Miniatur Wunderland Weekly Report
19.11.07 at 14:35 hrs
Weekly Report No 368, CW 46
From Monday, 12.11.2007 to Sunday, 19.11.2007
Shortly before noon, more than 80 photographers, editors and TV-teams waited to attend the opning ceremony.
Freddy, Gerrit, and Stephan took the guests on a quick tour around the new addition to the layout.
Before opening the new Switzerland section for the public, ambassodor Dr. Blickenstorfer held a short speech and pointed out the new connection between Switzerland and Hamburg that was made with this new section of our layout.
After their short speeches, the First Mayor Ole von Beust and the Swiss Ambassador Dr. Blickenstorfer opened the Swiss section for public viewing.
After the ceremony, Ole von Beust and Dr. Blickenstorfer were able to view Switzerland from a bird’s eye perspective. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find out what made Dr. Blickenstorfer look so amazed.
Gerrit and Freddy were overwhelmed by a wave of interview requests. However, as one can see in this photo, they never lost their good temper.
Another , not less impressive opening ceremony, created the next press run – DJ Bobo „fired up“ his small open air concert in the swiss section….
… which, with a 1/86 firework, was really a „sparkling“ event.
After the spectacular opening of the DJ Bobo concert, another highlight of the layout was to be opened. Sara Bouachir from Lindt Spruengli opened the chocolate plant in cooperation with Freddy.
From now on, this plant „produces“ up to 1,000 small Lindt-Spruengli chocolate bars and distributes them to our visitors.
To round this day out, the CEO of Holcim, Leo Mittelholzer, consul general Walter Keagi, and Gerrit Braun opened the concrete plant in the Graubuenden area.
This concrete plant was one of the largest projects which could be prototypically captured tahnks to the help of a plant manager of Holcim.
This enables our visitors to follow the production process in a concrete plant from raw material to finished product.
The day after the official opening it was time to party for our associates and friends.
In a small DJ-battle, DJ Chol and MC Eriker aka Freddy and Gerrit showed the colleagues that they still can bring it up (Yes, once they were DJs :) )
When DJ Rastafari grabbed the turntable and dug out the best dance hits of the last 20 years, the dancefloor was packed.
This opening party was a real smash hit for all associates and guests.
Freddy and Gerrit offered a quick preview to First Mayor Ole von Beust and the Swiss Ambassodor Dr. Christian Blickenstorfer before they went to celebrate the official opening.
