Ride on the razor

Köln - VfL Gummersbach before the start of the second half of the season - it's just going right: Four games in ten days, it comes at the start on Tuesday (20.15 clock) in the Cologne Arena against Wilhelmshaven.
And for coach Alfred Gislason on the half-year will ride on the razor blade. For he has to rely on players who are actually already on the hit list. There will be the smallest problem with Sverre Jakobsson. "I know what the coach thinks and plans of the club. I go back to Iceland, "said the intelligence chief, whose contract runs out.
Anders is 26) to Kenneth Klev (29) and Geoffroy Krantz (. The two newcomers who have been disappointed, although both still contract. "I hope that I'll get a chance," said the Norwegian. And Krantz, with three minutes of operating time European Championship bronze medal winner with France, says: "I can do it much better."
But with Viktor Szilagyi and Drago Vukovic their successors already are available. Even Denis Zakharov (23, contract expires) knows that with Adrian Pfahl (25) and Marko Vujin (24) are on his position before the candidate's signature.
Iceland arrow Gudjon Sigurdsson (28) waits for the other hand, the fact that some of the Rhein-Neckar-Löwen and VfL Gummersbach. But he also wants to give everything until the end of the blue and whites.
"What's to discuss the clubs, interests me only in passing. As long as I have the VfL jersey, I give full throttle for this club. "The expected Gislason by all others. "We want to return to the international business. This is the overriding everyone. "
The leading trio of Kiel, Hamburg and Flensburg has slipped away. But behind the weekend there were plenty of backing of the competition. Nordhorn lost Lemgos new coach Markus Baur also gave the same starting points.
Fourth place seems possible for VfL. And there's a nice reward beckons: the Champions League. Because: If a German club to win the Champions League, anyhow here is the fourth. Is that not the case, spread the EHF wildcards. An athletic skills would be safer.

Merkel watscht from SPD

Berlin - Is this the beginning of the end of the grand coalition? In view of the planned cooperation of the Hessian SPD with the Left Party in Berlin the tone is harsher.
Chancellor Angela Merkel accused the comrades perjury. The Union was dealing with a coalition partner that is "increasingly unreliable", the CDU leader.
So far, Merkel was the alliance with the SPD, despite all problems, all references to criticism in protection. On Friday she said: "We need other political conditions."
The example of Hesse has shown that it is on the floor of the Social Democrats could no longer leave. The grand coalition that although "a lot of moves," but could provide the Union with the FDP as a partner can achieve more. Merkel: "Our target is the coalition with the Liberals."

Finally, end with concubinage

Cologne - "It was about time with the wedding. My son is already 42, I married the first time with 25 years ", declared the former governor Franz-Josef Antwerpes left.
He is on Saturday, a stone fell from his heart because his son Jan (42) is under the hood. Finally, it was even a time when the former governor was worried about his son, even tried to pair off on their own.
But now it's official: His son, Jan Antwerpes (heads with his older brother Frank), the advertising agency Antwerpes AG is married. He and his partner Pia Lindel (32, personnel director) have, after three years of the relationship step before the registrar daring - and in the design hotel "New York" in Mülheim said "yes".
It also seemed the pair (motto of the wedding "Speed Wedding") can hardly wait. Did they lose time any more? "No, we did not just end this classic, with registry appointment at 8.30 clock. We wanted it crispy, "says the bride.
The next pit stop will then honeymoon in Portugal, while senior Antwerpes already forging the next plans for the newlyweds: "Now it's time for young ..."

Savings debate without OB

Dusseldorf - The troubled city savings bank as a theme in the Council - the smell of a bill! Gave it too, but almost only in a pure numbers debate. And without the main actor in the last few weeks, Joachim Erwin.
The OB had reported sick. Allen - given the hard-hit Erwin's health - anxious questions attempted to city spokesman Kai Schumacher reassuring to meet: "The OB has captured on his China trip a cold - because of the many air conditioners."
So Mayor Dirk Elbers had to lead the Council meeting. And the thorny field of "Savings Bank" tilled others from the Council
Relatively unspectacular the final showdown came from in terms of the fired executives Humme Heinz-Martin and Karl-Heinz Stiegemann: The Council denied them in the ratification of an annual rare unanimity in the discharge. That's it! Then perhaps the courts will soon have its say!
It was available yet, the violent conflict, not heads, but for millions. Specifically: To profit allocation of savings to the city. Nine million had wanted Erwin, to fund the relief at the kindergarten contributions.
"Nothing there!" The Board had told the bank and reduces the amount of four million. Yesterday, the "somersault": Erwin gets its nine million. In the debate over this sum, the waves were high: "The 'bad daughter" savings will be ausgelutscht "outraged Norbert Czerwinski) (Green.
And Mayor Gudrun Hock spoke of a "hypocritical discussion," feared for the credibility of the bank, given the search for a new CEO.