51�Թ�

Hans Peter Hermann Brötzmann was born on March 6, 1941, in Remscheid, an industrial city in western Germany.

For Vaillant, a 150-year-old family-owned company in Remscheid that for decades has been a leading maker of gas boilers and furnaces, the push from Berlin comes at the perfect time.

REMSCHEID, Germany — After decades of heating their homes with relatively cheap Russian natural gas, Germans are facing exorbitant prices for energy.

As a music-obsessed teenager in Remscheid, a small city in what was then West Germany, he dreamed of being a pop star and recorded a few tracks with a neighbor: Tillmans on vocals, and his friend on synths and drums.

Jacobs, an exuberant woman born in Remscheid, Germany, launched the floral department in the grocery where she worked but dreamed of her own shop.