(2 Aug 2024)
GERMANY HIGH SWING
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Berlin, Germany – 30 July 2024
1. Wide of Berlin skyline with man swinging into picture
2. View down from high swing to building below
3. Woman being acrobatic on high swing
4. View down from swing
5. Berlin TV Tower with young woman swimming into the picture
6. TV Tower with feet swinging into the picture
7. Andy Hoefer, CEO of Vertical Sports Events GmbH, getting woman off the swing safely
8. SOUNDBITE (German) Alexandra (no last name given), customer:
“It was great, really very, very nice. So at first, there was definitely a lot of adrenaline and then it becomes very relaxed and then you can really enjoy the view.”
9. Woman on swing seen from below
10. Legs swinging above Berlin
11. People walking over Alexanderplatz below
12. SOUNDBITE (German) Andy Hoefer, CEO of Vertical Sports Events GmbH:
“So basically it’s always about having a great experience and a nice day. We used to have the Baseflyer here, some people still know it. It was basically a free-fall gate for people. And we’ve now taken the facility out of service and thought we’d take something even more suitable for the masses, something even more beautiful and exciting and a product that everyone can honestly understand. And that’s a swing.”
13. Close of woman enjoying the swing
14. Legs swinging above Alexanderplatz
15. City Hall of Berlin
16. Man getting pushed on the swing
17. Man swinging above Berlin
18. SOUNDBITE (German) Andy Hoefer, CEO of Vertical Sports Events GmbH:
“Swings are well known everywhere. There’s a swing in every playground. They’ve become rather rare on high ground, so they’re actually almost non-existent. There are a few walks where you can walk over glass floors. Yes, we’re more or less the only ones in Europe with this concept.”
19. Grandmother takes pictures of her granddaughter on the high swing
20. TV Tower with young woman swimming in front of it
21. SOUNDBITE (German) Andy Hoefer, CEO of Vertical Sports Events GmbH:
“We are 120 metres above Alexanderplatz. So that’s just relatively high. If you look down, it seems quite small. Otherwise, it’s just swings.”
22. Wide of Berlin Dome and Potsdamer Platz
23. Young woman swimming back and forth
24. SOUNDBITE (German) Andy Hoefer, CEO of Vertical Sports Events GmbH:
“So people are really happy because everyone can identify with it. That means people know the experience of swinging and now they have it in a more relaxed, higher dimension, so to speak. You can also see that the pendulum is big and long and that’s just nice.”
25. View from the Park Inn Hotel on the Berlin Train
26. Grandmother getting a push on the high Swing
27. Hoefer watching customers
28. Two people swinging back and forth
29. Wide of Park Inn Hotel
30. Swing on top of hotel
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Berlin is offering a new attraction for thrill-seekers: a swing 120 metres (393 feet) above the city’s iconic Alexanderplatz square.
The first brave customers seem to have enjoyed the high-altitude experience.
STORYLINE
A swing with a view.
This is sightseeing for daredevils.
For 24,90 euros (26,95 US dollars) customers can get comfortable on a swing before pushing out from the roof of the Park Inn Hotel.
From a dizzying height, if they dare they can peer down 120 metres at some of Berlin’s most famous landmarks: Alexanderplatz, City Hall and Berlin TV Tower.
The man in charge of the new attraction, Andy Hoefer, says it has caught the attention of the public because it’s instantly recognisable.
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