Because of the professional situation of our Uncle Elephant WG currently sits firmly in Munich. But no German city has in recent years so much lost contact with the spirit as the earlier so proud "secret capital of Germany." A report by Uncle crisis.
Granted, there are still some things that are really good in Munich. FC Bayern for example. I am not a Bayern fan, but you have to admit however, that FC Bayern, not least in the past season, more than ever is the heart of the German chan football. Although the Bavarians have lost on Friday at Kaiserslautern, they will probably be the champion this season, not his to take.
also from public transport in Munich can cut a slice of many German cities. OK falls, from time to time from an S-Bahn, but compared to life in Berlin does the Public transport in Bavaria's capital magnificent.
slumped to almost all other areas, however, from Munich, but it will not remember so well. This begins with the above-mentioned talk of Germany's secret capital: It is not true anymore. In the old Federal Republic of Bonn was only the administrative center, the key trends in culture, fashion and media, but were created elsewhere, and there played an important role especially in Munich. In addition, in the coal-years, not least being hatched in the era of Franz Josef Strauss, a good part of federal policy in Munich. Both, however, belongs more to the glorified past, Berlin is also the cultural capital of the Republic, each Day a bit more. And the CSU faded to a quaint regional association of a weakening People's Party. Welcome back to normal!
course Munich still has the highest rents and living costs in Germany, but the value it decreases. Economically, the Munich-like but still look good, but the image, the high-tech and media capital of the country, flakes rapidly. The slogan of "laptop and lederhosen" is already 15 years old, and the worst: You can tell. Many of the once-proud office buildings that housed high-tech startups with interesting names are unoccupied. While there are still Siemens and Microsoft and Oracle, and the may gloss over things. But the development work, the real innovation is, long ago instead of somewhere else in Eastern Europe, China, in India. It's only a matter of time before this development will meet the full force of Munich.
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addition, the media city of Munich for several years in a rapidly rotating downward spiral. An example of this is the "Focus", once established as a counter to the "mirror". The circulation and advertising revenues are falling. The editorial is thinned, and one or the other once lavishly paid journalist remembers now, as it is, at the job of standing in line. Perhaps what or one or the other not so light-heartedly singing the praises of economic liberalism, had he / she guessed how quickly obtain one the drawbacks of the laissez-faire capitalism. And overall, the flowering in the nineties media landscape increasingly ugly burn holes: the once proud "Süddeutsche Zeitung" is a shadow of itself and offers outside of the political and sports section only the level of a (not very good) student newspaper, what the reporting from the districts are concerned, some of the weekend free in your mailbox located freesheets better. The once proud IT trade press is in free fall. And the private radio stations, their best time to have long behind him, send only porridge, a development which follows the Bayerische Rundfunk joyfully.
Cultural flies Munich since the death of August Everding, on the once-bustling General impresario of the Munich State Theater, autopilot. As it stands, it is Kent Nagano, the music director of the Munich Opera, can not hold too long or do. Too bad, because the American with Japanese roots prevented in recent years with some success, that the Munich Klassizszene too stewed in its own juice and slipped off to the Provincial. But the Munich opera audience, it goes so, when Netrebko twice a year in the city is to buy shoes. You must also ascertaining numerical
that Munich has lost the role of Germany's most important and influential film capital to Berlin. The Berlinale takes the most attention Filfestival the nation, as the name suggests, in Berlin, and the more interesting productions are increasingly the way to Berlin. Munich, lives there still shine from the shells of the eighties and the fact that was eventually turned once the "Neverending Story" in Bavaria. The Fortune Dragon Fuchur, once the highlight of any tour Bavaria, more and more dust, and when I recently saw the zapping that the "Neverending Story" was again repeated on TV, I wondered why was this crap (I speak from the film, not the book) then hyped Sun Man ascertaining numerical regret that the then most expensive German film simply looks old now (The most innovative German director, Roland Emmerich, was even known to be disregarded at the Munich Filmhochscule and turns in the U.S. today to Blockbuster Blockbuster!).
Munich was also the time when the first major German city. Statistically speaking, this may be voting yet. Only the city needs at least since the fall Dominik Brunner admit that they have a huge problem. A wicked scratch in the paint of the supposedly high quality of life in Munich. Even the flagship of the highly acclaimed Munich comfort, Oktoberfest builds, more and more. From personal experience I can say is nice elsewhere. Family friendly, it is not because of the high prices for a long time. The violence of the drunken party-goers is increasing from year to year (who does not believe, ask one of the Munich taxi driver), and also is the Oktoberfest for years, only a meeting place for tourists and newcomers (the dress but in expensive dress clothes and the day after the Oktoberfest visit to ask how you just abkriegt the vomit again). Not
last there is the typical Munich local color is no longer - it's probably died no later than the Mosi-murder. Ralph Siegel is terminally ill and is no Grand Prix winning titles write more. Sedlmayr is long dead and Pumuckl looks in vain for his Master Eder. All and all, what Munich has made years ago still hip, cool, comfortable, livable and lovable, perhaps, is either dead or has broken off his tents. The bad thing is that all of Munich (hip, cool, comfortable, and adorable lebensa) will continue to be, but not anymore. And it is this discrepancy between aspiration and reality selbstgestelltem, the Munich makes it particularly unappealing.
summarize: Munich is the reunification loser among the major German cities. Only an aerial bombardment can change that.
