June 2009 Section D I ISTOCKPHOTO/FREDER. Mr. President, welcome

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1 Welcome to Saxoy Jue 2009 Sectio D I Watches Cotets Hadmade masterpieces that stad the test of time: Watches from Glashütte a hard-fought success story from Saxoy. Educatio II II Germay s Saxo Tiger: The Free State is Germay's umber oe federal state whe it comes to educatio. Cars III From Trabi to Phaeto: This is where the GDR s cardboard car origiated. Today, Saxoy is home to VW s luxury cars. A Welcome to Presidet Obama The strog ecoomic ties betwee the U.S. ad Saxoy have greatly cotributed to the resurgece of Saxoy By Staislaw Tillich Iovatio III Where the spirit of ivetio resides: I 1892 the beer coaster was iveted i Saxoy today the world s most moder microprocessors come from Dresde. Ceterfold IV 10 Reasos to Love Saxoy: The state offers may attractios take a look ad see what Saxoy s good for! Culture VI Art to see, hear, experiece ad stroll alog to: Evet-culture has bee a Saxo specialty sice the days of the Baroque. Porcelai White gold from Meisse: The Saxo porcelai maufacturer has bee producig the fiest tableware for 300 years. Sports VI VII The best thig about sport is wiig: Saxos ejoy their sport, as prove by their homegrow Olympic ad World champios. Welcome to Saxoy A special ewspaper to mark U.S. Presidet Obama s visit to the Free State of Saxoy, Jue 2009 Editor Publisher: Times Media GmbH Tempelhofer Ufer Berli, Germay Phoe Fax Resposible: Detlef W. Priz Cocept: Dr. Raier Bielig raier.bielig@times-media.de Layout: Gordo Marti, Berli Text: Simoe Guski, Aeliese Heberger, Susae Schroeder, Karl-Heiz Twele, Gerhard Wistuba Welcome to Saxoy is a Supplemet to the followig papers of Times Media published i Jue 2009: The Atlatic Times, Prited i the USA by Gaett Offset, Sprigfield, Virgiia. The Germa Times, Prited i Germay by Doga Media Iteratioal, Mörfelde Times Media GmbH 2009 The Frauekirche ( Church of Our Lady ) i Dresde is topped by oe of the largest sadstoe domes i Europe ad is, alogside Strasburg cathedral, the largest sadstoe buildig i the world. Destroyed by British bombig i 1945, it was restored betwee 1994 ad 2005, usig 3,539 blocks from the origial facade, followig doatios totalig more tha E100 millio ($140 millio) from all over the world, icludig the British Dresde Trust. Today it is a symbol of the recociliatio betwee former eemies ad the peacemakig stregth of the Europea Uio. Staislaw Tillich is miister-presidet of the Free State of Saxoy. He has bee a miister i the govermet of Saxoy sice From 2007, Tillich was Saxo state miister of fiace. The Ladtag, or federal parliamet of Saxoy elected him miister-presidet o May 28, Staislaw Tillich is of Sorbia ethicity ad lives i Paschwitz-Kuckau (Pacicy-Kukow), some 22 miles ortheast of Dresde earby Kamez. ISTOCKPHOTO/FREDER After twety years of a sustaied recovery effort, Saxoy is more beautiful ad successful tha ever. The essece ad motto of Saxoy today is 'high-tech ad Baroque'. Mr. Presidet, welcome to the Free State of Saxoy! It is a great hoor for me ad the Saxo people that you visit our capital city. There are may reasos to come to Dresde. But most promiet is the story of freedom i our coutry which we will tell to those who care to liste. Twety years ago, hudreds of thousads of Saxos poured ito the streets to protest agaist the rulig Commuist party. They demaded freedom, chatig a sloga slightly adapted from the U.S. costitutio: We are the people. Our call for freedom proved irresistible. We brought dow the Berli Wall, thus edig the Cold War ad pavig the way for Germa reuificatio. Ever sice the, we treasure our hard-wo freedom ad put it to the best use. We have thoroughly rebuilt our e c o - PICTURE ALLIANCE Presidet Obama will visit Dresde o Jue 5, omy, after more tha four decades of commuist mismaagemet. Saxoy has become a success story worth tellig, especially to you, Mr. Presidet, because we partly owe our success to a log ad dedicated America commitmet. Sice reuificatio i 1990, more tha 100 U.S. eterprises have set up busiess i Saxoy or acquired promisig Saxo compaies. Betwee them, they employ more tha 11,000 people i Saxoy. Global players such as AMD, Motorola, IBM, Dow Chemical or Amazo are here to stay. They beefit from skilled labor, a excellet ifrastructure, leadig R&D as well as the viciity of the dyamic markets i Easter Europe. Small woder, the, that the U.S. is Saxoy s biggest tradig parter. Sice 1990, our America-boud exports have icreased more tha fifty-fold. The strog ecoomic ties betwee the U.S. ad Saxoy have greatly cotributed to the resurgece of Saxoy. After 20 years of a sustaied recovery effort, Saxoy is more beautiful ad successful tha ever. Today, Saxoy is the most importat locatio i the Europea semicoductor idustry, proudly callig itself Silico Saxoy. Saxo maufacturers ship microchips, luxury cars, precisio watches, PV cells ad trais to destiatios all over the world. Saxoy is passioate about iovatio. Our scietists ad egieers make machies, cars ad computers more eergy-efficiet. They tap ew eergy sources like biofuels ad help improve eergy storage, eablig the e-car. We have got the brais to brig about a era of clea eergy because we care about top educatio, higher learig ad research. Our schools have bee certified to have the best studets i Germay. Every fourth college graduate has a degree i egieerig. The Max Plack Istitute of Cell Biology ad Geetics at Dresde raks as the top workplace for postdocs outside the U.S. Of course, there is more to that tha just a excellet educatio ad research ifrastructure. The essece ad motto of Saxoy today is 'high-tech ad Baroque'. Our rich heritage as well as a vibrat cultural life make Saxoy so eticig for bright mids. Saxoy harbors some of the most amazig art treasures i the world. Lovers of Baroque architecture, Reaissace paitigs, classical opera, expressioist art ad cotemporary ballet feel at home here. I short, a spirit of creativity pervades our coutry. It ispires millios of tourists every year, as well as so may scietists who come here for groudbreakig research. Ad, perhaps, you as well, Mr. Presidet. Freedom lovig ad forwardlookig, we are ready to tackle the great challeges ahead of us. Ad just like the Americas, we are cofidet that we will succeed. Just remember /LANDOV Oe of these is from Saxoy! Nowhere else i Germay the ecoomy is growig as rapidly as i Saxoy. A uique research eviromet, a moder ifrastructure, ad exceptioally well educated professioals provide a climate i which good ideas ripe ad mature ad etrepreeurial success stories thrive ad prosper. Whether it be the automobile idustry or microelectroics/it, whether it be machie costructio or life scieces: I Saxoy, ivestmets i all braches fall o fertile groud ad bear fruit quicker tha aywhere else. Develop your full growth potetial as well. We ll show you the best possible locatio. Bertolt-Brecht-Allee 22, D Dresde Tel , ifo@wfs.saxoy.com

2 II Jue 2009 Jue 2009 Welcome to Saxoy III NOMOS GLASHÜTTE Form ad quality have wo may accolades: More tha ay other watch from Nomos Glashütte, the Tagete with its mechaical movemet is a desig classic. Sice 1992 this model i Bauhaus style embodies watch maufacturig i Glashütte. Through etrepreeurial courage ad the persuasive power of pure luxury, the Saxo watch-makig idustry has achieved a impressive comeback over the last 20 years. Glashütte lies i the echatig Müglitz Valley, a idyllic settig i the easter Erz (Ore) Moutais, halfway betwee Dresde ad the Czech border. With its historic tow ceter ad the old St. Wolfgag s church it could be, like may small tows of its ilk, a place for tourists to kick back ad relax. But Glashütte is differet. Its products are to be foud i the best jewelry stores from Dresde to Dubai, because Glashütte is a watch-makig ceter ad has bee, with the occasioal ups ad dows, for over 160 years. Watches from Glashütte ecompass everythig from gradfather s pocket watches via stadard Made i GDR timepieces to the excitedly awaited (ad ot oly by watch lovers) latest product, the Lage Zeitwerk, which was uveiled at the begiig of May ad will be o sale from September. The love affair betwee Glashütte ad horology bega i 1845, whe, i a time of ecoomic hardship, the watch maker Ferdiad Adolph Lage, equipped with a 7,000 thaler start-up loa from the Royal Saxo govermet, established a workshop. He was soo joied by other watchmakers. From 1868 owards Hadmade Masterpieces that Stad the Test of Time Lage s compay carried the ame of A. Lage & Söhe, ad watches from Glashütte acquired a worldwide reputatio. The wheel of time tured i Glashütte, too DPA/HIRSCHBERGER But the came World War II, the divisio of Germay, ad i 1948 the watch-makig idustry i Glashütte was atioalized. Walter Lage, greatgradso of Ferdiad Adolph, was forced to leave Glashütte ad East Germay. The ow publicly owed G l a s h ü t - ter Uhreb e t r i e b e (GUB) spet the ext 40 years producig solid but simple quartz watches for the citizes of the GDR ad the coutries of the Easter bloc (they were eve delivered to West Germay for little moey). The came the fall of the Berli Wall. Walter Lage retured to Glashütte ad fouded A. Lage & Söhe O the trail of timekeepig: I its approximately 1,000 m 2 of exhibitio space, the Germa Clock Museum displays more tha 400 exhibits o the history of watch ad clock maufacturig i Glashütte. Watches from Glashütte a hard-fought success story from Saxoy Watch Seator Chroometer from Glashütte Origial : The term chroometer was used for the most accurate mechaical clocks for exact timig while avigatig ships. GLASHÜTTE over agai o Dec. 7, 1990, the very day o which 145 years ago his great-gradfather fouded the origial compay. Ad, as back the, competitors were also soo liig up. The GUB became the Glashütter Uhrebetrieb GmbH, today part of the Swatch Group. Uder the ame Glashütte Origial it sells its top-ed watches, icludig the successful Seator lie, throughout the world. The Nomos Glashütte compay is the third well-kow luxury brad from Glashütte, with, amog others, its Tagete model, a moder classic with a mechaical movemet i the Bauhaus style. Returig to reliable, had-made luxury Today the mass productio of the socialist iterlude is log sice goe. Oly a few tes of thousads of watches carryig the moiker Glashütte or Glashütte I/SA (for IN SAXONY) o their dials are made each year at A. Lage & Söhe that s aroud 5,000 timepieces for people aroud the world who appreciate luxury that ca be relied o. A.LANGE & SÖHNE A watch face like the cockpit of a racig car a time bridge gives the Lage Zeitwerk its umistakable imprit. The classic priciples of its mechaism combie here with a ew kid of idicator that leaps forth istataeously. It immediately makes it clear: Time is costatly movig o. Ad it has its price i gold $54,500 / E42,500, i platium $75,900 / E58,500. Glashütte s busiess biography is, as is so ofte the case with the vagaries of history, i may ways typically Germa. But whe it comes to watches it has, however, prove to be atypical. Because i Glashütte somethig has bee achieved that has failed i may other places: to make a highly successful compay from the remais of a former stateowed outfit. Ad it cotiues. A. Lage & Söhe ow part of the Swiss luxury goods cocer Richemot iitiated a techology ad developmet ceter i 2003, ad a total of 27 differet mechaical movemets have bee desiged sice the comeback. They are still had-made ad the fasciatio for a mechaical watch is perhaps stroger today tha ever before. I 1994 the Lage 1 was lauched the a milestoe, today a desig ico. Ad ow comes the Lage Zeitwerk. This is a watch of surprisig appearace: two hads ad two widows formig a cross, a time bridge spreads its wigs across the dial ad coects the hours ad miutes, which are displayed umerically i the widows. The miute is advaced step by step, ad o each full hour all three displays (oe for the hours, two for the miutes) are sychroized oce agai. This is a watch you wat to ow i order to treasure it for posterity. The built-i logevity is a quality that today every watch from Glashütte ows. Ad you do t have to go to Dubai to get them; they re all from Glashütte i Saxoy. Some 3.1 millio, two-stroke egied Trabats were built i Zwickau util But with the ed of the GDR obody wated the cardboard car aymore. They have ow become a ostalgic cult object. Carmakig goes back over 100 years i Saxoy. These days they build moder cars here ad also thik about evirometal protectio. TV-YESTERDAY Germa reuificatio was the start of a exemplary success story for Saxoy s auto idustry. There might ot have bee ay future for the Trabat (more tha three millio Trabis, as they were ickamed, had bee built by the VEB Sachserig Zwickau i GDR times), but Saxoy still had a great may qualified car workers. VW, Porsche ad BMW did t hesitate for log ad decided to set up productio facilities i the ew federal state. VW located itself i Zwickau ad Chemitz ad created i Dresde, at a cost of E365 millio ($512 millio), the Gläsere Maufaktur ( Trasparet Factory ) i which the flagship Phaeto has bee built sice The word built meaig, here i Dresde, the careful assembly of pre-maufactured parts, predomiatly by had. Of course, this icludes the relevat quality cotrol for every sigle compoet ad every complete car. What comes out the other ed is ot oly top-ed luxury it is also a example of how the Saxo art of egieerig is capable of producig also large, comfortable ad powerful cars that do t harm the eviromet either. Sice April 2009 the Phaeto is the first car i its class to meet the Europea Uio s Emissio Stadard 5, which takes effect from September. Zwickau is also VW s productio locatio for the Passat ad Golf. 6,200 people work at the plats. 1,000 workers build VW egies i Chemitz costructed to meet climate protectio requiremets. Moder tourist buses Made i Saxoy : The MAN subsidiary Neopla has bee buildig buses i Plaue for almost 20 years. MAN I total, Saxoy s auto idustry employs some 23,600 people i 73 compaies. It s ot oly VW that maufactures here. The Porsche Cayee SUV origiates from Leipzig, has created jobs for 800 people, ad it s recetly bee joied by the four-door luxury Porsche Paamera. BMW builds gas-savig vehicles of the Oe ad Three series i Leipzig, securig the jobs of 4,200 employees. This would be very much to the likig of Dresde s preset official A Porsche from the ew federal states? Yes, from Saxoy of course. The sports car maufacturer is producig its four-wheel drive SUV, the Cayee, i a ew plat i Leipzig. visitor: Presidet Barack Obama has just istructed U.S. automobile maufacturers to fially kiss goodbye to the giat gas-guzzlers ad embrace, i their stead, fuelsavig, climate-friedly models. Somethig that s easy to overlook: a bus, too, is, i the widest meaig of the word, also a car. The MAN subsidiary, Neopla, which produces moder tourist buses, built a ew productio facility i 1989, at Plaue i Saxoy, with jobs for 400. Car Coutry Saxoy: from Trabi to Phaeto This is where the GDR s cardboard car origiated. Today, Saxoy is home to VW s luxury vehicle Alogside the actual automobile maufacturers, this importat ecoomic sector has agai developed ito a key idustry i the ew Saxoy as well, through the creatio of a great may jobs i the compoet sector. Car coutry Saxoy aother example of how the past ca be expaded successfully: that the ew federal states also have a lot to offer for Germay s future ad, at the same time, offer themselves as a idustrial locatio with a future. This is because highly qualified workers i the automobile sector have existed here log before GDR times, i The body for VW s top model, the Phaeto, is made i Zwickau. I the Gläsere Maufaktur ( Trasparet Factory ) i Dresde the cars are assembled, to a large extet by had, for demadig customers. PORSCHE DPA/HIEKEL fact for more tha 100 years. With his self-built car, mechaical egieer Emil Herma Nacke laid the foudatio for Saxoy s automobile traditio as far back as 1900, i the village of Kötitz (today part of the small tow of Coswig, orthwest of Dresde). After that it was pedal to the metal for Saxo cars: 1902, August Horch fouded a car plat i Zwickau, two years later DKW ad Waderer moved to Chemitz. Ad i 1909, August Horch had a idea that is still ruig today: he traslated his ame ito Lati ad established a secod brad i Zwickau, oe which has sice wo worldwide acclaim Audi. With VW ow active i the luxury segmet, the circle has closed i Saxoy because Audi is ow a subsidiary of Volkswage. Ad Saxoy is showig the rest of Germay that here, too, it ca easily keep pace with the old federal states whe it comes to cars. Mr. Obama was already here. Ad what about you? Visit Dresde. The capital of the Free State of Saxoy ad oe of the most famous ad beautiful cities i Germay. Ivest i Dresde. Ad fid a excellet busiess eviromet i Germay s most dyamic city with highly qualified labor ad affordable real estate. We would like to assist you with your compay s ivestmet i Saxoy! For more iformatio, please cotact us: Dr. Edith Grether c/o TLG IMMOBILIEN GmbH Budapester Str. 3, D Dresde Phoe edith.grether@tlg.de ADVERTISEMENT Germay s Saxo Tiger Saxoy is Germay s umber oe federal state i educatio ad traiig ad is ahead of the ecoomic growth curve Where the Spirit of Ivetio Resides I 1892 the beer coaster was iveted here today the world s most moder microprocessors come from Dresde Saxoy s school studets are the best i Germay. That s what the PISA study says, which measures the performace of 15-year-olds i the majority of OECD atios. PISA, or Programme for Iteratioal Studet Assessmet, is a moiker that triggered a lively discussio i Germay. The study, coordiated by the Orgaizatio for Ecoomic Co-operatio ad Developmet (OECD) ad carried out i some 30 coutries that feel obligated to the priciples of democracy ad free market ecoomy, gave Germay as a whole a oly average grade. Not so for the Free State of Saxoy. Iteratioally, i readig Saxoy lies behid Korea, Fi- lad, Caada ad Australia i 5th place, i math it s behid Filad, Korea, the Netherlads, Switzerlad ad Caada i 6th place ad i the atural scieces it comes i behid Filad, i 2d place. Germay as a whole ca t keep up. The reaso is a very wellfuctioig educatio system i Saxoy. It cosists of four years basic educatio, eight years of high school (graduatig with a diploma, qualifyig for uiversity admissio) ad five or six years of juior high school (graduatig with a lower form of diploma, which usually precludes uiversity admissio). This dual educatio system offers studets lookig for a more work-orieted educatio the possibility to choose from more tha 360 recogized traiig paths i theory ad practice. I Saxoy the idividual support ad promotio of studets play a importat role. Aroud 6 percet of Saxoy s juior studets stad out i math, the atural scieces, laguages, music or sport. Specially traied teachers teach i the state s curret 37 project grade-schools. I additio, 22 of Saxoy s high schools offer a deeper curriculum. The Saxo State St. Afra High, fouded i 1543 i Meisse, specializes i educatig the highly gifted. Eve older is Leipzig Uiversity, fouded i 1409, at which later lumiaries such as Joha W. vo Goethe, Gotthold E. Lessig ad Friedrich Nietzsche studied. Today some 110,000 studets occupy Saxoy s 25 uiversities ad colleges. The extra-faculty research bodies, such as the 14 istitutes of the Frauehofer- Gesellschaft, are cosidered Saxoy s brai factories. That has positive effects o the state s ecoomic dyamic. I o other Germa federal state has the ecoomy developed so favorably betwee 2002 ad 2007 tha i the Saxo metropolis, Dresde, accordig to the City Rakig 2008 study by the Iitiative Neue Soziale Markt-wirtschaft, a iitiative for a ew social market ecoomy. Dresde is Germay s most dyamic city, still just ahead of Leipzig. At the same time the federal state capital has a higher educatio level tha the cities at the tail-ed of the rakigs: 20.1 percet of people i employmet have graduated from a uiversity or uiversity of applied scieces. Good professioal ad educatioal opportuities as well as the high quality of life are attractig may people to the state. I the last five years Saxoy has grow by a above-average 5.7 percet. Let s hear that roar, Saxo tiger! Saxos are kow for their special smarts. No woder: more research is beig doe here tha i ay other Germa federal state. Whether AMD or the Frauhofer Istitute the ames resoud as much today as those of Horch or DKW (see above report o this page) 100 years ago. The Saxo Federal Govermet is deliberately targetig ad promotig iovative, moder idustries to make the Free State of Saxoy's future crisis-proof. Ad the results are clearly visible. I the year 2000, the U.S. compay Advaced Micro Devices, Ic. (AMD) bega its chip productio i Dresde; 2,500 people work here for AMD, a good E5 billio ($7 billio) havig bee ivested. I the Dresde Desig Ceter ad two chip factories, the compay is ot oly buildig microprocessors, it is also developig them. Thus, the first Dual-Core processors came from Dresde. AMD, called Globalfoudries i Saxoy sice the start of the cooperatio with Arabia ivestors three moths ago laid the foudatio for the regio s reputatio as Silico Saxoy, takig its ame from the famous Silico Valley i Califoria. Numerous smaller chip maufacturers, medium-sized IT compaies, as well as seve research facilities of the academic society Frauhofer-Gesellschaft are located i Saxoy today. There s a traditio of ivetio here: I 1908, housewife Melitta Betz of Dresde came up with the famous paper coffee-filter. Professor August Karolus developed the first picture telegraph i The first small format picture camera also came from Dresde. Just as did the first sigle les reflex camera, iveted by Zeiss-Iko i Alogside the IT sector, biotechology is amog the most importat areas of future growth. A 200-Millimeter-Wafer: produced at AMD i Dresde for the global market. DDP/MILLAUER The Saxoy state govermet has, through its promotio policy, esured that the free state s reputatio as a biotech cluster has spread far beyod Germay s borders ad attracted appropriate compaies. The focus of umerous medium-sized compaies, research bodies ad istitutes lies i the medical applicatio of biotechology: regeerative medicie ad molecular bioegieerig. Here, biosciece, medicie, techology ad egieerig play just as sigificat a role as ew materials, aotechology or stem cell research ad tissue egieerig. With the developmet of moder high techology, Saxoy, through the state govermet, has achieved a success that is by o meas a give everywhere else: cooperative istead of competitive thikig betwee compaies, uiversities ad other research bodies. Ad the eastwards expasio of the Europea Uio has also bor fruit here: The decisio by the iteratioally active Polish software cocer ComArch for Dresde shows that easter Europea compaies fid i Saxoy what they eed for successful busiess developmet: a fuctioig ifrastructure, highly qualified workers ad a high performace research eviromet.

3 Welcome To Saxoy Jue 2009 STEPHAN FLOSS FOTOLIA/ANDREAS F. FOTOLIA.DE/JERUSHA Saxoy is good for Christmas: Woode Christmas decoratios from the Erzgebirge have, like porcelai from Meisse or Plaue lace from the Vogtlad, a traditio i Saxoy datig back ceturies. Come the festive seaso, livig rooms ad widows are decorated with cadle arches, pyramids, ut crackers ad smoke me (little carved figures with a icese stick iside), which create a homely atmosphere. Together with the impressive Christmas markets, they all play their part i givig the Erzgebirge its ickame of Christmaslad. The carved ad whittled figures of beech wood are a favorite souveir for tourists from ear ad far. Saxoy is good for fas of the medieval: The Albrechtsburg i Meisse is kow as the Cradle of Saxoy (right). It dates back to a defesive fortificatio from the year 929, which was erected o a rocky plateau over the Elbe. I the 15th cetury, the architect Arold vo Westfale coverted it ito a late Gothic castle, the first i Germay. He stamped his mark o the buildig with such majestic costructios as the orate arched widows, cellar vault ad famous staircase tower. By order of August the Strog, Europe s first porcelai factory was established here i Together with the cathedral, bishop s residece ad Korhaus (for grai storage), Albrechtsburg Castle is the emblem of Meisse. V ISTOCKPHOTO/FROMER IV FOT OLIA.DE /DIG I DR ESD EN 10 Reasos to Love Saxoy It s ot just the reowed beauty of the local wome you ll fall i love with. Saxoy has a large variety of other attractios too. Take a look ad see what Saxoy s good for! Saxoy is good for coffee drikers: The passio for cady, cakes ad cookies, such as the Dresde Eierschecke or the famous Dresder Stolle is somethig all Saxos share. They were the first people i Germay to uite coffee with cake. Saxoy played a importat role i the developmet of Germa coffee culture, through the ivetio of Europea porcelai for the coffee table, the custom of afteroo coffee ad coffee houses. Oe of Europe s oldest coffee houses is still goig i Leipzig today; the Coffe Baum, first metioed i Amog its guests were August the Strog, Robert Schuma ad Joha Sebastia Bach, who humorously set the Saxos ethusiastic love of the hot drik to music i his Kaffeekatate..DE/DI A FOTOLI CAMPO VISUM/DOER ING Saxoy is good for Hollywood: With almost 4,000 historical buildigs datig from 500 years of Europea history, Görlitz has a old tow that s uique i Germay. The city experieced its golde age i the late medieval period as a tradig ad cultural ceter. Germay s eastermost tow survived the war almost udamaged. Hollywood therefore loves Görlitz: Queti Taratio recetly shot scees for his Iglourious Basterds at the Utermarkt (photo). Before that, Kate Wislet came here for The Reader. Saxoy is good for wie lovers: Saxoy s pretty girls were made proverbially famous through the old Germa rhyme which traslates as That s why I wet to Saxoy, where the beautiful maids grow o trees. They might ot do that ay more, but alogside their good looks they re also kow for their assiduity ad smarts. Thaks to these qualities, for example, Marlee Herr is ow the reigig Saxo Wie Quee (photo). She represets Germay s smallest wie-growig regio ad the most ortheasterly i Europe. That makes wie from Saxoy a highly prized rarity, ad a variety such as the Goldrieslig ca be druk oly here. Saxoy is good for traditioalists: I the Lausitz area, biligual road ad place sigs aouce it as the home of oe of Germay s recogized ethic miorities, the Sorbs (or Weds). Suppressed by the Nazis, supported durig the GDR, some 60,000 members of this Slavic tribe still live i Bradeburg ad Saxoy today. They are descedets of the souther Elbe Slavs who, durig the Migratio period, settled the regio betwee the Saale river i the west ad the Oder river i the east. The Sorbs maitai ad cultivate their ow laguage itesively, for example with their ow ewspapers, as well as customs such as the Sorbia Easter Ride (photo). Their iterests are represeted by the Domowia ( Homelad ), a umbrella orgaizatio for all Sorbia societies, which was fouded i Saxoy s state premier, Staislaw Tillich, is himself a Sorb. BERGER Free State of Saxoy STAR-MEDIA/KUBE VARIO/IMAGEBROKER Saxoy is good for sowboardig: Sowboarders, dowhill ad cross-coutry skiers fid ideal coditios i the Erzgebirge moutais. The cetral moutai chai, which rus alog the border betwee Germay ad the Czech Republic, has may skiig areas. The most popular is the health resort of Oberwiesethal, which ca claim three superlatives of its ow: at 3,000 feet, Germay s highest tow has the coutry s oldest aerial cableway, which leads to the top of the Fichtelberg, Saxoy s highest peak (3,982 feet). Ayoe who would rather get to kow the Erzgebirge i other seasos ca travel the Saxo Silver Road. The route follows that of the moutai people who, sice the 12th cetury, mied the umerous silver deposits ad so laid the foudatio for the regio s ecoomic developmet. CH DPA/HIRS Saxoy is good for deer huters: Augustus the Strog had the architect of the Dresde Zwiger build Schloss Moritzburg (above), i the middle of a lake, as a hutig residece ad represetative lodge for royal revelry. The Price-Electors hutig trophies were preseted i the castle i oe of the largest atler collectios i Europe. Also uique is the collectio of Baroque leather wallpaper, which received its characteristic surface by beig completely silvered ad the embellished with gold varish ad pait. Schloss Moritzburg, oe of Saxoy s most importat Baroque buildigs, is surrouded by artificial pods i which carp for the Price-Elector s table were bred. FOTOLIA.DE/KRÖGER Saxoy is good for wie die: Here, i Auerbachs Keller i Leipzig, is where Joha Wolfgag vo Goethe took a glass or more of wie durig his time as a studet. Eve i his days, two old woode paitigs from 1625 could be see hagig there. They depict scees from the life of the astrologist, Dr. Faustus, who is said to have ridde from the place, with the devil s help, o a wie barrel. The paitigs ispired Goethe, who immortalized the origial wie cellar i his literary masterpiece, Faust I. Two groups of sculptures with Faust, Mephistopheles ad the spellboud revelers show visitors the way to the Mädler retail passage, where the etrace to the cellar is located. ISTOCKPHOTO/REST AUERBACHS KELLER ADVERTISEMENT Saxoy is good for free climbig: Bizarre rock formatios with towers ad eedles, mesas ad deep ravies lyig to the southeast of Dresde, alog the Elbe river, the Saxo Switzerlad area is oe of Germay s most fasciatig ladscapes. To this very day the sadstoe moutais, costatly chagig through erosio, offer outstadig hikig experieces with log-distace views over the cayo-like Elbe valley, for example from the Bastei lookout-poit (photo). Moreover, this is the birthplace of free climbig. More tha 1,000 summits make it the Holy Grail for those who wat to get to the top!

4 VI Jue 2009 Jue 2009 Welcome to Saxoy VII Art, music ad dace have bee at home i Saxoy for ceturies. Impressive architecture provided the backgroud for music ad dacig from the baroque period via the classical age to the preset. Imposig buildigs, i fact etire collectios of buildigs as a settig for evets ad festivities, that s what the Saxo Price-Elector ad Kig of Polad, Augustus the Strog, wated from the day he took office i Dresde, Saxoy s capital eve i those days, is still the embodimet of a culture that is ot at all foreig to us: a evetculture, which aims to astoish ad distract the audiece. Boredom is baed ad curiosity cotiually fids ew ourishmet. Rococo sculptures of atique gods i the court garde of the Zwiger Palace, betwee the old ad ew city wall, eabled a jourey back ito time. The exotic plats still growig there give visitors, as they did way back whe, the feelig of beig i far off souther lads. I the Zwiger, the oldest museum i Europe with its masterpieces by Raphael, Titia, Craach, Holbei ad Dürer, August the Strog wated to create i a sigle cosmos all the woders produced by ature ad ma, ad or did his successors wat him to have the last word. The valuables i the Grüe Gewölbe (Gree Vault), the treasure depository i the residece, are evidece of the same passio. The Saxo Price-Electors used the exotic to give flight to their imagiatios. The Moor with Emerald Plate, who while black, is ot actually a Moor, as his adormet of feathers shows is the ceterpiece of the jewelry collectio. I what is the Dresde district of Pillitz today, a whole castle ad garde area built i the Asia style was erected. Brühl s Terrace is also called Europe s Balcoy. The Elbe wall of the city fortificatios was give a civil role by Graf Heirich vo Brühl i the middle of the 18th cetury. Like a stage settig of horticulture ad architecture, oce the exclusive preserve of aristocratic society, Brühl s Terrace today is a place where aybody ca take a stroll. JOSE GIRIBAS Art to See, Hear, Experiece ad Stroll alog to Evet-culture has bee a Saxo specialty sice the days of the Baroque The vaulted galleries of the world s oldest museum, the Dresde Zwiger (above right), are ope-air backdrops, ow as i the past. Festivities ad artistic performaces are beig held oce more i its baroque court garde. I the Grües Gewölbe (Gree Vault) the Dresde treasure house of superlatives the Moor with Emerald Plate (above left) is oe of the most precious exhibits. Leipzig s Gewadhaus orchestra is Germay s oldest civic that is to say o-royal cocert orchestra. It has carried its preset ame sice 1781, ad sice 1981 has had its ow veue (iterior, below) at Leipzig s Augustusplatz the oly ew costructio of a purpose-built cocert hall i the GDR, thaks to its former director of music, Kurt Masur. The Semperoper (Semper opera house) built by Gottfried Semper ad his so Mafred i the secod half of the 19th cetury i Dresde, severely damaged by bombig ad rebuilt, is decorated o the outside with festive forms. Iside, however, the desig is clearly alog the classical lies. It became the prototype for theatres aroud the world. Almost every day for more tha 460 years, the Semperoper has hosted, as it still does, cocerts by the Saxo State Orchestra. DPA/CHROMEORANGE Stamped eve more by Germa classicism ad its music is Leipzig, fouded i The St. Thomas Church, home of the world famous Thomaerchor (St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig), was erected i It was the workplace of Joha Sebastia Bach from 1723 ad it was the destiatio of the first protest march i the peaceful revolutio of 1989, as is documeted by the permaet exhibitio i the Zeitgeschichtliches Forum (Forum of Cotemporary History) i Leipzig city ceter. I the old tow you will fid Auerbachs Keller where Joha Wolfgag vo Goethe ejoyed a drik or two durig his studet days, before he wet o to write Germay s most famous drama, Faust. I oe scee, Auerbachs Cellar i Leipzig, he immortalized the establishmet, as literature lovers kow for whom Leipzig, with its book fair i March, is the literary capital. The Gewadhaus (garmet house), so amed because the first cocert house was i the former buildig of the Leipzig cloth merchats fair, has become, together with its orchestra, the epitome of Germa music culture. Works by composers from Ludwig va Beethove to Johaes Brahms were premiered here. Felix Medelssoh Bartholdy was director of music here i the mid 19th cetury, Kurt Masur at the ed of the 20th. Moder festivity ad art ca be experieced i the garde city of Hellerau, today a suburb of Dresde, where livig, workig, culture ad learig were to fid a ew uity i the Grüderzeit (period of promoterism) of the 19th cetury. The Germa-Jewish-Hugaria Gret de Palucca made it a ceter of expressive dace util Now, here i the Europea Ceter for the Arts, the Forsythe Compay of New York choreographer William Forsythe has established a ew veue. Three hours sports a week i school, best precoditios for mass sports, awards, evets ad promotig youg talet all make Saxoy Germay s most successful sportig federal state. It s 1988: Kataria Witt takes Olympic gold i Calgary, becomes world champio i Budapest ad Europea champio i Prague. The figure skater is oe of the world s most successful sportswome, oe who leared her professio i Saxoy; a Germa dream Made i Saxoy. After 10 years of showbiz i evets like Holiday O Ice or Stars O Ice, i 1999 she was voted Sportswoma of the Year i the U.S. The former most beautiful face of socialism (Time Magazie, 1988) became the most popular face i America, the America Dream made real. Aother sport, aother time: I 1976, Michael Ballack is bor i Germay s eastermost tow, Görlitz. Later to become a worldfamous soccer player, he is also a Saxo. Ballack starts, aged seve, at the BSG Motor Fritz Heckert Karl-Marx-Stadt soccer club, ow Chemitz FC. The it was owards ad upwards through all the great Germa teams. He played with FC Kaiserslauter, Bayer Leverkuse ad Bayer Muich, became Germa Champio, several times Footballer of the Year i Germay, Vice World ad Vice Europea Champio. Today he plays i the Eglish Premier League, for Chelsea F.C., ad is captai of the Germa atioal team. Two Saxo success stories have attracted worldwide recogitio. But they are ot oeoff s. Saxo sportsme ad sportswome have also bee triumphig elsewhere. The Best Thig i Sport is Wiig Saxos ejoy their sport. Ad they love wiig, as prove by their homegrow Olympic ad World champios Ice pricess Kataria Witt, traied i Chemitz: The worldfamous figure skater gaied the basis for her success i Saxoy, at a former sports school for childre ad adolescets i the former GDR. DPA/SCHMIDT Jes Weissflog was a multiple Olympic gold medal wier i ski jumpig, Lars Riedel a Olympic gold wier ad five-times world champio i discus, Ricco Gross a Olympic ad world champio i the biathlo ad Sylke Otto a multiple Olympic wier ad world champio i sleddig. They all traied i oe of Saxoy s sports schools. Michael Hüber (cycle racig), Ja Hempel (water ski jumpig) as well as Aljoa Savcheko ad Robi Szolkowy (figure skatig pairs) are other successful Saxo sportsme ad wome at the Olympics as well as other World ad Europea champioships. The promotio of sport is eve writte i the Free State of Saxoy s costitutio. It says: Participatio i sport is to be made possible for the etire people. School sports are ofte the first opportuity to get kids kee o regular movemet. Saxoy is oe of the few Germa states that have decreed three hours of sports educatio a week for almost all school childre. O top of that, every year more tha 150,000 school kids take the opportuity to participate i iterschool competitios especially the Federal Schools Competitio Juged traiiert für Olympia, or Youth trais for Olympia. Youg talets are give specially targeted traiig i aroud 30 differet kids of sport i a total of 12 sport-orieted schools i Dresde, Leipzig, Alteberg, Chemitz, Kligethal ad Oberwiesethal. But those Saxos a log way from the leagues also do t just sit o the couch ad watch the world stars. Saxos like movig, are fit ad do sports. A exact total of 20,814 Saxos got their proficiecy badge i 2008, more tha ever before. The Germa Sportig Proficiecy Badge is a popular atioal award outside competitive sports. It tests a perso s geeral fitess i various sportig disciplies ad is graded by age group. Motor sport is hugely popular i Saxoy. The races at the Sachserig track, ear Chemitz, have take o a real carival atmosphere i recet years. The may sidebar evets at the Iteratioal Germa Motorbike Champioship (the IDM) i Jue, the Motorbike Grad Prix Germay i July or the ADAC car race i September draw mass crowds to Saxoy. There s a uique atmosphere trackside ad at the earby campig grouds. Racig idol Michael Schumacher is expected at the IDM. He might ot be a Saxo, but he s a wier the way sports-mad Saxos like em! Soccer player Michael Ballack, bor i Görlitz: discovered aged seve by BSG Motor, today s FC Chemitz. He s amog the world s best ad plays ow for Chelsea F. C. i Lodo. CITY-PRESS/RENNER GEWANDHAUS LEIPZIG LOOK-FOTO/ZIELSKE VISUM/PFLAUM A quadriga draw by four tame ad haressed pathers full of stregth ad spirit races oce agai above the etrace of the restored Semper opera house i Dresde. Beeath the ribbed vaulted ceilig of St. Thomas Church i Leipzig, protestat reformer Marti Luther held his sermos, Joha Sebastia Bach devised his compositios ad the peaceful revolutio of 1989 bega. White Gold from Meisse A Saxo porcelai maufacturer has bee producig the fiest tableware for 300 years It s a good thig U.S. Presidet Obama is visitig Saxoy because there s somethig here he ca t get i Washigto, eve though it belogs o the White House diig table: Meisse porcelai. O their ext flyig visit to their hometow Chicago, the Presidet ad First Lady could of course drop by Tabula Tua Ic., 105 West Armitage Ave, the fiest address for tableware i the city. At this elegat store the best that Saxoy has cojured up for beautifully laid tables i the world: fiest tableware from Meisse maufactured i Saxoy for a pretty good 300 years. Augustus the Strog did t do thigs by halves i his day. The Price-Elector of Saxoy (he was Kig of Polad at the same time) had the apothecary Joha Friedrich Böttger, who had just fled Berli, summarily arrested i Dresde. Böttger had boasted he could make gold. I 1705, Augustus baished him to Albrechtsburg castle i Meisse, where he should experimet as a gold maker. But to o avail. O the other had, the Saxo ruler had spet a fortue o Chiese porcelai the white gold from the Middle Kigdom. That gave him a ew idea: He provided Böttger with a physicist ad a experieced seior miig egieer, ad ordered him to discover the recipe for makig porcelai. I 1708 Böttger maaged to make the first shards from white clay. I 1710 Böttger s place of MEISSEN MANUFAKTUR itermet, Meisse s Albrechtsburg, became the first productio site of the Royal-Polish ad Electoral-Saxo Porcelai Maufacture. Böttger, ow a free citize ad ma of rak, was made head of maufacturig of the later to become world famous Meisse porcelai. Soo the compay, today kow as Meisse Maufaktur, produced the fiest coffee-, tee- ad tableware with ladscapes ad scees with figures, followig the Elegat tableware for high-ed figer food: Lobster Deluxe Dier Plate, Lobster Deluxe Sauce Dishes ad Lobster Deluxe Lemo Water Bowl by Meisse to clea your figers while eatig lobster. Chiese example. Not log after, Europea desigs were added: pastoral scees, paitigs of plats ad isects, or hutig ad heroic imagery. Russia s tsaria Catherie the Great placed her largest orders i Saxoy, as did Prussia s Kig Frederick the Great. Collectors of Art Deco today are very kee o pieces by artists such as the paiter Hery va de Velde. The Sleepig Tramp by the expressioist sculptor Erst Barlach also wet ito series productio. A overview of Meisse s productivity throughout the last three hudred years ca be observed at leisure i the compay s museum i Meisse. Items from today s product rage ca be bought ad ordered all over the world, for example i Chicago. But delivery may take a while. It s much faster, o site, i Saxoy or o your ext visit to the capital i Berli s Meisse stores at Gedarmemarkt ad Uter de Lide. Foto: Karste Irlebor - Fotolia.com The USA ad Saxoy Just a click away. Discover Saxoy s most beautiful sites: The Free State of Saxoy is hoored to welcome Barack Obama: We wish you a pleasat stay Mr. Presidet!

5 W e l c o m e t o t h e l a d o f o p p o r t u i t y. Dear Mr. Presidet! Welcome to what s probably Germay s most multifaceted state, Saxoy. It s reowed for its cultural ad historical highlights as well as its idyllic ladscapes, but it has a whole lot more to offer too icludig its traditioal Saxo flair for busiess ad iovatio. There are lots of reasos why it s oe of the leadig techological hubs i the heart of Europe, such as its moder ifrastructure. Ad who s to say it s ot oe of the reasos we re the first Germa state to have the hoor of receivig a visit from the ew Presidet of the Uited States? If you would like more iformatio, please visit