We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.
I always say I have two hearts – one beats for Poland and the other for Germany.
Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.
Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don’t want dominance.
Buffon is fearless and has no obvious weaknesses. He has been outstanding for Juventus and was one of Italy’s most important players at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany, where they were victorious, but what is amazing is that he has been playing like that for years. He never seems to make a mistake.
I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.
Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany.
Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That’s why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.
When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
From what I saw in Spain and Germany most of the teams drop back and then they have all of the time to build up and have the movements. In the Premier League it is more physical and about set plays. It is more difficult.
If you look at Germany and France, a couple other countries, those are really kickboxing markets.
It comes easy to me to run. I picked a lot of it up from Germany. I had four-and-a-half years there, and I learned you have to be on the automatic button. Press it, and you go: you keep running, chasing and working.
When I was thirteen years old, and we had just moved to Germany, I definitely felt I was missing out on normal teenage life. I was watching my old school friends from Canada grow up without me while I was in Germany trying to learn the language and trying to pass each year without failing.
Anne Imhof is a powerful artist from Germany making work that is totally interdisciplinary.
The Scottish game is not easy – far from it.You don’t have so much time on the ball. There are aggressive defenders but it is good. Every opponent likes to mark closely so it is not so easy to score. In Germany there was more space to run into other areas of the pitch.
At the beginning of the 60’s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: ‘They won’t stay, sometime they will be gone.’ But this isn’t reality.
When I watched the Premier League on the telly, I didn’t expect it to be that hard. The opponents are all physically strong, real athletes. It wasn’t like that in Germany. You must be prepared for it. But I prepared myself for it.
Let’s start with the euro. What on earth were we thinking? How could anyone with the faintest grasp of economics have believed it was anything other than sheer insanity to yoke together diverse national economies such as Greece, Ireland, Germany and Finland under a single exchange rate and a single interest rate?
I had an American boyfriend, went to football games, tennis tournaments, and to my prom. I was so serious about my American boyfriend that I brought him back to Germany with me to visit my parents. They were horrified.
The difference between Germany and Italy? I think in Serie A there is more quality and the game is quicker, but in Germany it’s similar.
These countries – Spain, France, Germany – have environments that are really geared toward the professional player.
In Germany, my focus was mainly on dribbling.
Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.
My first obsession was actually sports. I was a very good handball goalkeeper. With special permission, I played in the premier league in Germany before I was even old enough.
The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist.
A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.
There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That’s almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.
I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.
We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations.
For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans.
I’d never really travelled before, and when we started going places, like Japan, France, Germany and all over Europe, it’s been interesting to see how different cultures work. But to be there playing music makes it so much better.
But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
They wouldn’t let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor’s daughter on my skateboard.
As much as I believe in the Franco-German partnership, I question the idea of a duopoly. European construction is based on a well-balanced and respectful partnership between France and Germany.
Germany are a tough opponent. They are quick and break on the counter at speed, and they are bursting with confidence.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.
Brexit is the best thing to happen for Russia, for America, for Germany, and for democracy.
The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn’t intend it to be that way.
Iran are very strong because we have many good players playing top-class football in Spain, Germany and England.
Fans don’t like owners. They know they are somewhere – actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don’t sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.
When I’m warming up on the sidelines, I can often hear monkey chants. Me, who played so many matches for Germany.
I have the feeling that you can get older here in Germany, or in Europe, but in Hollywood, you have to look perfect all the time. So it’s really hard.
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.
We have to acknowledge and discuss with citizens that Germany needs to take on more responsibility. One of the questions is, ‘Can we keep a functioning international order?’
I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.
The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.
What I do is sometimes – at least in Germany – met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I’ve decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn’t feel any more.
Among leaders in Europe there are those who have prejudices against Turkey, like France and Germany.
The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.
Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt had had a cordial relationship, and, indeed, Mehmet Ertegun may have helped insure that Turkey did not ally itself with Germany, as it had in the First World War.
When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach.
The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.
