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...contemporary artist goes for $50,000, a print for $4,000. Regina Spelman, an editor at the German-language Harper's Bazaar, sees vast amounts being spent on apparel: "Germans use clothes to define their place in society and are willing to spend a lot to make a statement." Hamburg Designer Peter Schmidt notes that "people are willing to pay to surround themselves with well-designed things." Kurt Gustmann, an editor at the magazine Schoner Wohnen in Hamburg, points to a general pattern of cultivating leisure activities based on long weekends...
...mail-order house in Bavaria, caters specifically to such tastes, offering a catalog of 273 "carefully selected luxury gifts," with a total value of $26.5 million; among them are a Tabriz rug for $964,000 and a gold-plated record player for $75,000. Dieter Schiwietz, a Hamburg plastic surgeon, says women -- and men -- seem to be having no trouble finding money for face-lifts costing up to $70,000. Says Schiwietz: "Looking good is an important part of the good life...
...Dresden plant that the company is acquiring from VEB Kombinat Tabak, East Germany's state-owned tobacco company. "We really don't consider East Germany part of Eastern Europe," says John Dollisson, a Philip Morris vice president. "Selling in Dresden should be the same as selling in Munich or Hamburg...
...history, our own culture." To show it off, the city of 1.7 million has seized upon the 1992 Summer Olympics, with its windfall of government money and free publicity, and has catapulted itself into the ranks of Europe's favored capitals. "You go to Milan, Paris or Hamburg, and people marvel that Barcelona has become the most dynamic city in Europe," says Jose Maria Marti Ruffo, a London-based Catalan businessman...
Ulrich Baer '91 resides in Berlin, Fabian Birgfeld '92 in Hamburg, Stephan Klasen '90-91 in Trier, and Albert Wenger '90 in Nuremberg...