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Ninth (9th) Home Exercise

The Strange case of the £ 35 m Saltcellar

Part 1

Interview with the General Director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Dr. Seipel – before the Saliera was found

Interviewer: Hello Dr. Seipel.

Dr. Seipel: Hello.

Interviewer: The Saliera is stolen. Why is it so famous? Could you tell us more about this famous sculptor?

Dr. Seipel: The Saliera was sculpted by the Italian Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini. Cellini was born in Florence in the year 1500 and apprenticed to a goldsmith at the age of 15. In 1519 He travelled to Rome, where he created some of his first masterpieces, but also fell into what would become a lifetime of trouble with the law.

At first he killed a Constable and then, he killed Philbert, Prince of Orange. In 1529, he murdered the man who had killed his brother. At the Court of Francis, he created his famous Saliera. Cellini died in 1571. Interviewer: And how did the Saliera get to the Kunsthistorisches Museum?

Dr. Seipel: When all the Habsburg collections were moved into the Kunsthistorisches Museum upon its opening in 1891, the Saliera went there, too. So the saltcellar has been in the Kunsthistorisches Museum for over 100 years.

Interviewer: What about the thief? How did he get into the Museum?

Dr. Seipel: The thief had to be smooth and smart, and he had to know exactly what they had been doing, how hard to smash the glass so that the smaller parts, such as the trident wouldn’t get broken. He get into the museum threw a open window. He had to climb up a scaffolding




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Part 2

Interview with Police Chief, Mr. Geiger after the return of the Saliera


Interviewer: Good evening Mr. Geiger.

Mr Geiger: Good evening.

Interviewer: The Saliera is back. Could you tell us something about the thief and his story?

Mr. Geiger: Yes. It was easy for him to steal the Saliera that night. The thief was an expert of an alarm firm. So he know all the important facts about the alarm system

Interviewer: How old was that man and what was his name?

Mr. Geiger: He was 50 years old and his last name was Mank.

Interviewer: How did he steal the Saliera?

Mr. Geiger: Mr. Mank said that he climbed off scaffolding on the outside of the building. Then he broke the window, and ran to the room where the Saliera stood. He smashed the glass and took the artwork. Then he drove to his native near Zwettl.

He had a house there, but he thought that the Saliera wasn’t save enough. And so he took the Saliera and hid it like pirate between a few trees. There we found the Saliera.

Mr. Geiger: Yes, he blackmailed an insurance company. At first he demanded 5 million euro and then 10 million euro.

Interviewer: And the end of this story?

Mr. Geiger: Mr. Mank led the detectives to the place, where he had dug the Saliera.


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