Hands of Fame
Hands of Fame is based on the Walk of Fame model in Hollywood.
This project has existed in Wittmund , East Frisia since spring 2005 ; only instead of stars, the celebrities' handprints and their autographs are burned in clay and embedded in the pavement of the pedestrian zone.
So far the following handprints are available (in this order also seen from the east):
In Drostenstrasse
- Achim Reichel (singer)
- Uwe Seeler (national soccer player)
- Max Lorenz (national soccer player)
- Christian Wulff (Prime Minister of Lower Saxony)
- Joschka Fischer (former Federal Foreign Minister)
- Jörg Pilawa (TV presenter)
- Hie-Yon Choi (pianist)
- Otto Waalkes (stupid artist)
- Carlo von Tiedemann (TV presenter)
- Heidi Kabel (popular actress)
- Heidi Mahler (popular actress)
- Henning Scherf (former Mayor of Bremen)
- Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt (sports medicine specialist)
- Hardy Krüger (actor)
- Karlheinz Böhm (actor and founder of the organization Menschen für Menschen )
- Klaus Fichtel (national soccer player)
- Klaus Fischer (national soccer player)
- Olaf Thon (national soccer player)
- Hans-Gert Pöttering (President of the European Parliament)
- Thomas Reiter (astronaut)
- Andrea Berg (pop singer)
- Inga Rumpf , (rock singer)
- Axel Milberg , (actor)
- Arved Fuchs , (adventurer)
- Hellmuth Karasek , (journalist, author, literary critic)
- Gunther Emmerlich , (opera singer and entertainer)
- The Amigos (popular pop group)
On the "Presidential Square"
- Walter Scheel
- Richard von Weizsäcker
- Roman Duke
- Johannes Rau
- Horst Koehler
- Christian Wulff
- Joachim Gauck
In the Kirchstrasse
- Arthur Abraham (boxing world champion)
- Ulli Wegner , (boxing trainer)
- Dominik Schollmayer , (radio presenter)
- Franz-Josef Bode , (Bishop)
- Johannes Heesters , (actor, singer)
- Willi Holdorf (decathlon Olympic champion)
- Robert von Zeppelin (great-nephew of the Count von Zeppelin)
- Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, (nephew of the "Red Baron")
- Sebastian Schnülle , (musher)
- Joseph Jackson (father of the musician Michael Jackson )
- Martin Rütter
Remarks
The plaque attached to Hans-Gert Pöttering mistakenly shows the first name "Hans-Gerd". Johannes Rau's handprint was on the Hie-Yon Choi square until May 2010.
On the Presidential Square there are also commemorative plaques for the deceased Federal Presidents Theodor Heuss , Heinrich Lübke , Gustav Heinemann and Karl Carstens , but each without a handprint.
The handprints of Christian Berkel , Andrea Sawatzki , Reinhold Messner , Ben Becker , Claudio Pizarro , Naldo , Klaus Allofs , Thomas Schaaf , Peter Heinrich Brix , Karl Dall , David McAllister , Ulrich Tukur , Sebastian Koch , Katja Riemann are in preparation .
When she visited Neuharlingersiel in 2013, Chancellor Angela Merkel refused to have her handprints burned in clay. According to her statement, she wants to think about this again in a few years.