Calli found dead father in Vietnam

"He stood before me. He had a sparkling white uniform. Then he smiled, opened the door and was gone. "
This image has been carved into the memory of Reiner Calmund. It is a picture from 1953, when adopted by his biological father Charles in the pit house in Bruehl-Gruhl work of his family. Old from his wife and little Reiner, five years.
Karl said: "Zack, there it goes, we need to make money, here is now nothing to take, I do das" Then the young man went to war. And should never to return. 54 years later, Reiner Calmund wants to visit the grave of his father.
"I'll fly with my wife Sylvia, to my dead father," said Fortune's board on Tuesday, EXPRESS, "he is on a military cemetery in northern Vietnam. I know the series. I will find him. "
Charles was a young man, after the 2nd World War I had a family to feed. He joined the Foreign Legion. "Him drove the adventure," said Calmund in Beckmann, "he also had to see that we can somehow get by."
Karl was one of 12,000 foreign legionnaires who fought in North Vietnam for the colonial power France. At Dien Bien Phu, his unit was surrounded, he died under the heavy barrage of artillery.
"Four weeks later we received a letter," recalls Calmund and then he no longer wants to continue to talk. Because the pictures back then suddenly are there. Moments of the eternal sadness of a son who has his father never really met.
Calmund grew up in poverty. "We drove in a carriage through the village." He and his mother received a little orphan's pension. He moved to Frechen-Bachem in a working-class home of Rheinbraun. His grandfather, John lost his sight. His stepfather Sebastian Schaefer moved on Calmund and "loved me like you could love only a son."
The "beautiful but tough youth accounted for one Calmund workaholic. He worked on the assembly line, wore the same time from newspapers, to keep his family afloat. He became a coach, youth leader at Bayer and then built up from a small plant a football club empire, which caused a furore in Europe. It juggled millions, he was constantly in the spotlight of the show stage football - a career in the fast lane.
Suddenly, his life stands still. The past has caught up with the man with the immense power. He will only get rid of when he stands at the grave of his father.
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Carnival: anger at mosque cars

Dusseldorf - A car club will strike on Monday next to the car in the motto Zoch special.
It is built by Jacques Tilly car for the Rheinische Guard Blue-White. A satire on the construction of the mosque in Cologne.
Now threatens the well-known Green Monday Wagenbauer anger from the cathedral city. But Tilly is upset about some reaction.
The car shows a functionary of the DITIB (Turkish client), who rolled over with his "large mosque in Cologne," the cathedral town - played by an ironed Cologne and a Pro-Cologne supporters in brown uniforms and with shaven heads. "Leeve Cologne, do Seider flat, huh?" Stands on a poster on the front page.
"The car is my response to the uncritical pro-car mosque in Cologne last year. I think that you should see the construction of a thoroughly critical. Because the DITIB has pulled through it easily without having to talk to the people. And there was, unfortunately, at the right edge as an evil group like Pro Cologne form that is not off from the right-wing camp. "
Just out of Pro Cologne this car now celebrating. "Apart from the inappropriate appearance of the Pro-Cologne is the image very accurately," it says on their homepage. To the chagrin of Tilly. "It is quite obvious that we make fun of the right. These brothers, I will have nothing to do. I have forbidden Pro Cologne, show my pictures on their side. Why did not you mean anti-Hitler showed car there? We have always been against the right flag! "
The car did not see it as an attack, but "everything with a wink." Cologne Zugleiter Christophe's Kuckelkorn however goes too far: "What makes Tilly is too much. It is simply too flat! "
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Charming Scherins make a career

Bonn - it's only a week ago that Scherins Simo (22) was elected the new Miss Bonn "- and the first offers come in.
"Scherins is depicted as an angel on our new CD cover. I already make extra leave for you wings, "says Christian Post of the band" Kribbelköpp.
"We also want Scherins in the carnival session with our TV and take live performances. For this time she gets asked of us a car with driver, "promises post.
 Great thing. Also, the Bonn police are blown away by the cute 22-year-olds: "We focus on 3 September, a Beach Soccer World Cup off. For this next week will be drawn by the teams. We would like to have a magic wand Scherins for charging, "said police spokesman Frank Piontek.
"Even police chief Wolfgang Albers will be there. If it works, we will pick Scherins with a motorcycle escort and bring to a police station, "says Piontek.
For a stroll from the EXPRESS Scherins learned the surprising news. "Sure I do that, I am totally," said the pretty student. "It's my biggest dream to even be a real model."
Private is the new Miss Bonn hobbies like many girls her age: "I love to go shopping or simply relaxing time in a cafe with my girlfriends," says Scherins. Funny: "My teachers at the vocational school I now no longer call Scherins, but only Miss Bonn."
And what about a knight in shining armor? "I'm single. In November, I parted after five years of relationship with my then boyfriend. And currently I'm just enjoying my single life, "says Scherins Simo.
The men's world can hope so. And you can bet that soon with their great vision of our Miss Bonn can not save them from services.

Skibbe will delight fans

Belek - On Saturday, nor the Dhünn, Sunday already Turkish Mediterranean! After a first run unit for the preparation of the second half Leverkusen "waters" made himself of Bayer's entourage in the direction of training camp.
The clock at 18.35 Sun Express Air XQ 0623 raised in the direction of Antalya, and 14 January will trim coach Michael Skibbe his team in Belek for league and UEFA Cup.
"We will continue to inspire with an attractive and offensive football and try to shrink the gap with the top clubs," promises Skibbe and clarifies: "The absolute priority is the re-qualification's international business."
Probably the easiest way through the league - with an optimal course may be even a little dreaming of the Champions League.
In Belek are not Steve Sidwell and Aaron Doran (both at the African Cup) and Manuel Friedrich - the defender underwent on 21 Meniscus knee surgery in December and will start this week in Donaustauf the rehab training.
That on Saturday 60 spectators were happy about the return of Bernd Schneider, who wants to attack after three months break. Missing were Theofanis Gekas, Tranquillo Barnetta and Brett Emerton and Dmitri Bulykin and Ricardo Faty - they previously were allowed to travel to Belek, where they mittrainieren on Sunday for the first time.

Eros Hexter, but too much Sigurdsson

Balingen - Christian "Eros" Ramota had made up a lot against his former club. In winter, the Cologne keeper had hired in Balingen, after the VfL Gummersbach want him anymore. But despite his top performance of the FC won with 33:30.
In the first ten minutes, the former darling of the public Gummersbacher nailed his goal against the furious run up score: five litters, plus a seven-meter, he defused in the early stages!
But then began the Oberbergisher. Within eight minutes of a 4-1 VfL turned into a 4:8. Among the seven gates in a row, was also the first Bundesliga goals from Adrian Rother, 18-year-old right winger from Gummersbach Handball Academy. In half of two it was only briefly thrilling, as the Swabians shortened to 17:18.
But the following one-man show by VfL Captain Goggi Sigurdsson brought the preliminary decision. The Icelanders scored all his seven goals in the second half. Three goals difference - five (!) Parried the seven-meter FC goalkeeper was decisive. And Roman Pungartnik: Eight shots, eight goals.
Coach Alfred Gislason: "The victory was enormously important in view of the Europe Cup places."
 FC: Stojanovic 9 / 3 parade / Screens meters, Fazekas 2 / 2; Sigurdsson 7 / 2 goals / seven meters, Pungartnik 8, Wagner 5, Klev 4, Alvanos 3, Gunnarsson 2, Ilic 1 / 1, Krantz 1, Rother 1, Jakobsson .