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- ↑ Stefan Kolditz: Summer in the City in Frieda Grafe et al.: Wim Wenders. Hanser, Munich/Vienna 1992. Page 123
- ↑ Gerd Gemünden: Framed visions: popular culture, Americanization, and the contemporary German and Austrian imagination . University of Michigan Press, 1998. Page 10
