This was roughly what you could read as a sub-title in the „Münchner Abendzeitung“ edition of this morning. The name of the ice princess (Eisprinzessin) is Katarina Witt. Her website is just as sterile as she.
Katarina Witt was the face (Gesicht) of Munich as a candidate for the Winter Olympics. And she was ever so confident that Munich would win. I was a little more sceptical. After all, Katarina Witt was not born in Munich. She is a child of East Germany. And if I remember correctly, she is a child of East Germany who is rather egoistical. At least that is my impression on recalling what she gave as a reason for not wanting children.
And when finally Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel (another childless child of East Germany) spoke out in favour of the Winter Olympics 2018 in Munich (“This is a national issue!“), it was pertty clear that Munich would finally come in second. Why would the world make the Germans a present by giving them the Olympic Games, since we are currently busy giving ousselves a poor reputation world-wide?
After the failure, the dispassionate East German entrepreneur Witt showed emotions. Were the tears real – or was it just self-staging? If I were to cry bitter tears whenever I fail to win the bidding for a project … you would see rivers full of tears…
We should accept the not quite unexpected failure like fair sportsmen and start doing our homework here in Germany. And in the future, we should refrain from getting carried away with all kinds of illusions in a hurry. And, in case of failure, we should not be offended and attack the winner.
Now the best approach would be to show some humility. Our orientation should not be determined by growth and shareholder value. Instead, we should look for values and virtues. The more than 30 million Euros we had to pay for the privilege are something we should write off in a hurry. After all, we are only talking Euros, and it seems like we have more than enough of them these days.
And we can certainly build up a reasonable infra structure without olympic panem et circenses. All we have to do is want to do it!
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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