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Old 08-16-14, 01:53 PM   #5
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The gentleman-adventurer:

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesells...-a-986507.html

An appreciation that Scholl-Latour, who hated it when they bowed to him and said that because one were old one would not automatically be right, probably would have liked. I think it fits the man well.

And one of his last interviews, from earlier this year.

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/weltspieg...652136.html?p=

Quote:
Lassen Sie uns zurückblicken auf Ihre 70 Jahre als Reporter, Reisender und politischer Beobachter. Was war die heikelste Situation in Ihrem Leben?

Ich stand mal an der Erschießungsmauer, das war nicht ganz ungefährlich. Vielleicht hatten sie gar nicht vor, uns abzuknallen, aber es sah so aus.
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