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| 令人會心一笑的公共藝術。 |
今天的品嘗者／李亦凡
德國科隆最出名的是科隆大教堂。一出科隆火車站就看到它矗立在旁，雄偉壯觀，若要將其完整盡收到相機畫面中可不是一件容易事。教堂內，彩色玻璃裝飾的窗戶，述說著過去的歷史，陽光照入，也把教堂點綴如有神蹟之感。
步出科隆教堂，往河岸方向有座通往萊因河對岸的鐵路人行橋，火車經過這座橋即到科隆火車站，在鐵軌旁亦有提供行人與腳踏車通過的步道。走在橋上可以欣賞河岸風景，回頭更可看見科隆大教堂另一面的景致，且還有火車從旁經過的有趣感受。
一上橋便可看到遠方有個狀似要掉落水裡的人站在橋外，再仔細一看，那是德國人幽默的裝置藝術，在橋接近河中央處做了個機器人，看似要落水的可愛模樣，偶爾路過的鴿群也會前來湊熱鬧，停在它身邊，讓人經過時不自覺會心一笑。
走在鐵路旁還可發現德國人浪漫的一面，許多情侶夫妻，在圍欄上掛上象徵永不分離的愛情鎖，兩兩一組，分別寫上彼此的名字，緊緊地鎖在一起。各式各樣的鎖頭，也看出情侶們想要與眾不同的心情。
誰說德國人只有嚴肅的一面，走在科隆用心仔細觀察每個角落，你會發覺德國人的幽默與浪漫。
巴黎有卢浮宫，伦敦有大英博物馆，柏林则有个博物馆岛。在柏林市中心，穿过柏林的斯普雷河在那里分流形成了一个小岛，沿岛的北岸有五家博物馆，因此这里又被称为博物馆岛。
博物馆的建筑气势辉煌，夺人眼目，各有特色。有一座博物馆是仿古希腊庙宇的风格，新巴罗克风格和古典主义风格在这里交相辉映。
近来，五座博物馆中的其中一座格外受到关注，这就是"新博物馆"。其实它并不新，而是建于19世纪中叶。"新博物馆"在第二次世界大战期间被严重毁坏。战后，柏林被战胜国分割，博物馆岛在苏联管辖区，并逐渐演变成废墟。
直到1986年，"新博物馆"的挖掘和抢救整理工作才开始。1993年为修复"新博物馆"举行了名为"博物馆岛总体规划"的建筑设计竞赛。当时的柏 林国家博物馆主任彼得－克劳斯.舒斯特介绍说："当时，国家博物馆的任务是要用十年的时间完成修缮工作，到2010年时让五座博物馆建筑重新焕发昔日的风 采。这个博物馆建筑群是世界上独一无二的，因此也被联合国教科文组织列入世界遗产名单。"
在英国著名建筑师大卫.齐珀费尔德的领导下，"新博物馆"的浩大修复工程从2003年开始进行。齐珀费尔德力争保持建筑的原样，但同时也刻意将战争 破坏的痕迹展现出来。由于战争破坏严重，这对齐珀费尔德来说是一个巨大的挑战："博物馆被损坏的程度非常大。虽然有的还残存建筑部分还保存下来很多东西， 但是有的部分被完全摧毁。这是一种罕见的和不规则的破坏。"
今年年初，"新博物馆"从长达几十年的沉睡中苏醒过来。齐珀费尔德率领他的修复队伍花了六年的时间完成这一使命，然而，他的工作也不是没有受到争 议。开始时，有人递交请愿书和发起民意表决来阻止齐珀费尔德的修复计划，因为齐珀费尔德最早拿出的方案可能会影响到博物馆岛的世界文化遗产地位。经过修改 后，修复计划才受到广泛的肯定和接受。一位参观者说："建筑风格很能吸引我。我认为这是一种历史元素和现代简约风格的成功混合。光和影互动构成的灯光设计 非常有创意。"
另一位参观者说："我感到非常惊喜。新与旧、被毁坏的和新创造的东西成功地被联系在一起。"
"新博物馆"中收藏了不少古埃及的珍品和赝品。除了埃及古棺，观众还能看到一个祭品供奉房间。"新博物馆"拥有的古埃及藏品是世界上最大的和最有影响的收藏之一。它的最吸引观众的藏品无疑是古埃及纳芙蒂蒂王后的胸像。这座胸像有五千年的历史，它散发出一种神秘的历史魅力。
纳芙蒂蒂王后胸像被单独放在一个拱形展厅中展出，以间接的灯光来照明，并罩在一个四米高的玻璃罩里，凸现出它的珍贵和重要性。
萨宾娜.霍夫曼是"新博物馆"的讲解员，这位埃及学研究者向参观者解说每一件展品的特殊之处。她的讲解生动清晰，一个讲解全程大概要花一个半到两个 小时。但是，要想在仔细看完所有展品，则需要花很多时间。萨宾娜.霍夫曼说："要想看完这个博物馆，要花很长的时间，因为博物馆有四层。人们把这座博物馆 又称为百宝箱。要想认识这里的每一件宝藏，你需要在这里逗留数天甚至数星期。"
"新博物馆"还收藏有古埃及莎草纸文献馆的艺术珍品和史前和早期历史文物。这些文物展示了欧亚大陆的史前和早期文明中旧石器时代到中世纪鼎盛时期的历史发展。这里还能看到尼安德特河谷人类头骨化石、考古学家亨利希.施利曼的特洛伊文物以及一个青铜器时代的金帽子。
由于展品众多，参观者很容易就会分不清方向。不过，即使没有解说员的引导，在这座庞大的博物馆中也有不会感到茫然无助。解说员萨宾娜.霍夫曼介绍 说："这里安装了很多触摸式显示屏幕来介绍博物馆的历史。还有出色的声音讲解器，拿着它观众就可以独自一人参观的同时，也得到背景性的信息。"
想参观"新博物馆"的人，现在一定要尽早预订门票。博物馆每天只售出限量的天票，因为想参观的人太多，特别是现在新开张不久。每张门票是10欧元。如果有谁嫌门票太贵，可以利用每周四的闭馆前四小时的免费参观。十六以下的青少年和儿童可以免费参观。
作者：Chi-Viet Giang/潇阳
责编：乐然
Gates like this one at a restaurant on First Avenue in Manhattan must eventually be replaced.
New York City’s storefront gates, like its fire escapes and stoops, are there but not quite there: the unnoticed wallpaper of New York at night. They have been battered by vandals and defaced by graffiti taggers. They have secured diamonds, handmade tortellini and other valuable commodities. They have provided the clattering soundtrack of dawn and dusk, the steel canvas of struggling artists, the most compelling evidence that the city does, indeed, sleep.
Solid roll-down gates like this one on First Avenue become canvases for the spray-paint crowd.
Some gates are decorated with merchants' logos, or, like this one, bear relevant messages.
Open-weave gates, like this one, which let passers-by peer in, will still be allowed.
And now, on orders of the City Council, roll-down gates have joined the ranks of fatty foods and cigarette smoke: they have been legislated against, some right into extinction.
The Council voted on Monday to ban the kind of security gates that completely shield commercial storefront windows and doors from view — ones that resemble old-fashioned auto garage doors, with narrow horizontal slats that rise up like a steely sort of curtain — while permitting the kinds of gates common in suburban shopping malls that allow passers-by to see inside.
Along Court Street in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn, a gentrifying commercial and residential strip in what remains an Italian stronghold, the gradual ban on solid gates — there are probably tens of thousands of them — was as well-received as a property tax hike. Not a single owner or manager who was interviewed was aware of the Council’s vote.
The head-scratching dismay expressed by Pyung Lim Lee upon learning that City Hall had taken a regulatory interest in the rickety old solid gate outside C.H. Plaza Dry Cleaners, 400 Court Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., 11231, was typical.
“If the government pays, then O.K.,” said Mr. Lee, the owner of the shop, who was not surprised to learn that the government would not, after all, be covering the cost of a new gate. “They make law, law, law, and people’s life is more difficult.”
Frank Caputo took a more nuanced approach. He is the owner of Caputo’s Fine Foods, a narrow little hub of homemade mozzarella and pastas, down the street from the church where Al Capone was married long ago. Since Caputo’s was opened by his parents in 1973, the shop has had two gates, both of them the solid, no-peeking-in type. “I was afraid that someone was going to break the glass,” said Mr. Caputo, 47.
He has had the second gate — a $4,000 model with an electric motor that allows him to turn a key or press a button to raise or lower it — for about two years, and he figured that by 2026, when the ban fully kicks in, he would need to replace it, anyway. “If they would have told me I had six months to replace it, I would have been upset,” Mr. Caputo said.
Council members said the bill, which passed 45 to 0, was intended to deter vandals from spraying graffiti on flat-surface gates, to help beautify neighborhoods and to give police officers and firefighters the ability to look inside in an emergency. The ban applies to numerous businesses, including banks, barber shops, beauty salons, health clinics, dry cleaners, dental offices and retail stores.
All businesses affected have until July 1, 2026, to install security gates that allow at least 70 percent of the area they cover to be visible. Any gates installed after July 1, 2011, must comply with the new requirements.
“We took great pains in this bill to make sure we balanced quality-of-life issues and graffiti eradication with the real-life financial challenges small businesses are facing in this recession,” said the Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn. “That’s why the bill has a lengthy time frame.”
The city’s many storefronts, like their proprietors, have their own bedtime rituals. In the diamond district in Manhattan, many shops do not bother with roll-down gates: employees can be seen removing the jewelry, item by item, from the window displays, bound for parts unknown.
On one block of Court Street, the window of a barber shop with no gate afforded a full view inside (the old-fashioned cash register’s empty drawer left open and the bill holders up), but the insurance office next door seemed to contain more secrets, with a solid gate, marred by graffiti.
The metal gate covering G. Esposito & Sons’ pork store offered a peek inside, but what was visible just inside the door would probably attract only the most desperate sort of burglar: a giant apron-clad, wide-eyed piggy statue.
Karen Van Every, the owner of Serimony, a card and gift shop, has a see-through gate, which she wanted so that passers-by could look inside when the store is closed. “People walk by and they see a piece of jewelry in the window and they want to come back,” she said.
Still, Ms. Van Every, like many other Court Street merchants, said she opposed the ban because of its eventual impact on businesses’ bottom line. “Every little cost associated with having a small business could put you under,” she said.
The solid gates have a forbidding quality, recalling the bad old days of 1970s-era New York, when a desire to encourage window-shopping was superseded by a concern over rampant crime and occasional looting.
In some cases, they were no deterrent. In 1973, for example, five young burglars in the Bronx broke into a clothing store with a roll-down gate by cutting a hole in the roof.
But in other cases, solid gates might have helped. During the blackout that struck the city in the summer of 1977, looters ripped off nonsolid storefront gates by hooking chains to them, attaching the chains to cars and then stepping on the gas.
But sometimes no gate could have withstood looters’ fury during the blackout. Jonathan Mahler, in his book “Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City,” described the scene in Bushwick: “They were taking crowbars to steel shutters, prying them open like tennis-ball-can tops or simply jimmying them up with hydraulic jacks and then wedging garbage cans underneath to keep them open.”
The gates, like all endangered species, have their own unique history. They have kept people in as much as out: In 2004, advocates for immigrants complained that janitors were getting trapped inside locked and gated groceries until managers arrived the next morning.
In Bushwick years ago, some graffiti-tagged gates were painted over, without charge, by New Yorkers with little choice in the matter: petty criminals sentenced to perform community service.
On Court Street, many of the solid gates are marked with graffiti, but others have been used as billboards to advertise the stores they protect. Acorn Real Estate features an image of a giant acorn; R.P.T. Physical Therapy, nearby, had an artist paint its blue logo on its gate, a silhouette of a man over the phrase, “Let Us Help You Reach Your Goals.”
走进凡尔赛宫，迎面而来的首先就是路易十四的塑像。展览会的访客现在有机会深入了解这位创造了法国历史上最辉煌时期的专制君主。在占地 １３００平方米会场总共展出的３百多件展品中，除了介绍"太阳王"的精彩一生，还破天荒地展出了路易十四的私人艺术收藏品。展览会艺术总监米洛瓦诺维奇 说：“十七世纪时，炫耀自己奢华的艺术收藏，是欧洲所有皇室君主的要务。跟路易十四竞相比阔的，包括英国国王、西班牙的国王和皇帝等。而路易十四更胜一筹 的是他对艺术的狂热和付出，已远远超出作为一国之君所应有的限度。”
这项展览的筹备耗时两年，费用高达２５０万欧元，外加上百万的保险费。基于安全理由，保险公司不愿透露详细数额。展品当中只有三分之一属于凡尔赛宫 本身的收藏，其它是向欧美各地的私人收藏家或博物馆租借而来。其中有些展品特别令凡尔赛宫博物馆馆长感到自豪，例如向英国女王伊丽莎白二世借来的凡尔赛宫 建筑油画和意大利艺术家多梅尼科一个价值４百万欧元的橱柜等。凡尔赛国家博物馆馆长埃亚贡表示：“收集这些展品相当不容易，我们做了许多说服收藏家出借展 品的游说工作，其中有些是收藏家们至关重要，且不轻易示人的藏品。但是我们耐心地交涉，最后总算成功借到许多伟大的杰作。”
借自巴黎卢浮宫的路易十四数量庞大的宝石饰物收藏品，是当时欧洲最重要的收藏。路易十四将最心爱的珠宝藏在自己的起居室里，只向特别挑选的客人展示。 
会中展出的一个路易十四６５岁，也就是他去世前１２年制作的腊制头像也很引人注意。据说，腊像头上使用的是路易十四本人的头发。至于是真是假，只有经过基因检查才能揭开谜底。
这次展会带领观众走进了"太阳王"的私人世界。一位参观者说道：“这些油画使人对路易十四的宫廷生活留下很好的印象：比如路易十四非常喜欢动物，他甚至让人给他的爱犬也画了画像，真是太有意思了。从这里，我们领略了路易十四全然不同的另一面。” 
路易十四不仅是一位狂热的艺术爱好者，他与当时法国艺术家之间的互动也非常密切，例如音乐家让．巴蒂斯特．吕里，或诗人及剧作家莫里哀等，并对这些 文人、艺术家的创作施加了直接影响。展览会艺术总监米洛瓦诺维奇指出：“国王简直是有些作品的共同创作者：他向艺术家征求作品，同他们进行讨论，并要求进 行修改。有时他甚至现身说法，亲自上阵：路易十四曾是一名极有天份的芭蕾舞者，３２岁之前，他常登台表演。您看，那件舞衣是皇宫存下来的唯一一件，现在收 藏在巴黎歌剧院的档案馆里。”
路易十四是一位艺术爱好者，也是艺术批评家：比如意大利艺术家做的这个路易十四半身腊像就受到国王的批评。博物馆长埃亚贡介绍说：“路易十四嫌腊像的鼻子做得太大，其实他并不喜欢这件作品，但还是保留了下来。”
路易十四艺术收藏品展览，是凡尔赛国家博物馆一系列大型展览的开端，明年将继续推出以路易十五和路易十六为主题的展览。
作者：Ｋａｔｊａ Ｌｉｅｒｓｃｈ/杨家华
责编：石涛
A guard at his post in the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur.
INDIA is modernizing rapidly, sometimes too fast. You have giant malls, but grandmothers afraid to use the escalators. There are villages in the middle of nowhere, with ornate temples soaring into the hot sky. Still, old Rajasthan endures, evoking rulers with giant mustaches, harems of beautiful women in the finest colored silks and some of the most spectacular palaces ever built. They can be found in the state’s three biggest cities: Jodhpur, Jaipur and Udaipur.
Friday
5 p.m.
1) LIKE A KING
Life in the dusty city of Jodhpur revolves around Mehrangarh Fort (The Fort, Jodhpur; 91-291-254-8790; www.maharajajodhpur.com), perhaps the best preserved of the hundreds of forts in Rajasthan. It offers an excellent audio guide in English explaining the cannonball scars from battles with other Rajput kingdoms and the hidden balconies in the Pearl Palace, which Raja Sur Singh’s wives once used to peek at the outside world. Before leaving, stroll through the Chokelao Bagh, a fragrant garden with exotic flora including sweet white kamini and chandni flowers, exactly as it would have been in the 18th century.
8 p.m.
2) HINDI FOR TERROIR
For sheer extravagance and luxury, few places in Rajasthan compare with the Umaid Bhawan Palace (Palace Road, Jodhpur; 91-291-251-0101; www.tajhotels.com), a golden sandstone complex finished in 1943 on 26 acres of lush gardens. The Art Deco-style masterpiece is now a 347-room hotel, with rates of as much as 500,000 rupees, or $10,740 at 47.5 rupees to the dollar, for a night in the Maharani Suite. It is the type of place where Elizabeth Hurley married Arun Nayar, an Indian textile tycoon, in one of two lavish ceremonies. For your own memorable evening, make your way through the delicately lighted corridors to the terrace restaurant Pillars. Skip the overpriced Indian dishes and order the shiitake mushroom cappuccino to start and the spaghetti pescatore. There’s also an excellent chenin blanc from Bangalore. Dinner for one, 3,000 rupees ($64).
10 p.m.
3) COLONIAL COCKTAILS
While you’re still buzzing from dinner, glide across the marble floors and twisting staircases to the hotel’s handsome Trophy Bar, which evokes a colonial hunting lodge. Grab a footstool that looks like an elephant’s leg, lean back on tiger skin cushions and order the signature cocktail, the Mathania, a martini infused with chilies (around 2,000 rupees). The maharajah’s family and staff still occupy one wing, so perhaps they’ll drop in for a nightcap.
Saturday
6 a.m.
4) MAGIC NUMBER
Get up early to the hillside resort of Ranakpur to see one of the most spectacular temples of the Jain faith. Built in 1439 around measurements based on the number 72, the age at which the founder of Jainism achieved enlightenment, the structure is a maze of hand-carved marble pillars and small shrines where it is not unusual to see a lone devotee kneeling. You can even stay the night for a 10-rupee donation, a bargain even by Indian standards, though don’t expect anything other than a mattress on the floor.
10 a.m.
5) CHAI, NOT TEA
To visit the city of Jaipur is to see Indian life at its most concentrated. For an intimate introduction, stop at the junction of Kishanpol and Gangori Bazaar Road, a makeshift bus depot, and get acquainted with something that unites Indians of all castes and creeds: a cup of chai (4 rupees). Milk is added to stewing cardamoms and other spices on the spot, then brought to a boil and served immediately in clay cups. Buy a sweet fan biscuit or a spicy pakora while listening to the latest Bollywood hit from an old tape stereo.
Noon
6) WINDY CITY
The City Palace (Pink City, Jaipur; 91-141-260-8055) is Jaipur’s main attraction, a complex still guarded by turban-wearing watchers. The hall of Diwan-i-Khas houses two urns that the Guinness World Records book calls the largest silver objects ever created. They were made for the Maharajah Sawai Madho Singh II to fill with holy water from the Ganges when he traveled to London for King Edward VII’s coronation. Around the corner is the Hawa Mahal, called the Palace of the Winds because of the sharp breeze that flows through the stairs of this five-story relic. It’s lined with 953 screened windows so that the women of the royal court could watch processions without being seen by commoners.
2 p.m.
7) CURRIES AND CHAPATIS
Foreigners are often too timid to venture into local restaurants, which is a shame. Curries in this state are often simple and spicy, not the extravagant cooking the guidebooks often promise — and almost always vegetarian. A clean, hygienic spot is Khandelwal Pavitra Bhojnalaya (Amer Road), basically a big room with rows of tables and fresh food made at the kitchen out front. Order the thali (100 rupees), with unlimited amounts of lentil curry, rice and chapatis.
4 p.m.
8) ART OF HAGGLING
The Pink City, the old walled quarter in central Jaipur, is filled with endless rows of market stalls. At Sankhala Handicrafts (opposite Hawa Mahal; 91-141-261-0597), the young entrepreneur, Ashok, will try to sell you opulent embroidered silks and saris while practicing his French. Across the street, Best Jaipurnagra Shoe Stores (56, Johari Bazaar; 91-9-8284-5688) makes leather shoes and slip-ons by hand. Don’t be put off by the aggressive sales ploys. Everything in India is a negotiation, so be ready to play hardball. That includes walking out of the shop. When the owner runs after you, that’s the time to offer 60 percent off the asking price.
7 p.m.
9) CHICKEN AND DANCING
If you’ve had enough vegetarian food and crave some slow-cooked chicken or mutton and rice in creamy yogurt-based sauces, head to the Royal Treat (New Ramgarh Mod, Amer Road; 91-141-263-0795), an upscale restaurant furnished in Rajasthani red, gold and dark woods. Dinner for two about 450 rupees, including Kingfisher beers. The restaurant also features folk dancing. Yes, it’s a little touristy, but who cares when the food’s this good?
10 p.m.
10) WEDDING CRASHERS
Liquor is rare, and this is not a party town anyway. Luckily, Indians are hospitable and will invite you to almost anything. Put on your best suit or that sari you bought and go to Shani Mandir (1, Peelwa Gardens, Moti Doongri Road). There is a ceremony at this Hindu temple every night in wedding season, the biggest and longest party you’ll ever see.
Sunday
10 a.m.
11) NO GONDOLA?
With its elegant, winding streets, Udaipur is called the most romantic city in India, the Venice of the subcontinent. It’s also among the most Westernized, with backpackers and students riding around on mopeds. Have a coffee (50 rupees) at Café Edelweiss (73, Gangaur Ghat), where a clash of languages can be heard. Then follow the ghat, or steps, that lead down to Lake Pichola and savor the manufactured views — the lake was created in the 1300s.
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12) ISLAND OF ONE’S OWN
In the middle of the lake is the Jagmandir Island Palace (91-294-242-4186; www.hrhhotels.com), a stunning complex built by Maharana Karan Singh for his son to use as a pleasure palace. To get there, take the boat (250 rupees) and lunch at the Darikhana Restaurant. With exotic birds circling overhead and stone elephants guarding a nearby garden, it’s a place fit for an Indian prince in the 17th century.
THE BASICS
The closest major international airport is in New Delhi. Air India has nonstop service from Kennedy Airport (and Continental from Newark), with flights starting at $1,100 for travel in January, according to a recent online search. To get to Rajasthan from the capital, take the train from New Delhi station to either Jaipur or Jodphur and then rent a car. The three cities are about six to eight hours apart by car.
Jodphur is dusty, loud and busy. Not the Heritage Kuchaman Haveli (inside Merti Gate, Jodphur; 91-291-254-7787; kuchamanhaveli.com), tucked on a residential side street, where children play cricket in front of the gates of a converted 18th-century mansion. Doubles start at 1,550 rupees, about $33 at 47.5 rupees to the dollar.
In Jaipur, avoid the hotel chains and head to Ram Jharokha Guest House (Peelwa Gardens; 91-141-260-3745). It offers spacious double rooms, a friendly owner and a decent selection of home-cooked meals. Doubles from 990 rupees.
In Udaipur, the Taj Lake Palace (Lake Pichola, Udaipur; 91-294-242-8800; www.tajhotels.com) stands as one of the world’s most stunning hotels, with a price to match. It was built in 1746, a marble wonder floating in the middle of Lake Pichola. The spa sits in a small tugboat and the 83 rooms start at 15,500 rupees.
1989年11月柏林墙(Berlin Wall)倒下时，40岁的克劳斯•贝尔卡(Klaus Berka)是国有卡尔•蔡司公司(VEB Carl Zeiss)的一名工程师。当时蔡司是一家大型企业集团，
在柏林墙倒塌后的几个月内，公司倒闭了，
1990年5月，贝尔卡和两个同事离开了蔡司，
德国耶拿分析仪器公司的成功象征着耶拿的复兴——
无论是外观还是给人的感觉，
蔡司以前位于镇中心的巨大工厂，如今已经变成了热闹的购物中心。
德国马克斯-普朗克化学生态学研究所(Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology)的威廉•博兰(Wilhelm Boland)教授表示，
尽管耶拿已经成为了某种榜样，但博兰教授表示，
这个历史可以追溯至18世纪末期，当时，哲学家费希特 (Johann Fichte)、黑格尔(Georg Hegel)以及诗人弗里德里希•席勒(Friedrich Schiller)都在耶拿大学(Jena University)教书。1846年，卡尔•蔡司(Carl Zeiss)创建了一个车间，用于制造放大镜和显微镜，
二战后，卡尔•蔡司的工厂被美国人捣毁了，
尽管这些公司逐渐落后于西德的同行，
1989年后，国有卡尔•蔡司公司被私有化，
由于耶拿如今欣欣向荣，与其它前民主德国地区相比，
上市公司体现了新耶拿精神。
在耶拿最大的上市公司中，有三家与东德企业集团国有卡尔•
今年早些时候，
金融公司DEWB的历史可追溯至19世纪。
另外两家总部设在耶拿的上市公司是德国英特软件公司(
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位于前东柏林的弗里德里希歌舞剧院内座无虚席。大约1800名来宾聆听了德国前总理科尔的讲话。科尔表示，他非常高兴，并且心存感激。高兴 的是，他在这里又见到了当年的政治伙伴美国前总统老布什和前苏联领导人戈尔巴乔夫。而令他感激的是，在他的总理任期内能够出现促成两德统一的机遇。
直到庆典活动前一天，前总理科尔能否出席活动仍无法确定。一年前不慎摔倒后，科尔的健康一直未能全面恢复。坐在轮椅里的科尔讲话显然非常困难。他表示，德国历史上令人感到自豪的事件并不多，但他却有感到自豪的理由。他说："没有比德国统一能够让我感到更为骄傲的事情。"
此前克勒总统在演说中盛赞布什，戈尔巴乔夫和科尔在两德和平统一过程中所扮演的重要角色。克勒说： "我以德国民众的名义向你们表示感谢。我相信，欧洲各民族都对你们心存谢意。"
克勒呼吁欧洲人开辟新的道路推进欧洲一体化进程。他表示，欧盟应当发展同俄罗斯及其他独联体国家的伙伴关系，促进欧洲的统一：„欧盟和俄罗斯应当开展这类合作。我也要有意识地对俄罗斯方面说，戈尔巴乔夫总统先生，您应当开始做这项工作。"
同克勒一样，前苏联领导人戈尔巴乔夫也谈到了欧洲一体化的问题。他表示，冷战结束带给欧洲的众多机遇，大多数都没有得到利用。彼此间仍存在芥蒂和偏见，这一点令他感到遗憾："我们必须清楚地认识到，在反俄和反美情绪的基础上，是无法完成欧洲统一大业的。"
岁月流逝，也在戈尔巴乔夫身上留下了明显的痕迹。他走上讲台时，步履显得很吃力。而与会三位嘉宾中岁数最大的老布什走路时已经离不开拐杖了。这位当 年见证了柏林墙倒塌的美国前总统表示，两德统一同一系列历史事件密切相关："柏林墙的倒塌以及在北约框架内实现统一不仅仅意味着冷战和二战的结束，也标志 着一战的结束。"
布什认为，两德的统一标志着当年凡尔赛和约中那些催生独裁专制的罪恶根源也被清除了。"我们得到的经验教训也许是，在维护和平时，我们要有智慧和远见，就像在战争中要保持警惕和团结一样。"
布什作为二战老兵，他的讲话极富远见。而他讲话的地方不远处就是当年的柏林墙。
作者：Peter Stützle/ 达扬
责编：乐然
受到比利时乔舒亚爵士乐队现场气氛的感染，观众情绪逐渐攀上高峰。乐队是比利时列日市举办的"激情燃烧音乐节"期间，诸多优秀乐队中的一支，也是这个活动的一大亮点。
前来参加音乐节的观众超过1万5千人，目的是为了尽情欢笑，享受音乐节的乐趣。其实"激情燃烧"只是比利时众多音乐节中的一个。对艺术家来说，这里是他们展现才艺最理想的演出场所。
乔舒亚乐队的歌手森索表示："当我们在国外的时候，会有很多人跟你谈起关于比利时音乐节的事情。我们的确参加了许多演出活动，比如1月开始的第一季度音乐节。我们这里音乐节的节期很长，有小型、中型，还有大型的。对我们来说，这是非常好的演出机会。"
比利时是一个音乐节国度，在夏季的几个月里，几乎没有一个周末不举办大型音乐节活动。
"激情燃烧音乐节"的历史并不长，也就只有4年的时间，而组织者已经感受到了竞争压力。
活动组织者瑟尔韦说："主要是开始的时候，我们特别感受到极大的压力。那时我们努力争取在很短时间里达到最高的标准，这令许多业内人士感到不满。有 人对我们说，我们必须先展现自己的实力。而大出人们意料之外的是，我们现在已跻身比利时最走红的音乐节乐队之列，在节日活动中占有了固定的一席之地。"
但是来这儿的人并不都只为了欢庆节日，有些是出于另外的原因到这里来勘查情况，比如来自紧邻的斯帕市的音乐节竞争对手。
斯帕市音乐节组织者拉德勒说："我们觉得，如果'激情燃烧音乐节'的举办地点在30公里以外，或者他们选择另外的时间点举办这个活动就更好了。而现实的情况是，在一个狭窄空间里，一连举办两个音乐节活动，导致彼此间的关系不得不因为争夺观众而变得剑拔弩张。"
对于像列日这样的城市，音乐节早已不仅仅是欣赏音乐，它吸引力了大量游客蜂拥来到这个平常显得有些无聊的城中心区。
"激情燃烧音乐节"的创立，确保了全年80多个工作岗位，对此，瑟尔韦深感自豪。而列日市政府还为这个活动提供了5万欧元的补助经费。瑟尔韦指 出："上一世纪70年代起，传统工业的没落，使列日经济也受到重创。因此今天的政界人士主张通过组织文化活动，来促进经济发展，为城市注入更多的活力，创 造一个能让市民感到自豪的新形象。'激情燃烧音乐节'为此作出了重要贡献，当然，这与音乐节如今已闯出了国际名声也不无关系。"
与法国接壤的小城多尔也拥有自己的音乐节。现在小城正在大兴土木，市长本人亲自负责组织工作。但竞争对手取得的成功，为他的工作增添了越来越大的难度。
市长安东尼奥表示:"现在我们向乐队发出邀请的时间必须大幅提前，而且他们的价格越来越贵。5年前，我们最早在一月中旬才开始筹划，而现在，如果在前一年的10月开始筹备的话，要想请到中意的乐队已经很困难了。"
可是列日市没有这样的问题。面对这个话题，瑟尔韦显得相当低调，他说："我们跟其他组织者的关系处得不错，在挑选自己想要的乐队之前，我们会彼此商量。我们致力于在向明星乐队发出邀请时，尽量取得平衡，以便让每个组织者都能安排令人满意的节目。"
十分走红的乔舒亚乐队，在结束"激情燃烧音乐节"的演出之后，又得马不停蹄地登上下一场音乐节的舞台了。
作者：Ruth Reichstein/祝红
责编：乐然
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| 彰化縣政府與縣內11座宮廟共同舉辦「媽祖遶境祈福」活動，昨天在伸港鄉福安宮舉行，縣長卓伯源點燃起馬炮護送媽祖起駕，場面盛況空前。（記者湯世名攝） |
〔記者湯世名／伸港報導〕由彰化縣政府與縣內11座宮廟共同舉辦的「2009彰化縣媽祖遶境祈福」活動，10日在伸港鄉福安宮起駕，縣長卓伯源點燃起馬炮護送媽祖起駕，11尊媽祖神尊在大批信眾簇擁下起駕出巡，鞭炮聲不絕於耳，場面盛況空前。
「2009 彰化縣媽祖遶境祈福」活動於昨天上午在今年爐主伸港鄉福安宮舉行起駕典禮，會中齊聚伸港福安宮、彰化南瑤宮、芬園寶藏寺、員林福寧宮、社頭枋橋頭天門宮、 田中乾德宮、北斗奠安宮、埤頭合興宮、二林仁和宮、芳苑普天宮及王功福海宮11尊媽祖神尊坐陣，由彰化縣長卓伯源擔任主祭，並有縣議員阮厚爵、賴清美、陳 錦玉、賴端欉、尤瑞春、縣府各局處一級主管及各宮廟主委與信眾共襄盛舉。
卓伯源親自護送媽祖上轎，隨即點燃起馬炮並護送媽祖起駕出巡，大批信眾簇擁著媽祖鑾轎出巡，鞭炮聲不絕於耳，場面盛況空前，中午抵達彰化市南瑤宮，晚間到芬園鄉寶藏寺，11日遶境隊伍將由寶藏寺出發，行經員林福寧宮、社頭枋橋頭天門宮，傍晚到田中乾德宮駐駕。
歌仔戲班連番上陣
11日晚間將有明華園戲劇總團在田中鎮棒壘球場旁廣場，演出「界牌關傳說」。12日的遶境行程則在北斗奠安宮駐駕，並辦理「慶賀典禮」；同時安排唐美雲歌仔戲團，在北斗鎮舊牛墟廣場演出「龍鳳情緣」；13日晚間明華園在二林鎮中正路與建國路口廣場演出「八仙傳奇」。
14日下午新和興第二歌劇團在芳苑普天宮；14日晚間薪傳歌仔戲團在王功福海宮演出「五女拜壽」；15日晚間河洛歌子戲團在福安宮演出「新鳳凰蛋」；17日東原五洲園掌中劇團在二林仁和宮演出，還有多項樂團、馬戲團演出。
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ロ マン主義詩人のジョン・キーツは、９０年ほど前にローマのスペイン広場とトリニタ・デイ・モンティ階段の脇にある家で療養のため最後の数年間を送り、死去 した。その家はその後、詩人のシェリーも住んだため、この２人のロマン派詩人を記念して小さな博物館に作り変えられた。その開館式は４月６日、国王ヴィッ トーリオ＝エマヌエーレ３世を始め、駐伊英国大使、そして数多くの著名人たちが列席した。その中にはノーベル賞作家ラドヤード・キップリング氏の姿もあっ た。Spotlight:
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編譯張沛元／特譯
5 年多來，不願屈服於黑手黨組織「我們的事業」（Cosa Nostra）淫威的拒繳交保護費運動「跟保護費說拜拜」（Addiopizzo），在義大利西西里島首府巴勒摩已漸成氣候；3名參與這項反黑幫運動的當 地年輕女性，也一反常態公開個人身分，鼓勵外來遊客與當地商家堅持對黑道收取保護費說「不」。
「跟保護費說拜拜」運動成員向來不願曝光，擔 心身分一旦外洩，將遭到黑手黨報復；但「跟保護費說拜拜」運動秘書席薇亞．佩拉格瑞諾，以及義工琪雅拉．卡普瑞與莉蒂亞．瑟維雷拉3名弱女子，卻勇於挺身 而出，呼籲觀光客與當地人支持拒繳保護費的商家，一方面鼓勵從計程車、停車場到賣冰淇淋的小販等小商人，也要勇於對保護費說「不」，另一方面則鼓勵觀光客 前往參與「跟保護費說拜拜」的餐廳用餐。
據席薇亞估計，巴勒摩目前仍有8成商家不敵黑手黨的淫威，持續繳交保護費；莉蒂亞也指出，即便觀光客只在加入「跟保護費說拜拜」運動的商家消費，也很難不淪為黑手黨的間接幫兇，「我們相信，『我們的事業』每年仍從西西里強索1億3千萬英鎊（約台幣68億5千多萬元）。」
席薇亞直言，這種日子了無生趣，警察也不會站在他們這一邊，因為許多警察都被黑手黨收買，「但我們已經強大到變成一個共同體與黑手黨的眼中釘」。
然而，與黑幫為敵的日子並不好過。席薇亞不諱言，倘若她們幾個年輕女子出了什麼事，肯定是黑手黨幹的。莉蒂亞說，對她本人與她這個世代的人而言，這是表明立場、劃清界線與言明再也不受恫嚇。所以，她們願意夜以繼日地印發傳單、海報和Ｔ恤，「拒繳保護費的運動攸關生死」。
（取材自泰晤士報）
澳洲昨天碰到上70年以來最大的沙塵暴，狂風把1200公里外的紅土吹上空中，隨後再散落在雪黎附近，使得雪黎昨天白天一片昏暗、宛如世界末日。
澳洲媒體報導，昨天這場沙塵暴，估計每小時有四千公噸的沙塵吹過雪梨。今天沙塵暴已經過去，雪梨居民開始清洗轎車、門前道路和家中小狗。
雖然雪黎市區民眾受到極大的震驚，但那些居住在澳洲野外地區的居民，對於沙塵暴早就習以為常。一名住在荒野地區的婦女，寫信給澳洲《每日電 訊報》，嘲笑雪黎人少見多怪。她說，城市居民嬌生慣養，根本不瞭接澳洲荒野居民生活。在荒野地區，沙塵暴是家常便飯，人們經常都必須配戴口罩才能出門。
A storm which blew in from the Australian outback blanketed Sydney in a layer of orange dust. Here, residents describe the bizarre and frightening scene.
Tanya Ferguson said the dust was the weirdest thing she had seen in her life, turning the city into a scene from another planet.
"It was like being on Mars," she told the BBC News website.
"I haven't been there, obviously, but I imagine that's what the sky would look like."
 |  It was like being in the outback, but it was right here in the city  Tanya Ferguson  |
She said she woke to a massive gust of wind blowing through her windows early in the morning.
"The whole room was completely orange. I couldn't believe my eyes," she said.
Ms Ferguson said she initially thought there was a bush fire. When she finally decided to venture outside, she said the entire city was covered in a film of orange dust.
"All the cars are just orange - and the orange was so intense," she said by phone from Sydney, where she has lived for the past six years.
"It was like being in the outback, but it was right here in the city."
Ms Ferguson said the sky was overcast and it was very dusty, making her sneeze a lot.
Public transport was disrupted and the roads were clogged as drivers struggled in the difficult conditions, but she said some people went to their jobs, and she saw a few residents wearing face masks.
By evening, Ms Ferguson said there were blue skies over Sydney and that it was returning to a normal day.
'Pink until noon'
Fellow Sydneysider Nick Beaugeard said his four young children were really frightened when they woke up on Wednesday morning.
"There was a really red glow inside the house, really crimson" he said. "It looked like the end of the world."
| It was like driving through a pea soup of fog, except it was bright red Nick Beaugeard |
After the initial shock, he said the children got really excited and went off to school where they said it was "pink until noon".
Mr Beaugeard - who moved to Australia from the UK in 1998 - had to drive to work from the Northern Beaches area because the ferries were closed.
"It was like driving through a pea soup of fog," he said, "except it was bright red".
He said the lights looked blue because it was so red outside.
Mr Beaugeard said his wife - who is an asthmatic - was fine despite the blanket of dust and fog.
"She went out with a scarf over her mouth and she came back without it," he said.
He said the dust left everyone with a dry mouth, and a really gritty taste, but caused no breathing problems for his wife.
'Armageddon'
Andrew Hawkins, who lives in Northmead, about 20km from the centre of Sydney, says he was scared at first because it looked like the end of the world.
"This morning's dust storm was unbelievable… It was like waking up to see that Armageddon is upon us," he wrote in.
| Pictures fail to capture the eerie nature of the scene which surrounded us this morning Andrew Hawkins |
Mr Hawkins said he thought his eyes were playing up, or that there had been a nuclear explosion or a bush fire.
He described an ethereal scene of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House as he rode the train to work.
"To see a city of such beauty shrouded in red, was a sight which cannot be described - even pictures fail to capture the eerie nature of the scene which surrounded us this morning," Mr Hawkins added.
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WARSAW — When President Obama announced last week that he was canceling plans to place missile interceptors in Poland, aggrieved Poles, who wanted them partly because Russians didn’t, noted the date, Sept. 17. It was the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland.
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About all that remains of Chopin in Warsaw is his heart, which is interred in the Holy Cross Church, above. More Photos »
As Roger Cohen wrote in The International Herald Tribune, it was “the rough equivalent for the Poles of their announcing concessions to a U.S. foe on 9/11.”
It’s nearly impossible not to run into some ghosts of the past here, even if you’re just a cultural tourist. The other day I went looking for what still exists of Chopin’s trail. Next year is the bicentennial of Chopin’s birth. Concerts, congresses and the famous Chopin piano competition, held here every five years, are all planned for the spring, along with the opening of a refurbished Chopin museum next to the Warsaw Conservatory, where he studied.
“Chopin is our symbol and tourist product but more than that,” said Albert Grudzinski, deputy director of the Chopin Institute, who oversees the competition, “even during Communist times culture was what kept people together here. It was our window to the world.”
And it’s of course the reverse too, a window onto Poland from the outside. Warsaw is where Chopin spent roughly half his life. He moved to the city from the countryside as an infant when his father, Nicolas, started teaching French at the Warsaw Lyceum, then established himself as a homegrown prodigy at the keyboard and as a composer.
But the Warsaw he knew turned to rubble and was only partly rebuilt. Paris has Chopin’s grave, where fans leave cough drops. In London a plaque marks the town house where he spent a few miserable weeks, ill and huddled in his overcoat in front of a fire, from which he briefly roused himself for what would be his last public performance, a benefit for the Friends of Poland in 1838. (He “played like an angel,” reported his best student, Princess Marcelina Czartoryska.)
Warsaw, on the other hand, has surprisingly little that is authentic left of its most famous artist. Looking for where he grew up reveals not many original sites from his past but, as in a W. G. Sebald novel and maybe more usefully, a palimpsest of ruin and memory.
Wojciech Mlotkowski, a young Polish tour guide, was standing in Pilsudski Square carrying a hand-held GPS program of Chopin landmarks around the city. Its virtualness turned out to be a nice metaphor.
“This is where Chopin first lived in Warsaw,” he said, sweeping his hand across a broad stone plaza, occupied only by a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The Saxon Palace used to be here, Mr. Mlotkowski said. It housed the lyceum where Nicolas taught and a few apartments for teachers’ families, including Chopin’s. When the Nazis occupied Poland, they renamed this Adolf Hitler Platz, then blew up the palace and most of the rest of the city in response to the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. The tomb is nearly all that survived from what had been the palace arcade.
In front of it, where the plaza now faces a new Norman Foster-designed office building, John Paul II, in 1979, just after his election as pope, exhorted thousands of his countrymen to stand up to Communism. On the very same spot, decades before, the huge onion-domed Alexander Nevsky Cathedral towered over the city. Built by the Russian imperial rulers of Poland, and finished in 1912, it was demolished less than 15 years later in an act of vengeance by newly independent Poles. There’s talk these days about rebuilding the Saxon Palace but not the cathedral, whose destruction is an embarrassment the Poles would evidently prefer to forget.
“All very interesting,” I said. I was gazing at nothing. “But what about Chopin?”
Mr. Mlotkowski shrugged, as if to say, What did I expect?
A few blocks away a small sign advertised Chopin’s salon in the Czapski Palace. Like the rest of this part of the city, the palace is a postwar reconstruction. The building Chopin knew was flattened by the Germans. The composer wrote his two piano concertos and first mazurkas in a room in the original palace that hasn’t been reconstructed.
Instead what’s supposed to be the Chopin family’s second floor drawing room, based on a sketch made a dozen years after Chopin left town, passes for an ersatz shrine to the composer. Empire chairs and gilt-framed mirrors, none his, face a Pleyel piano, also not his. A wood chest, according to a label, comes from the estate of the great-great-granddaughter of Chopin’s sister Ludwika. The whole room has the faded, musty air of a bygone Soviet hotel.
At least Chopin left his heart in Warsaw. Sheila Cleary, a tourist from Wicklow, Ireland, was looking for it at the Holy Cross Church the other morning. After Chopin died in Paris, his sister brought his heart back here, as he wished. It was interred in the church. A music-loving German general — a notorious war criminal, as it happened — helped save it when the Nazis leveled the church after the uprising.
“I wanted to find something,” Ms. Cleary said, her voice trailing off. She had spent a couple of baffled days, apparently, looking for but more or less not finding Chopin.
He was a die-hard nationalist. He even declined to arrange a return to Poland so long as Russia occupied the country, which meant that having left in 1830, at 20, he never saw his homeland again. Maybe he would have appreciated how his absence now speaks volumes about what happened here later.
Then again, he’s ubiquitous anyway. A pair of Russian pianists, Nikolai Lugansky and Vadim Rudenko, gave a recital in the Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Hall as part of an annual Chopin festival the other evening. They played the Rondo in C before a packed house full of young people.
The piece is pure fluff, utterly forgettable, but everybody listened in rapt silence. Even what you might call, substance-wise, the musical version of Chopin’s ghost stirs Polish pride.
Warsaw might have suffered plenty since he died. But at nearly 200, he’s doing just fine.
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