The Ruhr and me have been in the New York Times
Quoting about the New York Times I remembered that recently – while campaigning – a Berlin based journalist form the New York Times came over from the capital. He wanted to watch campaigning here in the region. We don’t seems to be completely unknown in the USA, at least to Mr. Nicolas Kulish.
Here’s what he wrote (just where he writes about me:-) ):
As an unseasonably frigid rain fell Thursday in Bochum, Dirk Schmidt, 35, a local party leader for Mrs. Merkel’s conservative coalition, campaigned for a seat in the state Legislature at the Hannibal shopping center. He was greeted with support from party members, but also some derision.
“The party disappointed me once with the east,” an old man pushing a shopping cart shouted as one of Mr. Schmidt’s campaign workers offered him a flier. “I won’t pay a cent for the Greeks.”
Bochum’s Nokia cellphone factory picked up stakes two years ago and moved to Romania, with more than 2,000 jobs melting away in its wake. The carmaker Opel, which once employed 25,000 people in the city, today provides work for around 5,000 people, jobs that are also in jeopardy as Opel’s corporate parent, General Motors, restructures its subsidiary.
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