One of the few remaining steam trains in regular use, the Molli is unique in that while within city limits it runs on city streets like a tram. Molli is the nickname of the Mecklenburgische Bäderbahn Molli train which runs on 900 mm gauge from Bad Doberan to Heiligendamm, the oldest narrow gauge railway on the Baltic coast. Molli started life 1886, and runs right through towns on its 15.4 kilometer route on tram-like tracks. Molli runs between Heiligendamm and Kühlungsborn, near the beach, and between Heiligendamm and Bad Doberan parallel to an alley. The most interesting section is in Bad Doberan, where its rails lay in Goethestrasse like the rails of a tramway on a road. The route is very picturesque, making it a local tourist attraction. There is a Molli Museum at the railway terminal at Kühlingsborn West. The trip from Heiligendamm to Bad Doberan (or in the opposite direction) takes 40 minutes. For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey. A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford. Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world. The world's largest private aircraft collection. The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone. This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type. This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here. an annual summer festival inspired by the life and work of Frank Zappa he was a citizen of socialist East Germany Wolfhard was allowed to read his Stasi file "I read that I have a tape recorder and a turntable and played records," he tells me in the latest episode of the World in Words podcast They enlisted ordinary people to report back about their neighbors  21 people informed on him and his listening habits He says his Stasi file branded him a decadent young man influenced by propaganda from the West "I influenced young people with the music of Frank Zappa."  Today, Kutz runs Zappanale a festival dedicated to the life and rock of Frank Zappa It takes place every summer in Wolfhard's hometown a couple of miles south of Germany's Baltic coast It may seem laughable that Frank Zappa preoccupied the Stasi so much though he was critical of American politics and culture he was a guitar virtuoso who commissioned orchestras to play his music they understood that people who liked Zappa were trouble Zappa's records were freely available One of his more notoriously offensive songs but the words were lost on most German listeners an American Zappa fan living in Germany who delighted in informing his German roommate what the song was about "When I told him about the bondage and the discipline and various gender-mixing going on in the song And so began Cohen’s career as a cultural interpreter He was the original rap genius long before rap genius existed He was just getting going with his day job as a technical translator It wasn’t long until he had an evening gig too — at a seedy Munich bar There he delivered boozy lectures about Zappa songs he takes his German audiences line-by-line through cultural tours of Zappa's America he explained references to Jerry Lewis telethons a Dudley Do-Right wrist watch and a Southern California car dealership that leases Cadillacs — all in the name of explaining the meaning of an epic Zappa song called "Billy the Mountain." 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Better yet, subscribe at Apple podcasts You can follow The World in Words stories on Facebook or Twitter delivered to your inbox every weekday morning Thanks to our sponsor PRX is a 501(c)(3) organization recognized by the IRS: #263347402 This article is VERY old (older than 2 years) Tickets at www.metaltix.com alicecooper.com www.myspace.com/officialalicecooper www.facebook.com/AliceCooper www.youtube.com/user/officialalicecooper twitter.com/RealAliceCooper © 2005...2025 by WOA Festival GmbH - Hosting by ICS MEDIA SERVICE Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Dear Reader,Unfortunately our comment platform isn\'t available at the moment due to issues with our paywall and authentication vendor When Dweezil Zappa settles in backstage Saturday night at the Wells Fargo Center he?ll be greeted by six-packs of prized Lagunitas Frank Zappa brew It?s all the brainchild of Lagunitas ?grand wazoo Fans in the lobby will face a tough decision: Catch a buzz off either the Zappa ?Kill Ugly Radio beer before heading in to watch Dweezil tear through five-minute guitar solos in the ?Zappa Plays Zappa one of the most innovative composers and performers in rock history a lifelong Zappa devotee who worked out a deal with the Zappa family to produce a line of homage beers each label a re-creation of a Zappa album cover Turned on to Zappa by his wife Carissa (now the Lagunitas operations manager) back in the college days of ?smoking weed and drinking cheap beer, On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the ?Freak Out! to see if they were interested in teaming up for a commemorative beer on a hunch that her email might be gail@zappa.com if you?re having a party to celebrate ?Freak Out! I?d like to get you some beer to take to it And let?s work out an economic arrangement You can take the money and buy a nice couch with it. which meant he was now faced with the dilemma: How do you brew a beer to complement a Zappa album ?Who am I to imagine I would make something that would be a peer of this work? So we just decided to make a beer that we liked. There?s no mention of the style of beer on the ?Freak Out! including a show at The Roxy in Los Angeles where Frank made his name back in the ?60s So what?s his best preview going into Saturday night?s show ?The music was always very serious to Frank but he made a living by attracting audiences to the kind of Theater of the Absurd live shows, to me the experience is very much like going to the symphony The music is presented with such serious academic scholarship and yet it rocks its brains out It?s like you leave planet earth while listening to it. can be reached at 521-5300 or at john.beck@pressdemocrat.com has removed the title after years of deliberation and two failed attempts to push the motion through The Führer was awarded honorary status in April 1933 when city officials – led by the local Nazi party leader Julius Bielefeld – voted unanimously to bestow the title on him Historians estimate some 4,000 German towns and cities awarded similar titles to Hitler and other senior Nazis Archivists began researching the topic in the 1990s when councils debated whether to leave Hitler's name on their lists for historicity or to remove it out of respect for others who had been given similar recognition Communities have generally been slow to act dropped Hitler's honorary status shortly before world leaders descended succumbing to international pressure and government fears of the embarrassment it was likely to cause Attempts by the Social Democrats (SPD) to change Dülmen's records were initially thwarted because of legal restrictions after it was declared that honorary status "automatically ceases on death" However Waltraud Bednarz of the SPD argued that to leave the city archives unaltered would be "an insult to others awarded this status" Thomas Schaarschmidt of the Centre for Research into Contemporary History in Potsdam said it was impossible to gauge exactly how many towns and cities regard Hitler as an honorary citizen "Many town archives were destroyed in the war so there are no official records," he said You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed Gail Zappa is suing the organisers of the open-air Zappanale in the east German village of Bad Doberan claiming they must pay £200,000 to use her husband's name or change the title of the annual festival who founded the Zappa Family Trust in 2002 wants a say as to which cover-bands should play at the event She has also demanded that the logo - his trademark moustache and goatee - be scrapped claiming she owns the sole rights to use it and that a statue of Zappa in the village be removed The Zappanale started in 1990 after Bad Doberan emerged from the cold war and seized the opportunity to celebrate a musician whose avant-garde records had been banned under the communist regime The festival attracts fans from around the world and has grown to become the biggest celebration of Zappa's music The organisers took out a patent on the name almost 20 years ago "It's our opinion that we own the rights to the name," said Thomas Dippel the president of the society that runs the festival which should celebrate its 19th year in August did not aim to make a profit and was £120,000 in debt in which 2,500 signatories are calling on the Zappa Family Trust to withdraw its case A Düsseldorf court is expected to decide on the case within the next few months What about Paul Green's unorthodox teaching methods? Surely it can't be nice to be shouted at? "You learn to live with it," says Hollander with a shrug. "What the movie doesn't show is the way in which he only shouts at you because he cares so much about making you achieve your potential. You can't take it personally, although he does go too far sometimes. He's made me cry." "He's made all of us cry," says Pollack. "We have three-hour rehearsals during which he'll yell at you if he catches you chatting for even a minute. And if you screw up on stage, he'll get up there and humiliate you in front of everyone." "Or stop the song and say to the audience: 'That was her fault'," adds Roberts. "We're beginning to get used to his tricks but the problem is that he keeps coming up with new ones. Recently he's been threatening to take his shirt off if we don't play well." Green has no problem with "the nerdy girls. You know what the nerds were doing while the cool girls were out here talking to you? Practising. I just don't want to be a chauvinist asshole, and I don't see why the girls can't be as good as the boys." Asked about the types of kids that attend the School of Rock, Green replies: "Nerds, freaks and losers, although now we get a few cheerleader types too. But they tend to be more like Joe Randazzo." Randazzo, wandering around backstage, stands out in particular from the 29-strong crowd. He is a 16-year-old drummer with long curly hair, oversized glasses, a bright yellow tracksuit and a maniacal grin. Randazzo is a wild card - he had to be dragged out of a local bar the night before. The girls have already told me that I have to speak to him, so just after he has performed an impromptu rap for the benefit of a gang of drunken European Zappa fans, I pull him to one side. "Rock School saved my life!" he booms. "It made me who I am, and I like who I am because of it. I don't even want to think about where I might have ended up without it. Paul Green introduced me to Frank Zappa, who is so complex that there is always more to learn, and that's given me a positive focus. Now I can't see myself doing anything outside of music." The trip marks his first time outside of the US, as it does for most of the children from Rock School. Randazzo is having the time of his life, but the rigours of being on the road in a rock'n'roll band are proving hard for others. The neatly turned-out 18-year-old keyboard player Larry Allen is missing his bed and his routine, and he is finding Paul Green's approach to organisation trying. "I like him, but he drives me crazy," says the eminently sensible Allen. "He'll give us an itinerary that will say: 'Thursday: go to the festival in Germany.' He won't tell us how to get there or anything. But I'm getting used to this kind of behaviour. Sometimes he calls us in for an emergency rehearsal and spends the first hour telling us how he lost his virginity." "I would like to be a rock star," says Tywoniak, who still looks like a young boy under his curtain of hair, "but I have now realised that that sort of thing only comes with a stroke of luck. I've decided that as long as I have a career as a professional musician, fame doesn't really matter." "My fantasies involve two women and a bed," he replies. "My goal is for the kids to be capable of magnificent things, to get over their own fear and laziness, and not sell themselves short. Basically, I just want them to practise." This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. ABC News News HomeTown embarrassed by Hitler linkShare Town embarrassed by Hitler linkTopic:World Politics The town council is set to remove Hitler from the honour roll. (Reuters) Link copiedShareShare articleGerman authorities have been embarrassed by the revelation that the town hosting June's G8 summit still includes Adolf Hitler as an honorary citizen. The town council in Bad Doberan will meet today to remove Hitler's name from the roll of honour. More than 4,000 towns and cities awarded Hitler the title of honorary citizen during the Nazi period. Most revoked that honour after 1945 but not Bad Doberan, the small resort on Germany's northern coast, which became part of East Germany after World War II. With world leaders due to arrive in June, the local council has suddenly realised that having the Fuehrer in the book of honour does not reflect well on the host town. Topic:Food and Beverage Processing Industry CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) Adrian Bridge checks out Germany’s very own riviera and discovers that what it lacks in glamour old-world charm and well-priced gourmet treats So who did get their towels on to the beach first — the British or the Germans I came across the answer to this tricky question in an unlikely spot: the pretty town of Bad Doberan close to the Baltic Sea and on a stretch of coastline now being heralded as “the German Riviera” In an intriguing little museum dedicated to the history of bathing culture in Germany I learnt that people have been taking to the waters here since 1793 decided that it would be good for his health The duke had heard that in places such as Margate and Brighton the English were already enjoying the therapeutic effects of spending time at the seaside the country’s first proper seaside resort was founded on a stretch of coast just north of Bad Doberan at Heiligendamm (Holy Dam) The museum charts the history of Heiligendamm with illustrations of its early days as a “cure centre” almost entirely the preserve of the court of swimsuits throughout the ages (not that during the East German era people bothered with those) and with a model of an ingenious sea cart in which ladies wishing to preserve their modesty were able to change unobserved before slipping into the sea There is also an early list of 17 rules for “how to bathe properly” (including the injunction to be “fearless and full of joy”) an element of fearlessness is useful when swimming in the Baltic (known in Germany as the Ostsee) I used to live in Berlin in the 1990s and swam in the Baltic several times particularly when I heard that this stretch of coastline spanning the northern part of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern had been proclaimed the new German Riviera the buzz on the beaches in high summer on the island of Sylt farther to the west had a certain Riviera-like frisson but here in what had been the former East Germany the region’s largest seaside resort and a driving force behind the attempt to lure international tourists to the area explained the thinking: “We have miles of white sandy beaches and authentic wooden piers There are promenades framed by the Baltic and pine-tree forests; we have warm [but not overly hot] summer temperatures and on cooler days there are spectacular towns and attractions The German Riviera offers something different I suspended disbelief and took up his offer heading out at the end of August last year with my wife for a few days of what I hoped would be sun sea and strandkorb — time on the beach relaxing in the sturdy wicker chairs that are Germany’s magnificent contribution to the culture of the seaside (invented in nearby Rostock in the late 19th century) drink Pils lager and indulge in some serious people watching (if this was the German Riviera I had visions of its being filled with Claudia Schiffer lookalikes) I liked the grand old “spa town architecture” villas and small-scale hotels that lined parts of the promenade — buildings that since German reunification had been restored renovated and given a new lease of life (many by West Germans who had headed east) I liked the easy-going pedestrianised main shopping street and some restaurants and cafés (in particular the Vielmehr and the cake-filled Röntgen) I also liked the marina and the long wooden jetty from which the MS Baltica passenger ship set off for trips along the coast Kühlungsborn had the relaxed feel of a classic seaside resort and it was easy to see why it traditionally attracted the great the good and the aristocratic of Berlin and beyond Admittedly we were visiting at the end of August just after the peak season when children were at school and most Berliners back in the city If the beach had been packed with sun-kissed young Teutons weeks earlier we had those white sands almost to ourselves not a lover of the scorching summers of southern Europe and sand too hot to stand on the cooler temperatures were much more congenial not least its extensive promenade (linking what were previously three distinct communities) and exudes a quaintness associated with a bygone era It was reminiscent of a British resort of times past — a feeling reinforced by the frequent sound of seagulls and by our base This is a 100-year-old “spa town” building renovated by Albrecht and his wife Dagmar with a bar stocking an extensive selection of single malt Scotch whiskies and a restaurant serving Angus fillet steak Mecklenburg- Vorpommern is famous for its lakes and quiet rural charm As we drove around the countryside exploring some of the newer tourist provisions — a recently created golf course (considered too bourgeois for East German communists) quiet retreats for horse riding and a country-house garden with hundreds of rose varieties — we were struck by the feeling of space and emptiness Mecklenburg- Vorpommern has struggled since reunification and much of its younger population has headed west the region contains the cities of Schwerin and the Unesco-listed Hanseatic treasure of Wismar Further along the coast are the wilder beaches of Darss and the island of Rügen We contented ourselves with attractions closer to hand taking a trip on the MS Baltica (cheesy folksy music but great views of the coast) to Warnemünde the stopping point for cruise ships and an attractive town with cobbled streets and shops selling creatively designed jewellery fashioned from the amber found further along the Baltic coast The feeling of stepping back into the past was reinforced when we boarded the region’s most cherished attraction the steam train that has run along this stretch of coastline for more than 100 years We joined parents and grandparents with wide-eyed toddlers on a journey from Kühlungsborn to Bad Doberan the train huffing and puffing its way through woods forests and town and attracting smiles and waves from walkers Younger passengers returned the waves from the plush-looking restaurant car where salmon sandwiches and sparkling white wine (Sekt) were being served for the princely sum of ¤6 — a long way from prices of the Côte d’Azur there is an outstanding red-brick Gothic Cistercian monastery dating from the 14th century an atmospheric spot that attracts coachloads of cruise passengers on excursions from Warnemünde From Bad Doberan we headed on to the place where it all started the sanctuary created by Friedrich Franz I at Heiligendamm Here we enjoyed traditional afternoon coffee and cake (flavoured with local sanddorn berries) in the main bar/lounge of what is now a fivestar luxury resort and spa Friedrich Franz would no doubt have approved occupying several white buildings and possibly the only place along the German Riviera that could be mentioned in the same breath as Nice chose to entertain world leaders gathering for the G8 summit in 2007 (Merkel Vladimir Putin and George W Bush were photographed sitting in a strandkorb during a break in negotiations) no one should come to this part of the world seriously expecting it to compete with the sophistication glamour and sheer sexiness of the French and Italian rivieras It offers something else: uncrowded beaches unspoilt nature and a sense of returning to a simpler On our last night we sat on the balcony of our hotel room enjoying a clear view of the Plough and listened to the sounds of the Baltic I thought back to late that afternoon when with the last rays of the sun hitting the waves we had headed down to the beach for a final burst of sun As ever it was bracing — but I was fearless and full of joy Aer Lingus (0818 365 000; aerlingus.com) flies daily from Dublin to Hamburg Ryanair (0818 303 030; ryanair.com) flies from Stansted to Lübeck Hotel Polar-Stern (0049 382 938 290; polar-stern.com) offers doubles from ¤80 a night in low season/¤112 a night in high season The Grand Hotel Heiligendamm (0049 382 037 400 de) offers doubles from about ¤180 a night See german-riviera.com; kuehlungsborn.de; germany-tourism.de Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Employees Luisa Lautner and Noemi Habling give a tour of the new hotel tinyTwice am Kurpark walls full of stamps and a yellow telephone booth: In the new tinyTwice Hotel on the street “am Kurpark” in Bad Godesberg many things from days gone by can be found here Staff from the Halbersbacher Hospitality Group from Bad Doberan spent months on the interior design The result is a colorful journey back in time to the 1950’s the seating elements come from different decades On the tables and shelves are rotary telephones Older lampshades with fringe also provide a vintage look A large hay wagon stands in the dining room and the breakfast bar is decorated with countless stamps The numbers of the 42 rooms are on different mailboxes next to each door and black-and-white photos of telephone operators hang above the beds "A wide variety of departments helped with the design," says sales manager Luisa Lautner The 33-year-old is taken with the former Park Hotel and its location by the Kurpark (Spa Park): "The building has a lot of history so we wanted to preserve it." She says the building now has a new style we took our cue from upcycling," Lautner explains Upcycling involves refurbishing old objects In keeping with the guiding theme of "telecommunications," a yellow telephone booth greets guests in the reception area Visitors can trace the history of communication on a timeline with various pictures and objects which means communication in general," says Lautner the Halbersbacher Hospitality Group asked Bonn residents to donate items books and suitcases were subsequently delivered to the hotel The employees covered the wall behind the reception desk with old telephone book pages "Many people from Bonn visit the hotel and look for their mailboxes and items that they have donated," says employee Noemi Habling The 37-year-old helped with the interior design the receptionist has received only positive feedback she reports: "A lot of photos are being taken of the interior design." One popular motif is said to be the more than two-meter-tall teddy bear in the café lounge The giant stuffed animal is the hotel's mascot and can also be cuddled His little siblings are distributed among the rooms "The tweddys have been sustainably produced in Germany," says Lautner The hotel rooms are also designed with sustainability in mind Closets are wine boxes hanging on the wall and cable drums have been turned into nightstands The tinyTwice Hotel opened on September 15 after a considerable delay Lautner attributed the delay to supply bottlenecks and a shortage of skilled workers as well as some obstacles that had arisen during the building restoration There were also difficulties in filling the post of hotel director who had shown the GA the progress being made at the hotel as recently as spring Lautner says: "We have a director again who will start Feb who are "all-rounders" and can take on various tasks "We're looking for two more employees to add to that," Lautner says with 15 guests currently checked into the hotel "We are just trying to establish ourselves in the market That's also because the main business has shifted to the summer months," says the sales manager Rheinhotel Dreesen was pleased with its full bookings After the broadcast of the two-part series on German TV network ARD "The White House on the Rhine" many people wanted to see the hotel Around 80 reservations resulted from the film - a number the hotel normally records in one week explained hotel director Christof Keller to the GA The Nyce Hotel in the former Indonesian Embassy in Friesdorf opened in the spring What has the occupancy rate been so far in the 58-room hotel of the Hamburg hotel chain Centro Hotel manager Gregor Kukwa is satisfied: "We are now being noticed by companies in the area which are increasingly booking their guests with us." Visitors who book on their own book the hotel mainly in the summer months trade shows in Cologne brought "quite a bit of business" in the fall "The situation on the Bonn hotel market has eased slightly in recent months - as it has everywhere," said the hotel manager A major problem continues to be finding enough workers