Cluster: Swiss Identity

Festival crowds undeterred by wet weather

This content was published on Jul 17, 2000 Some 44,000 tickets were sold for the three-day rock festival on the hill overlooking Berne, the Gurten, to the delight of organisers who had feared a financial deficit as a result of the weather. It was the same story in the streets of Lausanne, where the annual “Festival de la Cité” attracted over 80,000 on…

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Markus Fuchs puts on creditable show in Aachen

This content was published on Jul 16, 2000 Fuchs, a 45-year-old rider from Sankt Gallen was on Tinka’s Boy, and earned a creditable fourth place. The Grand Prix was won by the German, Otto Becker, on Cento who put in a faultless performance. He was followed by Jos Lasink of the Netherlands and another German, Markus Beerbaum, in third place. swissinfo with agencies

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Organisers of Gurten rock festival expect a profit

This content was published on Jul 16, 2000 The organisers of this year’s Gurten festival said that all three days, including the final day, were a sell-out. Music fans were not put off by the mudbath after days of continuous heavy rain. The organisers said that an average number of 15,000 people had attended each day of the festival. A spokesman explained: “Without…

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Champions Sankt Gallen shocked as new football season opens

This content was published on Jul 15, 2000 Sankt Gallen had been hoping to continue where they left off a few weeks ago. But they fell to a Gimenez goal in the 32nd minute in Lugano. The eastern Swiss side were the only one of the four clubs, tipped to have a real title chance this season, to have lost on the opening…

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Swiss athlete wins gigathlon endurance test

This content was published on Jul 15, 2000 Schumacher, the favourite, finished the multi-discipline course in 13 hours 59 minutes and 37 seconds. His time was half an hour faster than the American, Rod Raymond, who won the race when it was first held two years ago. Raymond did not take part this time. More than 3,000 people took part in what is…

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Carving a modern image

This content was published on Jul 15, 2000 During the height of summer, throngs of tourists disembark from the paddle steamer at Brienz or hop out of chartered buses. Taking a break from a tour of the lake or stretching their legs before heading over the Brunig pass to Lucerne, they have been told Brienz is the perfect place to buy a souvenir.…

Actor, Paul Bühlmann, dies aged 73

This content was published on Jul 15, 2000 Born on the 12th of February 1927, Bühlmann spent his entire life in Zurich. Speaking about Bühlmann’s personality, the playwright, Hans Gmür, described him as “a typical Zurich person.” Bühlmann’s career started after being trained as an actor. He then got a taste for the stage by performing in working mens’ clubs. Throughout the fifties…

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Russian special investigator to receive Swiss files in Aeroflot probe

This content was published on Jul 15, 2000 More than 80 boxes of files relating to bank accounts held by Aeroflot’s Lausanne-based company, Andava, and the financial group, Forus, are to be handed over to Volkov, according to the Russian newsagency, Interfax. The Russian legal authorities had started an investigation against Aeroflot and the billionaire businessman, Boris Berezovsky, in January 1999, for allegedly…

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Gstaad: Last Swiss player knocked out

This content was published on Jul 15, 2000 Rosset was prevented from the reaching the quarter-finals in a match which was dominated by long breaks in play due to heavy rain, slow balls and a tricky surface to play on. Squillari had from the outset been tipped as the favourite and after a rapid first set victory it was Rosset who fought back…

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This week, Dale Bechtel finds rumours of an American Montreux a little hard to believe

This content was published on Jul 15, 2000 If I believed a Swiss newspaper article “Montreux made in USA”, this one is on Lake Tahoe in the state of Nevada. But it’s called New Montreux to avoid any confusion, the German-language TagesAnzeiger reported. The story caused a bit of a furore in (the authentic) Montreux just when the (original) jazz festival was getting…

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