Press Photos Shaft Signs

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You can use the following pictures from WAZ FotoPool for editorial purposes in connection with coverage of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 only. These pictures can be used one time only until December 31, 2010, and may not be archived or passed on to third parties. Any use beyond this scope requires prior written agreement and is subject to fees. In case of publication, credit must be given to “WAZ FotoPool” and, where applicable, to the photographer. A file copy of all published materials is requested. Contact: Fotopool@waz.de

Shaft Signs, NightShaftSigns, May 24 - 25, 2010

Shaft Signs: NightShaftSigns at UNESCO world heritage Zollverein, Shaft Zollverein 12 in Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

Shaft Signs: NightShaftSigns at UNESCO world heritage Zollverein, Shaft Zollverein 12 in Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

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Shaft Signs: NightShaftSigns at UNESCO world heritage Zollverein, Shaft Zollverein 12 in Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

Shaft Signs: NightShaftSigns at UNESCO world heritage Zollverein, Shaft Zollverein 12 in Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

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Shaft Signs: NightShaftSigns at UNESCO world heritage Zollverein, Shaft Zollverein 12 in Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

Shaft Signs: NightShaftSigns at UNESCO world heritage Zollverein, Shaft Zollverein 12 in Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

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Shaft Signs, third day, May 24, 2010

Aerial image of Shaft Signs: View towards UNESCO world heritage Zollverein in Essen / Photo: German Aerospace Center

Aerial image of Shaft Signs: View towards UNESCO world heritage Zollverein in Essen / Photo: German Aerospace Center

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Aerial image of Shaft Signs: View towards UNESCO world heritage Zollverein in Essen / Photo: German Aerospace Center

Aerial image of Shaft Signs: View towards UNESCO world heritage Zollverein in Essen / Photo: German Aerospace Center

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Aerial image of Shaft Signs: View towards UNESCO world heritage Zollverein in Essen / Photo: German Aerospace Center

Aerial image of Shaft Signs: View towards UNESCO world heritage Zollverein in Essen / Photo: German Aerospace Center

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Aerial image of Shaft Signs: View towards Shaft Rheinpreußen 4 in Moers / Photo: German Aerospace Center

Aerial image of Shaft Signs: View towards Shaft Rheinpreußen 4 in Moers / Photo: German Aerospace Center

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Shaft Signs, second day, May 23, 2010

Shaft Signs at colliery Pörtingsiepen in Essen / Photo: WAZ FotoPoool/Kerstin Kokoska

Shaft Signs at colliery Pörtingsiepen in Essen / Photo: WAZ FotoPoool/Kerstin Kokoska

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Shaft Signs at colliery Pörtingsiepen in Essen / Photo: WAZ FotoPoool/Kerstin Kokoska

Shaft Signs at colliery Pörtingsiepen in Essen / Photo: WAZ FotoPoool/Kerstin Kokoska

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Shaft Signs at spoil tip in Duisburg-Wehofen / Photo: WAZ FotoPool/Lars Fröhlich

Shaft Signs at spoil tip in Duisburg-Wehofen / Photo: WAZ FotoPool/Lars Fröhlich

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Launch of the Shaft Signs balloons, May 22, 2010, 12:00 p.m.

Shaft Signs: "Fritz (Pleitgen) and his balloon" at Am Rönsbergshof school, Duisburg-Meiderich / Photo: RUHR.2010/Ulla Michels

Shaft Signs: "Fritz (Pleitgen) and his balloon" at Am Rönsbergshof school, Duisburg-Meiderich / Photo: RUHR.2010/Ulla Michels

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Shaft Signs at Carl 2 colliery in Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

Shaft Signs at Carl 2 colliery in Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

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Shaft Signs Aerial Photo: View towards Zeche Gibraltar colliery and Kemnader Lake in Bochum / Photo: RUHR.2010/Baoquan Song

Shaft Signs Aerial Photo: View towards Zeche Gibraltar colliery and Kemnader Lake in Bochum / Photo: RUHR.2010/Baoquan Song

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Shaft Signs Aerial Photo: View towards Zeche Recklinghausen II colliery, Recklinghausen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Baoquan Song

Shaft Signs Aerial Photo: View towards Zeche Recklinghausen II colliery, Recklinghausen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Baoquan Song

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Shaft Signs long shot: View towards UNESCO world heritage Zollverein in Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Jan Pauly

Shaft Signs long shot: View towards UNESCO world heritage Zollverein in Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Jan Pauly

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Shaft Signs at Wolfsbank-Neuwesel 2/3 in Essen / Photo: WAZ FotoPool/Kerstin Kokoska

Shaft Signs at Wolfsbank-Neuwesel 2/3 in Essen / Photo: WAZ FotoPool/Kerstin Kokoska

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Shaft Signs at the Zollverein Colliery, Shaft XII, Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

Shaft Signs at the Zollverein Colliery, Shaft XII, Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

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Shaft Signs: View from Rheinelbe mining tip towards the VELTINS-Arena football stadium in Gelsenkirchen / Photo: RUHR.2010/ujesko

Shaft Signs: View from Rheinelbe mining tip towards the VELTINS-Arena football stadium in Gelsenkirchen / Photo: RUHR.2010/ujesko

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Shaft Signs: Party at colliery Helene in Essen, (tuba player: Stephan Müller) / Photo: WAZ FotoPool/Kerstin Kokoska

Shaft Signs: Party at colliery Helene in Essen, (tuba player: Stephan Müller) / Photo: WAZ FotoPool/Kerstin Kokoska

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Shaft Signs: "Glückauf Bochum-Werne1884" former coalminers club with historical photo of the Engelsburg colliery in Bochum in front of the Shaft Sign on the BOGESTRA site / Photo: RUHR.2010/Michael Grosler

Shaft Signs: "Glückauf Bochum-Werne1884" former coalminers club with historical photo of the Engelsburg colliery in Bochum in front of the Shaft Sign on the BOGESTRA site / Photo: RUHR.2010/Michael Grosler

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Shaft Signs: "Foreman" at the grand opening at Glückaufsegen colliery in Dortmund-Brünninghausen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Oliver Schaper

Shaft Signs: "Foreman" at the grand opening at Glückaufsegen colliery in Dortmund-Brünninghausen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Oliver Schaper

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Shaft Signs balloon at the Minister Stein shaft complex in Dortmund-Eving with Shaft Signs helper preparing the launch of the balloon / Foto: RUHR.2010/Oliver Schaper

Shaft Signs balloon at the Minister Stein shaft complex in Dortmund-Eving with Shaft Signs helper preparing the launch of the balloon / Foto: RUHR.2010/Oliver Schaper

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Shaft Signs bring people together: Volker Böhm from Salzburg / Austria (left) and Herbert Beier from Augsburg / Bavaria (right) "catch" a Shaft Signs balloon at the Schurenbach mining tip in front of the former Fritz-Heinrich colliery in Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Nikolaj Beier

Shaft Signs bring people together: Volker Böhm from Salzburg / Austria (left) and Herbert Beier from Augsburg / Bavaria (right) "catch" a Shaft Signs balloon at the Schurenbach mining tip in front of the former Fritz-Heinrich colliery in Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Nikolaj Beier

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Shaft Signs: View from Schurenbach spoil tip (with dog Aig) / Photo: WAZ FotoPool/Kerstin Kokoska

Shaft Signs: View from Schurenbach spoil tip (with dog Aig) / Photo: WAZ FotoPool/Kerstin Kokoska

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Shaft Signs: Reflection of Balloon Shaft2 at UNESCO world heritage Zollverein in Essen / Photo: WAZ FotoPool/Kerstin Kokoska

Shaft Signs: Reflection of Balloon Shaft2 at UNESCO world heritage Zollverein in Essen / Photo: WAZ FotoPool/Kerstin Kokoska

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Shaft Signs at the Zollverein Colliery, Shaft XII, Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

Shaft Signs at the Zollverein Colliery, Shaft XII, Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

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Shaft Signs at the Zollverein Colliery, Shaft XII, Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

Shaft Signs at the Zollverein Colliery, Shaft XII, Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

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Shaft Signs at the Zollverein Colliery, Shaft XII, Essen (left: the Zollverein coal washery, centre: the coke bunker, right: Shaft XII) / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

Shaft Signs at the Zollverein Colliery, Shaft XII, Essen (left: the Zollverein coal washery, centre: the coke bunker, right: Shaft XII) / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

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Shaft Signs at the Zollverein Colliery, Shaft XII, Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

Shaft Signs at the Zollverein Colliery, Shaft XII, Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

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Shaft Signs at the Zollverein Colliery, Shaft XII, Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

Shaft Signs at the Zollverein Colliery, Shaft XII, Essen / Photo: RUHR.2010/Manfred Vollmer

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Shafts Signs balloons at Rheinpreussen Shaft in Moers, with men from the Grafschaft museum and history club / Photo: RUHR.2010/Ulla Michels

Shafts Signs balloons at Rheinpreussen Shaft in Moers, with men from the Grafschaft museum and history club / Photo: RUHR.2010/Ulla Michels

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Shafts Signs balloons at Rheinpreussen Shaft in Moers, with men from the Grafschaft museum and history club / Photo: RUHR.2010/Ulla Michels

Shafts Signs balloons at Rheinpreussen Shaft in Moers, with men from the Grafschaft museum and history club / Photo: RUHR.2010/Ulla Michels

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Shafts Signs balloons at Rheinpreussen Shaft in Moers, with men from the Grafschaft museum and history club / Photo: RUHR.2010/Ulla Michels

Shafts Signs balloons at Rheinpreussen Shaft in Moers, with men from the Grafschaft museum and history club / Photo: RUHR.2010/Ulla Michels

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Shaft Signs press conference, Gelsenkirchen, May 20, 2010

Shaft Signs in front of the Gelsenkirchen stadtbauraum complex (front: Elke Schumacher, stadtbauraum Management, and Thorsten Thies, Shaft Signs helper) / Photo: RUHR.2010/Pedro Malinowski

Shaft Signs in front of the Gelsenkirchen stadtbauraum complex (front: Elke Schumacher, stadtbauraum Management, and Thorsten Thies, Shaft Signs helper) / Photo: RUHR.2010/Pedro Malinowski

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Shaft Signs in front of the Gelsenkirchen stadtbauraum complex: Final preparations by Elke Schumacher (stadtbauraum Management) and Thorsten Thies (Shaft Signs helper) / Photo: RUHR.2010/Pedro Malinowski

Shaft Signs in front of the Gelsenkirchen stadtbauraum complex: Final preparations by Elke Schumacher (stadtbauraum Management) and Thorsten Thies (Shaft Signs helper) / Photo: RUHR.2010/Pedro Malinowski

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Shaft Signs in front of the Gelsenkirchen stadtbauraum complex / Photo: RUHR.2010/Pedro Malinowski

Shaft Signs in front of the Gelsenkirchen stadtbauraum complex / Photo: RUHR.2010/Pedro Malinowski

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Shaft Signs helpers press conference, February 22, 2010

Former coalminers together with RUHR.2010 manager Oliver Scheytt / Photo: RUHR.2010/Jan Pauly

Former coalminers together with RUHR.2010 manager Oliver Scheytt / Photo: RUHR.2010/Jan Pauly

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Shaft Signs helper Axel Liersch (coach of the football club SG Eintracht Gelsenkirchen) / Photo: RUHR.2010/Jan Pauly

Shaft Signs helper Axel Liersch (coach of the football club SG Eintracht Gelsenkirchen) / Photo: RUHR.2010/Jan Pauly

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Shaft Signs photo session at Duisburg-North Landscape Park, August 19, 2009

Floating Shaft Signs balloon during test at Duisburg-North Landscape Park / Photo: Ujesko

Floating Shaft Signs balloon during test at Duisburg-North Landscape Park / Photo: Ujesko

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Shaft Signs trial balloon at night at Duisburg-North Landscape Park, / Photo: Ujesko

Shaft Signs trial balloon at night at Duisburg-North Landscape Park, / Photo: Ujesko

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Shaft Signs press conference at Hall of the Century (Jahrhunderthalle) Bochum, July 2, 2009

Preparations during the launch of the Shaft Signs trial balloons / Photo: Ingo Otto

Preparations during the launch of the Shaft Signs trial balloons / Photo: Ingo Otto

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First impression of the upcoming 2010 Shaft Signs / Photo: Ingo Otto

First impression of the upcoming 2010 Shaft Signs / Photo: Ingo Otto

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