Jan 02, 2007Articles: Mayor gives 'poor but sexy' Berlin a dose of wow factor
By vanrozenheim
(BERLIN, GERMANY) - He never meant it to be anything more than a throwaway line at an economic forum, but as soon as it passed Klaus Wowereit's lips, it became a much-repeated slogan for Berlin, and possibly for the future of Europe: "We are poor but sexy." Wowi, as Berlin's mayor is known to almost all of the city's four million citizens, is none of that. Mr. Wowereit, 53, is youthful, elegant, flippant and gay in every sense of the word; he is also gaining enormous attention within Germany's powerful Social Democratic Party, which sees him as a strong contender to become the country's next leader.
