Ex-robot between loud machines.

The coup-Arnie goes on, at least on the first day Cebit: Many fans of the ex-action star Schwarzenegger came to him at the fair watching tour. The Gouvernator awarded the Fair kriselnden shine. The fall this year from small, but perfectly fine: there is news enough.

 

The star of the Cebit 2009 is not a cellphone and no computer, it is an actor who 25 years ago had played a robot: Arnold Schwarzenegger. The California governor visited on Tuesday morning with two hours Angela Merkel's largest computer fair in the world. "My God, he really is, the idol of my youth," said Michael Fair visitors Brettmann reckte and his camera phone into the air.

In the narrow gray suit and green tie Schwarzenegger stormed ahead. At the first stop of the two hour tour through the fair, he had the laugh on his side: "I feel as if I were at the Cannes Film Festival," he said with regard to the many fans and photographers who are at the IBM booth set up had. As the physicist Merkel later on the show trend Cloud Computing said, pulled the "Arnie" fans again.

In the middle of the group of California businessmen and advisers still appeared a well-known actor on the face: bodybuilder Ralf Moeller ( "Gladiator"). What he doing here? "I am a friend of Arnold. He asked me whether I want to go. I was never in Hanover."

The bus route

While still Möller distributed autographs were Schwarzenegger and Merkel again and them: Microsoft, SAP, IDS Scheer, Vodafone, and more. With the sun shining hurried from hall to hall, jumped for a long way in a reserved bus.

In the stands were like chancellor and the governor used as an advertising medium: Microsoft had a Lego helicopter present in Vodafone mobile phones high, at SAP is a program used for the fire brigade marvel. Merkel Cebit professional goodbye to the company after a few minutes routinely with the greeting "A lot of fun."

After two hours, the power-round on state of the telecom giant to an end: "I have seen more technology here than in my whole life," said Schwarzenegger and enthused by the opportunities of computer technology for the protection of the environment. After a short speech on dangers of protectionism, on the leadership of Merkel and the honor of opening the fair to be adopted it with an "Arnie" classic: "I'll be back." Chancellor Merkel was delighted: "The Governor should come every year," she said.