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"You can't overtake 15 cars in the sunshine - but you can in the rain!"
Ayrton Senna Formula 1 racing driver
"Winning the Princess" when it comes to prizes and awards that we would like to win, and

"Killing the Dragon", when external circumstances force us to overcome a crisis. Voilà, - three such "dragon fights".

We have been using two neologisms like "mantras" for many years. They are now almost part of our DNA:

"Winning the Princess" when it comes to prizes and awards that we would like to win, and

"Killing the Dragon", when external circumstances force us to overcome a crisis. Voilà, - three such "dragon fights".

In the meantime, our little hotel village in Steinacher Strasse stretched from house number 6 to 10.

Back home after our trip to Japan, we had lots of ideas for the third construction phase on the "reserve plot" we had just purchased.

...After the award ceremony for the very first "Hotelier of the Year" in 1990 at the Sheraton at Frankfurt Airport, someone asked me if I could give a talk at Coca-Cola in Essen about what might have earned us this award. Carelessly, I agreed. 

...And they all wanted one thing: special prices for their clientele. I felt that was unfair and asked for understanding.

The financing of the original Schindlerhof.

Renate und ich waren jetzt schon um die Dreißig…

In meiner Zeit in London im Jahr 1968 verdiente ich ganze „ten pounds clear a week,“ …