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...what kind of art show was this, anyway? It was a show of the early work (most of the pieces in the show date from the early to mid-1960s) of five German artists: Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Charlotte Posenenske, Gerhard Richter and Thomas Schütte. They all might loosely be considered sculptors but are perhaps better described as “conceptual artists.” Their work can be generally characterized as having two main objectives. In one sense, it amounted to an explicitly political attack on traditional notions of sculpture and of the role...
Like many German companies, Glashütte Döbern, a maker of fine crystal glassware, has had a tough couple of years. Following the 9/11 terror attacks, orders slumped from the United States, its largest market. But business is finally starting to sparkle again at this 35-year-old company, which employs 130 people at its factory in the eastern German state of Brandenburg. Orders are up not only domestically and from the U.S., but also from France, Spain, Britain - even China. Instead of closing for its annual vacation in July and August, the company went on three shifts...
...holidays will fall on weekends in 2004, meaning Germany will have more work days than this year. But what's clear is that consumers in Germany and elsewhere are leading this recovery, not the traditional manufacturing industries. That's good news for managers like Frank Mader, of Glashütte Döbern, whose fate is in the hands of shoppers from Paris to Beijing...
...love the one-on-one interview, the tte--tte over coffee or lunch where you can really get inside somebody's head. Perhaps that was too much to ask from the makers of Being John Malkovich, after the film has already taken you quite literally into the head of Mr. Malkovich himself. Instead, I had to content myself with a frenzied conversation with all the luminaries involved with the film on the top floor of a New York high-rise hotel. Sometimes it was hard to tell them all apart; everyone who worked on the movie seemed to wear many...
...lieutenant on the Russian front). Shortly after becoming head of sales for Ford of Germany, he left to take over the tottering Rheinstahl Steel Company, and by designing and executing a major reorganization, made it so profitable that it was bought by the German conglomerate August Thyssen-Hütte. He was enticed to Volkswagen by the challenge. Recalls Schmücker: "It was more than just Volkswagen at stake. I felt that if this company were to fail, in a sense our entire system would...