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...that, an angry young Bundestag Deputy from Düsseldorf rose to protest. He was Wolfgang Döring, 43, deputy leader of the Free Democratic Party and a friend of Augstein's. "Mr. Chancellor, you are the first to arrive at a verdict that only a court has the right to determine." Then, in a shaking voice, Döring told of his half-Jewish wife, who lost 22 of her 26 living relatives in Nazi concentration camps, and fled to Britain during the war. She did not want to return to Germany, Döring told...
...nowhere, scraps of road maps, photographs of machinery, tiny human beings caught in endless labyrinths. They proved immensely popular. In the past three years, Verkauf has been responsible for selling about 100 pictures by André Verlon; he arranged one-man shows for him in Munich and Düsseldorf, found gallery outlets for him in Paris, Basel and Milan. Last week Verlon was on show at the Brook Street Gallery in London, and Manhattan's D'Arcy Galleries will exhibit his work next fall. André Verlon is doing nicely for a man who does not exist...
...Chancellor (1925-26) put Germany's signature on the futile peace-seeking Locarno Pact, who agreed in 1933 to serve the Nazis as Ambassador to the U.S., was recalled in 1937 and lived quietly on his Bavarian farm until the Nazis finally fell; in DÜsseldorf...
...occasion was a performance of Composer Peter Ronnefeld's four-act opera, The Ant. Spectators at the Düsseldorf Opera seemed to find no middle ground; they were either enraged or entranced by the generally cacophonous score and by the frankly libidinous libretto that provided space for an orgiastic ballet, a striptease and a recitative recounting of the early sexual exploits of a couple of convicts. Composer Ronnefeld, 26, who conducted the orchestra, was greeted by a caterwauling of penny whistles from the top balcony. ("Idiots up there!" shouted pro-Ronnefeld forces in other parts of the house...
...says he quit the Nazi Party in 1941, when he married a part-Jewish woman. After the war, in which he served as an enlisted infantryman on the Russian front, Schröder joined the Christian Democrats, at Adenauer's urging campaigned in 1949 for the Düsseldorf seat in the Bundestag that he still holds. As Interior Minister, Schröder was famed for inept statements, most notably his breathless announcement that defecting Counterspy Otto John had been "kidnaped" by the East Germans in 1954. Cracked one nightclub comic: "Schröder has some more good ideas...