Politicians from all over the world pay tribute to Helmut Kohl, who fought for the freedom and for a United Europe. Also, some of the artists speak up – often with mixed feelings.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
The fall of the wall in Berlin
He is known as the Registrar of the unit, because he managed to unite Germany again. But Helmut Kohl, the first Chancellor, strengthening the promotion of culture is massive, Yes tripled. He left new museums building, advanced support for the arts, advocated for the restoration of historical buildings and preserved after the turn of the orchestra, theatres and museums before closing time.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
The house of history in Bonn
A “government official Aesthetics, or historiography” to enforce Kohl by no means, as he announced the construction of three museums in its government program. The historian Kohl wanted to preserve the history and make it accessible. The entrance to the house of history in Bonn, which deals with German history after 1945, is even free.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
German Historical Museum in Berlin
If you want to visit the German Historical Museum in Berlin, has to schedule a lot of time, so extensive is the permanent exhibition: on the Basis of approximately 8000 exhibits, there are 2000 years of German history. The courtyard of the Museum is also often the place of political events – how here with Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
The Federal art hall in Bonn
The art and exhibition hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn, however, is not limited to German history. Instead, the exhibition-makers wish to take a global perspective. The Federal art and exhibition hall also combines art, culture and science. Archaeological exhibitions are also part of the Portfolio, as well as presentations of contemporary art.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
Dresden Frauenkirche
Dresden was laid in the Second world war by the allied bombers in ruins. The Baroque Frauenkirche was destroyed in the devastating attacks. The GDR leadership, however, of no value to a rebuilding of the Church. Therefore, he began only after the turn, a half-century later. Also because Kohl as Chancellor personally had used.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
Artist Bahnhof Rolandseck in Remagen
In the 19th century. Of a century spent among the Queen of England your precious time in the train station Rolandseck, came up with a luxurious ballroom. Nevertheless, the architectural piece of jewelry fell into disrepair after the other, until in the 1970’s, artists settled and sponsors of the new Museum financed, including Helmut Kohl, the then Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
Hambach Castle
The “hambach Festival” in the early summer of 1832 went into the German history. At that time approximately 30,000 members of the opposition moved and the castle of hambach, in order to demonstrate for a United Germany, for freedom and democracy. 150. The anniversary was restored to the castle for about twelve million marks – on the initiative of Helmut Kohl.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
Church window in Mainz St. Stephen’s Church
The Church of St. Stephan in Mainz was built in the year 990, and over the centuries expanded, first in the Gothic style, then Baroque. In the Second world war it was severely damaged. What had, in retrospect, to be Good. As for the design of the new Church window, of the Jewish artist Marc Chagall. Here, too, Kohl had his fingers in the game.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
The fall of the wall in Berlin
He is known as the Registrar of the unit, because he managed to unite Germany again. But Helmut Kohl, the first Chancellor, strengthening the promotion of culture is massive, Yes tripled. He left new museums building, advanced support for the arts, advocated for the restoration of historical buildings and preserved after the turn of the orchestra, theatres and museums before closing time.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
The house of history in Bonn
A “government official Aesthetics, or historiography” to enforce Kohl by no means, as he announced the construction of three museums in its government program. The historian Kohl wanted to preserve the history and make it accessible. The entrance to the house of history in Bonn, which deals with German history after 1945, is even free.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
German Historical Museum in Berlin
If you want to visit the German Historical Museum in Berlin, has to schedule a lot of time, so extensive is the permanent exhibition: on the Basis of approximately 8000 exhibits, there are 2000 years of German history. The courtyard of the Museum is also often the place of political events – how here with Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
The Federal art hall in Bonn
The art and exhibition hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn, however, is not limited to German history. Instead, the exhibition-makers wish to take a global perspective. The Federal art and exhibition hall also combines art, culture and science. Archaeological exhibitions are also part of the Portfolio, as well as presentations of contemporary art.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
Dresden Frauenkirche
Dresden was laid in the Second world war by the allied bombers in ruins. The Baroque Frauenkirche was destroyed in the devastating attacks. The GDR leadership, however, of no value to a rebuilding of the Church. Therefore, he began only after the turn, a half-century later. Also because Kohl as Chancellor personally had used.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
Artist Bahnhof Rolandseck in Remagen
In the 19th century. Of a century spent among the Queen of England your precious time in the train station Rolandseck, came up with a luxurious ballroom. Nevertheless, the architectural piece of jewelry fell into disrepair after the other, until in the 1970’s, artists settled and sponsors of the new Museum financed, including Helmut Kohl, the then Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
Hambach Castle
The “hambach Festival” in the early summer of 1832 went into the German history. At that time approximately 30,000 members of the opposition moved and the castle of hambach, in order to demonstrate for a United Germany, for freedom and democracy. 150. The anniversary was restored to the castle for about twelve million marks – on the initiative of Helmut Kohl.
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Helmut Kohl’s cultural legacy
Church window in Mainz St. Stephen’s Church
The Church of St. Stephan in Mainz was built in the year 990, and over the centuries expanded, first in the Gothic style, then Baroque. In the Second world war it was severely damaged. What had, in retrospect, to be Good. As for the design of the new Church window, of the Jewish artist Marc Chagall. Here, too, Kohl had his fingers in the game.
During his 16-year chancellorship of Helmut Kohl from the culture is not just love struck. Comedians and cartoonists have had their true joy at the massive, Two-Meter man. They called him “pear”, stylized him as a bräsigen Saumagen-Fan, and the policy is made in cardigan. “I don’t think he can be happy,” says Christoph Stölzl, President of the University of music Franz Liszt Weimar, the DW-culture magazine culture.21. “But he said, you must endure, if one throws his hat in the democratic Arena and into the Ring.” Because it was not squeamish.
Pears and Plums
To make “Helmut Kohl with the camera is ridiculous, it was the simplest thing there ever was,” says the photographer Konrad Rufus Müller, who accompanied him for ten years. But he had a different claim. In his pictures he shows a cabbage as a people, as a man who knows what he’s doing, has a purpose and it is against all odds pushing through. Cabbage familiar Müller and these special moments could hold a Meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1998 in the Chancellor’s Bungalow in Bonn, a confidential conversation with François Mitterrand on the beach in the year 1990, but also the former Chancellor, of old age and illness, sitting in a wheelchair.
Among the first celebrities outside of the political circles of TV expressed a presenter and Entertainer Thomas Gottschalk publicly for the death of Helmut Kohl.
David Hasselhoff: “A Hero is gone”
International Kohl’s death is a big topic. Helmut Kohl, who is politically to the German unit and, finally, it is not irrelevant to the fall of the Berlin wall has contributed, was for the US actor and singer David Hasselhoff “a Hero who is gone from us”. Hasselhoff itself is connected by the Performance of his song “Looking for Freedom” at the Berlin wall in 1989, closely with the end of the GDR – even if it was not he who brought the wall to eventually collapse, as the satirist claim.
German Director Andres Veiel has met Helmut Kohl in the research for his documentary “Black Box BRD” (2001) about the left-wing terrorist group RAF, personally, and ask yourself today, how you could appreciate him at the time. “We do not all have taken this man at the time, seriously,” he said in an Interview with the Germany radio culture. He was not just the “cosy Palatinate” in cardigan, but a wise power person, a strategist, through and through. “For me, he was a Machiavelli of the eighties, and I’m not done with him,” said Veiel. Whether this means that the Director of wool, soon, bring a documentary film about Helmut Kohl to the cinema, he leaves open, however.
Skillful Political Strategist
Ingo Schulze, has written “a New life” (2005) a novel about the turn, knew Helmut Kohl personally. But the author gives him in the DW-Interview, to have achieved. He was able to inspire the people and gain their trust so that they would have believed him everything. And, finally, to him, the previously Unimaginable has succeeded: the dissolution of the GDR. “He has done very cleverly, so that you always think: Actually, it was Helmut Kohl, and the people were not even on the road in the East.” For all the criticism of the writer but also: “From today’s point of view, I have to say that the Federal Republic of Germany has been under Helmut Kohl, paradoxically, very much the social than it is today.”