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Augsburg Apprenticeship. The solid routine of conducting he learned after the war as assistant conductor at the Augsburg Opera (where he also occasionally tinkled the triangle in the pit). In 1953 he tried out (with 64 other applicants) for the job of music director at Aachen. With a piano score Sawallisch prepared Aachen's cut version of Tannhäuser, learned on his way to the podium for the last act that a 20-page cut had been restored, sailed through the intricate music at sight without a bobble. He was promptly hired...
...accomplishments at Aachen have brought Sawallisch permanent bids from the Berlin Municipal Opera and from Hamburg (he has not made up his mind) and invitations to guest-conduct most of the great orchestras of Europe. The Vienna State Opera and the San Francisco Opera both want him as their guest. And in Germany he has built a personal following so rapidly that last year the Berlin Philharmonic did not even bother to advertise his sold-out guest appearances...
Divesting the Dismantler. Völklingen, the Saar's biggest single industrial operation, is the base of the Röchlings' 250-year-old empire, which spills into West Germany with a coal field near Aachen, a steel business at Mannheim, an iron works at Wetzlar. The family's real rise to power began under sword-scarred Hermann Röchling, prime mover of the Saar's vast industrial buildup of the early 1900s. As a war mobilizer in the Kaiser's army in World War I, Captain Röchling ordered the scrapping...
...Anne Frank. At West Berlin's Schlosspark Theater, a packed opening climaxed the city's Cultural Festival. At the Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf in the rich Ruhr, the elegant opening drew a crowd in black tie and bare shoulders. Other theaters-in Hamburg, Karlsruhe. Konstanz, Aachen and East Germany's Dresden-were jammed...
Born in Budapest in 1881, Scholar von Karman was an assistant professor at the Royal Technical University in 1903, when the Wright brothers made their first flight. Nine years later he was head of the newly organized Aeronautical Institute at Germany's University of Aachen. In 1928 he took a research job at Caltech, settled there permanently in 1930, became a U.S. citizen...