Bankruptcy as a chance

Bonn - Even on the day of Arcandor insolvency is the mood of the Karstadt employees in Bonn continues to be optimistic.
The head-works, there are militant and CEO Michael Breitgraf sees the end is not yet come.
"This is not the end of all things," said Michael Breitgraf on Tuesday. He saw the location in Bonn continues to be one of the mainstays of Karstadt, he tried to make his team courage.
In the same vein, the council chairman of the Karstadt department store in Bonn, Brunhilde Ehrenstein suggests: "My feeling for the location of Bonn is actually quite a good one," she told the Express. Finally, it concluded that the Bonner House is a gutlaufenden location.
Nevertheless, the future of the 250 employees Bonner is not yet home and dry. Because what will happen after the appointment of a provisional liquidator, with the site is still completely unclear.
If it still come to the discussion last week over the Karstadt Muterkonzerns Arcandor by the Metro Group, however, seems certain this will not continue the branch in the form of a department store, including the group operates a hundred meters from his gutlaufende Kaufhof department store.
 Possible alternative for the Metro Group, which also includes Media-Markt and Saturn, would be the creation of an electronics market at this point.

Soldo: "I am glad that Maniche is there"

Velden - In addition to Lukas Podolski, who has expressed himself in the EXPRESS Interview> already had a positive transfer to the hammer, is also pleased coach Zvonimir Soldo on Maniche.
In the EXPRESS conversation Soldo said, why he spoke of the obligation of the Portugal-Stars is thrilled: "I'm glad he's there. We have been here for weeks behind him. He will get us," Soldo said.
But exactly where the new star will take his place in the FC-Eleven? Soldo: "Maniche's Atletico Madrid to Portugal and on the six-or eight-position played. I see him before Petit."
The Croat also knows exactly what qualities the 31-year-old Portuguese man brings with him. And the fit into the profile that has presented Soldo: "Maniche has a great shot, and offensivstark goal threat."
After the medical check-lined> was the signing on Monday afternoon, right on the way to the training camp at the Wörthersee by 14 clock Maniche landed at the airport in Klagenfurt and drove to the team hotel in Velden, to know his new colleagues.
Previously, the Contract terms were clarified. The 31-year-old midfield player receives a two-year contract with FC. FC-president Wolfgang Overath: "Maniche is a big name in European football. We are proud that we can bind it to us. He wants us here at the 1st FC Cologne support to advance further. Especially in the second and particularly difficult year after the rise in the 1 Soccer league, he can help us with his class and experience. "

Moving Zoff! RTL explode collar

Cologne - The RTL move from Aachen to Deutz road - now it becomes a total Chaos.Für this summer it was agreed the handover of the building until the end of the year, all employees into their new offices in the old warehouses have moved into the Rhine. Again and again the event had been postponed. Original move-in date: the 1st April 2008.
And now the move has failed again. RTL burst the collar!
EXPRESS is an internal letter from the executive floor to Managing Director Anke Schäferkordt to the employees. It is announced: The parade begins in 2010, lasted approximately six months from the start. The station bosses are pissed about 2,000 people annoyed.
For the General Contractors Hochtief make "again and again promises are not kept. Contractually guaranteed delivery dates pass without that we can take over the area. "
The delays had "reached a level that is unacceptable to us. In addition, the most extensive loss of confidence comes in the announcement of policy by Hochtief. "Meanwhile, the fourth official deadline had passed. Big row in the building!
RTL are as basic to many shortcomings in the work: "Basic requirements such as uninterruptible power supply, air conditioning, the completion of construction of additional equipment rooms, cable routes, ceilings and floors ... even the security technology are not guaranteed until today. The fire has unacceptable flaws. "
And that has consequences: Several hundred thousand euros have been paid since April 2008 for each month of delay as a penalty.
A million debacle! How are the stakeholders? Christian Körner, spokesman for the Media Group RTL Germany confirmed the contents of the letter, but did not comment on it. Contractor Hochtief: "There are no big problems," said spokesman Bernd Putter. "We carry only comprehensive function tests, such as in the case of power outage or flood, in order to ensure a proper broadcasting to."

Bayer's Game of the Year

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Leverkusen - They exist only very rarely. There are magical moments in football, the opportunities to be seized by one.
One of those moments experienced Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday. Cup semi-finals! Bayer against Mainz. Only one more win, then you are in Berlin! "It's our game of the year." So says Rudi Voeller.
"In the final, to be separated is a unique experience." Everyone says club boss Wolfgang Bayer Holzhäuser.Ein victory in Berlin. A win against the supposedly crass outsider from the 2nd League. "We shall overcome," said wooden houses. Up to one million euros, he has set his players a win bonus in prospect (EXPRESS reported>).
It is not a game like any other. There is more. It's about a title. It's about the future of Bayer.
"We need and want the finals," said nations, "but from the image that is important for Bayer." Failure - unthinkable. But what happens if the unthinkable happens? "Then we have problems," says open wooden houses, "it is difficult to talk with sponsors and new players."
What happens to coach Bruno Labbadia? Was it his first Bayer also the last season? "We have the best team for three or four years," says Wood houses and adds significantly, "This quality is not reflected in the table." Oops, was the criticism of Labbadia?
Wooden houses said that even a defeat at Mainz Labbadia the job would not be expensive. "We stand by him. He works meticulously. We are fully convinced of it. The performance of the team's true, not just the results. Labbadia remains our coach, if it should go wrong Tuesday. But I tell you: We're winning. "

Steinmeier's blond angel of hope

Berlin - Can prevent the SPD black and yellow, yet? The schöns te mate, Chancellor Frank-Walter Stein Meier candidate is young, blond, slender:
Manuela Schwesig (35), Social Security in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, traveling in the fight for every vote by Germany.
It is the hope of angels the SPD. Beauty is now often wins in politics. Successes like that of FDP Ms Silvana Koch-Mehrin in the EU elections or the popularity of smart CSU Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg show das Stein Meier knows that too, got into his competency Schwesig team.
But what Manuela Schwesig on it? EXPRESS accompanied her one day in mid-Wahlkampf.Berlin, visit the "Business Women", the largest center in Europe for new businesses. The elevator stops - too full. Schwesig is the first person who says, "I'll run 'up the stairs."
She looks down to earth, is always friendly. In the interview, she smiles, without a pause, her eyes never leaving the sight of Gegenübers.Erst seven years ago she joined the SPD, is Minister for ten months. It is a quick guide to the major political re-store - and mad. The voice is so quiet that you will get very close in order to understand them.
 Schwesig increases in their black ministers-Audi, can drive in the Kreuzberg district. Visit to a nursery. The politician is looser. She plays with the children, she takes on her arm. She loves the little ones - it shows. Her son (2.5 years) brings her almost every day by bicycle to kindergarten.
In the evening it goes to the Young Socialists. 80 young politicians meet in the trendy district of Friedrichshain, to talk about "modern women's policy." Manuela Schwesig is warming up. "I find it abhorrent, as Mrs von der Leyen vibrates with the birth of the thighs."
A point against her CDU opponent, Federal Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen. It is her first tough set of the day.

This farmer killed the Cologne school headmistress

Cologne - The College of the Erich Kästner Gymnasium in Niehl mourns its longtime director.
Edith M. († 68) was murdered and dismembered in France. A farmer has been the terrible deed.
The Erich Kästner Gymnasium has organized a memorial service for next Thursday. "We are deeply saddened and shocked," said head teacher Dieter Sagittarius Sladek for EXPRESS. "She has heart and soul into school's principal, to be lovingly cared for her students," says Deputy Director Birgit Deumeland.
Edith M. was a teacher of French and philosophy. In 2003, she left the school, walked up with her husband Rolf to France. In the small village in the region Faux Dordogne (southwestern France) it was integrated. M. organized a German food in the village - where she met her killer: Farmer Yves Bureau (56), was also active as a local politician.
According to initial investigations by the Police Bureau, the teacher deliberately run over on a dirt road and then taken to his farm. There he is said to have drowned in a pond Edith M.. Then he sawed up the corpse and put a plastic bag.
The motive remains unclear. "We can not rule out a sexually motivated background," said the prosecutor in Périgueux. The autopsy in the Forensic Medicine in Bordeaux will show whether the farmer has gone into his barn to Edith M..
Two days after the police had searched the corpse of the former headmistress. On the edge of a corn field, they found the bloody hat of the boarder. "From that moment it was clear that we must start with a violent crime," said an investigator.
The fields were searched with helicopters, sealed off the roads to the village. Every driver has been inspected, questioned witnesses. Passers vans Renault Rapide was struck by the farmer on Tattag.
In the examination of witnesses had been involved in contradictions, Yves Bureau, spoken by a car accident. Ultimately, he led investigators to the dead. The corpse is still in forensic medicine.
The murder occurred when M. 's husband, Rolf was waiting in a restaurant on his wife. He is totally in shock after the fact, is hardly accessible. The corpse of Edith M. is to be transferred to Germany. They will find their final resting well in Cologne.