NakedGary
04-01-2008, 12:59 PM
Looking foolish
<!-- width= Bildbreite +2-->http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,1293933_1,00.jpg (http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,3231481_ind_2,00.html)Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The German obsession with nudity is hard to believe (http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,3231481_ind_2,00.html)
Even DW-WORLD.DE was taken in by the German bookshop owner, who last week announced plans for a naked launch party in his shop for a forthcoming book about nudism.
Helmut Maass admitted Tuesday to German news service DPA that the invitation had been an April Fool's joke, after some 30 television, radio and newspaper reporters applied to attend the event.
But even though no public reading -- clothed or otherwise -- was to take place Tuesday, Maass really is selling a book in his shop in the eastern town of Pasewalk about the nudist minority in formerly communist East Germany. It draws on recollections -- and indeed photographs -- of holidaymakers in East Germany before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
The region's nudist movement has undergone a notable revival in recent years -- and a DW-WORLD.DE story about a travel agent in the eastern city of Erfurt introducing nude charter flights this summer to the Baltic island resort of Usedom is, believe it or not, definitely true.
<!-- width= Bildbreite +2-->http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,1293933_1,00.jpg (http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,3231481_ind_2,00.html)Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The German obsession with nudity is hard to believe (http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_lupe/0,,3231481_ind_2,00.html)
Even DW-WORLD.DE was taken in by the German bookshop owner, who last week announced plans for a naked launch party in his shop for a forthcoming book about nudism.
Helmut Maass admitted Tuesday to German news service DPA that the invitation had been an April Fool's joke, after some 30 television, radio and newspaper reporters applied to attend the event.
But even though no public reading -- clothed or otherwise -- was to take place Tuesday, Maass really is selling a book in his shop in the eastern town of Pasewalk about the nudist minority in formerly communist East Germany. It draws on recollections -- and indeed photographs -- of holidaymakers in East Germany before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
The region's nudist movement has undergone a notable revival in recent years -- and a DW-WORLD.DE story about a travel agent in the eastern city of Erfurt introducing nude charter flights this summer to the Baltic island resort of Usedom is, believe it or not, definitely true.