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The New Tivoli is a football stadium in Aachen, Germany, that opened on 17 August 2009 replacing the Old Tivoli nearby. It hosts the home matches of... Alemannia Aachen in the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga. The stadium has a capacity of 32,960 spectators – space for 11,681 standing spectators and 19,345 seats. The seating capacity for international games is set at 27,250. The city first suggested the new stadium should be built outside the city, near the local airport. However, fans wanted the stadium built within the city. After much debate, plans were released in February 2007, showing that the new stadium will be built in Sportpark Soers, the sporting area the current stadium is in. About € 4.2 million of the construction costs where financed by bonds mainly targeted at supporters of Alemannia Aachen. The first match in the new stadium was against the Belgium team Lierse SK, but it was closed for the public. The first Bundesliga-match took place on 17 August 2009 against FC St. Pauli which Aachen lost 0–5, which was the highest home-defeat in Aachen's history.
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CHIO Hauptstadion is located in Aachen, Germany. It is used for equestrian and show jumping. It was built in 2006 and has a capacity of 40,000... spectators. It hosted the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games.
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Savas Yurderi also known as Kool Savas , is a German rapper and hip hop artist. Savas is mostly referred to as "King of Rap" or "King of German... Rap". "Savaş" is the Turkish word for "war". Born in Aachen, Germany to a German mother and a Turkish father, Savas' family moved back to Turkey when he was one year old. His father, who is from Çorum, Turkey, was arrested because of his political posture against the government in Turkey, and as a result of his father's arrest, his mother was forced to return to Aachen with Savas. By 1987, his father was released and the entire family was reunited and relocated to Berlin. It was in Berlin where Savas first came across Hip Hop music. Savas lived with his girlfriend, Melbeatz, in Berlin for an extended amount of time. As a result, the majority of Savas' beats were produced by her. Although Savas and his girlfriend are no longer together, they remain close friends. Although Savas is popularly called a "Berlin rapper," he resides in Heidelberg. He is also a vegetarian. Savas started his rap career with the EP Warum rappst du, containing rather provocative lyrics in songs such as "L.M.S.
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David Garrett is a record breaking German/American classical violinist and recording artist. Garrett was born in Aachen, Germany to an American... prima ballerina and a German lawyer and jurist, Georg Peter Bongartz. He adopted his mother's maiden name as a pseudonym. When Garrett was four years old, his father bought a violin for his older brother. The young Garrett took an interest and soon learned to play. A year later, he took part in a competition and won first prize. By the age of seven, he was playing once a week in public, and studied violin at the Lübeck Conservatoire. At the age of 12, Garrett began working with the distinguished Polish violinist Ida Haendel, often traveling to London and other European cities to meet her. After leaving home at 17, he enrolled in the Royal College of Music in London, leaving after the first semester. On being asked in an interview if he was expelled, Garrett responded: "Well expelled wasn’t the official term… It was mutually agreed that me and the RCM were going separate ways after the first semester.
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Sabina Classen is a German thrash metal singer, most known as lead vocalist of Holy Moses and Temple of the Absurd. In 1981, Sabina joined Holy... Moses, where her then-husband Andy Classen was playing guitar, and in 1988 moderated the Heavy Metal television program Mosh. After the break-up of Holy Moses in 1994, she formed the band Temple of the Absurd. The band released two albums and was disbanded in 2000. The same year, Holy Moses was reformed and is still functional. She is one of the first women to use a death growl.
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Savas Yurderi also known as Kool Savas , is a German rapper and hip hop artist. Savas is mostly referred to as "King of Rap" or "King of German... Rap". "Savaş" is the Turkish word for "war". Born in Aachen, Germany to a German mother and a Turkish father, Savas' family moved back to Turkey when he was one year old. His father, who is from Çorum, Turkey, was arrested because of his political posture against the government in Turkey, and as a result of his father's arrest, his mother was forced to return to Aachen with Savas. By 1987, his father was released and the entire family was reunited and relocated to Berlin. It was in Berlin where Savas first came across Hip Hop music. Savas lived with his girlfriend, Melbeatz, in Berlin for an extended amount of time. As a result, the majority of Savas' beats were produced by her. Although Savas and his girlfriend are no longer together, they remain close friends. Although Savas is popularly called a "Berlin rapper," he resides in Heidelberg. He is also a vegetarian. Savas started his rap career with the EP Warum rappst du, containing rather provocative lyrics in songs such as "L.M.S.
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Gerd Heinz is an actor.

Ludwig Schmid-Wildy was a German actor.