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==Overview==
Below is some text from the facebook page of the [[Tango Experience Berlin 2013]].

==Frank Eggers==
===2013-08-22 16:15===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/245773428880539
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Official Announcement!

We are very sorry for all the current trouble and confusion.

At this time there will only be our daily milongas at Ballhaus Rixdorf.

Further updates will be posted when available.

We deeply regret and apologize for the current situation.

Frank Eggers
Festival Organizer
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===2013-08-23 10:23===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/245891172202098
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Tango Experience Berlin Festival komplett abgesagt

Der Festivalleiter Frank Eggers erklärt hiermit die 
Tango Experience Berlin als offiziell abgesagt. 
Das Festival, das gestern Abend mit einer Gala im 
Roten Rathaus eröffnet werden sollte, hatte seit 
Donnerstagmorgen mit unerwarteten Problemen zu kämpfen. 
Unstimmigkeiten zwischen dem Veranstalter und einem 
wichtigen Veranstaltungsort der Tango Experience – 
führten dazu, dass das Festival nicht wie geplant 
stattfinden konnte. Alternativen wurden gesucht, 
konnten in der Kürze der Zeit jedoch nicht mehr 
realisiert werden. Auch das Tango Konzert der 
Berliner Symphoniker am Samstag, den 24. August 
auf dem Schinkelplatz wird nicht mehr stattfinden.

Frank Eggers.
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===2013-08-23 21:51===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/245959028861979

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Deeply moved by the amount of understanding received from 
the teachers whom have been hit so hard the last days.

Also really proud on the effort the core team of EX TeB is 
undertaking to make most of the situation.

Which is Rixdorf alive and kicking tonight with lots of DJs 
and several of the teachers.

Special thanks to Daniel Puschmann for his strength in those 
difficult times.

Frank
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===2013-08-23 11:50===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/245893295535219
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An alle Gäste und Freunde der Experience,

ich untröstlich über die derzeitige Situation. All der Zuspruch 
und all die Unterstützung der letzten 2 Jahre sind auf einen 
Schlag zu nichte gemacht und unwiederbringlich verloren.

Es tut mir unendlich Leid für alle Gäste und für alle Helfer, 
welche mit viel Einsatz für die Vision von einer neuen Art von 
Tango Festival gekämpft haben.

hiermit entschuldige ich mich aufrichtig bei allen, 
welche hierdurch Schäden und Enttäuschung zu erleiden haben.

Frank Eggers
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===2013-08-23 22:37===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/245964422194773
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Dear Experience Guests,

the Experience has been pressured to either take expensive actions, 
or to submit to accepting much higher services fees, as originally 
agreed on by contract. This continues struggle had major impact on 
the flow of organizing the Experience, as well as its financial standing.

The company organizing the Experience had to file bankruptcy today. 
No other solution was left or insight.

Frank Eggers
Tango Experience Berlin
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===2013-08-24 17:53===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/246082302182985
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In the blink of an eye, a dream can turn nightmare. All I ever wanted 
with TeB was to gather amazing artists and try new ideas and concepts. 
For this I have dedicated my last to years. Deeply regretting that 
the vision came to fall so closely to becoming reality. And in that 
fall so many innocent people have to suffer the consequences of my failure.

Frank
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===2013-08-25 11:29===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/246208075503741
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Dear Experience Visitors and Travellers!

As you might be able to guess, lines to the Experience (Phone/Mail/FB/SMS) 
have been running hot.

Sorting out the mess created through cancellation will start in the 
current days. Please understand, that it is impossible to answer on all 
requests on a short time scale. Thank you.

Frank Eggers
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===2013-08-25 12:32===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/246208075503741?comment_id=735246&reply_comment_id=735248&total_comments=8
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Leider gibt es keinen einzigen Grund alleine. Und einer der 
Hauptgründe (aus meiner Sicht heraus), könnte ohne juristische 
Begleitung mich noch zusätzlich angreifbar machen. Tut mir Leid, 
dass ich daher nichts genaueres zu diesem Zeitpunkt veröffentlichen kann.
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===2013-08-25 20:00===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/246277225496826
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700 people at Rixdorf yesterday night!

I failed the Experience as a festival manager.

But the Experience didn't fail to bring people from all over the world 
concetrated together in Berlin in one moment, in what must have been an 
incredible night at Rixdorf!
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===2013-08-31 13:14===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/247183572072858?comment_id=738828&offset=0&total_comments=5

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Dear Milos, you are free to post whatever you like. I know you are 
disapointed and you have every right to be angry. I was the organizer, 
and for that I will have to take the heat. But I also hope you can 
understand, that I will not take just any kind of "criminal offense" 
accusation. Also in case of e.g. Cantango Berlin, I was asked to 
remove their comments.
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===2013-09-04 08:02===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/246208075503741?comment_id=741713&reply_comment_id=741715&total_comments=3
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As the event company has filed for insolvency, the best advise 
I can give you is to state your claim to contact@tangoexperience.org . 
All claims will be collected and given to the court dealing 
with the insolvency.
Regards,
Frank Eggers
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===2013-09-04 09:01===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/247183572072858?comment_id=738828&reply_comment_id=741729&total_comments=2
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On the "bad" company figures: Since the Company is a legal entity, 
money given by the owners beyond the signing capital are/can be 
treated as "liabilities" in the balance sheet of the company. 
Which here is/was the dominat case.
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===2013-09-04 15:41===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/247884305336118
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*** Update on Compensation Claims ***

Dear Guests of Tango Experience,

if you had prepaid your ticket, or classes for 
Tango Experience, then please send a formal claim request to:

contact@tangoexperience.org

Claims should be named to:

Tango Experience Berlin
GE Invest GmbH & Co.Consulting KG
Wilkestr.7B
D-13507 Berlin

All claims will be collected and submitted 
to the court dealing with the insolvency of 
the organizing company of Tango Experience, 
GE Invest GmbH & Co. Consulting KG.

Yours,
Frank Eggers
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==Dirk Apitz==
===2013-08-24 00:09===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/245964422194773?comment_id=733961&offset=0&total_comments=23
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You all have a right to angry. I am just having a problem with people 
who say that Frank disappointed anyone of you on purpose. He did not 
betray and lost more we all together.
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===2013-08-24 01:22===

https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/245964422194773?comment_id=733993&offset=0&total_comments=23

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Now I am waiting for someone to claim that he actually really is 
an extraterrestrial feeding on the anger of human tango dancers. 
Wow! All venues where either completely or almost completely paid. 
The same holds for the flights. And the hotel. And the catering. 
If I wanted steel money, I had taken all invest and sponsor money, 
not below a million though, paid nothing and varnished to an emerging 
country outside Europe. Shall we go on with these kind of speculations?
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===2013-08-24 23:27===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/245964422194773?comment_id=734937&offset=0&total_comments=23

"Dirk Apitz Veronica, so you think he is playing with feelings, that this is a game for him? And you think that why he cancelled does not matter? It matters to me.
And Bettina, if there was a conflict between Frank and Cafe Moskau, do you seriously expect the director of the place to confirm any charges against her? And where do you take your certainty about who is lying after only talking to one person? A parkett on a parkett doesn't strike you a little odd? What about the members of the organising team that have been thrown out the night before when setting up the place? Is this normal in Germany? | Like · Reply · August 24 at 11:27pm via mobile"

===2013-08-26 09:46===

https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/245964422194773?comment_id=735768&offset=0&total_comments=21


* Leonhard Jaschke: Excuse me, I am just an outsider. But if I read "higher service fees as originally agreed on by contract" with the consequence of denying these services (that were certainly in the contract) on very short notice (festival had literally started), the conclusion for me is not that Frank has acted carelessly or even is a betrayer. It rather looks to me as if he (and his organization) have been blackmailed ... | Like · Reply · 1 · August 26 at 9:46am via mobile
** Dirk Apitz You probably wanted to write "(that were certainly NOT in the contract)". | Like · August 26 at 6:35pm
** Dirk Apitz And that's how it looks to me since Thursday. | Like · August 26 at 6:38pm

==Others==
===2013-08-25 15:05===
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTangoFestivalBerlin/posts/246208075503741?comment_id=735246&reply_comment_id=735302&total_comments=8
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die Morgenpost sagt was von "Parkett im Roten Rathaus" war scheinbar 
nicht ok - Rotes rathaus weist es ab; veranstalter sagt scheinbar 
CAFE MOSKAU wollte ploetzlich wesentlich mehr als vertraglich 
vereinabrt (rumor says 20.000?) - ich persoenlich habe mit der 
leiterin des CAFE MOSKAU fuer ca 1 Stunde geredet, sie weist das 
als glatte Erfindung zurueck - dass sie sogar wollte dass es 
weitergeht und nicht das CAFE MOSKAU kuendigte sondern der Veranstalter.
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