Press Conference: The world's elite is competing

The 22nd German Open Championships are actually recording 4 926 entries from 46 nations. For the Grand Slam tournaments the world´s best dance couples have entered. "Nowhere else are so many couples from so many nations dancing their competitions. The GOC is the world's largest international dancesport competition", announced GOC Managing Director Harry Körner at the press conference a week before the GOC is opened. Now for the fifth time the eyes of the entire danscesport world are looking between 12 and 16 August to Stuttgart, the state capital of Baden-Wuerttemberg, when the dance couples turn the Culture and Congress Center Liederhalle (KKL) in a gigantic ballroom. More highlights promise the World Cup of the Boogie Woogie Oldies on Friday and the World Cup of the Boogie Woogie Main Class on Saturday. Even for these events the scene is prepared and is sending their best couples into the race.

The SWR television broadcasts on Saturday evening between 22.20 h and 23.50 h one and a half hour live from the Beethoven Hall. The decisions in the Grand Slam competition of the standard amateurs and in the World Cup Boogie-Woogie of the Main Class will be presented to television viewers Great interest encounter the GOC by the media representatives. Around 50 journalists from eleven nations will be reporting from the halls of the KKL.
Those who will still assure tickets for the 22nd GOC should act quickly. They are available at the GOC office (Phone: +49 (0) 70 52 - 93 24 90, E-mail: harry.koerner@goc-stuttgart.de) as well as online at www.goc-stuttgart.de.
Photo (private), Answering the questions at the press conference were from left to right Helmut Wallisch, Heidi Estler, Harry Körner, Wilfried Scheible, Michael Eichert.