Anja Offermann Yesterday at 13:59 · Edited Lots of Newspaper Articles are popping up... here is one interesting one. The Tree lighting on her birthday was not planned by her - it is a co-incidence... Google translation: Since 1994, Tina Turner lives in a rental villa at the lake. On Wednesday she will celebrate her 75th birthday - the Küsnacht people only care a little. A search on the Gold Coast: “Before 12 am no bell, no No Deliveries. Thank you. Its morning at 10 clock, an inappropriate time to ring as an unannounced guest on a door. In particular, if it is such a pompous gate. In golden letters emblazoned Algonquin the indigenous inhabitants of North America. It is a property with an even number at the lakeside, the Gold Coast, where the rich people live. The entrepreneur Beat Curti, the boutique Queen Trudie Götz and, indeed, Anna Mae Bullock, better known as Tina Turner. For over 20 years she has been at home in Küsnacht. During this time she did only cause very little reason to talk about her. Without sensitivity to Glamour This is no accident. There is no country that is less unglamorious than Switzerland Sibylle Berg wrote recently in the Journal of the NZZ. Perhaps the reason is that the Swiss have no sense for glamor. And where celebrities are so common as in Küsnacht, you do not talk about it too. And the stars seem to appreaciate this in addition to the tax benefits. I know nothing about Tina Turner, said a passer-by, who lives at the lakeside. Ive never seen her in the village. I probably missed her. She is a late riser, I am on the road very early.” This detail is known - The sign at the entrance is indeed immense. Turner has 14:00 breakfasts, which is very sympathetic, explained four seniors who meet every Monday morning in the Confectionery Kaegi. She is a giving Küsnachterin, she employs local craftsmen, explain the four. “We would like to invite her for coffee. She is a woman of our generation. Lets make a note and hang it on her garden gate! Suggests one of the women. Maybe she will open us the door, wearing house shoes and offers us a drink, says another laughing. But did Tina Turner already return from abroad? On Wednesday she will be back in Switzerland - right on time for her 75th birthday. This is what the yellow press gossip says. Just on that day the Christmas lights are lit, that Turner donated to her community. Around 250,000 francs she paid for Golden Twig wreaths”. The golden branches are already mounted on the lamps on the lakeside Küsnachter municipality. A charming gesture of thanks? Planning? No way! says Mayor Markus Ernst I have learned from the press that this day is also the birthday of Mrs. Turner. It is a coincidence. There it is again, this lack of excitement. This irritation at the audacity that someone wants to make a connection between a tradition and a star birthday. Ernst says seriously. We light the local Christmas lights always at the beginning of the Christmas market on the last Wednesday in November” - an event with the star was not planned, underlines the Küsnachter, while in other cities three-day theme parties are announced on the anniversary , Turner did not want to create a Memorial of Golden Twig for her. She is humble, open and straightforward. Thus, the lighting will be lit on Wednesday at 16 clock 45 , no fuss, Küsnacht- like. In the last two years, the media have reported about Tina Turner in an unusual way. Beginning of 2013, the in 1939 Tennessee-born naturalized in Küsnacht, US citizenship was given off. This made the Küsnachter rejoice - discreet, but they smile triumphantly that someone prefers to be Küsnachterin over being an American. It is said that the mobile phone ringtone Turner has was also been adapted to the new home: Simply the best yodel version. She learned punctuality and dropped the vote into a local vote urn. She wanted to know how direct democracy was working, she once said. Around this introduction a polemic was formed. Some got angry that Turner received the swiss pass despite the lack of knowledge of German. Perhaps the Küsnachter local historian Alfred Egli knows something about this? He teaches foreigners in Zürich german” classes expressions such as gsüechlig in and was once a member of the Commission naturalization. I know almost nothing about Tina Turner, but he also says. But one thing had come to his ears. She must be a spontaneous person, one time she stopped her car in front of the garden of a friend and looked at the garden closely. Yes, and in the fall they baptized a boat of the Lake rescue Küsnacht- Erlenbach, Tina is the name of course. And at least, he had already heard that Turner fights a war with the German language. Seems like they turned a blind eye in the naturalization. Egli would like to make up for the failures: . I would like to be her tutor But shes already taken, Turner got married in the summer of 2013 to her longtime partner Erwin Bach. The 59-year-old comes from Cologne - with him she should actually learn German, says Egli. Double hidden My project to visit the Queen of RocknRoll spontaneously, failed. Perhaps Tina Turner hears about my visit; a surveillance camera recorded everything. Through the bars of the gate you can catch a glimpse into the 5,000 square meter facility. Dense plant growth surrounds the garden and the villa itself is further shielded by trees. To date, the castle was built in the 19th century by one of the Fleischmann family, who made a fortune with coffee and grain trade. For several years, Kaspar Fleischmann lives in the bathhouse. He made room for his tenant in the main building. A gardener passes near the entrance gate, takes no notice of the visitor. He works for the Thalwiler landscaping company Baumann builds gardens. Since Turner lives in Switzerland, this company maintains the greenery around the property. However, managing director Andreas Baumann won’t say no more, for reasons of discretion. The same can be heard from the head of the Confectionery Kaegi, from the waiters in the restaurant Falken and post offices. In the stationery Köhler one employee is more talkactive. Every year, in late October, Turner comes into the shop, accompanied by her butler. This Swiss man, about 50 years old, talks to the sales people. Tina Turner says nothing. Usually they buy gifts. Thats anecdotes. Still, the 10-year-old primary school students on the school playground of the school building Wiltisgasse are not as Küsnacht- like. Yes, we know Tina Turner! They scream in chorus. I have spoken into the camera at the gate, a girl says confidently. Incredulous adds: Wow she is 75 years old? Tina Turner wird am Mittwoch 75 Jahre alt: «Simply the best», gejodelt Seit 1994 lebt Tina Turner in einer Mietvilla am Zürichsee. Am Mittwoch feiert sie ihren 75.... nzz.ch|By Impressum Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland, nzz.ch/impressum Anja Offermann it even mentions 3 days festivities in other cities - our party in Berlin!
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:15:31 +0000
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