By Josef-Otto Freudenreich
A place for poets and inventors, bon vivants and people with business sense: the clichés about the people who live in the south-west of Germany can vary widely. So let’s start with some hard facts: Baden-Württemberg is home to global corporations like Bosch, DaimlerChrysler and SAP – and to many highly specialized small and medium-sized firms. Schiller and Hölderlin wrote poetry here many years ago; today it’s the turn of people like the hip hop band „Massive Töne.“ Impressions of a region with many faces.
