" see it "in the context of the striking students linksextremistische forces at work." The editor seconded by his comment and is icing on the outrage: "What takes place only in those heads from?"

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Flight is the thing with Erika like a gate Flugi become. Now ignite the Christian Democrats, the last stage of its escalation rocket. "Pörksen Group offices must resign," demanded Hans-Josef Bracht, CDU parliamentary deputy and CEO. As evidence that humor serves Bracht quote from the regional newspaper. That he manages the accusation that Pörksen remarks were "forgotten history, tasteless and cynical hard to beat."

Kleiner, the CDU-husband is not. The name of Hanns Martin Schleyer, he consistently writes "Hans-Martin Schleyer.

The SPD has the resignation call back. And Leo Fischer, chief of the satirical magazine "Titanic", the pamphlet called "funny, original and charming." As part of German history and identity should be the RAF, with their crimes "satirical reconditioned", so fishermen.

Long is the nagging Mainz no longer about who stole what and who has published a pamphlet - and certainly not about why, on Wednesday was ever demonstrated. The House Administration agrees with the behavior of the demonstrators is not acceptable. But a criminal complaint, "as isolated calls," it is not needed. Currently, the police still investigating. The prosecution wants Mainz claims to await the investigation report before deciding on further steps.

The leaflet affair "is likely, as well the demands of students and pupils, and soon forgotten. And the typewriter? She lacks any trace.

Yes, because today is' already revolution?.

Her hatred of the cap, the capital go to the collar, even burn the barricades - at least since kokelt something. Thomas Körner © aka TOM sends the student-WG on the street. As a result 46 of "Good Times, Uni-times: people hear the signals.

 

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Merkel and Obama have gone, at least.

When Bochumer education strike, there was a clown for breakfast. Audimax-strange claims squatters proclaim: You want a high ropeway between all Ruhrpott-Unis, a separate building for occupation - and the resignation of all leaders around the world.

 

"The hall is busy!

Thursday, 18 June 2009 - From today around 13 noon, the clock is Audimax the Ruhr-University by about 200 students occupied. The occupants are the building until then release them if their demands are met. These requirements are as follows:

We support the student senate group in its effort to build a high cable car to the universities of UAMR (the abbreviation stands for the University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr; d. Red) in Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg and Bochum connects. This train will be no tuition fees in full MUST be funded - otherwise there would be no more reason, the fees at their current level respectively. A reduction in tuition fees would be completely unacceptable: At this university is already enough underclass pack around, that his presence with our beautiful stained auditoriums. A reduction in tuition fees would this door to open our university.

We urge the Senate to the construction of a building to decide that only serves to occupy them. The radical leftist riot maker at our university to finally have a playground, with which they could employ, and we obediently working students and faculty no longer hold our most important duty: Sinnlos Credit Points hinterherzuhecheln and tests carried out by the minute.

We urge the University administration to immediately to begin the writing on the university library at last hangs around - it is the hard-working students of this university is no longer reasonable, every morning from illuminated letters written backwards and confused from her usual routine to be ripped out.

After all these demands are met, we demand the resignation of all categorical leaders - both those of this University, as well as all the leaders in state and federal government and the United Nations. The Senate let the representatives of these bodies, most notably Angela Merkel and Barrack Obama, her resignation to suggest, as the Ruhr-University Audimax otherwise you will never get back.

Sincerely, The occupants of the Audimax "

This is the demands of students who participate in the Ruhr-University Bochum on Thursday Audimax barricaded entrance to the - as part of the nationwide
Education Strikes 2009 "and the" day of civil disobedience. " These claims were representative of the students in the senate of the university.

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"This generation is visionslos".

If there is something there as an unofficial central body of the 20 - to 35-year-olds, then it is called "Neon". In the interview, Editor in Chief Timm Klotzek on zaudernde while strong boy pissing on facecloth allegations and pop-Taliban.

 

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Klotzek Timm, 36, visited the German School of Journalism in Munich and was chief editor of the "Now" - magazine of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung". When the youth magazine stopped, started Klotzek "Neon" favorite book of the generation of children's crisis. 2006 was Klotzek journalist of the year. His new magazine is called "Nido", a parents' magazine.

Timm Klotzek: I do not think they much lament his face, how they shall pass. The easy to remember: I have professionally done everything right, and I will still back and forth hergeschubst. They have little grip. And they know it's hardly different. Above all else: It is not in sight, that it will be better times. The crisis is objectively there, but perhaps this generation feels it is not so because the crisis has become a permanent condition.

blogs ONLINE: There are crisis left children ...

Klotzek: Yes, that's why they can still sleep at night, they are not different from usual. The boys are much more annoying than the generation of 45-year-olds. You also do not find residents of Mexico City, who says: My God, what a smog!

blogs ONLINE: Is there ever since something like a generation of awareness among 20 - to 35-year-olds?

Klotzek: An awareness already, but no strong urge to have a single motto-shirt printing for you. This is not a homogenous, predictable generation, rather a lack of solidarity generation. There are not related to the strong generation that says: Oh, that's one over 40, there is no more room at the table.

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Klotzek: O.k., but now it's getting boring. The generation is pragmatic, not organized, visionslos, suffering, unideologisch. Therefore it is no use for a pragmatic target any political or social utopias to design. With the political air locks must be the boys are not coming, not even the "neon" readers.

blogs ONLINE: But are they wholly apolitical not ...

Klotzek: No, for the generation of simple pragmatism has a greater fascination than a coherent worldview. Obama is liked because he is talking with bankers and with the crazy wind jackets types in Iran, because he exudes moral integrity. There are three moral principles, which this generation has, despite all of pragmatism: the prohibition of torture, the fight against climate change, the rejection of attack wars.

blogs ONLINE: The aversion to ideology is so far not only for the policy. That's a whole attitude to life.

Klotzek: Yes, the old battles, Beatles or Stones, Techno or acoustic guitar, are definitely over. There are a few pop-Taliban to defend the pure doctrine, but no one will be asked today: Sort times your iPod.

blogs ONLINE: Is it not precisely this attitude of "anything goes", the other generations so irritated?

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Klotzek: This whole total pragmatism suggests that this suffering. Of the elderly is often the accusation: you need more edge. But something is indeed not alone. There's my washcloth-reproach rather than the war experiences of Helmut Schmidt referred to the need to feel. I think it is indeed a historic step forward that I have not served. If now people are being gunned down just to this generation a different view of things get?

blogs ONLINE: Where does this capacity for suffering because of the boys?

Klotzek: It is simply the alternatives. They knew not even how it should be otherwise. The slogan: "Then go over it", which there is for today's generation no longer. Other hand, it impressed the boys, even if a few such offense, sacks perpetual old saying: As I would in your place but let go to head.

blogs ONLINE: Was it easier for the elderly earlier?

Klotzek: The 68ers were able to at least a university degree all start somewhere to work. In my introductory lecture, the professor said: Welcome to the temporary unemployment.

blogs ONLINE: The external conditions are one thing. It also has the feeling that many will not want to definitively determine, still prefer to make a trip around the world, quite happy to switch between the job. Is it not also a generation that likes options postponement?

Klotzek: forward, then again reluctant to stop and go back a step - all this is typical. There is always this doubt: Will I use this way now to go? So the old "Neon" tagline: "Actually, we should grow up." Ambivalence is crucial for this generation. It is her yes also often accused of that no-Hurra dashing style. It is but a quality that they were being questioned, that one can not uncritically by five years in one direction runs.

blogs ONLINE: And now - the hesitation by the financial crisis but now grown up?

Klotzek: No, because what does' grow up? It is said to find its place in society, but it is now even more difficult. The conditions are still unsafe. Since Pauschalisten be terminated fees down, there is often no longer even-year contracts. Adulthood means but if I close the eyes, I can imagine how my life in ten years. Instead, the boys all in the balance. Nevertheless, this in no way such a Will-you-me-with-the-Rave? Generation.

blogs ONLINE: The subtitle of your new book "Plan or drift?" reads: "As you can see whether you too much or too little thought to make his life". Did this generation but not too much time and too little existential worries, if they even think about it?

Klotzek: There is one area where they are certainly too little thought makes. Sure, people have understood that pensions are not sure. But financial preparedness is still totally uncool - despite the financial crisis.

"I want tired, dirty, thirsty, his".

They are concerned about ambition and courage, about debt and mobile phone photos - Rapid generation of children from the 20 - to 35-year-olds telling what her life makes sense. And why the word "Maybe" as a survival strategy can be.

 

Are they ever a generation?

Of course they are das But not really.

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Influenced were young Germans by the attacks of 11 September 2001 and through the Great Depression. What it most, is a feeling of insecurity. They live in unstable conditions, often precariously - between fear and terror Trainee Program, Assessment Center and Labor.

The only contract that they still get unlimited, is the marriage. You want an average of two children, but have only 0.6. And they want more than anything else: no worse than their parents live. To do all the fighting they do not usually together, but every man for himself.

The 20 - to 35-year-olds, they are children's crisis. And in some terms can this feeling down. Ambition is one of them, including debt, courage or cell phone photos. And the inconspicuous word "Perhaps" - because tomorrow no longer have to guess what today is correct.

The blogs has asked members of this generation down what these terms with their lives to do. Five of them come here to speak:

Are you a child crisis?.

Selfish and dilapidated, adapted and hypersensitive: The generation of 20 to 35 will be much said. The blogs have young adults asked what they really want, hope, fear - in the big test now tell you if you tick the crisis as children.

 

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Moby is a pop star ever?.

Over 20 million albums has sold Moby. With the new album, "Wait for me", he continues to major success and admiration for the circle of his friends. Also: Guido Möbius, it rumble and Schrammeln, knarzen and stammeln - a sound check from the Uniblogs editors.

 

MOBY / "Wait For Me"

It should not give pop star against which so few good conscience can argue against, such as Moby. Is he a pop star ever? If he does not really like you and me and famous just by chance? And yes even famous in the sense that we ourselves and the neighbor to know him, but not all the other people with whom you do not want to share tastes?

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Moby: In intimate affection

This sense of white Americans Richard Melville Hall, 43, wonderfully to convey the past 17 years, when his first album appeared. But it can not quite agree: The man has finally more than 20 million albums sold! But he also has a small and tranquil world Moby-invented, and from a plate of age, which would then be enjoying intimate affection.

Particularly, it is again. "Wait for Me" is the new plant. Moby has accompanied a letter to his fans, in which he, with beautiful words Moby outlines how he makes a record. That with friends is always nice to work with than rock stars. That he "Wait For Me" is not in a studio did, but in his bedroom. With a pile of equipment, which he at E-Bay auction has.

And also: that this new record was created, because it is in a speech last year, the film director David Lynch has heard. And after that he decided to only his own artistic preferences to follow.

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As a member of the World Moby, it was always assumed that these musicians so far nothing other than that followed his artistic tastes - and it is confirmed. Anders is hard to explain why "Wait For Me" so inimitably after Moby from the stage sounds as he old blues and gospel vocals and sampled in atmospheric tracks packaged. "Play" was the album, it appeared in 1999, and for months he could not dodge. The Moby-world for a season was over.

It takes a lot of bad will, for now not to be charmed again. Answers connects Moby at "Wait for Me" his talent for producing quaint sound worlds with the voices of unknown singers. Moby just friends.

GUIDO MOEBIUS / "Mountains"

Art Full stammering

Without people like Guido Möbius would be the musicians of this world aufgeschmissen. Mobius runs a PR agency. These are the companies which take care that journalists write the new CDs.

Möbius-Cover: "Mountains"

"A difficult position, because the PR person must always remain credible - otherwise the journalist heard him the next time not to. Guido Möbius, can do that now, he has made himself a plate, his third already. Not easy to decide to write fast, it looks as if you like to give back.

Here comes "the mountains" without protection from good. Indeed, the sound pile rocks in the eight pieces to some level on. It rumort and rumpelt powerful, it schrammelt and knarzt. But with Beat, bass and the artful stammering host singer Andreas Gogol, this is the most fascinating White-Boys-long funk.

Compulsory course material science struggle.

Study war! By flyer advertises the University of Hanover for a Masters in Military Studies "- but the there's not. Military opponents protested with a deceptively real Fake against what they call defense research. Humor Clear reimbursed the university show.

 

"When I seen two days ago, I at first glance also believed," says Catharina Peeck, Press Officer of Asta at the University of Hanover.

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The student representation, as also the faculties, the university management and apparently many universities in Lower Saxony and elsewhere, post a colorful information sheet has been sent. Alleged sender of the Central Student (ZSB) of the Leibniz University of Hanover, allegedly on the new Master's program in Military Studies "wanted attention.

Corporate design and layout are almost exactly the promotional fliers, which the university also for their other courses out there. And only when a precise reading, it is noticeable that since some can not be true. As the focus will be given about:

"In collaboration with the Medical Service of the Armed Forces" will be "at the most mobile and also in foreign missions on the spot applicable Reconstructive restoration of injured soldiers' research
it was also about "application-oriented projects in direct cooperation with industry, defense research, policy and military"
Compulsory courses were "battle Material Science I-III" and a "field trip"
Third-country students should enroll in a Verfassungseid afford

Partners of the program, inter alia, the 1st Armored Division of the Armed Forces in defense of Hanover and several scientific institutions. Credits do not appear in the existing staff of the Student, which is also freely invented Werbeagentur "red noise" and the Internet address of the chocolate manufacturer to noise.

"That goes too far", the Uni

A well-made, but harmless fun? "In no case," said university spokeswoman Stefanie Beier blogs ONLINE. "This brochure is in the appearance of the university is using a forged letter accompanying seem far beyond Hanover also been dispersed - this goes too far." Therefore voted against the university Unknown refunded.

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Background of the action was "probably the student protest" against a particular research project, bordering the university, in an opinion sometimes the circle of suspects, On. At the Institute for Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering and instrumentation were researchers on the question of how to use computer and telephone systems, but also military electromagnetic devices can shield against interference.

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Against that "arms procurement," as critics call it, it had in the past repeatedly student protest actions, most recently at the New Year's reception of the university management. When you Asta is still "a bit surprised" about the violent reaction of the university now emerged on the fake flyer. "Even though we have nothing to do, but we find that actually a very funny action," says Catharina Peeck by Asta. Indeed, the only university with its press release sent on Wednesday to a wider public on this issue provided.

The Armored Division is aware of nothing but 'conjecture'

Serene, the reactions in the 1st stationed in Hanover Armored Division from. The flyer is on the clearly stated, and that is why there are "clear suspicions" about the authorship of the wrong master studies. "There is a scene that routinely violate the cooperation of the military departments with scientists protested," said a division spokesman. The armored division is always at the center again. Background was possibly planned for early July event Celler Trialogue "in which representatives from business, politics and the Armed Forces to talk.

In an anonymous press release that are blogs available online, say the makers of the Flyers to their motives in detail. The variety of real projects in the defense environment of the universities in Hanover shows that 'fake' Military Studies' erschreckenderweise based on realities. "

The current "subversive action" aimed at "by a provocative challenge irritations and reactions in universities, students and external public university to create." Irritations and reactions? That is what the military critics flink met.

From the University of the EU Parliament.

As Abschiebegleis with rich content is regarded by many parties to the European Parliament, Members of the image is bad. Ska Keller, 27, was not frightened: the student showcase and a European-made the jump right away to Brussels - and wants to fight for their ideals.

 

It was a victory announcement: On list presented Platz 7 Alliance 90/The Greens in the European elections it on. And so was "Maria Franziska Keller, a student," Reaching the European Parliament hardly miss. A young woman under 30, placed so far above - this had none of the other major parties married.

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According cheerful comes Ska Keller, as she has called her youth, in the Free University in Berlin. Strenuous weeks behind her.

In spite of the secure tickets for one of the 736 parliamentary seats, the 27-year-old student in the campaign steers Tour: They climbed on podiums, squatted in student flats on the couch in order to discuss about politics, and fought for their party at market places and
Village festivals in the province of Brandenburg.

Policy on Europe will find it exciting: "There is not so much about national interests, but that together we build a Europe. Because you can collaborate with other people who come from other countries, but the same ideas."

Many of these German euphoria for Europe do not share. This shows the
low voter turnout on Sunday. The EU has an image problem, no question.

National politicians use the EU as a scapegoat

The newcomer from the Brandenburg Guben looks at the reasons why the EU countries and their governments: "There is always a lot of national politicians in the EU deported, what they find bad. Although they partially have caused. And everything from their perspective is good, that they push themselves too. "

Previously studied in Berlin Ska Keller Islamic studies, Judaism and Turkish and will complete their studies this year. Ins EU parliament to be elected, does it with a blow to Großverdienerin. Ska Keller knows that there are many discussions about the high salaries of the MPs there. The approximately 14,000 euros gross per month are also available for a conversion. To debate the content to meet the basement continues to openness: "One must make transparent what you get for funds and what you do with it."

Brussels is looking forward to the student. That there is a second seat of the Parliament in Strasbourg, she is wrong: "There should be only one seat in Parliament. This outward and Herfahrerei costs a lot of money, but also costs a lot of nerves and time that you otherwise could use better. "

Take a five-year term, so long will Ska Keller in Brussels. What to do next, she knows just yet. For life to sit in Parliament, she can not imagine. A life policy, but

Miss Schwerelos.

Research in the Nosedive: A Uni-daring experiment, the 24-year-old Christina in a parabolic airplane. Between weightless Flick Flack examined the scientific evidence - at least until the syringe against nausea effect.

 

Christina turns a cigarette. It is already the second this morning, while Christina smokes usually not so much. Usually. But the engineering student is nervous. And the talks in the corner of smokers do not just help them to calm down: "The Americans did in the seventies was supposed to take a jet," says the bearded professor beside her laughing and pulling on his cigarette. "They have tried to weightlessness as long as possible and extend it just a bit exaggerated. Well, they are still a few university places become vacant."

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Christina, 24, is struggling from a smile. Tomorrow they will even in such a jet increase, a converted Airbus A 300 of the French company Novespace, 116 tons, which specializes in so-called parabolic flights. 30 times, the pilot, the machine in the steep angle into the air and then chase the engines throttle. For the occupants a
Roller coaster experience through the clouds: they are first with the dual gravity down to the ground, then they are for a half minute weightless.

And all because of two centimeters. How big could the water droplets, which in the experiment of Christina's team from the University of Darmstadt in weightlessness created. "We investigate the flow behavior of water droplets on porous surfaces," says Christina and removes a dark-blonde hair from his forehead.

Hunting of the giant drop

On the earth are due to gravity only two-millimeter-tiny generate. In weightlessness, however, water droplets can be significantly larger. "So we can enlarge the scale and accurately observe what happens to the drops on different materials will happen," says Christina.

When she told the experiments, it is factually very quickly. Up to the last detail, it will end herunterbeten. Finally, they experiment with their first study prepared for work. Your supervisor, Andreas Lembach, comes straight out of the simple container buildings of Novespace, which borders the airport Bordeaux. Christina puts the cigarette out, there's work.

Safety inspection of the experiments on board: Christina and Andreas crouch in the belly of the Airbus next to a Plexiglas box, a staff member at Novespace inspected the construction. Droplet generator, laptop, video camera - everything had to be tightened firmly Andreas, sharp edges are pasted over with silver tape, so that in weightless mess nobody can violate.

Christina is perforated Plexiglas panes exchange for each test series once. In order not wegzudriften of weightlessness, it is with red straps fasten to the ground. "It's pretty uncomfortable, I think I have all the time kneel and twist the head," she says. The security people have no objection, the green light.

Pill or syringe

14 experiments should take this parabolic flight campaign of the European Space Agency ESA fly. It's about cell cultures, dust particles and nanoparticles. But Christina is absent, as the teams in the afternoon in their attempts poorly ventilated auditorium imagine. Even when Vladimir the microphone in your hands.

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Researching in FreiflugSo does a parabolic flight

Vladimir is Novespace flight coordinator, has already more than 5000 parabolas behind and the reputation of being newcomers like fear. "Very important: You must first open up the Kotztüte before she closes her, ok?" Says the Frenchman tiefgebräunte. The room laughs, Vladimir grins, Christina looks pained. "I do not know if I use the pill or injection to take," she says.

It's about Hyoscine. The drug, which in the fifties as a truth serum was used, attenuates the nausea and therefore all flights as a first injection is recommended. "But a colleague of mine is from the syringe into fainted," says Christina.

The bearded professor, two rows behind her appeases its Art "In the past they have against the fatigue additionally given amphetamines. Two years ago, but they stopped because of the Narcotics Law," he says, grinning. Take forward the flight doctor and gives the microphone last tips: "No alcohol tonight, and only a light dinner. And when the flight is always easy to stomach muscles tense up, then wabbeln the intestines in the abdomen not around." The light dinner with Christina is not difficult.

Do not move your head!

For a cigarette is now no more time. Christina is in the snake room before the doctor, nor an hour to start. All are already the sack-like blue overalls with Esa logo, with the many zippered pockets, because everything else afterwards herumfliegt. Christina is now very different for the decided syringe. "But I would only get half the dose, I hope that is enough anyway," she says. Your supervisor Andreas reassured her. He flies for the second time and becomes more concerned about the experiment than the Kotztüte, previously each was handed over.

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Then Christina's turn. The Hyoscine it can inject into the abdomen. She is a little dizzy, as the gangway on the Airbus hochsteigt and Andreas anschnallt next. The speakers crack, the pilot mumbled a brief welcome and tears the next moment the machine in the sky.

Christina is in the seat down, the jet controls the southern coast of France. "Is so good that I will fly on the first day," says Christina. "But at the moment I would be just happy if I am not from the syringe tip over."

"Pull up", it sounds from the loudspeaker, the pilot goes over the Atlantic Ocean in the climb over. In the 47-degree angle, the nose of the Airbus to the top at all now weighs twice due to gravity. Now do not move your head, otherwise plays the crazy sense of balance. Christina Schneider sits in the seat in the "free float" area, which is divided with nets, and fixed the padded floor. Five seconds, three, two. "Injection", reported the pilot, and suddenly dissolves the lead weighing several tons, which is still through the veins seemed to flow in thin air: Christina floats.

Vladimir from the safety crew swirls a few times back and forth like a doll, her shoulder length hair dancing around her face. "Open your eyes", he calls on them to Christina opens his eyes and laughs. Forget the nervousness, forget the Kotztüte in the side pocket, forget the horror stories of the bearded professor. "20, 30, pull out," croaks the speaker, and Vladimir Cristina pushes back on the ground, so they do not fall too low, again if the dual gravity acts on them. Christina still smiles when she is between the other experiments to Andreas and the Drop-zurückschlängelt experiment.

Eleven minutes of weightlessness

"This is really fun," she says. "Now I have to work. The first parabolas, I had been cleared for me to get used to weightlessness." You slip into the green gloves and change gelöcherte Plexiglas disc, which the large droplets in weightlessness will be taken.

After a few minutes, the regular routine for floating - not a bad little Christina. Your supervisor is Andreas, however, after 30 parabolas little pale around the nose. "Since then had it out the bag excuse, but the drop is where he should be out, and this was the critical point."

The pilot continues to landing at, Christina wanders from the rubber gloves. Gigabyteweise data, both collected in each experiment filmed with high-speed camera. The evaluation will last: Back in Hesse Darmstadt, they will examine the measurements and also with the results of study work Christinas compare.

"Now I regret it's that I just may fly today," she says and jumps, the last steps down the gangway. It is not collapsed, it is not bad has a total of eleven minutes it floated weightless in the air. Darmstadt is just very far away.

Arrow Ostfriesen against a pile of scrap Turbo.

16 teams, a Drive, a winner: student inventors started in Hildesheim a bold companion race, the only cordless screwdriver moved. It was great duel - here Friesen fleet with high-tech in the luggage, there is a garbage Hessen Mobil.

 

Hildesheim - Thick smoke moves through the turf, through the smoke hisses a futuristic vehicle. It has three wheels, two front and one rear, which opponents call it reverently "the spider". The fine aluminum legs stretch to over a meter just above the roadway. In the driver squats.

Threatening does the "spider" - but it runs rather leisurely. Other competitors are moving significantly Flinker.

On the drive is not, it can not lie. As of 16 student teams from all over Germany on Saturday in Hildesheim have supplied, is the most democratic piece of racing, which you can conceive. Two battery-powered electric screwdriver, of 18 volts, are the only permitted engine - imagine that absolute equality in the Formula 1: An identical machine for everyone.

Hot Renner leather and cardboard

For the sixth time, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim Battery Screwdrivers races - a bizarre contest in which designers and engineers to show what they can. Your mission: a racing car to build a pure drive through the commercial battery drill, which is a sponsor. And as it goes through the course, per round of 150 meters by a gym.

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The drivers here are students, not Rennfahrprofis. A wooden ramp is the only starter, also is responsible for all the same. What counts is the construction. Which team will bring the battery performance on the skills tested on the racetrack, at least lose the rare air force and rolling resistance, and integrates a circuit, the accelerator and speeding possible?

Cardboard is the building material of the product design students at Thomas Ernhofer from Schwäbisch Gmünd near Stuttgart. Last night, they have their battery-powered cardboard bike again disassembled and the few metal parts and the wheels of their two-wheeler matt black. Why? "It's worth it even looks better," says Ernhofer of the College of Design and radiates.

At the bottom of the trouser Hall

Appearance is an important factor for the machines of the hobbyist. As the students from Schwäbisch Gmünd, most product designers. Win is the fastest, but the jubilation of some 1200 spectators in the arena is one of the three teams Hildesheimer clearly the sharpest devices on two or three tires. Or one.

Overall Race Inc. mention the three guys from the Kassel Art Academy, and a work of art they have made on the runway. Arne office box is in a motorcycle abgewetzten divide. "Our most expensive investment, $ 50 at eBay," says the student, shortly before his graduation stands. Where other teams and huge stands geleckte presentation areas have built up and the Hildesheimer aQrad team even several times in this race to the carpeted floor of the box sucks, there is only one in overalls clothes racks.

That rocks of the sixties-years-suit motorcycle gear such as a superhero. Between his legs dangling a wheel fixed to the trousers of the Combined connected. And the two screwdrivers left and right of the wheel are also the handlebar grips. At their ends rotating transfer rolls of Inlineskates the force directly to the Scheibenrad between Arnes legs.

Arne goes to the bottom trousers, his shoes and at the rear turn tiny roles. His overall team has only the unicycle in the race, and Arne rauscht on the bottom pant through the hall - the audience ecstatic.

007 in the crosshairs of science.

He has a license to kill, they have the license to Research: With an international conference in Saarbrücken scientists illuminate the myth of James Bond as a cultural ambassador, pop phenomenon, womanizer. And make juicy questions: Is 007 series relationship killer and rivets?

 

Some look at James Bond movies, because they are passionate action fans. Other captures more of the trained body of agents - or his many Gespielinnen. Joachim Frenk, however, is interested in Bond mainly "from a scientific perspective."

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"The Man with the Golden Colt," Bond: 007 Is a serial killer?

Therefore, the professor held for British literature and culture at the University of the Saarland, together with a colleague Erlangen International Conference "The Cultures of James Bond." In Saarbrücken go luminaries of the 007-Research since Friday to Sunday and even the myth of the movie icon to. They arrived from the U.S., Britain and the Netherlands.

If some 90 scientists and students are under a huge poster of Daniel Craig gather, then the spy's research reached a new level. They want to discuss questions like: Why should James Bond will never die? As he has after the attacks of 11 September changed? Is James Bond a pioneer of long-distance, because it makes the whole world jets? The extent to which his masculinity is changing over time? And how much is in bond each of us?

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"There are many facets that you can catch up scientifically," says organizer Frenk, "Bond is the most long-lived cult figure in the global media culture. At least half of the world has ever seen a Bond film. The films can be found on a special Type the entire cultural history of the West again. " Always had it perfect on the big screen, the fantasies of the audience served: "In the past, was in the West. Today, on the whole world."

Since the first Bond novel, the writer Ian Fleming, 22 Bond movies released since 1962, with the changing cast of Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, the current Bond. Frenk describes the art piece as "incredibly rich": "Sure you can bond as popcorn entertainment consume, but the films say something about the postwar history of Western cultures. It is about the power interests in the real world." So was the sinking of the British Empire, just as processed as the endangered environment and last of the race for scarce commodities in "A Quantum Solace". Previously, the viewer sees a Cold War-Bond experience, he can now globalization Bond prefixed.

The secret as a family replacement

It is not the first indication of how much the Bond phenomenon except moviegoers also fascinates scientists. The Dortmunder physicist Metin Tolan, for example, makes for many years
dry lectures interesting by 007-stunts for their plausibility investigated: Is it possible with a magnetic clock really zips to open dresses of beautiful women, or even pistol bullets distracted? Results of his investigations Tolan has been in the book "Shaken, not stirred" was published. In 2006, he also attended a conference in Bochum in part, in which the English
Track of their favorite heroes sat.

At the conference in Saarbrücken will now change the character of the film were investigated: Gentleman by British agents to ausgekochten detective, the equally vile as his enemies can be. "Is James Bond a serial killer?" Is, for example, the provocative title of the lecture, the Anthony Metievier of the University of Saarbrücken holds. In the 29 lectures and workshops is also to Fleming's novels and the publicity machinery around the Bond phenomenon.

Illuminated is also in the cinema celebrated promiscuity of the double-zero agents. The researcher Abigail De Kosnik from Berkley Center in the U.S. diagnosed with an early-style, which ultimately led to the inability of the relationship movie heroes led. Inconceivable, therefore, that James Bond, a lasting
Woman at his side. His only loyalty is a member of the notorious secret of their majesty: By connecting the MI6 agent - at least according to Freudian Leseart - a romantic ideal family, argues De Kosnik.

One of the key conference participants, the film historian James Chapman of the University of Leicester. 1999 was his standard work "License To Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond film" has published, his most recent book on the cultural history of James Bond has just been published in Japanese translation. "I've seen that fellow heated ideological debates on Bond led. This shows that the bond research will slowly grow," says Chapman.

A disillusioned and wounded hero

Exciting, he finds that Bond "in every movie released, and apparently without direct past appears. The enemies of the famous classic Bond actor Sean Connery played today simply do not matter anymore. In the Daniel Craig version of Bond had absolutely nothing to do with earlier episodes such as "Dr. No" or "Goldfinger" and had to be done in the recent films human, become emotional. "But he remains a spy. So he must be able to seem invisible. It is of England, but remains a stranger everywhere," said the British researchers.

Chapman thinks the new 007 psychologically complex than all agents' predecessor. Barbara Korte, literary scholar from the University of Freiburg, sees this as part of the adjustment of the figure at the present time. "In 'The Quantum Solace' is blurring the line between hero and villain, things are not as clear as before. Craig's Bond is disillusioned and hurt. And so he is a hero of his time and a hero for his time," says Korte .

Not only are researchers Bond came to the conference. BWL student Isis Martinsen has been a childhood fan of Bond, even if they were always in fear under the table hidden, as she says. "At the beginning I already geschmunzelt when I heard that there is a James Bond convention there. But finally, Bond cult!" And pharmacy student Hans Felix Schreckenbach adds: "A nation is defined by its culture. It's interesting how experts assess the Bond phenomenon."

On Friday evening, conference participants discussed the style casino continues. On Saturday and Sunday you will, inter alia, to Bond as a world-traveling tourists, the emancipation of the Bond Girls and the future of 007th Because, says Volker Linneweber, President of the Saar-Uni: "For James Bond, it is not possible to die. The mere economic reasons."

Research object 007th

The myth of the movie character is fascinating not only movie-goers, but also scientists. At an international conference in Saarbrücken researchers to search for the mystery of the double-zero agents.

 

Some look at James Bond movies, because they are passionate action fans. Other fesselt rather the Body-trained agents. Joachim Frenk, however, is interested in Bond mainly "from a scientific perspective."

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Bond in "The Man with the Golden Colt"

Therefore, the professor held for British literature and culture at the University of the Saarland, together with a colleague Erlangen, 5 to 7 June in Saarbrücken international James Bond Conference. Those invited are luminaries of the 007-Research in the U.S., Britain and the Netherlands: James Chapman about the British University of Leicester, which is already ten years ago, a fundamental work on Bond published.

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The academics want to discuss questions like: Why should James Bond will never die? As he has after the attacks of 11 September changed? Is James Bond a pioneer of long-distance, because it makes the whole world jets? And how his masculinity is changing over time? "There are many facets that you can catch up scientifically," says Frenk. "In the movies can be found on a special kind of the whole cultural history of the West again."

The Decline of the British Empire was also processed, such as the endangered environment and last of the race for scarce commodities in "A Quantum Solace". Since 1962, 22 Bond movies released.

Previously, the viewer sees a Cold War-Bond experience, he can now globalization Bond prefixed. "007 is our time to the global phenomenon, which has enormous cultural reach."

The killer shrew from Babelsberg.

Two guys want a woman - because it must be crashing with his short film about love great small rodents almost missed Tomer Eshed student Oscar and landed in second place. The animated Schlägerei shall designate a film orchestra, an opulent soundtrack to the wonderful debut.

 

The history of Tomer Eshed could be material for a Hollywood film. The native-born Israeli army decides after time, to leave his homeland and the world to discover. With a sketch book and a guitar in the luggage, he flies to New York to take his luck in the U.S. to find.

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After several failed attempts starting in the film business he falls on a trip to Central and South America into a German. Two visits to Germany, it needs until it is established for him: "Here I want to live."

At the Academy for Film and Television Potsdam-Babelsberg (HFF) indicates the creative potential Esheds. And with his first film succeeds in Berlin living man into a surprise finale to the student Oscars.

Nature film hits Blockbuster Action

What started as a diploma project began, became a huge success: since its premiere a year ago ran Esheds five Debut "Our Wonderful Nature" about the love life of water shrews at more than 100 film festivals worldwide and was, inter alia, with the "Siggraph Best Well Told Fable Prize 'and the' Short Tiger Award ".

Through computer animation tried the 31-year-old animal documentary and "American blockbuster action" to combine. Invent characters and model, and they bewegungsfähig with matching shades inferior - a year's work put into the project Eshed. "In this time I'm mainly with the principles of computer animation employed," he says.

But soon he reached the end of his technical skills. "The difficulty was that I film a naturalistic look wanted," said Eshed. But nature is in its finesse difficult nachzugestalten. To Vordiplom over his instructors work with the words: "More I can not do this time."

But the ambition was not the slender man go. Through the support of friends, he continued his project: "It was just luck that I am in the right moments, people have taken to help me with my problems with the image could help." Through their support allowed the student, his short film with a film-like action sequence and the musical accompaniment of the Babelsberg film orchestra to perfection.

Praise for the chosen home of Berlin

Twelve more months of hard work invested in the strip Eshed, success rewarded his perseverance. The HFF let their students a lot of freedom in the design, financial support for projects was enormous - and Eshed called "no self-evident".

In the race for the Student Oscar, with 57 participants from 39 countries had submitted their contributions, took Eshed against four other finalists from Sweden, Britain and Israel for the best foreign film. He had beaten in the end only the Swedish competitors.

"Disappointed that I did not receive the prize, I am not," says the film student. Now he wants on his diploma project focus. The computer will then short another species in the center of Esheds design are: it illuminates the lives of flamingos in a herd with only fellow homosexual lives.

On politically sensitive issues, which his native land of Israel shall be Eshed dares not yet: "I still have no clear statement about certain topics and that is exactly what I find in a political film important is the honesty and strength." In Berlin, however, he found his second home. "The city manages to never be too stressful or too boring." You can choose any life, which he gladly would like to live.

German film students at the Student Oscar often well cut off times and reached the finals, sometimes the price fetched. The German list of winners:

2008:
Reto Caffi for "Auf der Strecke"
2007:
Toke Constantin Hebbeln (Berlin) for "Nimmermeer"
2005: Ulrike Grote (Hamburg) for "The Outlier"
2003:
Florian Baxmeyer (Hamburg) for "The Red Jacket"
2000: Florian Gallenberger (Munich) for "Quiero ser"
1999: Marc-Andreas Bochert (Potsdam) for "small"
1998: Thorsten Schmidt (Baden-Württemberg Film Academy) for "castling"
1997: Raymond Boy (Cologne) for "A simple job"
1994: Katja von Garnier (Munich) for "Abgeschminkt"
1988: Wolfgang Becker (Berlin) for "Butterflies"

The word leader.

With 23 Sebastian Rabsahl easily milchgesichtig, philosophy graduate - and the new star of the Poetry Slam scene. His trademarks are the hat and raised eyebrows, ridicule and a pleasure alert mind. Although he claims: "A head commits us to nothing."

 

Is it a blessing or a curse, a young linguist particular artist to be? A blessing of course - especially if you like Sebastian Rabsahl by Lübeck evening stroll and suddenly from the darkness, a pretty 18-year-old appears that asks for an autograph.

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Text acrobat Rabsahl called "Sebastian 23" - and toured successfully through Germany

Or rather a curse? For example, where the beauty of it reported on how they deal with her friend works at the most popular Pennälern Gossen poets Charles Bukowski swallows, the body posture of the otherwise perfectly relaxed Entertainers stiffen. "Yes, yes, Bukowski is always a worthwhile read," says Rabsahl something altväterlich.

His home is the Poetry Slam - the melting pot of all those more or less talented Dampfplauderer, before the audience to bet rhyme, scream, joke, schlaumeiern. Rabsahl did so with such mastery that it is in this discipline, the title of vice world champion has won. Because he is so good, he quickly rose to star on the scene. And because it also needs elsewhere are fresh faces, the cascade of a word can skillfully recite, the audience is looking Rabsahl now increasingly alone, without his buddy from the Poetry Slam.

"No time for a hairstyle"

Under the pseudonym "Sebastian 23" already Rabsahl with his time just touring Germany, and perhaps the sole entertainer at present only one problem: Is it perhaps too clever for his audience?

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Those who prefer the caliber of comedians Mario Barth is fun, is Sebastian Rabsahl ignore or, worse, hate: for that to feel he can, somehow to be underexposed. The rest will appreciate the weird texts, as when Sebastian 23 (he is only 30 has become) suggests "60 to be, and I introduce it, 16 to be: If it once so far would be if I had my first French kiss with a outlet.

Above the stage is done purely outwardly little more than a million young artists before: Rabsahl carries a few texts and uses about one quarter to the guitar. His face, in which ridicule always a pleasure announcing brow is pulled up and approach each of beard growth is lacking, might in fact a 16-year-olds belong. This is always the cap on his head, probably primarily as a distinguishing feature is for, but a superficially pragmatic unoriginellen-short haircut is to hide ( "I have no time for a hairstyle").

The artist knows that if he like all of these appearances mean nothing, and flirts with that hard-body part that is hidden behind the forehead and in his case all fresh flow is serving.

"A head commits us to nothing", says Sebastian 23 on the title of his anthology, and leads on the cover of a brain in a string like a balloon walk. But Rabsahl is a prime example of what development opportunities are offered when a women in the school with broadly punish disrespect.

German of the diligent student of Palestine.

His heroes are called Beckenbauer, Matthaeus, Klinsmann - now he learns their language. At the young Palestinian Muhammad was a football from a voice-Tick-Tick. He learns busy and hopes for a scholarship to Germany. It would also be breaking out of a prison.

 

Languages you exercise in the classroom or in an exchange program. Mohammed exercises when he goes to eat pizza. He runs the runway pothole high, the main call them here in the small pizzeria on the outskirts of Abu Dis and welcomes Said pizza maker with a cheerful "good day". Said then laughs and starts with Mohammed in a chat. In German.

Said has nearly 20 years in Germany, is fluent and sometimes without a decimal point, and - just want to Mohammed, 22, may also once.

Still, he speaks ruckhaft, with long pauses in which he committed, as determined by the correct vocabulary studied. But the Palestinians Mohammed has won this level. Between the idea to learn German, and his small-talk with Said lie hundreds of miles with yellow collective taxis and four years of hard work.

Mohammed sits in the back seat, in a taxi to Ramallah, pull out the bare mountains of the West Bank over. Since the rear is the desert, left, down the road we go to Jerusalem. On his knees is a Vocabulary for the German lessons at the Goethe-Institut Ramallah. Mohammed, brown eyes, short dark hair, not only learn German, he has - and this is not evil intentioned - a Germany-Tick, especially his football-Tick is owed.

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He knows every outcome of the Bundesliga last weekend, and can choose the clubs, where the National German striker Karl-Heinz Riedle in the nineties has kicked in sequence and length correctly enumerate. In his room hangs a big Bayern Munich Flag on his door, he has written that all Germans for the 2010 World Cup luck wishes. It hangs a black-red-gold flag. In the same colors he has on his Facebook picture wrapped.

His enthusiasm for football is also the reason why he has begun to learn the language: "I wanted to comment on German television the games of the national team finally understand." Mohammed is a moment as if that which he has just said, an entirely plausible answer. Then he laughs and pushes quickly afterwards: "Well, maybe not the only reason."

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Mohammed lives in Abu Dis, a neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem, he studied at the Palestinian Al-Quds University of Information Technologies. Actually would be the next Goethe Institute and German so that the next lesson, not far away: only a few miles to the west, in the city of Jerusalem - that would be much closer to him than Ramallah.

But between the house his family in Abu Dis and the city has been almost six years of an eight-meter high
Wall, with barbed wire and guards. In Jerusalem, the West must not Mohammed. He is a West Bank residents: Palestinians, young, male. No chance that the Israeli authorities to issue him a permit, and certainly not for a language course.

Four years ago, reported that Mohammed is why his first course in German in Ramallah. At any moment he drove the 30 kilometers from Abu Dis to Ramallah by taxi - and when the evening fell, he was sometimes more than three hours because of the army checkpoint was already closed and the taxi a long detour had to go.

Learn German, the cage escape

That was 2005, just the second intifada erupted, the tense situation in the country, the border guards were irritated. And the wall that Israel around the West Bank was made of Abu Dis day more to a cage. Learn German, and perhaps even go to Germany - this is for Mohammed, the dream of the procedural situation here at the top of the mountains once judäischen forget them.

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"Most students who come to us, only make the course for the first or second stage, for a visa for Germany to get," says Berit leg, 38 It organizes for the Goethe-Institut language teaching. Mohammed is reported immediately after the first course for the next, and then again for the next and so on.

Eventually he sat virtually alone in the classroom, because there are no other students were more who were able to maintain its level. Mohammed's friends tried to talk, even to learn German, but that did not. He had to wait until a course was full. One month, two, three, at the end of all seven.

"It is very rare that someone as long as he durchhält," says Berit leg. "And we seldom have students who are so for the German language and inspire our country." Because Mohammed at the end came more than any other, it suggested the Institute for a scholarship, with whom he was a few weeks after Germany was able to drive.

Learning from Beckenbauer and Klinsmann

He proudly displays the images on his computer from the workshop a year ago in Bonn: He met other young people from around the world, in the courses of the Goethe-Institut had shown outstanding performance. Here they are in Bonn before the castle Poppelsdorfer since before the Cologne Cathedral, and the image that is in Hanover, in the football stadium. "A great time was," says Mohammed. He would prefer the entire course with the same taken to Ramallah in order to continue to learn German. After all, he invited them all. But whether they come from?

At home in Abu Dis is now waiting for Mohammed again until enough students for a new German course have reported. In order not to come of the exercise, he regularly goes to the institute, just like that. Then he sits in the library, reads by the German books, look in the newspaper.

It meets on a chat with Ursula Gutscherian, 64, of the Institute Mediathekarin: You gave him tips, he can read, and he helped his first messages to write in German. At the moment it helps him a scholarship for his studies in Germany. In Aachen, perhaps, or in Berlin.

Mohammed is among the shelves, his fingers wander over the spine: Goethe, Grass, Kleist, Lessing, Schiller. Then he kneels down and pulls right off the shelf a book that he knows: "History of the German national football team." It scrolls a little back and forth. There is a chapter on Beckenbauer, here is something to Matthew, comes Klinsmann.

"Can you learn German fine with," says Mohammed.

Noticed blood in art and crown of thorns.

The Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, brings a non-Goth rollercoaster of emotions: Some can not look tired at the wildly styled beings, while others find it "ridiculous" - the Gothics happy about successful provocations and prying eyes.

 

Leipzig - "Excuse me, may I take a photo of you making?" Sigrid Möller enthusiastically wagged with her cell phone, set it on the Goth pair in front that looks like an old Ölstich emerged. The 70-year-old bummelte straight with her husband through the shopping arcade in Leipzig's train station, when she came to the eye: a lady in a Ballrobe, baggy, floor-length, a gentleman with a hat-in Buddenbrookhaus twine. The same must be photographed, Sigrid Möller pushes on their cell phone photo.

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Kathrein Döhring a bloodstained bride: "Just because it's fun when you get attention"

Every year at Pentecost draws the Wave Gotik Treffen (WGT) more than 19,000 supporters of the scene in the city. For the elderly couple Möller WGT is "always exciting, always beautiful" - even if some characters look nice slant. But the Möllers know: They want it all just play.

Although not everyone reacts so abandoned, as the older Möllers, as the native Leipzig WGT already know from the beginning - 2009 anniversary is the 18th Mal A whole city for an entire weekend to see overtaken by a horde of wild styled Goth so do representatives of the younger generation, the 'normal' are sometimes even harder.

"Some look really like clowns"

For example, David Perez Aguilera (22) in Leipzig in a fast-food shop his lunch with girlfriend Frances Venediger (19) takes: David finds the Finish type, how many "black" painting and dress, mostly "ludicrous, some see really look like clowns. " As it stands as the outfit of Alex Weinert in the eye, a couple of tables sits next: Alex, a student of social work from Kiel, has a crown of thorns selbstgebastelte made up of tiny branches, Puschel over a bright red wig of long feathers. This is the 22-year-old in a laced corset and boots with high heel.

David and Frances for a no-go ': "These are clothes for a woman, not a man!" The crown of thorns bear Alex no coincidence - it is his confrontation with God demonstrate; Alex describes himself as a Christian, sincere believers: "God is manifested in feelings, which we describe as love - I believe in him as a good force which is not material, found in the heart. " A statement that many passers-the student would not trust if, like David's better to keep distance.

But there are also non-blacks who are interested want to immerse themselves in the strange world of WGTler. Christoph Matthaes, 19, mechatronic-trainee from Sellessen near Cottbus, is for an extra day with his friend Christian Julk arrived. Both have prior wild myths about Goth heard, "the drinking animal blood, which celebrate rituals in the cemetery, the rat bite the head off," one grinning at Christoph. In the Leipzig City they learn from Essen Stephan Glaser know. The 22-year-old designs clothes for the cult scene fashion brand "belladonna", and is now a glamorous black street punk, with a turquoise Iro, network stump trousers and long, false eyelashes-jingle.

Curious regards Christoph Stephen outfit. "I think it's cool that there are people who by their extravagant dress opinion - that one must first trust." Christian order of the awesome turquoise Irokesenschnitt. "How long do we need this?" Stephan cradles the head, "between five minutes and two hours, depending on circumstances. My styling record is four hours." Christian makes big eyes, "oh man, there is the half day forum". The three laugh.

"The difference with the unfinished"

Then again Stephan serious. Animal blood to drink, rats anknabbern - this is all a giant rubbish, he says. "I do not know a single in the scene, which makes such a nonsense." Nevertheless, one must always hear phrases like "shit-Satanist", this stereotype would not go. Christian believes that it is the bold extravagance. "For many normal looking people, the perhaps too different to be with difference not ready."

The attack is really big for some. For example, Kathrein Döhring, 18, from Munich. As kunstblutverschmierte bride with veil and petticoat-selbstgenähtem white dresses stöckelt it on fire red boots with turbo paragraphs through Leipzig and attracts all glances. Constantly Kathrein must stop, throws in Pose, is photographed from all sides, from blacks, but also by many normal-dressed passers-by who they gruselnder admiration taxi.

Kathrein there too, on the one hand, simply want to provoke, by "playing with contradictions: the innocence of a bride with a shocking fake blood, a combination that by Kathrein noticed how no second, and enjoy," simply because it fun when you get attention - it was mainly the terrible, beautiful show, "but it's not about glorifying violence." What on the other side does not necessarily so important.

"For me personally it would be too much effort, so I get to do," says Constanze about Weidensee, 23 The primary trainee from Leipzig is one of the many passersby in the city, the look of the Munich Kathrein anstaunen. "I think they are hiding with the blood of her pretty face, but otherwise it looks really chic - how can someone who has a passion auslebt!"

Then Constanze even move, with her friend Juliana, at Pentecost is visiting from Berlin. But not now deeper into the black crowd to throw, but in order to leave the city. Tonight's after Tabarz in Thuringia, tomorrow evening after Hall: in the two cities' The Prince 'concerts. As a Goth-horror-bride Kathrein of Constanze and Juliana plans hears, her eyes lit ecstatic: "The prince? Cool, which I hear!"

Student researchers are looking into the brain.

Verliebt, ambitious, sensitive - Neuroscientists show at the brain scan, what students think and feel. An expedition into the realm between the cerebral cortex and temporal lobes - the boundary between body and soul.

 

Sarah Gumpert, 24, lies motionless on his back, over aschblonde hair has a white helmet gestülpt, plugs in his ears, in each hand she holds a small box with three buttons. A quiet hum, slowly driving the sun high, then stops in front of about 60 centimeters wide opening of a large aircraft turbine apparatus. There go into it.

With your head forward and finally Gumpert is to tiptoe into the tube disappeared. To her skull, it will be around shortly after that terrible clank, whir, rumble - a roar, when preparing the apparatus for at least a time before.

Observe how people reckon, love, grieve

The student only needs to play a game. From speakers schallt a voice from the control room in the tube: "Can you hear me? Well, then it is now happening with the first measurement." During the next hour must Gumpert of six buttons each press the right: On a screen gets color and must be displayed by pressing a button on the order of response. 432-times in a row.

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Sarah does not usually longer than a second to sign up for a button to decide, and makes hardly any mistakes. "As a child I learned a lot playing with the computer," she says and laughs afterwards. "I think that trains the reaction."

Medical student is a Gumpert of 50 subjects for a study at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf her body as a precious object trying to provide: their brain. With the so-called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) watch Michael Rose, 42, and his colleagues from the Institute for Systemic Neurosciences at the brain thinking. The question for researchers: Are in fact, as previously assumed, independent cognitive systems for each of conscious and unconscious learning responsibility? "We believe that, for example in the regions for both perception and motor function both at the same place is possible," explained Rose. Hence the keystrokes: "Thanks to the pictures afterwards, we will know exactly what brain areas are involved."

Welcome to the wonderful world of brain research. Still, the people Denkorgan of psychologists, medical doctors and biologists puzzling. While the science now knows almost exactly how the nerve cells communicate, including voice or Sehzentren, the motor, they have long been located. But how and where exactly the man learns? How and where he decides, he feels anger, sadness, empathy?

Direct look into the soul

Especially in the last five to ten years, opened the brain imaging researchers the opportunity to present their theories on Human everything at the source to be examined: the brain, which they now are watching how it calculates, remembers, creates compassion.

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A working group at the Swiss neurobiologist Andreas Bartels has in the interplay of neurons even the seat of love discovered, especially in the regions of the brain, which also pounce on cocaine, cheered wildly as the neurons. And last year, California researchers, regelrecht in the minds of their subjects to read. They recognized in the visual cortex of the brain, which pictures the subjects had previously seen.

Very often students are of such psychological, medical or neurobiological investigations. Eight to ten euros per hour, the volunteers, many of the fascinating high-tech research and come again. Perhaps out of curiosity?

While solving the colorful images from the scanners, the little body-soul problem. The question of how to raise awareness for the sheer physical behavior, a brainstorm about the biochemistry of neurons are firing, it is by no means settled.

However, a closer look into the soul to get a maximum of a brilliant psychiatrist.

Unfortunately, the individual results of such studies rarely the subjects to be made available - even if he is still so much to lust after to know if his head is actually the love-lit areas when he scanners sees pictures of his girlfriend.

After getting the subjects sometimes cut their own images of the brain on a CD issued. And who has the chance to glimpse into this world in allergeheimste own body?

Extraneous acts and strangely lifeless, even on the computer images, probably because the brain is the feeling so far away. Never knocks, never jerks or krampft it, it feels neither warm nor cold.

Prospect of making money on stupid tasks ambitious

"My own brain coils look - that was cool," says Benedikt Vogt, 22 "I could like a slide show through my brain zap." Vogt has joined in an attempt by the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics at the University of Bonn. There is this question of so-called neuro-economics, and the reactions of human brains on matters of money to fathom.

Vogt gauge should be a series of two almost identical pictures to compare. "Almost all were works of art, sometimes classical, sometimes abstract," explains the Bonn economics student. The question was: how many differences you find? "A bit like a puzzle on a cornflakes pack." Only that he is in the tubes are humming, a binocular-like special glasses and with the help of four keys had to indicate whether one, two, three or four differences were discovered.

Up to this point yet touched the whole thing no financial interests. Anders saw it as his researcher for correct answers promised a reward. The idea of the experiment: The neuro-economists wanted to see if the brain works differently when an external stimulus such as money drives people. Or is an inner motivation, ambition, the same areas to activate?

Still, the study is not completed. Previous attempts have shown that relatively simple tests, such as memory tasks, the brain increases seen when the participants were promised money. For more complex puzzles, this was not the case.

Anti-Schwafel Award for clear positions.

For punched speeches, the time is not: When politicians Speed Dating in Freiburg 20 local politicians met on 40 mostly young voters. In just three minutes should be the candidate to convince the public that politicians can be more than about the bush.

 

Albrecht Vorster Flirt laughs his partner in speed dating in the face. A few rose petals on the table before him, scattered, a tealight provides dämmriges light. Vorster inclined his head slightly to the side, looks back on his little notes and his smile turns into a mischievous grin. He asks: "Freiburg is a petty, green hole - what do you say to that statement?"

This is not a normal dating - and the same question have to listen to some one after another. The answers vary: "even in some corners," "I see it differently" or "I like Freiburg, as they are, and will not touch them." Some are still two or three more records on it. Then it continues, next question.

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You do not have much time, only three minutes for a non-binding talks on the small black tables Peterhofkeller in the University of Freiburg. Albrecht Vorster is biology student and young voters. He and 39 other Freiburg meet here at 20 local politicians to the "politician-Speed-Dating", organized by the State Office for Political Education of Baden-Württemberg. The goal: Young voters and candidates should meet at eye level, voters will be able to experience that politicians not only about the bush.

Ten Dates Every voter, each with a deputy, after each individual fills out a card, and evaluate the politicians - for personal and political sympathy, credibility, if the candidate was able to answer without further ado and in what form a reunion of the electorate wants - 'in the pub, at the next council meeting "or" never again ".

Critical issues in the 30-second clock

Old walls, subtle lighting - from the atmosphere could be her in the cellar by a real speed-dating to establish amorous adventures take place. But now take the potential political couples, voters and elected, face to face. Who is the counterpart, the voters do not know - they know neither the name nor the party list of their conversation partner. After all, ten of the eleven electoral lists for the local elections on 7 June ending, each have two representatives on Dating skillfully.

Albrecht Vorster is prepared. The 23-year-old biology student and U-Asta-chairman from Freiburg has made a cheat sheet with keywords for often something provocative or critical questions.

Comparison of Albrecht Vorster sits a mid to long hair tied back - Timothy Simms of the Greens. The clock is not yet - so they start with a little small talk. In the basement of the University of questioner and politicians remain largely among themselves, there are few spectators - probably because both the UEFA Cup final takes place. It is primarily a campaign event for the 60 participants.

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Albert Vorster (r.) at Speed-Dating with John Gröger (Free Voters)

Then the gong sounds, the countdown starts, and sets off Albrecht. "Study and Freiburg - because what must be done?" - "The problems lie not at the local level, but mostly at the federal level," says Simms and will delve into: "I am a big critic of the Bologna process", then he is not. Albrecht Vorster, it is too general: "What about ways to get to meet? On Augustine Square for instance?" Students at this meeting, there is anger with the residents to rest. Simms: "I'm scheduled for a liberal who lives in the city who must endure a certain amount of noise."

Forty seconds in order. Beside them with cameras running, the supposedly intimate conversation will be broadcast live over the Internet. About every 30 seconds crackle further questions to the candidates: What should be at Demos in Freiburg change? What to do if the city has even less money? What project, he would prefer to implement immediately? The time is up. Simms will briefly for the Live Stream interviewed. Vorster moves two places further evaluated his first interview partner and waits for his next political flirtation.

Who has failed, the State Office fails

At the end of Simms is one of Albrecht Vorster favorite candidate. He rarely discussed, is using its scarce time, he asks positions, listen to arguments to - actually, they are critical and sometimes harsh Interviews: What would you do in the first 100 days, if you are Mayor? What speaks against Freiburg? Some others have only one issue has come without questions and with desire for a relaxed conversation.

The majority of the 40 completely unrepresentative voters see the Greens Simms is not quite the front. But the other candidate wins the Open, Anna Schmid, the sympathy prize. And the voters, they would also like to meet in a pub. A young politician from the left list, the 24-year-old Joschka Buttkus, gets the most support for his political goals.

True, it is surprising when anti-Schwafel Award: The career politician among local candidates, the CDU candidate Daniel Sander Bundestag, has at best without further ado, the questions will be answered. His party colleague, the policeman Siegfried Lorek is most certifies authenticity and credibility. The council again to the voters most Irene Vogel of the Independent Women Freiburg. Whom the voters will never again want to see the country's Central betrays not.

Biology student Albrecht Vorster is satisfied with his dates on this evening. "It is interesting, with people talking without knowing to which list they belong," he says. "After the evening today, I would make more people give my vote than I thought. But in the end but I will look into the programs."