FRM Magazine Spring 2012

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Excellence Pixomondo – the Oscar factory The magazine on the
FrankfurtRhineMain metropolitan region
Networks FRM the international financial hub
Excursions Places with innovative potential:
the Main-Kinzig-Kreis and Hanau Interview Siemens manager Michael Kassner
Discoveries
Events The Romantic Impulse – picture of an epoch
Plus FRM-Pocket-Guide
www.frankfurt-rhein-main.net
Ferries across the Main
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The Oscar Factory
How Hollywood
came to FRM
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Editorial
Dear Readers
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One news item that is definitely fit to print, and one that could not be
better. At this year’s Oscar awards, one of the coveted trophies went
to Pixomondo, for Visual Effects in Martin Scorsese’s movie “Hugo”. Great confirmation of how creative FrankfurtRhineMain can be. What greater praise could
there be from Hollywood? It’s the first Oscar in which a company based in FrankfurtRhineMain has played a major part. Pixomondo was founded in 2001 in Pfungstadt and now operates as an international creative network spread across
12 offices – in line with the notion of “follow the sun”, namely 24/7, with tasks
carefully divided up to fit the pattern. What is now discernible in the creative
industries has long since been the norm in Frankfurt’s financial community:
the blend of international reach and global networking that can rely on an outstanding, highly competitive local infrastructure.
International networks and competition also mean that you need to be able to rival
other metropolitan regions in a field that will become ever more important for us
moving forward. The future of our planet will be evidently decided in the cities.
What ever more clearly sets the pace in this respect is how strongly a region realizes a concept that has become increasingly important over the last 25 years: sustainable development. The two words have a truly magical attraction in the worlds
of politics and business, and in civil society. So what could sustainable urban and
regional development in FrankfurtRhineMain look like? In what direction are our
cities heading in the 21st century? How will we tackle the energy, transport, construction and residential challenges, over and above Frankfurt’s application to be
made “Europe’s Green Capital”?
Culturally speaking, this spring FrankfurtRhineMain is also making the running,
with events that will attract attention far beyond the region itself. The re-opening
of Frankfurt’s Historisches Museum is following fast in the footsteps of the internationally highly praised Städel extension. At the same time, Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain is launching its focal agenda, which will run thru 2014: “Romantic
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ExcEllEncE Pixomondo – the Oscar factory
ExcuRsion
Places with innovative potential:
The magazine on the
FrankfurtRhineMain metropolitan region
nEtwoRks FRM the international financial hub
the Main-Kinzig-Kreis and Hanau
FRM-
intERviEw Siemens manager Michael Kassner
DiscovERiEs
EvEnts The Romantic Impulse – picture of an epoch
Plus FRM-PockEt-GuiDE
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Ferries across the Main 6,50 Euro | 1 / 2012
h Englis n
Editio
Impulse. Rhine & Main Romanticism”. We can expect light to be shed on all aspects of an epoch, which philosopher Rüdiger Safranski claims is probably the
most decisive cultural epoch of the 19th century and a “decidedly German affair”.
The Oscar Factory How Hollywood came to FRM
Let me close with some great ‘home’ news: at the end of last year our Website www.
frankfurt-rhein-main.net won the “Good Design Award” in the “Digital Media”
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The cover
shows the Oscar statuette that
the Frankfurt-based company
Pixomondo won in February
2012 for the visual effects in
Scorsese’s film “Hugo”. The
statuette is 35 cm high, weighs
just short of 4 kilos, and is covered in a coat of 24-carat gold.
The value of the materials is a
mere 300 dollars – nothing
compared with its incomparable
value to the company.
category at the DDC – Deutscher Designer Club competition on “Good Design 12”.
I look forward with you to reading the latest issue of “FRM – The Magazine on the
FrankfurtRhineMain Metropolitan Region”.
Dr. Hartmut Schwesinger
Managing Director of FrankfurtRheinMain International
Marketing of the Region GmbH
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Object of desire
The first Oscar with a key
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Excellence
Pixomondo was founded in Pfungstadt, it is now the market
leader in digital postproduction, has offices in three continents,
and since February 2012 has been winner of one of the glorious
Oscars. We pay them a visit in Frankfurt
by ChRIstIan sälzeR (text), Jonas RateRMann and tIM WegneR/laIF (photos)
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networks
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The global
financial hub
foreign banks have
representative offices
in FRM
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foreign banks do
business in FRM
FrankfurtRhineMain plays in the
Champions League of the financial world – and
advises upcoming financial centers worldwide
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Hubertus Väth gets around a lot. Sometimes he is in
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Istanbul, sometimes in Mumbai, and lately he has
been frequently travelling to Moscow frequently. As he did early
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March when an entire conference was organized on one of the
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city’s favorite topics: creating a leading international financial
center in Russia’s capital. It is also one of Väth’s favorite topics.
After all, he is managing director of Frankfurt Main Finance, the
and the City of Frankfurt.
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Frankfurt as a financial
hub is a real magnet
for banks
association set up in 2008 to market the city as a financial center,
comprising leading banks, Deutsche Börse, the state of Hessen
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From the very start executive committee spokesperson Lutz
Raettig put cooperation with Moscow at the top of the agenda.
Then at the end of January representatives from the German and
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Russian economic ministries signed an official agreement. And
Väth was not left with a minor role in the conference program,
but was the first to present the financial center Frankfurt to the
audience of financial professionals in Moscow.
1 Australia: australia and new Zealand Banking
group 2 Austria: absolute Portfolio management |
denizBank | investkredit Bank | Jung, dms & Cie. |
raiffeisen Bank international | raiffeisen interna-
In the coming years the Russian government wants to invest
40 billion U.S. dollars in expanding the capital. The area
covered by the city is to be more than doubled. Russia’s
two leading men Vladimir Putin and Dimitri Medvedev are
making the expansion of city into an internationally renowned
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tional Fund advisory | superfund asset management | VakifBank international | VTB Bank | Western
Fédérative du Crédit mutuel | Banque Psa Finance |
Banque regionale de l‘ouest | Banque scalbert-dupont | Banque Transatlantique | BnP Paribas Equities France | BnP Paribas | BnP Paribas securities
services | Bonnasse lyonnaise de Banque | Crédit
agricole Cheuvreux | Crédit agricole Corporate and
union international Bank 3 Azerbaijan: The inter-
investment Bank deutschland | Crédit industriel de
national Bank of azerbaijan republic 4 Belarus:
5 Belgium: Euroclear Bank | The
Bank of new York mellon 6 Bermuda: Frankfurter
Fondsbank 7 Brazil: Banco do Brasil | Banco itaú
l‘ouest | Crédit industriel de normandie | Crédit industriel et Commercial de Paris | Crédit mutuel
Belarusbank
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Canada: maple Bank 9 China: agricultural
Bank of China | Bank of China | Bank of Communications | China Construction Bank | industrial and
Commercial Bank of China | People‘s Bank of China
10 Egypt: misr Bank 11 Finland: nordea Bank
12 France: attijariwafa Bank | Banque CiC | Banque
16 Iran: Bank sepah-iran 17 Ireland: Bank of ire-
land | depfa Bank | Elavon Financial services | merrill lynch international Bank | Wells Fargo Bank international 18 Israel: Bank Hapoalim | Bank leumi
le-israel | mizrahi Tefahot Bank 19 Italy: Banca
monte dei Paschi di siena | intesa sanpaolo | mediobanca 20 Japan: Honda Bank | mCE Bank |
nomura Bank | The Bank of Japan 21 Luxembourg:
ippines: asian development Bank 25 Poland: XTrade Brokers dom maklerski 26 Portugal: Banco
itaú BBa international | Caixa Económica montepio
geral 27 Qatar: doha Bank 28 Republic of Korea:
shinhan Bank | The Bank of Korea | The Korea devel-
merkez Bankasi | Ziraat Bank international
37 United States: Bank of america | Citibank n.a.
in new York | Citigroup global markets | gE Capital
Bank | gmaC Bank | goldman sachs | J.P. morgan |
JPmorgan Chase Bank | morgan stanley Bank | The
investors | Houlihan lokey | iCaP securities | iCiCi
Bank | Jefferies international | J.P. morgan international Bank | J.P. morgan securities | Knight Capital
Europe | Korea Exchange Bank | legg mason investments | macquarie Capital | mFs international |
opment Bank 29 Russian Federation : sberbank |
Vnesheconombank | VTB Bank 30 Singapore: FCB
Bank of new York mellon 38 United Kingdom: aBC
international Bank | aberdeen asset managers |
mHB-Bank | morgan stanley Bank | otkritie securities | Pricoa Capital group | Putnam investments |
Firmen-Credit Bank 31 Slovenia: lHB internationale Handelsbank 32 Spain: Banco Bilbao Vizcaya
aviva investors global services | Bank leumi | Bank
of Beirut | Bankhaus main | Barclays Bank | Black-
argentaria | Banco Pastor | Banco santander |
rock investment management | Close Brothers seydler Bank | Corealcredit Bank | Credit suisse securi-
rBs | russell implementation services | russell investments limited | schroder & Co. | shinsei international | standard Chartered Bank | The royal
Bank of scotland | Threadneedle Portfolio services |
Banque de l‘Economie du Commerce et de la moné-
Bgl BnP Paribas | moventum | north Channel Bank |
Pictet & Cie | WH selfinvest 22 Netherlands: aBn
tique | Exane | gE Corporate Finance Bank | Kepler
Capital markets | lyonnaise de Banque | natixis |
amro Bank | aBn amro Clearing Bank | Bank sarasin | Bethmann Bank | Coöperatieve Centrale
Confederacion Espanola de Cajas de ahorros |
nCg Banco | unicaja 33 Sweden: sEB | skandi-
newedge group | onVista Bank | société Bordelaise
de Crédit industriel et Commerical | société générale 13 Greece: agricultural Bank of greece | First
raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank | Credit Europe Bank |
FgH Bank | HKB Bank | ing asset management |
ing-diBa | Kas Bank | niBC Bank | robeco deut-
naviska Enskilda Banken | svenska Handelsbanken
34 Switzerland: Bank Julius Bär | Credit suisse | main-
international Bank 14 Hungary: FHB Kereskedelmi
Bank | oTP Bank nyrt 15 India: state Bank of india
schland | The royal Bank of scotland | Triodos Bank
23 Pakistan: national Bank of Pakistan | 24 Phil-
First Bank | sECB swiss Euro Clearing Bank | uBs
35 Tajikistan: orienbank 36 Turkey: akbank |
isbank | oyak anker Bank | Türkiye Cumhuriyet
ties | Cushman & Wakefield investors | daiwa Capital
markets | Europe arab Bank | European Capital Financial services | F&C management | Fil invest-
Tullett Prebon | uBs | Wellington management international | Worldspreads | Xchanging Transaction
Bank 39 Vietnam: VietinBank
ments international | Franklin Templeton investment management | goldman sachs international |
greenhill & Co. | gries & Heissel | Henderson global
source: deutsche Bundesbank/stand: 31.12.2011
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The Oscar
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Networks >
The global
financial hub
Where Hollywood goes for help
How Frankfurt drives the world of finance
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Excursions
frm SeRIeS
MAIN-KINzIgKReIS AND
HANAu
WhErE
nEW idEas
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The Main-Kinzig-Kreis district and Hanau
offer many an interesting prospect: for the culture vultures, for recreation-seekers, for lovers of
fairytales, for entrepreneurs - and for visionaries
BY LuIsE GLasER-Lotz, MaRtIN oRth aNd JoNas RatERMaNN (Photos)
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Dr. Johanna Höhl
Managing Director, Kelterei Höhl,
Maintal-Hochstadt
Hessen is firmly at home high above
Hochstadt. Close to the orchards
and meadows on a ridge at the edge
of the town, in the Konrad Höhl
Strasse, there are huge stainless
steel tanks: containing fresh apple
wine, Hessen’s “national beverage”.
Johanna Höhl, who as an member
of the 8th-generation of the founding
family dynasty, now heads the company, is the uncrowned queen of apple wine. She insists it has to ferment
cold, a process that may be more
expensive, because it takes longer,
but delivers the best aroma. And
competing with trend drinks or beer
she believes apple wine has a not inconsiderable edge: “It’s healthy and
sustainable.” Not that this has prevented her from occasionally floating
a new product on the market, such
as “Pomp”. A cuvée of Riesling sparkling winde from the Rheingau and
Champagne russet apples.
www.hoehl-hochstadt.de
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On Wednesdays and Saturdays, in the early morning the City of Hanau
can be seen from one of its best sides. The market traders spread out
their wares for all to see on Marktplatz, at the feet of the national monument to the
Brothers Grimm; it’s one of the oldest weekly markets in Germany, and awash in
an impressive range of local farm goods: fruit and vegetables, flowers and plants,
bread and cake, meat, fish, fowl and sausages. And almost all of it grown nearby.
That said, Hanau is actually an industrial city and above all the key center of Hessen’s most populous district, the Main-Kinzig-Kreis. The area sized just under
1,400 square kilometers between the orchards and meadows of the Main valley in
the southwest and the Sinn Valley to the east is home to a good 407,000 people.
There’s an invisible dividing line somewhere in the middle, roughly level with
Geln hausen, founded by Kaiser Friedrich I. It separates the densely populated
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Events
August Lucas
Niccolo, approx. 1830
© Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt,
photo: Wolfgang Fuhrmannek
ThaT
RomanTic
WoRld
The complex image of an epoch: With its major “The Romantic
Impulse. The Romanticism of the Rhine and Main” program, Kulturfonds
Frankfurt RheinMain is tracing the steps of Romanticism throughout
the region – an exciting high-brow tour
Max Beckmann
Etching for Clemens Brentano’s
fairytale on “Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen”, 1923
BY claudia Schülke
© Frankfurter Goethe-Haus/Freies Deutsches Hochstift
Carl Philipp Fohr
Götz von Berlichingen
rides to the gypsy camp,
approx. 1816
Christian Rohlfs
Heyday of Romantic book illustrations
Title engraving for Clemens Brentano’s book of
fairytales “Gockel, Hinkel and Gakeleia”, published
in Frankfurt, 1838
Frog princess, 1913
© Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg,
photo: R. Wacker
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Excursions >
Main-Kinzig-Kreis
and Hanau
vents >
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The Romantic
Impulse
Where new ideas arise
How an epoch has shaped a region
03 Editorial
05 New in FRM / News from FRM
06 People in FRM
> David Adjaye
> Susanne Schödel
> Rainer Forst
12 Excellence
> The Oscar Factory
LIMBURG
20 Networks
Friedrichsdorf
BAD HOMBURG
> FRM the financial hub
Kronberg
EschBorn
26 Excursions
34 FRM News
35 FRM Pocket-Guide
36 FRM Interview
> With Siemens manager Dr. Michael
> The Romantic Impulse
52 Discoveries
> Main ferries
58 Preview
Imprint
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Hanau
OFFENBACH
Wiesbaden
Seligenstadt
MAINZ
ASCHAFFENBURG
DARMSTADT
Kassner on the Green City
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Maintal
FRANKFURT
> FRM series: Main-Kinzig-Kreis
and Hanau
Steinau a.d. StraSSe
Friedberg
Pfungstadt
New in FRM
picture alliance / dpa
Patrick
Burghardt
Lord Mayor
F.A.Z.-Foto / Lucas Wahl
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Eva
Wunsch-Weber
CEO
Eva Wunsch-Weber has been CEO of Frankfurter Volksbank
January 1, 2012. Making the 31-year-old Conservative the
since April 2012. A graduate in commerce, she trained at
youngest lord mayor in the State of Hessen. He wants to
Deutsche Bank, and is now taking the helm at Germany’s
expand the city that is home to Opel into a R&D center.
most profitable and second-largest Volksbank (after Berlin).
Jonas Ratermann
Stephan
Pauly
DIRECTOR
Andreas Arnold
Patrick Burghardt has been Lord Mayor of Rüsselsheim since
Matthias
Wagner K
Museum DIRECTOR
Stephan Pauly has been Managing Director and Artistic
Matthias Wagner K took charge of Frankfurt’s Museum für
Director of Alte Oper in Frankfurt since March 1, 2012. The
Angewandte Kunst on March 1, 2012. Hitherto active as a
musician and former management consultant brings a lot
freelance curator, Wagner K intends to transform the museum
of talents to the job.
into a European beacon.
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News from FRM
ADC summit and Effie awards ceremony
“Ideas are the money of tomorrow. Creative minds are the harbingers of a new economy.” When the creative directors hit
town, the talk is all about the future, dialogs, and contacts.
And that was the case in mid-May at the third ADC Festival of
the Art Directors Club für Deutschland (ADC) in Frankfurt,
where the sector engaged with the business world. Highlights
of the congress, with keynote speeches by Amir Kassaei (DDB
Worldwide) and Lo Breier (Axel Springer), was the award of the
cherished ADC Pins in gold, silver and bronze. The ADC Festival is the largest ad-industry meet in Germany, Austria and
Switzerland, and this year attracted more than 10,000 visitors.
In the run-up to the event, it was announced that for the first
time the “Effie” prize bestowed by Gesamtverband der Kommunikationsagenturen (GWA) will be awarded in October 2012
in Frankfurt. The “Effie” is considered the most coveted adindustry prize and is awarded for communications concepts
sales figures. In other words, Frankfurt will become home to
the most important German advertising prize.
ADC
that demonstrably help boost awareness of a product and its
“Ideas are the money of tomorrow,” the campaign for the ADC
summit was created by Berlin-based designer Raban Ruddigkeit.
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People in FRM
Culture on campus: 2,000
artists, dancers and actors will
eventually work and study at
the various cultural institutions
He plays Tetris with the volumes
David Adjaye
Culture and living: The London-based architect is planning one huge flat-share for the Frankfurt Culture Campus
– boasting flexible and open structures
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Architect David Adjaye, the preferred choice of the London art scene, has designed an academy
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in Moscow, museums in Washington and a center in Oslo. And now he’s put some thought into
Frankfurt. On behalf of Forum Kulturcampus he has developed a master plan for the ongoing use
of the former university grounds between Bockenheim and Westend. The result: a “completely
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new typology for architecture”. Nine Frankfurt cultural, teaching and research institutions
are to be located on the 16.5-hectare large complex, along with apartments, as the site belongs to
the municipal housing association. Thus, the nine (Ensemble Modern, Academy of Music and
the Performing Arts, The Forsythe Company, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Frankfurt Lab,
Hessische Theaterakademie, Hindemith Institut, Senckenberg Society For the Natural Sciences,
Institute of Social Research) commissioned an architect whose creed it is to make certain “public
space is as vibrant as possible.” His plan envisages the buildings of the individual institutes being
aligned to one another such that at their heart a spacious plaza arises with glazed rehearsal
rooms, studios and cafés across which the inhabitants cross day in day out. “Adjaye plays Tetris
the respective establishments,” commented Süddeutsche Zeitung. The sense of permeability and
openness is destined to foster collaboration and create synergies, in short to combine what is
already there – and not least enhance transparency. Famed international choreographer William
Forsythe welcomed the idea, as what he wanted to see was a place “where my work is not just
visible to me, but to others, too.” Meaning on the former university campus, everything will
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Adjaye Associates, Text: Martin Orth
with the institutes, shifts and combines the volumes without ever dissolving the boundaries of
Linda Nylind
People in FRM
Jonas Ratermann
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Susanne Schödel
Talent and commitment: The Frankfurt world gliding champion’s
main job is supporting patients with breast cancer
Susanne Schödel loves bright blue and pink. She raves about bright blue, as the 39-year-old feels it’s so
summery and light, with a few little clouds speckled here and there. “Cumulus clouds spell good thermals,” she says. And for her it’s critical that the meteorological data is right – without precise planning
and a sense of technology and the weather she’d never have emerged as one of the world’s best gliders.
In January 2012 Susanne Schödel returned from Namibia – with three world records under her belt. In
2010 she won the Women’s World Championship in Sweden and qualified for the 32nd Worlds in the
FAI classes (a preserve of the men, with 45 men starting in each class, and max. 1-2 women) in the
summer of 2012 in Uvalde/Texas. That said, Schödel, who lives in Frankfurt’s Niederrad district, and
flies out of Langenselbold airfield, as gliding is banned in the vicinity of the RhineMain airport, has to
keep her sport and her profession in line. And pink is her absolutely favorite color. Susanne Schödel,
originally a political science graduate, is Managing Director of Susan G. Komen Deutschland e.V.,
whose symbol is a pink ribbon – it’s the breast cancer help organization that was first founded in the
United States. In her office close to the Frankfurt University Teaching Hospital the eye-catchers are
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the pink merchandising products. Susanne Schödel is constantly dreaming up new charity events for
Komen – the “Race for the Cure” is now an established classic, and takes place in several cities around
the world. She also raises money by bike races, and has of late also relied on the new trend sport,
“Zumba”. Komen has distributed around 20,000 pink information bags to patients. By means of
events, brochures, and hand-outs Komen sets out to encourage breast cancer patients not to lose hope.
Schödel is brimming over with ideas on how to raise money and spread the message. In fact, her office
is decorated among other things by a photo of the box in which she tows her glider, which boasts a
Jonas Ratermann, KOMEN e. V., Text: Bettina Behler
pink ribbon. “I want to do practical work, and change things,” she comments.  www.komen.de
I want to change things
Up above and down on earth:
Susanne Schödel breaks the
records in her glider. And she organizes the “Race for the Cure”
on behalf of women with
breast cancer
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People in FRM
Rainer Forst
Theory and practice: The Frankfurt philosopher, who
has won the Leibniz Prize, redefines core concepts and
intervenes in the political discourse
Hungarian philosopher Georg Lukács once described the “Frankfurt School” thinkers as living in the
“Grand Hotel Abyss”, from the terrace of which they looked out over the world’s misery while sipping
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their aperitifs. That certainly does not apply to philosopher Rainer Forst. Firmly in the footsteps of
Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas, he has established a quite unique form of political philosophy at
Frankfurt’s Goethe University. And if today concepts such as justice, tolerance, freedom and democracy get discussed in the political domain, then reference is often made to his trailblazing work. And
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he has just received the most prestigious international prize (with the most prize money), the Leibniz
Prize bestowed by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for it. The jury stated that “in an original
way, and well thought through, Forst has formulated the insight that man is always embedded in
different “practices of justification” that “in the final instance ensures that all actions have to be legitimated by the intrinsic logics of morality, right and other discourses. Our practical reason is thus
nothing other than the ability to discern these logics and accord them recognition.” Born in 1964 in
Wiesbaden, Forst is considered world-wide as the most important German philosopher “under 50”.
“Spiegel” magazine has called him the most interesting intellectual alive today. Forst’s focus was
international from an early date. He studied in Frankfurt, New York and Harvard University and was
research assistant and visiting professor in Berlin, Frankfurt and New York, before in 2004 being appointed Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy in Frankfurt. For Forst, the Leibniz Prize completes the circle of his scholarly work. For it was Jürgen Habermas who was the first Frankfurt scholar to win the prize. Back then, Habermas used the prize money to set up the Theory of Right Working
Party, and welcomed Forst on board. But the entrance to the “Grand Hotel” did not lead him out onto
the terrace . . .  www.gesellschaftswissenschaften.uni-frankfurt.de
Philosophy
must stimulate discussion
A real honor: Leibniz Prize for
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DFG /David Ausserhofer, picture-alliance, Text: Martin Orth
Habermas student Rainer Forst
– also a sign of the quality of the
humanities at Frankfurt University
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Excellence
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Object of desire
The first Oscar with a key
contribution from FRM went
to Pixomondo
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The Oscar
factory
Pixomondo was founded in Pfungstadt, it is now the market
leader in digital postproduction, has offices in three continents,
and since February 2012 has been winner of one of the glorious
Oscars. We pay them a visit in Frankfurt
by Christian Sälzer (text), Jonas Ratermann and Tim Wegner/Laif (photos)
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Excellence
The “Frankfurt team”
Pixomondo Frankfurt MD,
Sabrina Gerhard with Visual
Effects Adviser Sven Martin
The “Lighting man”
Irfan Celik is something like the
Lord of Light. But the light he deploys
is generated onscreen
Success movie “Hugo”
In 854 shots, Pixomondo presented
visual effects for Martin Scorsese’s
multi-Oscar-winning “Hugo”
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“MD Germany”
What Christian Vogt likes about Frankfurt is not least the outstanding infrastructure catering to postproduction
The “Composer”
Miguel Diaz Cachero gives a piece
its finishing touches by combining
all the different levels
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Excellence
The “IT Engineer”
Tolga Yakir makes
certain the data are
secure and that the
IT’s always running
The “Rigger”
The “Animator”
Florian Friedmann skillfully ensures
the models have joints so that they
can be moved
Chris Stenner is specialized in
mimic effects. For “Hugo” every
single movement was recreated
onscreen
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Can this be true? Is it possible that the golden trophy which anyone who’s anyone in
the film business worldwide just yearns to have and Pixomondo recently won, is sim-
ply left in a display case in the entrance to the company’s Frankfurt office? The “Oscar” as a
neighbor for a football table, a kitchenette and a shelf with merchandising products? The answer
will have to wait, as MD and Pixomondo Germany CEO Christian Vogt is already waiting in the
meeting room. In a hoody and sneakers, he talks about the company and the digital effects production industry. He first shows us a compilation of homegrown works, whereby the boundary
between reality and simulation becomes completely blurred: cars racing through the night, a
dirigible explodes in a gigantic ball of fire, chocolate sauce runs onto a pudding, a snowman
stands alone in the countryside, an airplane floats over the clouds before the rising sun. You
simply cannot discern which parts of it are film footage and which are simply reality generated
onscreen.
Unlike special effects, such as a real explosion on-set, visual effects are exclusively created dig-
itally during postproduction. Here a sky is rendered more radiant, there newly-made elements
incorporated into a scene; and on occasion an entire film is made on screen. These simulated realities are ubiquitous anyway. “Be it industrial films, commercials or action films, people like us
are at work almost everywhere,” explains Vogt. And ever more frequently there’s a Pixomondo
computer involved. Just short of 700 employees are busy in 12 different offices on three continents producing digital realities. And Pixomondo was welcomed into the club of the greats when
in February 2012 the company won the Oscar for its contribution to Martin Scorsese’s 3D film
“Hugo”. Pixomondo effects can be seen in 62 minutes of the film (just under two hours) and in
854 shots, a large part of the Paris railway station from the 1930s was computer-generated, as
were the snowflakes, most of the people thronging on the railroad platforms, the mechanical
windup doll and the clockwork of the station clock, in other words about half the film. And because it all is so convincing, the door is wide open for the company to shoulder new projects of
this kind. But first things first.
The Pixomondo story began like many other success stories in the digital world; in a garage. Not
one in Silicon Valley, but in Pfungstadt south of Frankfurt, and it belonged to Thilo Kuther’s parents. He founded Pixomondo there in 2001 and provided ad clients with his first computer-generated images (CGIs); from today’s viewpoint trifles, such as a speaking toothbrush. And then,
when the company was less than three years old, along came Porsche and had an elaborate industry film made. Pixomondo had landed its first “big fish”, and others were to follow. Industry
and ad-world jobs are the company’s bread and butter. But prestige is something you get from
working with the smaller-ticket film and TV industry, with its ups and downs. Pixomondo got a
foot in the door there with its effort for the movie “The Red Baron”. Critics trashed the film, but
its visual effects were masterful. “Thankfully, they differentiated in this regard,” comments
Vogt. And thus it was that the big Hollywood players such as Roland Emmerich, Steven Spielberg
and George Lucas came knocking at the Pixomondo door. With the job for “Hugo”, Pixomondo
moved into the top league: for the first time, the company was not just one of several effects providers for a contract on this scale, but was the lead house in charge of the whole process.
Pixomondo has grown with the jobs. In 2005, the firm relocated from Pfungstadt to Frankfurt’s
Ostend district. At the time, it was mainly a matter of image. “We didn’t just want to be country
bumpkins who toyed around with 3D,” Vogt says. Looking back, the relocation was also invaluable in terms of technology. Because what the company needs at its offices is, Vogt comments,
“power and the Internet”. In order to highlight the requirements: just the rendering of the initial
sequence for “Hugo”, which was completely computer generated and features a minute panning
across the wintry sky into the innards of the railroad station, meant an electricity bill of 28,000
euros. As regards the data transmission capacities, there could be no better home for Pixomondo
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Excellence
The “Modeler” –
Sean Raffel uses a graphics
tablet PC to model a foot – the
anatomy’s perfect
than in the building where it has rented offices in Frankfurt’s eastern harbor. After all, the cellar
of the old merchant building houses the DE-CIX, the world’s largest commercial Internet node.
It enables massive amounts of data to be moved back and forth, stably and speedily – for “Hugo”,
for example, it was more than three Petabyte, or three million Gigabytes.
Such data volumes are necessary because as part of its expansion Pixomondo has spread out
across the globe. In Germany, the company now has offices in five big cities. The bureaus in Hamburg, Munich and Shanghai handle local ad accounts; in Toronto, London, Beijing and Los Angeles there are film production hubs; in Burbank on the northern edge of LA, Pixomondo creates TV
series. And the firm’s global presence has additional advantages: several offices tend to work on
each project simultaneously – eight offices took part in “Hugo”, for example. The tasks are split
up among the offices, time pressures offset by transcontinental collaboration. And thanks to the
time differences, work can be done on one particular job 24 hours a day. When people down tools
in the evening in Frankfurt, their colleagues in Los Angeles take over. A decentralized global
network that works round the clock: “Only we work this way,” suggests Vogt with a touch of
pride. The whole thing is held together by a homegrown database. It structures responsibilities,
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decentralized global
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FRM: The post
production center
Back in the late 1980s, the first
postproduction company was
founded in Frankfurt: Bildwerk.
Since then, FrankfurtRhineMain
has evolved into a recognized
international postproduction
hub and a European center for
digital image processing and
visual effects. The Chamber of
Commerce reports that in
spring 2011 there were 269
f ilm-industry corporations
operating in Frankfurt alone.
Countless companies specialize in finishing and enhancing a
film that has been shot: from
editing, via toning of the footage
and the insertion of visual
effects and titles through to
sound processing. The companies are by no means simply
the extended arm of the ad and
film industries and increasingly
work directly with clients from
industry, trade and TV. The reasons for the sector’s success in
FrankfurtRhineMain: the strong
regional market, the proximity
to ad agencies, the central location, and the film production
and distribution companies operating here.
In addition to Pixomondo, for
example the following companies are active in postproduction and visual effects: Acht
Frankfurt, Das Werk Frankfurt,
Fiftyeight, seed.digital.vision,
metricminds, Firsteight, tvt.film
+ vfx und Magna Mana.
keeps staff members worldwide abreast of developments, and aesthetically aligns the respective
effects to one another. Within this global cooperation, each hub has a focal theme. Berlin is home
to the specialists for all kinds of destruction visuals. In Frankfurt, they create environments and
breathe life into characters, be they monsters, mice or men. So how does that work: How do you
create a fire-breathing dragon or a photo-realistic elephant?
A tour of the effects factory. In an open-plan office, it’s one screen next to the other. And a lmost
exclusively young men in their mid-20s sitting in front of them. By contrast, Sven Martin has
a room of his own. He’s the Visual Effects Supervisor and has been at the company for quite a
while now. Plastic figures on the shelf next to his desk show which characters he most loves
working on: There’s Yoda from “Star Wars” and an alien from the same movie. To demonstrate
how you generate an object digitally, for example one of the cogwheels from “Hugo”, he starts
moving a mouse. “We work in 3D from the outset. We don’t draw objects, no, we model them.
A bit like toying around with papier-mâché,” he explains. On his screen a 3D model of a green
sphere appears, each dot on its surface can be moved and the sphere thus molded at will. Of
course, the software also lets you start with other geometrical shapes, too. Martin selects a
cylinder, squeezes it, swivels it to the desired point, marks and shifts polygons, and Hey Presto
a cogwheel arises. A few more clicks and he’s “wallpapered” it with a picture. He now defines
the surface texture, smooth, rough, or something else? He adds a spotlight to illuminate the
object and thus create shadows. And then specifies at what speed the cogwheel should turn and
move from Point A to Point B. He finishes up by defining the camera position – and then the film
sequence starts in which the cogwheel rolls from here to there. All done in less than three
m inutes.
In trade talk, Martin showed us the following processing steps: modeling, animation, shader
writing, texturing, lighting and rendering. During the next step, composing, the 3D elements
this generates are then interfused with shot film footage such that they blend to form a realistic
image down to the smallest detail. And for all of this you need not only to know the software
inside out, but to have an aesthetic feel and a passion for the details. What exactly did the interior of a Parisian railroad station look like back then? How did the smoke rise, how did cogwheels
in a clock turn? Where do you need a cut, and where should the camera be positioned? In the final
instance, effect artists are also props men, designers, researchers, architects, lighting directors,
cameramen and directors rolled into one.
Back to MD Christian Vogt. So that leaves the question: Is the Oscar in the display case in the
lobby the real thing? Vogt laughs and shakes his head. The real statue duly stands in a vitrine at
Pixomondo in Los Angeles, the office that landed the job. The one in Frankfurt is older, and made
of plastic. A glance at the little sign attached to its base when we leave shows what it was
awarded for: it was the winning trophy in the Pixomondo table football tournament.
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The global
financial hub
FrankfurtRhineMain plays in the
Champions League of the financial world – and
advises upcoming financial centers worldwide
BY Tim Kanning und Martin Gorka (Illustration)
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Hubertus Väth gets around a lot. Sometimes he is in
Istanbul, sometimes in Mumbai, and lately he has
been frequently travelling to Moscow frequently. As he did early
March when an entire conference was organized on one of the
city’s favorite topics: creating a leading international financial
center in Russia’s capital. It is also one of Väth’s favorite topics.
After all, he is managing director of Frankfurt Main Finance, the
association set up in 2008 to market the city as a financial center,
comprising leading banks, Deutsche Börse, the state of Hessen
and the City of Frankfurt.
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From the very start executive committee spokesperson Lutz
Raettig put cooperation with Moscow at the top of the agenda.
Then at the end of January representatives from the German and
Russian economic ministries signed an official agreement. And
Väth was not left with a minor role in the conference program,
but was the first to present the financial center Frankfurt to the
audience of financial professionals in Moscow.
In the coming years the Russian government wants to invest
40 billion U.S. dollars in expanding the capital. The area
covered by the city is to be more than doubled. Russia’s
two leading men Vladimir Putin and Dimitri Medvedev are
making the expansion of city into an internationally renowned
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1 Australia: Australia and New Zealand Banking
Group 2 Austria: Absolute Portfolio Management |
DenizBank | Investkredit Bank | Jung, DMS & Cie. |
Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel | Banque PSA Finance |
Banque Regionale de l‘Ouest | Banque Scalbert-Du-
Raiffeisen Bank International | Raiffeisen International Fund Advisory | Superfund Asset Manage-
pont | Banque Transatlantique | BNP Paribas Equities France | BNP Paribas | BNP Paribas Securities
Services | Bonnasse Lyonnaise de Banque | Crédit
ment | VakifBank International | VTB Bank | Western
Union International Bank 3 Azerbaijan: The Inter-
Agricole Cheuvreux | Crédit Agricole Corporate and
Investment Bank Deutschland | Crédit Industriel de
national Bank of Azerbaijan Republic 4 Belarus:
5 Belgium: Euroclear Bank | The
Bank of New York Mellon 6 Bermuda: Frankfurter
l‘Ouest | Crédit Industriel de Normandie | Crédit Industriel et Commercial de Paris | Crédit Mutuel
Belarusbank
Fondsbank 7 Brazil: Banco do Brasil | Banco Itaú
8 Canada: Maple Bank 9 China: Agricultural
Bank of China | Bank of China | Bank of Communications | China Construction Bank | Industrial and
Commercial Bank of China | People‘s Bank of China
10 Egypt: Misr Bank 11 Finland: Nordea Bank
12 France: Attijariwafa Bank | Banque CIC | Banque
Banque de l‘Economie du Commerce et de la Monétique | Exane | GE Corporate Finance Bank | Kepler
Capital Markets | Lyonnaise de Banque | Natixis |
Newedge Group | OnVista Bank | Société Bordelaise
de Crédit Industriel et Commerical | Société Générale 13 Greece: Agricultural Bank of Greece | First
International Bank 14 Hungary: FHB Kereskedelmi
Bank | OTP Bank Nyrt 15 India: State Bank of India
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16 Iran: Bank Sepah-Iran 17 Ireland: Bank of Ire-
land | Depfa Bank | Elavon Financial Services | Merrill Lynch International Bank | Wells Fargo Bank International 18 Israel: Bank Hapoalim | Bank Leumi
le-Israel | Mizrahi Tefahot Bank 19 Italy: Banca
Monte dei Paschi di Siena | Intesa Sanpaolo | Mediobanca 20 Japan: Honda Bank | MCE Bank |
Nomura Bank | The Bank of Japan 21 Luxembourg:
BGL BNP Paribas | Moventum | North Channel Bank |
Pictet & Cie | WH Selfinvest 22 Netherlands: ABN
AMRO Bank | ABN AMRO Clearing Bank | Bank Sarasin | Bethmann Bank | Coöperatieve Centrale
Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank | Credit Europe Bank |
FGH Bank | HKB Bank | ING Asset Management |
ING-DiBa | KAS Bank | NIBC Bank | Robeco Deutschland | The Royal Bank of Scotland | Triodos Bank
23 Pakistan: National Bank of Pakistan | 24 Phil-
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Merkez Bankasi | Ziraat Bank International
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Itaú BBA International | Caixa Económica Montepio
Geral 27 Qatar: Doha Bank 28 Republic of Korea:
in New York | Citigroup Global Markets | GE Capital
Bank | GMAC Bank | Goldman Sachs | J.P. Morgan |
Shinhan Bank | The Bank of Korea | The Korea Development Bank 29 Russian Federation : Sberbank |
JPMorgan Chase Bank | Morgan Stanley Bank | The
Bank of New York Mellon 38 United Kingdom: ABC
Vnesheconombank | VTB Bank 30 Singapore: FCB
Firmen-Credit Bank 31 Slovenia: LHB Internation-
International Bank | Aberdeen Asset Managers |
Aviva Investors Global Services | Bank Leumi | Bank
ale Handelsbank 32 Spain: Banco Bilbao Vizcaya
Argentaria | Banco Pastor | Banco Santander |
Confederacion Espanola de Cajas de Ahorros |
of Beirut | Bankhaus Main | Barclays Bank | BlackRock Investment Management | Close Brothers Sey-
NCG Banco | Unicaja 33 Sweden: SEB | Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken | Svenska Handelsbanken
34 Switzerland: Bank Julius Bär | Credit Suisse | MainFirst Bank | SECB Swiss Euro Clearing Bank | UBS
35 Tajikistan: Orienbank 36 Turkey: Akbank |
Isbank | Oyak Anker Bank | Türkiye Cumhuriyet
Investors | Houlihan Lokey | ICAP Securities | ICICI
Bank | Jefferies International | J.P. Morgan International Bank | J.P. Morgan Securities | Knight Capital
Europe | Korea Exchange Bank | Legg Mason Investments | Macquarie Capital | MFS International |
MHB-Bank | Morgan Stanley Bank | Otkritie Securities | Pricoa Capital Group | Putnam Investments |
RBS | Russell Implementation Services | Russell Investments Limited | Schroder & Co. | Shinsei International | Standard Chartered Bank | The Royal
dler Bank | Corealcredit Bank | Credit Suisse Securities | Cushman & Wakefield Investors | Daiwa Capital
Bank of Scotland | Threadneedle Portfolio Services |
Tullett Prebon | UBS | Wellington Management In-
Markets | Europe Arab Bank | European Capital Financial Services | F&C Management | FIL Invest-
ternational | WorldSpreads | Xchanging Transaction
Bank 39 Vietnam: VietinBank
ments International | Franklin Templeton Investment Management | Goldman Sachs International |
Greenhill & Co. | Gries & Heissel | Henderson Global
Source: Deutsche Bundesbank/Stand: 31.12.2011
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financial center a top-level matter. And when in the coming
years the big money starts rolling in, Frankfurt and Hessen
want to be in on the act.
The cooperation agreement is designed to help this happen.
Among other things the partners want to make the Russian
capital market more transparent and calculable, exchange ideas
for better living and working conditions in Moscow and identify
key infrastructural factors. A financial center index is also
planned as a means of promotion. The state of Hessen will post
the major projects related to Moscow’s expansion on its central
tender platform so that local firms can bid for them.
In order to make the financial center Moscow more interesting for
Institutions, research
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foreign investors it is above all the image of the Russian
financial system that needs to be improved. Frankfurt’s uni
versities, regulatory authorities and the Frankfurter Institut für
Risikomanagement und Regulierung (Frankfurt Institute for
Risk Management and Regulation) are to assist in implementing corporate governance. Väth says considerable progress has
already been made on creating the respective legislation. Now it
merely remained to implement these measures and supervise
their observance. But that kind of thing takes time, “it is more a
question of years than months”.
Deutsche Börse AG
The association is not aiming to initiate specific business. “We
cannot pave the way for contracts, the mission of Frankfurt Main
Finance is to open markets to Frankfurt companies,” says Väth.
This could also result in interesting connections for universities
– not only in Moscow, but also in Istanbul, Mumbai or Tianjin
(China). For instance at the end of March the Frankfurt School
of Finance and Management and the Bombay Stock Exchange
Institute signed an agreement to develop joint study units Germany and India. This could ultimately lead to Indian specialists
wanting to start their careers in Frankfurt.
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crisis in 2006. Frankfurt also boasts 40 representative offices of
foreign banks. The international office authorized to offer advice
Frankfurt Main Finance has entered into closer cooperation with
is to enhance Frankfurt’s image in the finance world and pro-
all these cities. According to Väth colleagues in Istanbul have al-
mote competent newcomers still further.
ready sent a multi-year plan to Frankfurt in which they explain
how they envisage the creation of an international financial
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center on the Bosphorus. Now thoughts are being made on the
also an important driver of international cooperation. After all,
Main as to how help can be provided. But by cooperating with
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ported to other financial centers. In November, for example, the
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such as the DAX, and to help each other with marketing. Deut-
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Excursions
frm Series
Main-KinzigKreis And
Hanau
5 0 ° 9 ‘ 2 4 . 0 5“ N
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Dr. Johanna Höhl
Managing Director, Kelterei Höhl,
Maintal-Hochstadt
Hessen is firmly at home high above
Hochstadt. Close to the orchards
and meadows on a ridge at the edge
of the town, in the Konrad Höhl
Strasse, there are huge stainless
steel tanks: containing fresh apple
wine, Hessen’s “national beverage”.
Johanna Höhl, who as an member
of the 8th-generation of the founding
family dynasty, now heads the company, is the uncrowned queen of apple wine. She insists it has to ferment
cold, a process that may be more
expensive, because it takes longer,
but delivers the best aroma. And
competing with trend drinks or beer
she believes apple wine has a not inconsiderable edge: “It’s healthy and
sustainable.” Not that this has prevented her from occasionally floating
a new product on the market, such
as “Pomp”. A cuvée of Riesling spark
ling winde from the Rheingau and
Champagne russet apples.
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Where
new ideas
are born
The Main-Kinzig-Kreis district and Hanau
offer many an interesting prospect: for the culture vultures, for recreation-seekers, for lovers of
fairytales, for entrepreneurs - and for visionaries
BY Luise Glaser-Lotz, Martin Orth And Jonas Ratermann (Photos)
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On Wednesdays and Saturdays, in the early morning the City of Hanau
can be seen from one of its best sides. The market traders spread out
their wares for all to see on Marktplatz, at the feet of the national monument to the
Brothers Grimm; it’s one of the oldest weekly markets in Germany, and awash in
an impressive range of local farm goods: fruit and vegetables, flowers and plants,
bread and cake, meat, fish, fowl and sausages. And almost all of it grown nearby.
That said, Hanau is actually an industrial city and above all the key center of Hessen’s most populous district, the Main-Kinzig-Kreis. The area sized just under
1,400 square kilometers between the orchards and meadows of the Main valley in
the southwest and the Sinn Valley to the east is home to a good 407,000 people.
There’s an invisible dividing line somewhere in the middle, roughly level with
Gelnhausen, founded by Kaiser Friedrich I. It separates the densely populated
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area around the cities of Hanau and Maintal (together they form an up-and-coming part of the FrankfurtRhineMain metropolitan region), from the second, economically weaker East, with its marvelous countryside, a real magnet for those in
neighboring Bavaria, Frankfurt, and the region round Fulda who seek rest and
recreation. The two spa towns of Bad Orb and Bad Soden-Salmünster with all their
healthcare facilities and thermal baths are an inviting destination for a daytrip
just as are the foothills of the Vogelsberg nr. Brachttal and Birstein or the Bergwinkel villages on the edge of the Spessart hills.
The Main-Kinzig-Kreis district arose as a result of the county boundary reforms of
1974, when the former counties of Hanau, Gelnhausen and Schlüchtern were
merged to form it. Yet it has still not become a real unit, although the tension bet
ween the district as a whole and Hanau has eased since the administrative offices
were relocated from Hanau to Gelnhausen in 2005. However the idea of separating
Hanau from the district entirely is forever resurfacing. As one of seven cities with
a special status in the State of Hessen, it is therefore itself responsible for areas
such as schooling or hospitals. At times, the city seeks complete independence.
However, the population of around 92,600 does not suffice to qualify Hanau as a
city independent of a district. Things could soon change in the former city where
the Counts of Hanau held court, as the city is busy making up for past mistakes
and exploiting new opportunities.
Recently, for example, major modernization work started on downtown Hanau.
The focus of attention is the central Freiheitsplatz, which in the post-War decades
served as a carpark and bus terminus, and its urban design potential thus went
unheeded. For decades, all the planning to upgrade it came to nothing, until
Hanau resolved to be the first city in Germany to make use of a new procedure,
namely that of “Competition Dialog”; here, the town hall and the investors work
together in dialog from the first draft plans through realization to the later use of
the real estate. The joint project initially covered the entire downtown area with
an axis of five plazas. Essentially, the investor is now concentrating on erecting a
shopping mall on Freiheitsplatz with an integrated media center. Indeed, the
“Competition Dialog” has provided the key spark starting the rejuvenation of
downtown Hanau. Now the construction machinery rules the roost on Freiheits
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Dr. Christianne Weber-Stöber
Director, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau
Christianne Weber-Stöber wears a silver
poppy pod as a broach and takes us round the
Goldschmiedehaus in Hanau’s old town as if it
were her living room. You can truly feel her strong
links to jewelry and her love of detail. Her heart
goes out to the old building – she took the helm
here in 2006. Today, alongside the Jewelry
Museum in Pforzheim it is one of the most important of its kind in Germany. It arose back at the
end of the 16th century, when Dutch and Walloon
immigrants laid the foundations of the gold- and
silversmiths’ trade in Hanau. Later, the Zeichenakademie was founded, Germany’s largest training academy for gold- and silversmiths, and the
Association for the Goldsmiths’ Art. Christianne
Weber-Stöber has insisted on a modern touch.
For example, in the “Silver Gallery” there’s a show
by Peter Bauhuis, who trained at Zeichenakademie and is now one of the champions of contemporary jewelry design. The magnet that really
draws the crowds: the “Gifted” exhibition in the
“Gold Gallery”, where precious items from the
Federal President’s Office are on display.
www.hanau.de
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9°27‘34.99“E
Burkhard Kling
Director, Brüder Grimm-Haus,
Steinau an der Straße
“Steinau and its surroundings really are pleasant,” wrote Wilhelm Grimm describing his happy
youth in the Kinzig valley. The Brothers Grimm
House reminds us of this today: here, the fairytale collectors Jacob (born 1785) and Wilhelm
(born 1786) Grimm grew up. Born in Hanau, they
moved to Steinau in 1791 and lived there until
their father’s death in 1798. Later they studied in
Marburg and spent their most creative years in
Kassel and Berlin. In Steinau the former deanery
is now home to a new museum, developed mainly
by Burkhard Kling, that outlines their lives. There’s
a replica of the Grimm’s family kitchen on the
ground floor, where the family history is also explained. On the second floor, the world of the
Grimms’ tales is recounted in a total of ten rooms
– you hear, see and feel those past times. A must
for the 200 th anniversary of the publication of
their “Children’s and House Tales” in 2012.
www.brueder-grimm-haus.de
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50° 8‘55.83“N
8 ° 5 2 ‘ 5 7. 6 6“ E
Dr. Maren Raetzer
Director, Hessen Dolls Museum,
Hanau-Wilhelmsbad
Maren Raetzer always wanted to be a museum
director. As a child she liked playing with a doll,
which of course played the part of museum director. Later, during her youth, she enquired of
the local museum director how one went about
becoming just that. And as a young woman she
pursued the relevant studies, and in 2005
reached her goal. Maren Raetzer’s dream came
true when she was appointed Director of the
Hessen Dolls Museum. Her first project was to
direct the extensive modernization of the facility
in Wilhelmsbad, nr. Hanau, and redefine the underlying concept. Since 2009 the building in the
former spa complex is fully in line with her ideas.
The bright open rooms house a permanent ex
hibition of over 2,400 years of dolls history and
special shows on themes such as tea-cozy dolls,
dolls company owners Margarete Steiff and
Käthe Kruse, and dolls from Japan. Thanks to
Mrs. Ratzer the shows are structured such
that even people not interested in dolls will be
taken by surprise and thrilled. For the everyday
history and lived reality of days of yore emerge
superbly – in the dolls worlds.
www.hessisches-puppenmuseum.de
5 0° 7 ‘59.42 “N
8 ° 5 5‘4 0 . 5 8 “ E
Dr. Wulf Brämer
Managing Director, Materials Valley e.V., Hanau
Wulf Brämer knows what he’s talking about. The chemist developed
materials, allows and processes for Hanau-based technology corporation Heraeus for three decades, and was in charge of innovation
management there. Today, he’s a consultant and the powerhouse behind the “Materials Valley” initiative. The non-profit organization was
founded in 2002 by local companies, institutions and private individuals in order to bundle know-how. Today, almost 90 companies from
the region are members, as are research institutes, universities and
private persons. Current, interdisciplinary topics are addressed in
workshops and lectures. The Fraunhofer Society’s project group for
Materials Cycles and the Substitution of Materials in Alzenau is
relocating to Hanau, and until the institute is fully established will
be attached to the Fraunhofer ISC in Würzburg.
www.materials-valley.de
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platz and the city itself is planning to enhance Marktplatz and other downtown
areas. Although Hanau is highly indebted, the idea shared by the town hall majority of SPD, Greens, FDP and a voter’s alliance is to give the city a new decidedly
modern look, shoring up its position as an urban center in the eastern section of
FrankfurtRhineMain. The politicians hope the financing will be generated by extra tax revenues from new inhabitants and companies that relocate to the areas
once used by the American Armed Forces.
When the Americans arrived in Hanau the entire downtown was in ruins following
wave after wave of bombing raids. They came as the occupying military but soon
turned into welcome helpers in the rebuilding effort. When the US Army took
down its last Stars and Stripes in Hanau in 2008, a good 340 hectares of barracks
with residential blocks, listed buildings, spacious green areas and workshops
awaited a new lease of life. Together with the Bundesanstalt für Immobilienauf
gaben (Bima) a large part of the real estate has already been put to new use with
the help of investors: alongside modern residential quarters with schools, kindergartens and sports facilities, there’s a new main fire department, and the former
training grounds are now home to a herf of Przewalski’s horses as part of a
protected species project.
Above all, the “Wolfgang Barracks” offers great potential for Hanau’s emergence as
a technology center; following the discontinuation of the nuclear operations
there, the city has managed to shrug off the image of being a center of atomic energy. The “Wolfgang Barracks” complex has been vacated by the US Army and is
located in the district of the same name, directly adjacent to the Wolfgang Industrial Estate, which is now home to 11 international companies such as Umicore,
Evonik and Degudent – with more than 5,000 staff employed there. In what is
the largest technology center in the Main Kinzig Region, 1,300 people are busy
focusing on R&D in the fields of materials technology, specialty chemicals and
biotech. The main output of the industrial estate include precious metal products,
pharmaceutical active compounds, chemical catalysts and dental products. Evonik (formerly Degussa) has opened a new office complex at the entrance to the
82-hectare-sized estate – 750 staff members now work there rather than in Frank-
Potential
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furt. This summer, the project group from the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicates
Research in Würzburg will, with support from the State of Hessen, start research
here – in the field of material substitution.
Headquartered in downtown Hanau, the Heraeus company, active worldwide in
the precious metals and technology segments, likewise runs various research
projects and is expanding fast. Hanau is attempting to catch up with the traditional scientific and knowledge strongholds in the region – it’s teamed up with
Fraunhofer Institute, is collaborating with the international Steinbeis School and
is establishing a vocational college. For many years it failed to encourage foundation of a university of the applied sciences – and then neighboring towns such as
Aschaffenburg in Bavaria beat it to the line.
Despite its impressive industrial growth, Hanau has for some time now prioritized
culture as the basis for its image. As the birthplace of famed fairytale collectors
and Germans scholars, it got the State of Hessen to grant it the title of City of the
Brothers Grimm. Meaning that its centuries-old tradition as a center of silver
and goldsmiths got a bit neglected. Hanau has since 1772 been home to Zeichenakademie, one of Germany’s oldest training centers for the gold and silversmiths,
and the German Society for the Goldsmiths’ Art is domiciled in Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus on Altstädter Markt square, where there are regular shows by renowned jewelry designers and colleges.
That said, much links Hanau to the Brothers Grimm: the Brothers Grimm Fairytale
Festival has taken place for almost 30 years now. The national monument to Jacob
and Wilhelm on Marktplatz marks the beginning of the German Fairytale Route,
which runs through to Bremen – and the second stop is also in Main-Kinzig-
Kreis, outside the former deanery in Steinau, which has just re-opened in a new
design as the Brothers Grimm House, where the brothers spent their youth. And
Steinau is another pearl in Main-Kinzig-Kreis’ crown of tourist attractions: with
a castle, a cave with stalagmites, a theme park with a forest adventure course, and
the “Die Holzköppe” puppet theater; like Gelnhausen with its Kaiserpfalz Castle
and Schlüchtern with Ramholz Castle, these are sights just waiting to be explored
by inquisitive visitors from the FrankfurtRhineMain metropolitan region.
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8°57‘51.58“E
Dr. Jörg Beuers
Chairman of the Board, Umicore Technical Materials, Wolfgang, nr. Hanau
The workers have white shirts. The hierarchies
are flat, and the atmosphere pleasant. The Umicore factory hall in the Wolfgang Industrial Estate
in Hanau is filled with natural light – star Frankfurt architect Christoph Mäckler designed it.
300 employees here turn out semi-conductors
that contain precious metals – for electronic
uses, indispensable components for anything
from power switches to car indicators. When Jörg
Beuers walks round the halls, he is rightly proud.
That said, most of the products made by the Belgian materials technology specialist that took
over Degussa’s erstwhile precious-metals set-up
in Hanau, are as good as invisible for the end user.
Which is why the largest corporation in Hanau is
definitely not a household name. Now and then,
Beuers mulls this over. His answer: “Umicore is
one of the Top 10 most sustainable companies
worldwide. We are the leaders in battery recycling. And every third auto worldwide has a Umicore catalytic converter.”
www.umicore.de
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8 °5 4‘5 0. 8 0“E
Kai Walter
Managing Director, International Operations
Europe of the World Triathlon Corporation
Steinheim, nr. Hanau
Kai Walter is a “finisher”, and he likes to use the
English term for someone who sees something
through to the finishing line – like with the Ironman. Kai Walter, 44 years old and a father of two,
is the man behind Ironman Frankfurt. He’s been
part of the team since the first edition back in
2002 and from his base in Steinheim, nr. Hanau,
is part responsible for all 20 Ironman competitions in Europe. Kai Walter has himself completed
various Ironman competitions, and the endurance
and focus are required in his job, too. Preparing an
event is itself a marathon – from choosing a safe
course via getting all the required official approvals
through to collaborating with sponsors, the media,
and of course the athletes. “2000 plus x athletes”
will flock to Frankfurt this year, as “Frankfurt” is
the event. Because of the hosts of enthusiastic
spectators and the atmosphere. And because the
winner is at the same time European champion,
with a ticket to Hawaii. “The Ironman is an event
that brings the whole region together,” comments Walter.
www.ironmanfrankfurt.com
Schlüchtern
Steinau an der Straße
Wächtersbach
Bad Soden-Salmünster
Gelnhausen
Langenselbold
Maintal
Hanau
The Main-Kinzig-Kreis district is made up of 29 local
authorities, 11 towns and 18 localities. The district has
a total area of 1,400 square kilometers, and the
population is growing by the day
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Landmark and
green hill
Re-opening of Historisches
Museum and the Städel
extension
Frankfurt’s museum world now has even more attractions. In
February 2012 the Städel Museum opened its underground extension, to great acclaim in the press it was as good as overrun by
visitors. It’s been nicknamed “Green Hill”, poking fun at the label
given to the pompous Wagner Festival Hall in Bayreuth. Or “Subterranean Happiness”. In the very first weekend 18,000 visitors
came to admire the exhibition on “Contemporary Art 1945 to the
Present”. And now there’s another highlight on the horizon. On
May 24, 2012 Historisches Museum will re-open after elaborate
modernization. For the first time, the ensemble will comprise five
buildings, dating from the 12th to the 19th century, that are all
visible as individual entities, including Saalhof, the oldest building in the city. For the first time in its 500-plus history the Ren
tenturm will now be open to the public. Museum Director Jan
Gerchow considers the buildings a key part of future exhibitions.
For example, the first show will be on the “Age of the Staufer” and
will also involve the history of the venue. In the Baroque Bernuspalais the “History of Old Town Frankfurt” will be presented –
against the backdrop of Römerberg. And in August the major
exhibition on “Frankfurter Collectors and Patrons” will open
in Burnitzbau. Over Whitsun, entry will be free for everyone
Historisches Museum and Städel
A new landmark - Historisches Museum on the Main’s
north bank has been renovated at great expense
(above). The underground Städel extension is already
pulling the crowds
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© Städel Museum/Norbert Miguletz (2), Historsches Museum Frankfurt
(May 26–28, 2012).
For the After Work Logistics!
With useful information and
recommendations
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Monika Müller
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50° 7‘18.73“N
8°37 ‘56. 35“E
F1
Green
City
What does sustainability mean for
FrankfurtRhineMain? What do the London, Stockholm or Copenhagen models
offer? We talked to Dr. Michael Kassner,
President Siemens Central Region, on
the issues of tomorrow
Interview: Manfred Köhler
En route to the “Green City” The “Green City Index” commissioned by Siemens AG certifies
Frankfurt’s “green” development
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The Deutsche Bank’s modernized
twin towers gained +LEED Platinum
certification for existing buildings
and have also received the German
Sustainable Building Council’s seal
of approval. The modernization has
lowered energy consumption by
half, water consumption by over
70 percent and CO2 emissions by
almost 90 percent
> Dr. Kassner, is FrankfurtRhineMain a green and sustainable
conurbation?
Most certainly when compared to other regions. People like
living here, many companies locate to here. And FrankfurtRhineMain is not only green in the literal sense. It is also a
region that strongly emphasizes sustainability. Siemens has
commissioned a “Green City Index” – for it London-based
Economist Intelligence Unit compared more than 100 major
cities worldwide. Among the German cities studied, Frankfurt outperformed as regards buildings, transportation, water
and waste, and came out on average in terms of CO2 emissions,
energy, air quality and eco-management. All in all, FrankfurtRhineMain is on the right path, even if at the moment
major Scandinavian cities such as Stockholm or Copenhagen
still lead the way.
> What do they do better?
They are devising masterplans that enable them to move
somewhat more consistently in the direction of a green city.
Stockholm was not declared European eco-capital for nothing. One advantage these cities have is that they are busy collecting knowledge on how to convert a region, and bringing
many innovations to bear. However, they also have an edge
because they are not so large. In FrankfurtRhineMain the decentralized urban fabric is often considered a weakness. While
it can actually be an advantage if one considers the ideal of the
megacity. A rationally organized big metropolis is not possible
without decentralized substructures. And precisely such
nitely need, though, is a better shared regional identity.
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structures exist in FrankfurtRhineMain. What we most defi-
Dr. Michael Kassner Based in the Siemens Frankfurt’s
HQ, Dr. Michael Kassner is Head
of Siemens Central Region. In
Frankfurt and Hessen he holds a
series of voluntary positions,
among others he is one of the two
representatives of Hessen’s business world on the State of Hessen
Advisory Council of the LOEWE
Excellency Program. Michael
Kassner is also active on the City
of Frankfurt Sustainability Forum
> Is the key issue here good planning?
transport electricity generated by renewable sources from the
Planning in combination with project management based
north to the south of the country. The next thing must to be
on this; when it comes to implementation, they’re both key.
considered is how to distribute this energy using an intelli-
London also has a masterplan that closely defines the goals
gent network, a so-called smart power grid, and ensure grid
and measures required to make a city greener. That Frank-
stability in the cities. The topic of energy efficiency will be a
furtRhineMain lacks. Although the region has prime poten-
key component here. After all, the cleanest form of energy is
tial. Frankfurt’s international reach is a good basis for the
still that which we do not need to consume in the first place.
city’s sustainable development, for Frankfurt is resultantly
On balance, the energy turn is thus a complex undertaking,
embedded in global networks. Essentially, the region with
one which we can only make progress on if we take our cue
its many towns and the big city at its heart mirrors Europe’s
from the engineers.
diversity. For this reason, the region has a unique opportunity to become a model for the entire continent, in all four
> That sounds a little as though it’s primarily all up to the en-
key aspects of sustainability: competitiveness, the environ-
gineers and business administration experts?
ment, the quality of life, and sustainability management.
It is definitely the case that technological modernization will
Whereby the crucial thing is effective management. With-
make the decisive contribution to sustainable urban develop-
out a vision, a strategy and implementation plans won’t
ment. And the great thing is that most investments finance
work.
themselves in the long term through the savings in energy
consumption. It is worth remembering that the battle against
> You constantly refer to planning and management.
climate change will be decided in the cities. Individual light-
Yes. This “thinking in categories” could mark the beginning
house projects no longer suffice. Real improvements on a mas-
of a concrete plan with goals and implementation scheduled
sive scale are called for. It bears remembering how large the
for FrankfurtRhineMain. I am thinking of five focal points,
changes are that will be triggered by innovations, meaning
namely the energy turn, mobility & logistics hub, urban value
the kind of economic leverage the investments have. That’s
added, sustainable development of districts, and a carbon-
what counts.
Jonas Ratermann
neutral city corporation and could well imagine a kind of governance strategy with an associated implementation plan and
> What aspects of transportation must change?
overall project management, too. Take the major project ef-
First of all, we must consistently strengthen the key factor for
fecting society as a whole: the energy turn. Here, conurba-
the region’s strength as an intermodal and international
tions will play a key role. In the first instance, this involves
transport hub, as this is crucial to employment and its com-
questions of decentralized energy generation and how we
petitiveness. If I simply take the Siemens employees in our
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Central Region: firstly, my colleagues and I are on the road
Green City goals. Many companies are dedicated to environ-
every day between our many Siemens locations and our cli-
mental protection and efficiency, as can be seen from our
ents. About three quarters of the some 9,000 Siemens em
Frankfurt plant in Fechenheim, which won an eco prize. In-
ployees in the region are active internationally and thus travel.
dustry is fast becoming an innovative “smart factory” as the
We are all dependent on mobility as a factor for the region’s
example of Sanofi shows. Using the latest Siemens industrial
success. The conurbation needs an eco-friendly transporta-
software the product development and production cycle is
tion infrastructure, in which context electromobility has
planned and realized holistically: this is industry that has
strong potential. In the future, the car will be less of a status
nothing more in common with filthy smokestacks.
symbol than today, things will hinge on a mobility flat-rate,
i.e., a ticket that allows you to use the public transportation
> So in your view, industry and ecology are not mutually system and hire cars. Our region is predestined to create an
contradictory.
exemplary, intelligent system of this kind. Technology and
On the contrary. I believe innovation and growth play a decisive
people’s life style will both change at once.
role for the sustainable city of the future, as the green model
cities such as Copenhagen show. In FrankfurtRhineMain
> Intelligent – sounds good. But what does it mean?
we’re making progress here if one considers the current city
There are now any amount of technologies and experiences
and state initiatives. I’m thinking here of the Industry Hub
gained in other cities worldwide. I believe it would be impor-
Initiative of the “House of Logistics and Mobility” in the Air-
tant to test the practical viability of these experiences and,
port City district of Gateway Gardens close to the airport.
wherever fitting, to apply them swiftly and consistently.
With these ideas we’re consciously strengthening the region’s
Would it be sensible, for instance, to introduce a City Consoli-
strengths. A key component is the cooperation between local
dation Center like that in London? This means that not every
businessmen and scientists.
truck drives into town to offload at a few clients’ places, but
that outside the metropolis there’s a logistics center where
> Siemens is not addressing these issues as charity?
goods get resorted to reduce the amount of driving. In London
Siemens is now one of the largest companies in the world in
they have cut CO2 emissions by three quarters this way. Why
the field of environmental technology. We focus not only on
not realize such a pilot project here?
the energy turn but consistently on the trends in global industrial competitiveness, urbanization and demographic change.
> Transport is the one thing. But the focus has been more on
As a result, we have four divisions: Industry, Health, Energy
modernizing buildings.
and Cities. To this extent, the pending changes in Frank-
With good reason. Buildings consume 40 percent of the ener-
furtRhineMain are very interesting for us. And Siemens is not
gy we use. If you insulate a house’s façade, you can of course
only a company for this conurbation, but also a company be-
significantly reduce the CO2 emissions. With each euro you
longing to it. In our Central Region the corporation employs
use to improve the energy balance you save four times as much
some 9,000 staff, of whom about 5,000 are in and around
as you would if you improved the facility technology instead
Frankfurt itself. And about as many people work in our re-
or even in addition. Wherever a lot of power is used, there is a
gional suppliers from whom we purchase goods each year for
lot of potential for savings. This applies primarily to buildings,
about EUR 1.6 billion. Siemens has long since been playing a
but also to individual industrial plants and production pro
major part in many projects that serve sustainability in terms
cesses.
of eco-friendliness, quality of life, and competitiveness, as the
examples I’ve mentioned and many others show. Ideally, the
> What role does local industry play here?
conurbation of tomorrow places less of a strain on the envi-
Industry is an important part of our metropolitan region and
ronment, brings greater security and improved traffic flows.
contributes decisively to prosperity, and thus to sustaining
Its companies are as a consequence more competitive, and is
secure jobs and innovations and by extension to attaining the
easier to attract employees.
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E-mobility Electromobility, or when your
fuel comes from the power socket.
E-mobility is one of the major
themes as regards urban mobility
of the future
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August Lucas
Niccolo, approx. 1830
That
Romantic
World
The complex image of an epoch: With its major “The Romantic
Impulse. The Romanticism of the Rhine and Main” program, Kulturfonds
Frankfurt RheinMain is tracing the steps of Romanticism throughout
the region – an exciting high-brow tour
BY claudia Schülke
Carl Philipp Fohr
Götz von Berlichingen
rides to the gypsy camp,
approx. 1816
Christian Rohlfs
Frog princess, 1913
© Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg,
photo: R. Wacker
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Max Beckmann
Etching for Clemens Brentano’s
fairytale on “Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen”, 1923
Heyday of Romantic book illustrations
Title engraving for Clemens Brentano’s book of
fairytales “Gockel, Hinkel and Gakeleia”, published
in Frankfurt, 1838
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Events
He had forgotten his “Godwi”. And yet he had wanted to join Achim
von Arnim and wander in the tracks of his own “overgrown novel”.
Clemens Brentano did not know what to do. His very first trip to the Rhine had
been a bit of a disaster because his then companion Friedrich Carl von Savigny, a
legal scholar, had simply been too dry to translate literature into life. “Brentano
needed the right casting for his script,” says Freie Deutsche Hochstift’s Wolfgang Bunzel with a smile; he’s the literary scholar busy coordinating the historical, critical edition of the Romantic’s oeuvre. Brentano had friends send him
his text. As only with his “Godwi” in his hands, and in it he had invented the
legendary figure of the Loreley, did he believe would he be able to imagine that
supernatural experience in the Osteinpark close to Rüdesheim that he had himself created, black on white. With their trip to the Rhine, Brentano and his
buddy von Arnim ushered in the period of Rhine Romanticism. That same year,
the Frankfurt Council resolved to have the city’s walls and fortifications razed in
order to avoid giving Napoleon’s troops an excuse to lay siege to Frankfurt. And
when the resolution was implemented it resulted in a new experience of the
countryside, an ‘open’ city. Garden artist Guillett Sebastian Rinz created the
area formerly occupied by the bastions, taking his cue from English landscaped
gardens. “The old walls have been razed, the old gates torn down, and the whole
town is a park, as if out in the countryside,” wrote Goethe’s mother in 1808
to him, in Weimar. And Alexandre Dumas reported in 1837: “Frankfurt with
its white, pistachio green and pink houses resembles a huge bouquet of
camellias in a wreath of heather.”
Romanticism was thus not confined to Jena, Berlin and Heidelberg; and Romanti-
cism is more than an epoch, more than just a cult that looks back in time and was
Clemens Brentano
Portrait painted by Swiss artist
Emilie Linder (after 1833). Brentano
dedicated several poems to her,
and nicknamed her “Prüdchen”
© picture alliance/akg-images
later misused by the Nazis. And the movement continues to be a source of inspiration. Philosopher Rüdiger Safranski called what is most probably the all-defining
19th-century cultural epoch “a German affair”. With four major focal points the
2012-2014 “Romantic Impulse” project organized by Kulturfonds Frankfurt
RheinMain will seek to highlight the historical epoch and demonstrate how its
mark is still felt today – it will be supporting projects in the fine arts, music, landscape gardening and literature. In the process, FrankfurtRhineMain will emerge
as an important if not “decisive” region of that period.
Anne Bohnenkamp-Renken:
“Romanticism opens
the door to Modernism.”
Professor Anne Bohnenkamp-Renken, Director of Freies Deutsches Hochstift,
E.T.A. Hoffmann
terms Romanticism the “door opener” to Modernism and “immensely fruitful for
Edition of “Master Flea” published in 1826 with the flea in
boots and with a torch
cultural developments.” At the Stift’s location, the Goethe House in Frankfurt,
the Romanticism Project opened on April 24, 2012 with an exhibition curated by
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Achim von Arnim
Portrait of the poet by
Peter Eduard Ströhling, 1805
© picture-alliance/dpa
Alexander Zick
Illustration for “Tischlein deck
dich, Goldesel und Knüppel
Aus dem Sack”, 1886
Above: illustration of the
Gockel fairytale, 1872
© Frankfurter Goethe-Haus/Freies Deutsches
Hochstift, zu sehen in der Ausstellung “Hänsel
und Gretel im Bilderwald”
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the foundation’s expert on the subject, Bunzel. Entitled “Hänsel and Gretel in a
Forest of Pictures” illustrations attest to the Romantic fairytales, such as those of
the Brothers Grimm or Brentano, the emphatic impact these texts have had on the
fine arts to this very day and thus come good on the synaesthetic standards that
Friedrich Schlegel set in his theoretical concept of Romanticism as a “progressive
universal poetry” back in 1798.
Friedrich Schlegel, the theoretical founding father of Early Romanticism, who
tends to be associated with Jena and Berlin, also spent three years living in
Frankfurt: Legation Councillor at the Austrian Mission to the German Parliament from 1815 to 1818 he intervened so unskillfully in local politics that
Metternich was forced to discretely order him to return. And Schlegel also
sought to merge the art genres, and mind and nature, alike. The finite and the
infinite, the past and the present, were to permeate each other. For him, what
was more important than the poetic work was the poetic way of life: The creative
“Ego” was meant to burst its individual limits and merge with the universal.
This openness gave rise to a yearning for an all-melding world, that Romantic
feeling for life that goes hand in glove with the risk of psychological instability
to the point of a loss of self.
Mareike Hennig:
“People are once again daring
to find Romanticism beautiful.”
So, given such a yardstick, who could keep a clear head? asks Mareike Hennig.
The art historian has concerned herself with Romanticism for 20 years now,
among others at the Goethe House and the Städel Gallery. She is now coordinating the diverse range of events Kulturfonds is arranging. And she is an expert
on the largely unknown Rhine and Main strands of Romanticism. Not only the
notorious siblings Clemens and Bettine Brentano, not only their friend, the unfortunate Frankfurter canoness Karoline von Günderrode, who heartbroken
stabbed herself to death in Winkel on the Rhine. And of course not only the
Brothers Grimm from Hanau, whose “tales” came out exactly 200 years ago. She
also knows that “outside Germany, Goethe with his ‘Faust II’ and ‘Wilhelm
Meister’ is also considered a Romantic
Hennig even knows of the long-forgotten scandals: such as how Brentano seduced
the 16-year-old Auguste Bußmann. The libertine found the overstrung charge of
banker Moritz von Bethmann not Romantic enough, and the two got divorced;
then after a second failed marriage Auguste drowned herself in the Main. By
contrast, her first husband sought succor in the arms of the Catholic Church.
Along the “Via Brentano”, the first project the Kulturfonds and Kulturregion are
collaborating on, the “Romantics’ Route” from Winkel/Bingen/Rüdesheim via
Frankfurt/Hanau/Steinau to Aschaffenburg (where Clemens Brentano died in
1842) will provided a basis for exploration – with guided tours, readings and
concerts. In Frankfurt there will be an installation complete with readings and
wine held in June in Parkhaus Hauptwache (where the headquarters of the
Brentano merchants once stood), and a tour of the town in the poet’s footsteps
is also planned.
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Draft cover page for Clemens Brentano’s
“Italian Tales”, 1815
Max Slevogt
Interpretation of King Drosselbart, 1922
Herbert Leupin
Illustration for “Puss in Boots”, 1946
© 2011 by Collection HERBERT LEUPIN,
www.herbert-leupin.ch
Brüderchen und
Schwesterchen
Illustration of the Grimms’
fairytale of 1818
© Museum Hanau, Schloss Philippsruhe
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Inken Forman:
“There probably is no such thing
as the Romantic garden.”
Today, the name Brentano is also inextricably connected to the “Rhine Romanticism Main Romanticism” landscaped gardens that Inken Forman coordinates on
behalf of the State of Hessen Castles and Gardens Administration. However, there
is “probably no such thing as a Romantic garden,” she concedes frankly. What
makes a garden “romantic” will be the subject of discussions by experts at a transdisciplinary public conference in September. Then specialists such as art historian
Adrian von Buttlar and literary scholar Hubertus Fischer will talk in Bad Homburg and Wilhelmsbad close to Hanau, among other things, on the positioning of
the countryside and the construction of a Romantic nature by Ludwig Tieck and
Joseph von Eichendorff.
The linkages of “art and nature” will also be explored at Museum Wiesbaden next
year in the eponymous exhibition on “Rhine Romanticism”. After all, it is indebted to the collection of Frankfurt banker Johann Christian Gerning, who collected
not only paintings but also butterflies. In 2013, the individual types who don’t
like trotting around in a group will also be wooed to visit “Romantic” places – by
Smartphone Apps: examples being the “Nobles Camp” of the Court of Darmstadt
in Auerbach close to Bensheim or to the castle ruins in Eppstein, where Alexandre
Dumas wrote his Gothic novel of the same name. Inken Forman is ardent that
“these are treasures that we can rightly boast about.”
Ruins must definitely always form part of the backdrop for Romantic scenes
through to the misty horizons. The Romantics not only loved limitlessness, the
indeterminate open landscape, but also emotional rollercoaster rides: from basking in an idyll to pleasantly morbid horror. Felix Krämer finds it annoying that
Romanticism is forever being confused with the idyllic, the sentimental. The art
historian will be curating a show at Städel Gallery on “Black Romanticism. From
Goya to Max Ernst”. Founded in 1817, the Städel is itself a child of Romanticism,
and Philipp Veit, its very first director, was a son from the first marriage of
Wilhelmsbad Palace,
Hanau
The promenade with
the temple fountain and
the artificial castle ruins
of 1779 (above)
© Oana Szekely für Verwaltung der Staatlichen
Schlösser und Gärten Hessen, Bad Homburg, 2011
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Osteinscher Parkwald, Rüdesheim
The “most mysterious magic cave” in one
of Germany’s earliest landscaped gardens
Below: view out over the vineyards
© Oana Szekely für Verwaltung der Staatlichen Schlösser und Gärten
Hessen, Bad Homburg, 2011
Arnold Böcklin
For decades, the Swiss
painter took the “seashore
villa” as his theme; the
painting in the Städel Gallery
dates to 1871–1874
© U. Edelmann - Städel Museum - ARTOTHEK
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Events
Caspar David Friedrich
Dorothea Veit, the wife of Friedrich Schlegel. Krämer is interested in the dark
side of Romantic energies, something that has inspired art from 1800 to 1945,
“Friedrich Kügelgen’s Grave”, 1821–22,
on show in the Städel Gallery in the
exhibition on “Black Romanticism”
© Privatbesitz, Deutschland, on loan in Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus.
Gallery of the 19th Century and Classical Modernism, Lübeck
from Symbolism to Surrealism. “An element that will unsettle viewers,” Krämer
readily concedes: nightmarish themes such as Henry Fuseli’s painting “The
Nightmare”, the witches in Delacroix’s work, vampires in pictures by Munch,
gravestones and ruins in the works of Carl Gustav Carus, “figures of the night”
by Magritte. A total of 150 objects stand witness to the unconscious fears
and energy unleashed after years of enlightened rationality, in short to the
destabilization of the limitless Romantic ego.
MechtHild Haas:
“The War of Liberation against Napoleon
led the Romantics to close ranks.”
The exhibition on “Romanticism and Witnesses of the Day – German Drawings
and Water Colors from 1780 to 1840” that Mechthild Haas is curating and will
open at Landesmuseum Darmstadt in early 2014 focuses not on the depths of the
psyche, but on the change in themes, not on a bourgeois zest for collecting, but
an aristocratic feel for art. Haas, who is Head of the Prints Collection, points out
that the larger part of the drawings (nudes and portraits, themes from legends
and fairytales, the ideal of Italy, and scientific documentation) were acquired at
the time they were made. Grand Duke Ludwig II of Hessen-Darmstadt was
friends with Goethe’s mentor art critic Johann Heinrich Merck and after the
latter’s suicide in 1791 acquired his art collection. As a monarch very much in
tune with the day, Ludwig had agents advise him, founded a public drawing
school that was free of charge, and awarded stipends to artists. “Napoleon established the Grand Duchy in South Hessen,” explains Haas. The struggle against
him led the Romantics to close ranks. The joint search for a national identity was
an umbrella for the disintegrated ego. With its cross-genre “Freispiel” festival in
Frankfurt the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie likewise embarks on a “search for
Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer
“The Artist’s Room in Rome”, 1828
© Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Foto: Wolfgang Fuhrmannek
identity”. On tours of the city during the summer evenings, music students will
perform nocturnes and serenades, exploring the ambivalent relationship the
Romantics had to night.
Romanticism, an epoch of eager communication, is also considered the age when
choirs were founded. For this reason, Deutscher Chorverband will from June 7–10
host its second German Choir Festival in Frankfurt. Almost 500 choirs are expected to take part – with about 20,000 singers from all over the world. One of
the event’s highpoints will be the performance in Alte Oper Frankfurt of Felix
Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s oratory “Elias”. He composed parts of the oratory while
residing in Bad Soden. Composer and conductor Matthias Pintscher, one of the
four scholarly advisors to the Romanticism project, has dreamed up a gigantic
program. Stadthalle Hofheim will witness not only Mendelssohn’s “Walpurgis
nacht” but two overtures by Hofheim composer Franz Joseph Messer (1811–1860).
A local hero almost no one has heard of? “For me, art is Romantic if it possesses
inner wealth,” claimed Pintscher in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntags
zeitung” newspaper. Alte Oper will bring the “Romantic Impulse” to a close in
March 2014 with a four-day Romanticism Festival devoted to Robert Schumann,
whose wife Clara taught piano in Frankfurt.
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With its focal theme “The Romantic
Impulse”, Kulturfonds Frankfurt
RheinMain will from 2012 to 2014 be
casting an eye over Romanticism
on the Rhine and Main, drawing on the
wealth of outstanding artists who
lived and worked here. Romanticism
is understood here not only as an
historical epoch, but also as an ongoing stimulus for the imagination.
For details, click kulturfonds-frm.de
Johann Anton Ramboux
Portrait of Dr. Ringseis, 1818
© Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, photo: Wolfgang Fuhrmannek
Romantic music
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (left)
and Clara Schumann (shown with
her husband Robert Schumann)
lived and worked in Frankfurt for
several years
© picture-alliance/akg-images
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Discoveries
Main Ferries
Cult boats and relics of a former age.
Five car and passenger ferries still ply their trade in FrankfurtRhineMain. An adventure that costs only a few cents.
by Martin Orth And Jonas Ratermann (photos)
Bischhofsheim
Rumpenheim
Höchst
Dörnigheim
Mühlheim
Schwanheim
Okriftel
Kelsterbach
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Großwelzheim
Seligenstadt
Höchst-Schwanheim
At the weekend the first day-trippers use
the passenger ferry that links old town
Höchst with the “Dunes” in Schwanheim
>
When Werner Link starts work at 6 in the morning
them steers up top at the helm, the other raises or lowers the
at Kilometer 69.6 on the Main, the first ferry pas-
ramp and sells the tickets. 80 cents a person, 3 euros per car.
sengers already await him. They want to travel to work by the
Day-in day-out, from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday the boat weighs
shortest and fastest route possible – on the “Stadt Seligenstadt”
anchor at 7 a.m. and two hours later on Sundays; the ferry de-
ferry. The next bridges for cars are about 10 kilometers outside
parts as soon as it has filled up or custom waits on the other
Seligenstadt. Werner Link undoes the ropes, pulls up the land-
side.
ing ramp, and off the ferry goes: the full 120 meters across the
Main to Bavaria and then back to Hessen. Werner Link is one of
There are still five ferries on the Main in FrankfurtRhineMain – in
two ferrymen on board – together they run the ship. One of
addition to the one between Seligenstadt and Großwelzheim
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Discoveries
there are the Dörnigheim – Mühlheim and Rumpenheim –
town or the Höchst palace in the background, enjoying the brief
Bischofsheim car ferries as well as the Höchst – Schwanheim and
sail into a past age, would agree.
Okriftel – Kelsterbach passenger ferries. They may be the dinos
among the transportation systems, relics of bygone days. But
In actual fact, the history of the Main ferries goes back a fair few
whenever the local authorities start to talk about profitability,
centuries. “The ferry was really important for the Seligenstadt
the citizens protest and come out in arms for their “ferries”. Any-
Monastery, as the villagers in the Spessart foothills and in
one who sees the starry eyes of the kids riding the ferry at the
Freigericht were part of the region served by the abbey. Especial-
weekend with their parents, the picturesque Seligenstadt old
ly crucial were wine and wood,” states a sign on the wall of the
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Seligenstadt – Großwelzheim
The “Stadt Seligenstadt” ferry links Hessen
and Bavaria. Ferryman Werner Link has to
have a “certificate for cross-ferrying” to ply
the route
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Discoveries
Rumpenheim – Bischofsheim
A passenger can travel from Offenbach to
Maintal for the princely sum of 30 cents. Car
drivers have to dig deeper into their pockets:
1 euro each
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Basilica close to the docking point. That was in the 18th century.
prop is positioned under the hull and can be turned 360° while also
The Höchst ferry can be traced back even further, as far as 1623.
acting as a rudder. In order to be able to work on the ferries the ferrymen need shortwave approval – shipping has right of way and
The “Stadt Seligenstadt” went into service in 1971 and is the larg-
announces by radio on channel 10 – and a ferryman’s certificate.
est and most modern of the ferries. Werner Link came on board in
“We have the same status as a pilot or a ship’s captain on the high
1982. He started out as a mechanic and still does all the repairs
seas,” comments Werner Link, “although we’re not nearly as well
himself. The ferry is powered by two 80hp diesel engines. A so-
paid and only have a certificate allowing us to cross-ferry, i.e.,
called Z-drive ensures the boat is exceptionally maneuverable: the
travel from one side of the river to the other.”
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