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Wedding bills served up to Boris Becker

Society: 13 Jan 12
German tennis legend Boris Becker has been told by a court he must pay the minister who presided over his wedding 3,400 Swiss francs (€2,800) in a long-running dispute over the wedding fee. READ »

Becker disputes wedding minister bill, says charge is over the line

Society: 29 Oct 11
German tennis legend Boris Becker appeared in a Swiss court Friday to dispute a 9,600 Swiss franc fee (€7,850) sought by the minister who presided at his wedding. READ »

Oktoberfest – the main tents

Lifestyle: 13 Sep 11
The Local's Oktoberfest guide tours the best of the big tents. READ »

Lisicki hailed as new Steffi Graf

Sport: 29 Jun 11
German newspapers on Wednesday hailed homegrown tennis star Sabine Lisicki after she made it into the Wimbledon semifinals, wondering if the country at last has a new Steffi Graf. READ »

Becker's holiday home confiscated by court over gardening bill

Society: 24 Jun 11
Former tennis legend and all-round German celebrity Boris Becker, has had his villa on Majorca officially confiscated by a court because he has not paid his gardening bill. READ »

State politicians took free hotel stay to discuss gambling rules

Politics: 2 Apr 11
A few days before they were set to take part in a meeting on rules governing gambling, four top politicians attended a conference on the subject – with their luxury hotel rooms paid for by an industry magazine. READ »

Boris Becker ordered to pay pastor for wedding

Society: 5 Nov 10
A Swiss court has told German tennis legend Boris Becker to pay the minister who presided over his celebrity wedding a fee of €1,450 after settling a long-running dispute. READ »

Claudia Schiffer names baby daughter Cosima Violet

Society: 25 May 10
German supermodel Claudia Schiffer on Tuesday revealed the name of her newborn child: Cosima Violet Vaughn Drummond. READ »

Claudia Schiffer gives birth to third child

Society: 15 May 10
German supermodel Claudia Schiffer, 39, gave birth to a baby girl – her third child – on Friday. “Mother and baby are happy and doing well,” Schiffer’s spokeswoman told German paper Welt am Sonntag. READ »

Second poker heist bandit arrested

National: 18 Mar 10
After a man turned himself in earlier this week a second suspect has been arrested for a heist on a high-stakes German poker tournament that netted the thieves nearly a quarter of a million euros, authorities said late on Wednesday. READ »

Poker heist suspect released without charge

National: 14 Mar 10
The man arrested on Friday evening on suspicion of being involved in the poker game heist in Berlin last week has been released after detectives discovered there was no way he could be connected to the robbery. READ »

Police arrest one in poker heist investigation

National: 13 Mar 10
Police in Berlin hunting for a gang who robbed a high-stakes poker tournament in front of rolling cameras have made an arrest and raided several addresses in the capital. READ »

Police looking for fifth suspect in poker tournament heist

Society: 9 Mar 10
Police said on Tuesday that they are looking for a fifth suspect in their investigation of the spectacular robbery of a high stakes poker tournament at one of Berlin’s fanciest hotels over the weekend. READ »

No leads in Berlin poker heist investigation

National: 8 Mar 10
Police on Monday said they had no leads in their investigation of the spectacular robbery of a high stakes poker tournament at one of Berlin’s fanciest hotels over the weekend. READ »

Police hunt machete-wielding poker robbers

National: 7 Mar 10
German police said Sunday they were hunting a masked, machete-wielding gang that staged a brazen raid on a high stakes poker tournament at one of Berlin's swankiest hotels, but had no "hot leads." READ »

Armed robbers stick up Berlin poker tournament

National: 6 Mar 10
Armed robbers on Saturday struck at Germany's largest poker tournament, stealing hundreds of thousands of euros in prize money and injuring gamblers, police said. READ »

Boris Becker announces new son 'Amadeus'

Society: 11 Feb 10
German tennis legend Boris Becker has welcomed his new son Amadeus into the world with wife Lilly Kerssenberg, media reports confirmed on Thursday. READ »

Becker to Woods: I feel your pain

Society: 20 Dec 09
German tennis great Boris Becker, no stranger to scandal himself, has come out in support of Tiger Woods, saying he sympathises with the golf star whose life is in disarray after his infidelity was exposed. READ »

Opening the door to holiday torture

Analysis & Opinion: 30 Nov 09
In the latest installment of Portnoy’s Stammtisch, The Local’s column about life in Germany, Portnoy cracks open the tiny door to Advent calendar torture. READ »

Boris Becker expecting baby number four

Society: 3 Aug 09
German tennis legend Boris Becker is expecting his fourth child with wife of seven weeks, Lilly Kerssenberg, daily Bild confirmed on Monday. READ »

Introducing…Boris Becker

Lifestyle: 15 Jun 09
Introducing…is The Local's guide to the fabulous world of German celebrity. Know all there is about tennis legend and public lothario Boris Becker? Meet the man as famous for his love life as his boom-boom backhand. READ »

Becker's 'boom-boom' heart goes from love to match

Society: 12 Jun 09
It's love, set and match for Boris Becker on Friday when he marries his Dutch model girlfriend in a posh Swiss resort and harvests a lucrative TV deal to air his second nuptials. READ »

Boris Becker bares private life on internet TV channel

Society: 7 May 09
German tennis legend Boris Becker is launching his own internet TV channel to allow fans a peek into his very public private life and upcoming wedding to a Dutch model, Bild newspaper reported on Thursday. READ »

Germans find their celebrities dull

Society: 27 Apr 09
German celebrities aren’t worth talking about – even in Germany – according to an online media study published this week. Madonna and other foreign celebs ranked well above the country’s dimly shining stars for web gossip. READ »

Pitt and Cruise due in Berlin next week for film premieres

Society: 18 Jan 09
Two of Hollywood’s biggest leading men are due in Berlin over the next two days, with Brad Pitt in the capital to promote his new film, quickly followed by Tom Cruise for the premier of his own flick. READ »

Dumped fiancée ‘disappointed and hurt’ by Boris Becker

Society: 6 Nov 08
Sandy Meyer-Wölden, the recently dumped fiancée of retired German tennis star Boris Becker, said on Thursday she was crushed by the decision to end their three-month whirlwind romance. READ »

Why beer and tight leather trousers don't mix

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Sep 08
Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, has decided to lace up his Lederhosen this year and find out the true meaning of Munich’s Oktoberfest. READ »

Tennis star Boris Becker to marry

Society: 11 Aug 08
German tennis legend Boris Becker, 40, served up a surprise on Sardinia on Saturday by asking his 24-year-old girlfriend to marry him. Alessandra (Sandy) Meyer-Wölden volleyed with a “yes.” READ »

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