01 Deutsch-Deutscher rail traffic Frankfurt/Main Hbf. display sign: IC train to Leipzig 6.38. people go. Schaffner attached train sign. People waving from the window. IC drives. Passing on the former border watchtower. Leipzig Central station entrance IC Johann Sebastian Bach. On arrival, the Thomaner choir sings Motet by Bach. Disused tracks on the former border. Broken bridge. Construction vehicles and workers at Kassel-Leipzig railway reconnection. Laying of Rails in the restricted area. Historical steam locomotive opened the new line. Station Eichenberg.
The finance ministers sign the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, Theo Waigel and Walter Romberg (64 m) 02. process of German unification in the presence of Helmut Kohl and Lothar de Maiziere the State Treaty on Monetary Union. Genscher, great. Prime Minister Lothar of the Maizière actuality: "the spirit in which this Treaty was, corresponds to the aims and wishes of the people in the GDR for freedom, prosperity and social justice. Here not foreign States have negotiated with each other, but fellow countrymen and friends who alienate themselves no longer want to be."
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl interview: "what we are witnessing is the birth of free and some Germany. Before the eyes of the world do we express our future in a liberal as the chosen, freely elected representatives of the Governments of the two parts of Germany, our will, as a people and as a nation together, to shape in a democratic State."
Chancellor Kohl meeting with Minister Presidents of the Länder, in the image of Engholm, Momper, Späth, Albrecht.
Finance Minister Walter Romberg from the Volkskammer actuality: "the situation was characterised by the increasing decline in an economic system. The Treaty had to be completed under these conditions within three months."
Waterworks Bonn. Finance Minister Theo Waigel before the Bundestag actuality: "economic, monetary and social Union is the ultimate irreversible step on the way to the State unit of in Germany. We face today for the first time in the history of our country the chance to complete unity in freedom. The now tangibly close day of Germany's unification is for future generations. the beginning of a new period in German history"
(93 m) 03. Because on the Rhein Vitra - Design - Museum Museum of furniture design. Modern museum building of the American Frank O. Gehry (photo), who is regarded as a distinguished representative of Deconstructivism. Collection of 1200 chairs of all eras.
(61 m) 04 Zwickau: VW production in the East German customs frontier Schirnding. Trabbi goes. Look under the hood. Exhaust. Village sign Zwickau. Production of the Trabant. Assembly halls. Start of production of the VW Polo. 1 Polo runs from the band.
(55 m) 05. Berlin: Cup final SV Werder Bremen - 1 FC Kaiserslautern 2:3 cheers of spectators in the Olympic Stadium. Game scenes. In the 11th minute, Labadia beheads a corner for the 1-0 to Kaiserslautern. Shortly thereafter, a goalkeeping error by Oliver Reck, who drops the ball leads to 2-0. 3. goal only 11 minutes for Kaiserslautern ZL. Spectators cheering. Fans with timpani. 2nd half: catching of Bremen. Frank Neubarth shoots the 3:1 flags are waved green-and white. Assault. After weak defense of the goalkeeper, the 3:2. Burgmüller shoots dangerous counter-attacking opportunities for Kaiserslautern. Burgmüller loses chance for Bremen and shoots over the goal. Penalty area scenes. ZL repetition. End of the game and cheering. Cup will be presented to Stephan Kunze, team leader of Kaiserslautern. Advertisement: Agfa - Hohes C - Panasonic - Sinalco - Winterthur - Mercedes Benz - Crisan - Wella - Atari computer - Herforder PILS!
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01 Deutsch-Deutscher trains Germany closer together - also on the rail. Leipzig is the destination of the first Intercity-Zuges, between two parts of Germany, which was launched in Frankfurt. Thus, there is a fast and direct connection between both exhibition centers again.
The travel between the two parts of Germany has increased since the fall of the wall. The West German federal railways with a variety of new trains meet these new requirements. By eliminating the passport requirement for U.S. citizens the trains in the other part of Germany can be produced much faster. The modern Intercity crossing that border, which will soon be history.
The Leipzig train station was once a European transport hub, which had lost significance through the Division of the continent. He is now tied the Bundesbahn by the regular express train named Johann Sebastian Bach as the first destination in the GDR, the Intercity network. The world famous Thomanerchor, which once stood for Johann Sebastian Bach as Cantor, welcomed the Intercity with a Motet of the great composer.
So it looked for more than 40 years on the roads along the inner-German border: cancelled stillgetegte tracks, the bridges between East and West.
Since November 1989 was working with high pressure in the restoration of old transport links, such as here on the line of Kassel - Hall. Was the site of the former area of forest growth free, new Rails and sleepers had to be relocated. In time for the entry into force of the summer timetable of the federal railway operation could be resumed. Thousands cheered as a historical steam locomotive of the type of that ran here last 45 years ago, the line was officially opened. This summer, twice as many trains cross the inner German border as last year - a major step in the direction of a Transport Union of the two parts of Germany, where people can freely again meet.
02. process of German unification a historic moment in Bonn. The Finance Ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, Waigel and Romberg, signed the Treaty between the two German States, which is to establish a monetary Union in the presence of their leaders. This is the clear political will of the citizens, said Prime Minister de Maizière: "the spirit in which this agreement came about, corresponds to the aims and wishes of the people in the GDR for freedom, prosperity and social justice. Here not foreign States have negotiated with each other, but fellow countrymen and friends who alienate themselves no longer want to be."
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl spoke of a new historical section, which you can now begin: "what we are witnessing is the birth of free and some Germany. "Before the eyes of the world do we express as the chosen, freely elected representatives of the Governments of the two parts of Germany our will as a people and as a nation together our future in a free heltlichen, in a democratic State."
Previously, Chancellor Kohl was met with the Prime Ministers of the Federal States. Together with the Federal Government, the heads of State want to call a special fund of "German unity" in the life, in which public funds worth billions of dollars for the reconstruction of the East German economy provided. The Treaty without the participation of the Federal States also participating in the financial burden, can occur due to the federal structure of the Federal Republic. The earliest implementation of monetary, economic and social Union is the stated goal of the two German Governments. Finance Minister Romberg said at the introduction of the Treaty in the people's Chamber: "the situation was characterised by the increasing decline in an economic system. The Treaty had to be completed within under these conditions of specific months."
Romberg called the Treaty an important step on the way to the political agreement of the Germans. Before on July 2, the mark of the Federal Republic can be introduced as a means of payment in the GDR, the Treaty must yet by the East German Parliament as well as by the legislative bodies in Bonn are adopted and ratified. Then begins an economic Union will be at the end as Finance Minister Waigel said before the Bundestag, Germany's political unification: "economic, monetary and social Union is the ultimate irreversible step on the way to the State unit of in Germany. We face today for the first time in the history of our country the chance to complete unity in freedom. The now tangibly close day of Germany's unification is for future generations. the start of a new section in German history"
03. VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM emerging spirals, winding lines and bulging contours: This unusual museum building by American architect Frank O. Gehry, who is regarded as the profiliertester representative of Deconstructivism was founded in Weil am Rhein.
The furniture design museum houses an important collection of twelve hundred chairs, which documents the history of this seat since 1850. Anyone who thinks that the shape of the Chair, this age-old use item, either through its function once and for all times given here a better educate themselves can.
Since the last century, chairs are produced industrially. So that there is no unit goods of mass production, artists have always again imaginatively varies the theme Chair. Long ago, the groundbreaking designs of the Bauhaus architect Le Corbusier or the Dutchman have become classics of the modern Gerrit Rietveld.
New materials have repeatedly stimulated the boundless imagination of the designer - seating comfort seem somewhat questionable for the uninitiated: the extravagant shapes evoke the sense of beauty in everyday life all times.
The Museum wants to create a forum that equally makes transparent the history of modern industrial design architects and laymen. A Museum of everyday life and at the same time of the avant-garde - unusually by his subject through his architecture. 04 VW POLO production in East Germany as the East Germans in the past could finally travel to the West November, he suddenly became the car of the year: the Trabant, Trabant referred to, the most driven small cars of the GDR.
But the car, typical product of socialist planned economy, had not kept pace with the technological development of in recent years. In its present form is a look under the hood of the Trabbi reminiscent of the 50s.
The two-stroke engine also produced emissions that exceed modern environmental regulations.
For the automobile plants in Zwickau, where the satellite is hergestelit, there has been little chance in international competition. But now there is new hope through the cooperation with the Volkswagen factory.
More recently, a technically improved Trabant is made. He receives the modern four-stroke engine from VW and has significantly improved sales prospects on the domestic and international markets. The production of the VW Polo is newly added. The first VW Poio rolled by the Zwickau assembly lines, by the end of the year it should be 50 Polos per day.
The Zuliefertelie are tentatively from the Federal Republic. In the course of the next few years will arise in Zwickau new production halls motor, in which and body be built.
If the transition to market-based production methods, tens of thousands of jobs can be through cooperation with VW the economic future of the automobile plants in Zwickau are secured - and thus.
05 DFB Cup final kick-off to the German Cup final at Berlin Olympia Stadium. The 1st FC Kaiserslautern, in red, Bremen had to compete against the favored Vorjahresfinalisten Werder. But the outsider from the Palatinate surprised by quick and straightforward combinations.
Already in the 11th minute, a headed the inexcusably detached Labbadia to a 1-0 to Kaiserslautern. The opening goal had on the people of Bremen as a shock. Only the serious mistakes by goalkeeper Oliver Reck way to explain, which soon led to a 2-0.
Driven by their enthusiastic fans elevated Lauterer even to 3-0. Three goals in just eleven minutes - for the audience a Faußballfest to measure. The 3-0 in the slow motion.
For the first time 10,000 fans from the eastern part of the city were among the 80,000. The fall of the Berlin wall had made it possible.
In the second half, Bremen started a desperate Chase, who was finally rewarded by the 3:1 goal. Scorer: Frank Neubarth.
Well, there was an assault on the gate of the Palatine. Werder threw everything forward to Bremen and the new eingewechselte Burgsmüller used a weak defense of the Kaiserslautern goalkeeper to the 3:2 18 minutes before the end. A race of against time Bremen. Downside of permanent offensive: a series of dangerous counter-attacking opportunities offered to the 1st FC Kaiserslautern. In the dramatic final minutes, it was bare, who had the compensation for Bremen on the foot once again. What a chance.
But at the end of a glorious match the Kaiserslautern kept the nose forward. A spirited team captain took the coveted Cup in receiving from the hands of German President Richard von Weizsäcker.
The players from Kaiserslautern reached their biggest destination on this day. And the audience had experienced an exciting Festival of football and celebrated in Berlin until late in the night. The DFB Cup final once again was the Fußtballereignis at the end of the season.
