I sell the Beetle by Joseph Beuys

Düsseldorf / Neuss -
The Neuss "art space" director Günter Meuter (59) drove for years a real Beuys, toured with the VW Beetle convertible of the famous Düsseldorf art professor Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) through the country.
Meuter: "I sell now, the treasure on Ebay: The minimum bid is 15,000 euros."
After the death of the artist's widow, Eva action the car (34 hp, built in 1985, custom-made conversion Eller had continued on it) before it was acquired by a third owner of Meuter. The paint is good, the engine starts, the technique and the soft top but an overhaul.
Meuter: "You have to invest something. I had some offers. There are so many people worship and people Beuys. Time I was friends with him. He drove the Beetle for a year before he became seriously ill. "
Beuys student Meuter has other relics of the Master: Beuys the original Lehrpult from Akadamie, signed cards, photos and drawings. Those who follow the auction or even wants to bid must enter a search word on ebay "Joseph Beuys-car". The auction runs for a week.

Renamed Sky crashes into the red

Munich - The balance sheet is not surprising: The pay-TV group Sky (formerly Premiere) is in the second quarter as expected, remained deeply in the red. The loss before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization amounted to € 63.4 million, announced in the MDAX-listed company.
On balance, the loss was the path is already announced write-down on the previous brand name, with 365.8 million euros from significantly higher. It was necessary only for denbisherigen station names are written off € 254 million.
Furthermore, in the quarter, the costs were dropped because of the preparations for the Bundesliga broadcasts from August and the market launch of Sky gestiegen.Die number of subscribers by the end of June to 2.364 from 2.371 million in the first quarter. Sales fell within the year by 22 percent to 230.6 million euros.
Black figures, the MDAX-companies expected until 2011. For Sky but must include more than three million customers. Analysts had expected for the quarter to 362 million euro loss, 229 million euros and 2.389 million paying customers.

FC flirts with Odonkor

Cologne / Bielefeld - Breathe in East Westphalia. David Odonkor currently vacationing with his wife Suzanne and daughter Adriana (7 months) in the old home in Bielefeld.
The Ex-Dortmunder is not only to relax there. Odonkor, next to the old and new Cologne Lukas Podolski one of the heroes of the summer fairytale for the 2006 World Cup is looking for a new club. And he could have found: The FC flirts with the swift Rechtsfuß!
What is clear is Odonkor Betis leaves despite contract until 2011. His goal is to return to the Bundesliga. For the 25-year-old was in Spain never happy. fetched for € 6 million, he often stale on the bench again and again threw him back injury. Then came the descent - now he can go.
However, it costs no small transfer fee. Nearly two million euros to the Spaniards for the former darling of the German fans haben.Odonkor, the mentality of never getting on with the Spanish and the language never learned, "I will leave Betis and want to go back to the Bundesliga. The coach has not been built in Seville on me. Although I was fit, I'm much too little. "
Now he wants to take the restart - and toying with a move to Cologne. "Of course, the FC would be a great club for me. Manager Michael Meier, I still know from Dortmund. "
FC Odonkor was offered, and Management Bureau discussed a commitment - but Christoph Daum locked himself against an obligation.
Daum is now gone - and the cards are shuffled. Now again Odonkor hopes, will also have an alternative: Hannover 96 will also require the ex-international, who is on national coach Joachim Loew get out of focus, obviously.
One would enjoy the visit to the obligation: Lukas Podolski has been a good year with "Odo" friends. "This would fit well. Poldi is a buddy of mine. And in Cologne, I had made my first international goal! Cologne - that would be nice, "said Odonkor.
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