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GALLERY

Opening of a new Lufthansa Lounge. Munich Airport.


Passengers enjoy the LH Senator Lounge


Eröffnung der Ausstellung in der Senator Lounges der Lufthansa in Frankfurt mit Lufthansatorte.

Opening of the exhibition in the Lufthansa Senator Lounges in
Frankfurt with Lufthansa cake.

http://www.wirtschaftsclub-rhein-main.de/leuteleute/wcnews0802.htm


Pat, Melanie und das Werk
von Jürgen Barthels in B26.


Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau - 1849

Return to Thoreau Reader
Desobediencia Civil - Spanish translation by Hernando Jiménez


While Walden can be applied to almost anyone's life, "Civil Disobedience"
is like a venerated architectural landmark: it is preserved and admired,
and sometimes visited, but for most of us there are not many occasions
when it can actually be used. Still, although it is seldom mentioned
without references to Gandhi and King, "Civil Disobedience" has more
history than many suspect. In the 1940's it was read by the Danish
resistance, in the 1950's it was cherished by people who opposed
McCarthyism, in the 1960's it was influential in the struggle against
South African apartheid, and in the 1970's it was discovered by a new
generation of anti-war activists. The lesson learned from all this
experience is that Thoreau's ideas really do work, just as he imagined
they would.



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What could the Europeans, especially the Germans learn from the American
Revolution??


The 227th Marine Corpes Birthday Ball.


Von: Robinowmuc@aol.com


A Simple Soldier bb

He was getting old and paunchy
And his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around the Legion,
Telling stories of the past.

Of a war that he once fought in
And the deeds that he had done,
In his exploits with his buddies;
They were heroes, every one.

And 'tho sometimes to his neighbors
His tales became a joke,
All his buddies listened quietly
For they knew where of he spoke.

But we'll hear his tales no longer,
For ol' Bob has passed away,
And the world's a little poorer
For a Soldier died today.

He won't be mourned by many,
Just his children and his wife.
For he lived an ordinary,
Very quiet sort of life.

He held a job and raised a family,
Going quietly on his way;
And the world won't note his passing,
'Tho a Soldier died today.

When politicians leave this earth,
Their bodies lie in state,
While thousands note their passing,
And proclaim that they were great.

Papers tell of their life stories
From the time that they were young
But the passing of a Soldier
Goes unnoticed, and unsung.

Is the greatest contribution
To the welfare of our land,
Some jerk who breaks his promise
And cons his fellow man?

Or the ordinary fellow
Who in times of war and strife,
Goes off to serve his country
And offers up his life?

The politician's stipend
And the style in which he lives,
Are often disproportionate,
To the service that he gives.

While the ordinary Soldier,
Who offered up his all,
Is paid off with a medal
And perhaps a pension, small.

It's so easy to forget them,
For it is so many times
That our Bobs and Jims and Johnnys,
Went to battle, but we know,

It is not the politicians
With their compromise and ploys,
Who won for us the freedom
That our country now enjoys.

Should you find yourself in danger,
With your enemies at hand,
Would you really want some cop-out,
With his ever waffling stand?

Or would you want a Soldier--
His home, his country, his kin,
Just a common Soldier,
Who would fight until the end.

He was just a common Soldier,
And his ranks are growing thin,
But his presence should remind us
We may need his like again.

For when countries are in conflict,
We find the Soldier's part
Is to clean up all the troubles
That the politicians start.

If we cannot do him honor
While he's here to hear the praise,
Then at least let's give him homage
At the ending of his days.

Perhaps just a simply headline
In the paper that might say:


"OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING,

A SOLDIER DIED TODAY."



Pass On The Patriotism!
YOU can make a difference


von Johannes Richter

2001

2003


Von: Robinowmuc@aol.com
Datum: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:24:11 EST
An: ulischaarschmidt@t-online.de
Betreff: Wtr: A War Crime or an Act of War?

This the second one you asked for.
W.


Good Morning,

Does this tell us, once again, the true nature of the
administration's propaganda effort in 'marketing its war' ? And
the author of this article is unlikely to be a raving liberal,
just someone with good information who is disturbed about the
public disemination of really 'bad' information. Check it out.

Take care,

Kord


A War Crime or an Act of War?

January 31, 2003
By STEPHEN C. PELLETIERE


MECHANICSBURG, Pa. - It was no surprise that President
Bush, lacking smoking-gun evidence of Iraq's weapons
programs, used his State of the Union address to
re-emphasize the moral case for an invasion: "The dictator
who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has
already used them on whole villages, leaving thousands of
his own citizens dead, blind or disfigured."

The accusation that Iraq has used chemical weapons against
its citizens is a familiar part of the debate. The piece of
hard evidence most frequently brought up concerns the
gassing of Iraqi Kurds at the town of Halabja in March
1988, near the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.
President Bush himself has cited Iraq's "gassing its own
people," specifically at Halabja, as a reason to topple
Saddam Hussein.

But the truth is, all we know for certain is that Kurds
were bombarded with poison gas that day at Halabja. We
cannot say with any certainty that Iraqi chemical weapons
killed the Kurds. This is not the only distortion in the
Halabja story.

I am in a position to know because, as the Central
Intelligence Agency's senior political analyst on Iraq
during the Iran-Iraq war, and as a professor at the Army
War College from 1988 to 2000, I was privy to much of the
classified material that flowed through Washington having
to do with the Persian Gulf. In addition, I headed a 1991
Army investigation into how the Iraqis would fight a war
against the United States; the classified version of the
report went into great detail on the Halabja affair.

This much about the gassing at Halabja we undoubtedly know:
it came about in the course of a battle between Iraqis and
Iranians. Iraq used chemical weapons to try to kill
Iranians who had seized the town, which is in northern Iraq
not far from the Iranian border. The Kurdish civilians who
died had the misfortune to be caught up in that exchange.
But they were not Iraq's main target.

And the story gets murkier: immediately after the battle
the United States Defense Intelligence Agency investigated
and produced a classified report, which it circulated
within the intelligence community on a need-to-know basis.
That study asserted that it was Iranian gas that killed the
Kurds, not Iraqi gas.

The agency did find that each side used gas against the
other in the battle around Halabja. The condition of the
dead Kurds' bodies, however, indicated they had been killed
with a blood agent - that is, a cyanide-based gas - which
Iran was known to use. The Iraqis, who are thought to have
used mustard gas in the battle, are not known to have
possessed blood agents at the time.

These facts have long been in the public domain but,
extraordinarily, as often as the Halabja affair is cited,
they are rarely mentioned. A much-discussed article in The
New Yorker last March did not make reference to the Defense
Intelligence Agency report or consider that Iranian gas
might have killed the Kurds. On the rare occasions the
report is brought up, there is usually speculation, with no
proof, that it was skewed out of American political
favoritism toward Iraq in its war against Iran.

I am not trying to rehabilitate the character of Saddam
Hussein. He has much to answer for in the area of human
rights abuses. But accusing him of gassing his own people
at Halabja as an act of genocide is not correct, because as
far as the information we have goes, all of the cases where
gas was used involved battles. These were tragedies of war.
There may be justifications for invading Iraq, but Halabja
is not one of them.


In fact, those who really feel that the disaster at Halabja
has bearing on today might want to consider a different
question: Why was Iran so keen on taking the town? A closer
look may shed light on America's impetus to invade Iraq.

We are constantly reminded that Iraq has perhaps the
world's largest reserves of oil. But in a regional and
perhaps even geopolitical sense, it may be more important
that Iraq has the most extensive river system in the Middle
East. In addition to the Tigris and Euphrates, there are
the Greater Zab and Lesser Zab rivers in the north of the
country. Iraq was covered with irrigation works by the
sixth century A.D., and was a granary for the region.

Before the Persian Gulf war, Iraq had built an impressive
system of dams and river control projects, the largest
being the Darbandikhan dam in the Kurdish area. And it was
this dam the Iranians were aiming to take control of when
they seized Halabja. In the 1990's there was much
discussion over the construction of a so-called Peace
Pipeline that would bring the waters of the Tigris and
Euphrates south to the parched Gulf states and, by
extension, Israel. No progress has been made on this,
largely because of Iraqi intransigence. With Iraq in
American hands, of course, all that could change.

Thus America could alter the destiny of the Middle East in
a way that probably could not be challenged for decades -
not solely by controlling Iraq's oil, but by controlling
its water. Even if America didn't occupy the country, once
Mr. Hussein's Baath Party is driven from power, many
lucrative opportunities would open up for American
companies.

All that is needed to get us into war is one clear reason
for acting, one that would be generally persuasive. But
efforts to link the Iraqis directly to Osama bin Laden have
proved inconclusive. Assertions that Iraq threatens its
neighbors have also failed to create much resolve; in its
present debilitated condition - thanks to United Nations
sanctions - Iraq's conventional forces threaten no one.

Perhaps the strongest argument left for taking us to war
quickly is that Saddam Hussein has committed human rights
atrocities against his people. And the most dramatic case
are the accusations about Halabja.

Before we go to war over Halabja, the administration owes
the American people the full facts. And if it has other
examples of Saddam Hussein gassing Kurds, it must show that
they were not pro-Iranian Kurdish guerrillas who died
fighting alongside Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Until
Washington gives us proof of Saddam Hussein's supposed
atrocities, why are we picking on Iraq on human rights
grounds, particularly when there are so many other
repressive regimes Washington supports?

Stephen C. Pelletiere is author of "Iraq and the
International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the
Persian Gulf."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/31/opinion/31PELL.html?ex=1045245483&ei=1&en=
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Von: rossp@t-online.de (patrickross)
Antworten an: <320034442871-0001@T-Online.de>
Datum: 05 Feb 2003 17:39 GMT
An: "Otten Daniel E Civ 422 ABS/CEFMO" <Daniel.Otten@croughton.af.mil>, "Uli
schaarschmidt" <UliSchaarschmidt@t-online.de>
Cc: "Quigley Betsy" <betsy@newenglandwoodcraft.com>
Betreff: Americans (fwd)

---Ursprüngliche Nachricht---
From: "401st CONT/Transportation" <401lgt@email-tc3.5sigcmd.army.mil>
To: "1/ 401st EAGB / Fleet Manager"
<401fleet@email-tc3.5sigcmd.army.mil>,"401AGE"
<401age@email-tc3.5sigcmd.army.mil>,"Ben"
<herbert.bencosky@gsce.21tsc.army.mil>,"Dennis Williams"
<Dennis.Williams@izmir.af.mil>,"Gordon Dick"
<gd42606@militarycars.com>,"Lynn Harris" <lynnraye@t-online.de>,"Mike
Donaldson" <michael.donaldson@ramstein.af.mil>,"Mike Harris"
<michael.harris@ramstein.af.mil>,"Pat Ross" <rossp@t-online.de>,"Todd
Sandberg" <Todd.Sandberg@Halliburton.com>,"TRANS QAE"
<401eabgqae@email-tc3.5sigcmd.army.mil>
Subject: Americans


Damned Right !
Some of you, I know I did, probably missed it in the rush of news last week,
but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a
newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any
American. So an Australian dentist wrote the following to let everyone know
what an American is, so they would know when they found one:

An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish,
Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican,
African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or
Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan. An American may also be a Cherokee, Osage,
Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as
native Americans.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In
fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only
difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them
chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will
answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to
speak for the government and for God.

An American is from the most prosperous land in the history of the
world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of
Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each person the
pursuit of happiness An American is generous. Americans have helped out just
about every other nation in the world in their time of need. When
Afghanistan was overrun
by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to
enable the people to win back their country. As of the morning of September
11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in
Afghanistan. Americans welcome the best, the best products, the best books,
the best music, the best food, the best athletes. But they also welcome the
least. The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty, welcomes your
tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the
homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America.
Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11,
2001 earning a better life for their families. I've been told that the World
Trade Center victims were from a least 30 other countries, cultures, and
first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did
General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and every bloodthirsty tyrant in
the history of the modern world. But, in doing so you would just be killing
yourself. Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular
place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who
holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.

Pass this around the World...on the American Internet, I might add.


Michael E. Wascom, Civ, VMS
Eagle Base, Bosnia
762-2270

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Betreff: Fwd: Jimmy Carter statement 1/31/03

From the Carter Center:

http://www.cartercenter.org/viewdoc.asp?docID=1165&submenu=news

A Statement By President Carter: An Alternative To War

By
Jimmy Carter
31 Jan 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Atlanta…..Despite marshalling powerful armed forces in the Persian Gulf region and a virtual declaration of war in the State of the Union message, our government has not made a case for a preemptive military strike against Iraq, either at home or in Europe.
Recent vituperative attacks on U.S. policy by famous and respected men like Nelson Mandela and John Le Carré, although excessive, are echoed in a Web site poll conducted by the European edition of TIME magazine. The question was "Which country poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003?" With several hundred thousand votes cast, the responses were: North Korea, 7 percent; Iraq, 8 percent; the United States, 84 percent. This is a gross distortion of our nation's character, and America is not inclined to let foreign voices answer the preeminent question that President Bush is presenting to the world, but it is sobering to realize how much doubt and consternation has been raised about our motives for war in the absence of convincing proof of a genuine threat from Iraq.
The world will be awaiting Wednesday's presentation of specific evidence by Secretary of State Colin Powell concerning Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction. As an acknowledged voice of moderation, his message will carry enormous weight in shaping public opinion. But even if his effort is successful and lies and trickery by Saddam Hussein are exposed, this will not indicate any real or proximate threat by Iraq to the United States or to our allies.
With overwhelming military strength now deployed against him and with intense monitoring from space surveillance and the U.N. inspection team on the ground, any belligerent move by Saddam against a neighbor would be suicidal. An effort to produce or deploy chemical or biological weapons or to make the slightest move toward a nuclear explosive would be inconceivable. If Iraq does possess such concealed weapons, as is quite likely, Saddam would use them only in the most extreme circumstances, in the face of an invasion of Iraq, when all hope of avoiding the destruction of his regime is lost.
In Washington, there is no longer any mention of Osama bin Laden, and the concentration of public statements on his international terrorist network is mostly limited to still-unproven allegations about its connection with Iraq. The worldwide commitment and top priority of fighting terrorism that was generated after September 11th has been attenuated as Iraq has become the preeminent obsession of political leaders and the general public.
In addition to the need to re-invigorate the global team effort against international terrorism, there are other major problems being held in abeyance as our nation's foreign policy is concentrated on proving its case for a planned attack on Iraq. We have just postponed again the promulgation of the long-awaited "road map" that the U.S. and other international leaders have drafted for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is a festering cancer and the root cause of much of the anti-American sentiment that has evolved throughout the world. At the same time, satellite observations of North Korea have indicated that nuclear fuel rods, frozen under international surveillance since 1994, are now being moved from the Yongbyon site to an undisclosed destination, possibly for reprocessing into explosives. It is imperative that this threat to Asian stability be met with aggressive diplomacy.

Since it is obvious that Saddam Hussein has the capability and desire to build an arsenal of prohibited weapons and probably has some of them hidden within his country, what can be done to prevent the development of a real Iraqi threat? The most obvious answer is a sustained and enlarged inspection team, deployed as a permanent entity until the United States and other members of the U.N. Security Council determine that its presence is no longer needed. For almost eight years following the Gulf War until it was withdrawn four years ago, UNSCOM proved to be very effective in locating and destroying Iraq's formidable arsenal, including more than 900 missiles and biological and chemical weapons left over from their previous war with Iran.

Even if Iraq should come into full compliance now, such follow-up monitoring will be necessary. The cost of an on-site inspection team would be minuscule compared to war, Saddam would have no choice except to comply, the results would be certain, military and civilian casualties would be avoided, there would be almost unanimous worldwide support, and the United States could regain its leadership in combating the real threat of international terrorism.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is chair of The Carter Center in Atlanta, Ga., a not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization that advances peace and health worldwide.


Stabilität und Recht und Freiheit

Amerikanische Intellektuelle antworten einem saudiarabischen Brief – auch mit der Frage, ob sich islamische Gläubigkeit wirklich vom militanten Dschihad unterscheidet

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Can We Coexist?

A Response from Americans to Colleagues in Saudi Arabia

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Der Steppenwolf
Herman Hesse

Tractat vom Steppenwolf, nur für Verrückte

Es war einmal einer namens Harry, genannt der Steppenwolf. Er ging auf zwei Beinen, trug Kleider und war ein Mensch,
aber eigentlich war er doch eben ein Steppenwolf. Er hatte vieles von dem gelernt, was Menschen mit gutem Verstande lernen können,
und war ein ziemlich kluger Mann. Was er aber nicht gelernt hatte, war dies: mit sich und seinem Leben zufrieden zu sein.

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Die rigorose Gesellschaft... ...und ihre Freunde - Ein Aufruf wider den Terror der Ehrlichkeit

Terror und Moral besitzen ein gemeinsames Kennzeichen; es ermöglicht, dass
einer oft im Namen des anderen auftritt. Der Terror beruft sich auf eine
bessere Moral; die Moral erklärt sich zum höheren Recht. Beide sind
Blutsverwandte des Rigorismus. Mächtig in dem Maße, in dem sie verborgen
bleiben, schleichen sie sich maskiert in Gesellschaften ein, unter falschen
Namen wie Ehrlichkeit, Offenheit, Konsequenz.

Wohin geht die Reise?


3. April 2002, 02:09, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Zeitzeichen

Zurück zur Opfergesellschaft
Verschiebungen in der deutschen Erinnerungskultur

http://www.nzz.ch/2002/04/03/fe/page-article81DU6.html

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...blaue, auf Zeitungspapier gemalte Fallschirmspringer für Gunther Braun


Ist Gesundheit wirklich alles

aus der Text-Werkstatt von Claudo Kürten


Von: "Alain Wenessia" <wenessia@univ-paris8.fr>
Datum: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:14:49 +0200
An: UliSchaarschmidt@t-online.de
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KARATE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MUNICH

Uli Schaarschmidt, 49, hat keine Ahnung von Karate, sagt er. Trotzdem sitzt er bei der Weltmeisterschaft an den Matten und skizziert mit Stiften die Kämpfe in der Olympiahalle. Ein Gespräch über die Auseinandersetzung Mensch gegen Mensch, fliegende Fäuste und wilde Französinnen — aus Sicht eines Künstlers.

Als uns während der Vorbereitungen zur Karate-Weltmeisterschaft 2000 in München eine Anfrage eines Künstlers auf den Tisch kam, der während der Wettkämpfe malen wollte, ging ich davon aus, dass es sich um einen Künstler handeln würde, der - wie viele andere vor ihm - einfach schöne Bilder mit schönen Karatetechniken zeichnen würde.

Am ersten Wettkampftag lernte ich diesen Künstler - Uli Schaarschmidt - persönlich kennen und hatte in den folgenden Tagen oft Gelegenheit, ihn bei seiner "Arbeit" an der Matte zu beobachten, während ich mit meiner Kamera an der anderen Seite der Kampffläche auf gute Kampfszenen lauerte.

Was machte dieser Mann da, der wie ein Besessener auf seinen Blättern zeichnete, voller Begeisterung immer wieder zu den Kämpfern blickte und auch nach dem Ende eines Kampfes bei weitem noch nicht fertig war.

Neugierig geworden blickte ich Uli Schaarschmidt über die Schultern. Nein, das waren keine Karatebilder, wie man sie kennt. Das war etwas völlig anderes. Die Bilder zeigten eine furiose und geniale, neue Sichtweise des Kampfes. Wie Picasso es verstanden hatte, gewohnte Sichtweisen zu durchbrechen und Neues zu entwickeln, so durchbricht auch Schaarschmidt die Gewohnheiten. Er zeichnet nicht irgendeine brillante Karatetechnik - er schafft es tatsächlich, den Kampfverlauf im Bild festzuhalten, das Feeling, die Spannung und die Dynamik zu Papier zu bringen. Ich erkannte auf seinen Bildern die Kämpfe wieder, die ich mit meiner Kamera fotografiert hatte. Und ich war begeistert - ebenso wie auch alle anderen, die seine Bilder sahen, egal ob das nun Kampfrichter oder Funktionäre, Zuschauer oder die Kämpfer selbst waren.

Für eine Karate-Weltmeisterschaft ist die Anwesenheit von Uli Schaarschmidt - dem inoffiziellen Weltmeister für Karate-Bilder - nicht nur ein Muss, sondern eine Auszeichnung.

Andreas Möhring, Mr. Rundbrief, Bayerischer Karate Bund e.V.


Translation by W. F. Robinow

During the preparations for the Worldchampionship 2000 in Munich we received an inquiry from an artist, asking if he would be allowed to paint during the fights. I assumed at the time that that would be an artist like many others before him, who wanted to paint nice pictures of Karate techniques.

On the first day of the Championships I met the artist, Uli Schaarschmidt. In the subsequent days I had frequent opportunity to watch him at his work at the mat, while I was on the other side of the mat, with my camera, waiting for suitable fight scenes.

What was this man doing, drawing furiously on his sheets all the while, constantly looking at the fighters. Even when a fight was over he did not stop drawing.

Having become seriously interested in what he was doing I decided to look over his shoulder while he was at work. No, what I saw were not pictures of Karate as I knew them. The pictures showed a new and ingenious way of looking at the fights. Something totally different from the usual and common pictures of Karate. Just as Picasso knew how to show completely new ways of looking at objects and to develop something new, so Schaarschmidt is doing the same: entirely new approaches to depicting Karate fights. He does not just show one or the other Karate technique, he actually shows the fight in progress in his pictures. The feelings, the tensions, the dynamics reduced to a fine art on paper. I recognized in his pictures the fights I had fotographed with my camera. I was enthused and inspired. Just like anyone else who saw his pictures, regardless whether they were judges, functionaries, spectators or participants.

Schaarschmidt is without a doubt the worldchampion in creating pictures of Karate. Therefore his presence at a Worldchampionship for Karate is not just a must, but a honor.

Andreas Moehring, Mr. Rundbrief, Bavarian Karate Club 2002


Cuando al realizar los preparativos para el Campeonato Mundial de Karate 2000 nos llegó la petición de un artista que quería pintar durante el Campeonato supuse que se trataría de un artista que – como muchos otros antes que él – dibujaría simplemente cuadros bonitos de técnicas de karate bonitas.

El primer día del Campeonato conocí personalmente a ese artista - Uli Schaarschmidt – y los días posteriores tuve muchas veces la ocasión de observarlo cuando realizaba su "trabajo" al lado de la colchoneta mientras yo, al otro lado del campo, estaba con mi cámara al acecho de buenas escenas de combate.

Qué hacía allí ese hombre que dibujaba como un poseído en sus hojas, que lleno de entusiamo miraba una y otra vez a los karatekas y al que aún le faltaba mucho para terminar, incluso después de finalizado un combate.

Lleno de curiosidad miré sobre el hombro de Uli Schaarschmidt. No, ésos no eran dibujos de karate como se los conoce. Éso era algo completamente diferente. En los dibujos se apreciaba una apasionada y genial nueva visión del combate. Así como Picasso había sabido romper con las visiones habituales y crear algo nuevo, de la misma manera rompe también Schaarschmidt con las costumbres. Él no dibuja cualquier técnica de karate brillante – él consigue realmente retener las peripecias del combate, apuntar el sentimiento, la tensión y la dinámica. En sus cuadros reconocí otra vez aquellos combates que había fotografiado con mi cámara. Y me causó mucho entusiasmo – tanto como les causó a los otros que vieron sus cuadros, igual si eran árbitros o funcionarios, espectadores o los karatekas mismos.

En un Campeonato Mundial de Karate, la presencia de Uli Schaarschmidt, el Campeón Mundial extraoficial de cuadros de karate, no es sólo una necesidad absoluta sino un galardón.

Andreas Moehring, Mr. Rundbrief, Bavarian Karate Club 2002


SZ vom 13.10.2000 Sport
Künstler Uli Schaarschmidt
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Von: "thill" <thill@tokeyhill.com>

An: "schaarschmidt" <UliSchaarschmidt@t-online.de>
Betreff: Tournament information
Datum: Don, 10. Mai 2001 18:53 Uhr

To: UliSchaarschmidt@t-online.de

Dear Athletes, Sensei and Coaches,

The USA/NKF Long Island is proud to announce that the New York State
Championships are going to be held on June 23rd, 2001 at Kennedy Memorial
Park in Hempstead, New York. This will be the qualifying tournament as
well as an excellent 'tune-up' for the National Championships which will be
held July 10th - 16th in Houston, Texas. We plan to make this a rewarding
experience to all those who participate, following the highest standards,
formats, rules and officiating for sport karate in the United States.

Applications for the tournament will be sent to past participants, and will
be available on request through the mail or on my website,
http://www.tokeyhill.com. I look forward to seeing you all there on June
23rd.

Sincerely,

Tokey Hill
President, Long Island RSO


Von: "Tokey Hill" <thill@tokeyhill.com>

Datum: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:38:24 -0500
Betreff: New York State Championships and Referee Certification

The New York State Championships and Referee Certification will be held April 13 and 14, 2002,
at Kennedy Memorial Park, 335 Greenwich Street, Hempstead, NY. Saturday, April 13,
will be the referee course given in both English and Spanish.
For more information please email to thill@tokeyhill.com or contact us at (516) 625-9695


Von: "thill" <thill@tokeyhill.com>

An: "schaarschmidt" <UliSchaarschmidt@t-online.de>
Betreff: Re: Remember the painter???
Datum: Don, 9. Nov 2000 15:15 Uhr

HELLO ITS THILL FROM NY THANKS FOR YOUR EMAIL I VERY MUCH
LIKE YOUR PAINTING
Sincerely,

Tokey Hill
POB 292, Roslyn, NY 11576
Office # (516) 625-9695 / Fax # (516) 625-1023
thill@tokeyhill.com
http://www.tokeyhill.com


Von: "Bill Bly" <billbly@gowebway.com>
An: "schaarschmidt" <UliSchaarschmidt@t-online.de
Betreff: Re: Karate Painting Munich
Datum: Mit, 25. Okt 2000 18:11 Uhr

Hello Uli,

I wanted to let you know that I am in contact with karteka from around the
world on a daily basis. Would you like me to share your images with them. It
may be good publicity for you? Perhaps we can do an interview and put them
in my magazine. I really like your work- regards- Bil


Von: BKB.Schindler@t-online.de (BKB.Schindler)
An: UliSchaarschmidt@t-online.de
Betreff: Re: ein paar Ausschnitte von der Karate-Weltmeisterschaft 2000
Datum: Don, 26. Okt 2000 17:27 Uhr

26.10.2000
Sehr geehrter Herr Schaarschmidt,

Ihre Aktivitäten während der Karate-WM 2000 haben auch innerhalb
unserer "Szene" ein großes Echo hervorgerufen. Ich bin mir sicher,
daß die geplante Ausstellung mit den "WM-Bildern" ein toller
Erfolg werden wird.

Übrigens: der Gruß der Karatekas lautet ganz einfach "Uss" -
und bedeutet eigentlich alles: Gruß / JA / Einverstanden /
ich habe verstanden / das paßt mir etc. - jedenfalls eine
positive Zustimmung + Begrüßung

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Albert Schindler jun.
Präsident des Bayerischen Karate Bundes
Geschäftsführer der "WM 2000" GmbH


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Von: 520072351974-0001@t-online.de (Patrick Ries)
An: "schaarschmidt" <UliSchaarschmidt@t-online.de>
Betreff: Re: Karate Zeichnungen München
Datum: Sam, 21. Okt 2000 12:03 Uhr

Hallo Uli,
ich fand auch, dass die Zeit in München besser als bombastisch war. Es war
das Beste, was ich jemals mitgemacht habe - ja -ich glaube - wovon ich je gehört habe.
Es war aber mindestens so super, mit Euch gemeinsam zu arbeiten.

Ich sehe mir gleich das Bild an. Bis dann.
Grüße
Patrick


fksd@bekkoame.ne.jp
January 1, 2001

Dear Uli,
thank you very much for kind in Munich.
The one of Japan is presented to the sign of thanks.
because Uli is an artist, it is old memo tool of Japan.
Please use it to act the creation.
Moreover, pickles of Japan are sent.
It is sour and pay attention, please.
Please eat by everybody.

It is sincerely wished that the 21st century be wonderful
time for the person whom you, the family, and Uli love.
According to the word spoken to you in the Olympics hall.
As ever

Rakuya Mizuguchi


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