Dear reader, dear reader,
In the overseas quarters in the HafenCity There are a lot of shops: Zara, Haribo, Levi’s, Starbucks, H&M, Mango, Adidas, coarse and so on. In these there are sports jackets on clothes racks, gummy bears on tables and underwear on shelves. Between the shops are wide pedestrian paths and restaurants, in which you can buy squeaky desserts and cheese -soaked bags, there are robot wheels, wooden benches and many, many escalators, some lead to a multiplex cinema.
The overseas quarters is: a shopping center. A clean and big, no question, with pretty gray -red concrete paths and roofing that looks like a forest made of glass trees. A pleasant breeze blows through the shop streets, and outside you have a fantastic view of them Elbe. This is already chic compared to other shopping centers, but none of that does it into a Wolpertinger (or what do you call it here in the north?).
The shopping center opened yesterday. We reported a lot in advance about the effects that could have on the city center, for example, and about the sometimes dramatic conditions on the large construction site, where five people died.
For the inauguration, three strings sounded the hally corridors with classical music in the afternoon. Then the spotlights went on, on a small stage the boss of the overseas district “This is a fantastic day for all of us!” In her microphone; The CEO of the investor Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield was also “very happy to open”, and also Happy that you could reinvent the time together with this shopping mall. Afterwards our first mayor read a speech, he spoke a lot about the HafenCity itself, whose heart is now the overseas quarters.
Peter Tschentscher Also mentioned – as before the CEO – the five deceased workers. The tragic misfortune of warning that working on construction sites of this size is associated with special dangers and that occupational safety must always be a priority. Then it was again about “creating a piece of Hamburg of the future” here, and it went on: two poetry artists, three scissors, a large red ribbon, uh, ship jam, theatrical music, snap, snap, open was open.
Outside, a few hundred people gathered for a demonstration that the IG Bau union had called for this. A man called for a megafon to break up illegal employment relationships on construction sites, safe work and fair wages for workers. And a woman asked: “Why is the Westfield built and not the apartments we need?”
Well.
We will probably not be able to clarify this point here, but it doesn’t matter, because now it is there, the future
Hamburg. So the shopping center.
Have a nice day,
Your Maria Rossbauer
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What is important in Hamburg today
Schleswig-Holstein’s Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU) yesterday eight women and men with the Rescue medal on the ribbon excellent. In January 2023, they stood in the way of the attacker during the knife attack in Brokstedt and looked after injuries. In the attack, a mentally striking man killed two young people in a regional train on the way from Kiel to Hamburg. The perpetrator was sentenced to a lifelong prison sentence. By intervening, the honored prevented deaths. “Hardly any violence has shaken and aggravated people in our country in recent years as the knife attack by Brokstedt,” said Günther. In the memory of this terrible act, however, besides grief there is also a different feeling: “Gratitude and admiration that there are people like them. They are on the spot, solidarity, brave and selfless and do the right one.”
The more than 100 year old so -called Elephant gate of the Hagenbeck zoo is to be demolished and rebuilt.
The masonry was partly fragile and was no longer considered safe. According to the zoo, the building was built from 1902 to 1907 according to designs by the Berlin theater architect and painter Moritz Lehmann. The animal figures, including two bronze elephant heads, therefore created the bronze figures Rudolf Prank. The complete demolition should be done by May, and visitors should be able to go through the former main entrance in the coming year.
In the
Process for a presumably
anti -Semitic attack During an event at the University of Hamburg, the injured party testified for the first time. The 55-year-old, who belongs to the board of the German-Israeli society, described before the district court, as insulted by the 27-year-old defendant in May last year. The ring lecture organized by her husband took place in the context of the war in the Gaza Strip and against the background Propalestinian protests in the university environment. The Attorney General and co -lawsuit will plead on the next Friday. The defense wants to keep your plea on April 28, afterwards the judgment should also be spoken.
In a nutshell
• An employee of a Hamburg freight forwarder has been trapped and life -threatening under a forklift. The man was freed and revived by the fire brigade and is now in the hospital • that HAmburg Wadden Sea has been called this name for exactly 35 years. The national park is located on the outdoor mouth of the Elbe and has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Wadden Sea since 2011.
Topic of the day
Targets: the children. Risk: “Risk of accident with possibly death consequences”
On New Year’s 2024, two children were kidnapped by the steak house heiress Christina Block. Now it is clear: the investigators suspect Israeli spies, a TV presenter-as well as the grandpa and the mother. ZeIT reporter Anna Kunze reconstructed the case, read an extract from her text here:
On January 1, 2024 at 0.16 a.m., a rental car drives at high speed from the Danish town of Gråsten on the Baltic Sea towards Germany. There are several in the SUV Men And two children. Not much is spoken, one of the children breathes restlessly. The child asks in English what happened to his father. It doesn’t get an answer. But one of the men says that the child should just breathe, you are taking it home now, to mom. The child does not want that, the child replies, it wanted to go to his father. The man says the child should keep his mouth and be good.
A broadcaster recorded this conversation. One of the children carries him around his neck like a chest bag. The device comes from the Danish police. The child pressed the alarm button on it, unnoticed by the men. Now the broadcaster picks up tones and transmits its position to the Danish officials.
The men, so it emerges from a transcript of the police, speak Hebrew in between: drive off, drive faster, do not turn here. Then the car stops, doors are opened, the occupants rise. At 0.29 a.m., the broadcaster records the noises of people who are on foot. A child sounds like trying to say something while keeping his mouth or blocked with a gag. Someone cries.
At 0.35 a.m. a man calls: “Quiet”quiet. A child – or are there two? – Try to speak, again with your mouth.
At 0.53 a.m. there is no noise that could be closed on movement. The alarm button is pressed several times. Whisper.
Then someone calls for help twice.
About the further course and the social entanglements of the case Read on time online in the unabridged version.
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THE SENTENCE
“Anyone who is flashed today didn’t deserve it otherwise – congratulations.”
ZEIT: Hamburg department head Florian Zinnecker has strong feelings for the speed camera marathon, which takes place today- Read his comment here.
You can look forward to this
This Friday begins
The International Bachfest Hamburg. In the opening concert, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is listed for Hamburg’s “The last suffering of the Redeemer” written for Hamburg, which thematically spans an arc on the final concert on Easter Sunday.
We are giving away 5 x 2 tickets for the opening concert “Bach & Bach” on Friday, April 11 from 7.30 p.m. (introduction from 6.45 p.m.) in the Laeiszhalle, Great Hall. If you want to win, SCheck us an email with the subject “Bach & Bach” to hamburg@zeit.de by tomorrow, 12 p.m. We will notify the winners directly. Good luck!
MY CITY
Hamburger Schnack
On the way with my grandchildren (17 and 13). I told you that I wrapped a baby in the S-Bahn. The younger then asked: “What is shaking?” Before I could answer, the elder said: “It’s flirting with babies.”
Heard by Barbara Christiansen
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