Word: abendzeitung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bayreuth in Danger?" The question, posed by Munich's Abendzeitung, may have seemed strange as the little Bavarian town of Bayreuth prepared last week for its annual Wagner festival. Hotels were doubling their rates; black marketeers were getting an all-time high of $500 for tickets; and economically at least, the institution created by Richard Wagner in 1876 to perpetuate his works and ideals was thriving as never before...
...brother-in-law-in his 18th century hunting castle. It was in Bavaria, home of Germany's most unreconstructed royalists, that their warmest welcome awaited them. In Munich, schools were dismissed; the streets were lined by 8 a.m., two hours before the royal train arrived, and the Abendzeitung hung out a banner headline: GRÜSS GOTT, MAJESTÄT (God's blessing, Your Majesty...
...raconteur of such Parsons-Hopper-Lyons-Kilgallen glimpses of the jet set at play is not named Louella, Hedda, Leonard or Dorothy. He is Germany's Wiener-Schnitzel Winchell, Gossipist Hannes Obermaier, who writes a daily Page 2 column for Munich's tabloid Abendzeitung called "Hunter Jots Down''-the name Hunter coming from a brand of Dutch cigarettes that Obermaier likes. In the eight years that Obermaier has chronicled high life in Europe's low places, Abendzeitung's circulation has shot from 17,000 to 105,000. His bosses give him much...
...Bavarian village, he was a student in Munich when World War II broke out, was wounded on the Russian front, spent two years in a prisoner-of-war camp. In 1949, after a variety of jobs, he won a competition for a cub reporter's opening on Abendzeitung by doing a story about a night in a Munich police station. While the other contestants spent the evening in police stations, Obermaier stayed in his hotel room, wrote the story as he imagined it. Two years later, after a tour of the U.S., he persuaded his editor...