What is the German voice saying at the beginning of Hostage?
“Auf der Autobahn 2 von Hannover in Richtung Oberhausen”. It continues with “… zwischen Autobahnkreuz”, followed by a few words drowned out by the music. These German words mean something like “On highway 2 from Hannover going to Oberhausen”. It’s from a news report about an incident which started as an “ordinary” bank holdup with taking of hostages in Gladbek (which is in the Ruhr area in Germany) and ended up with the death of a hostage, a young girl named Silke Bischoff, several days later. Silke was shot by one of the two hostage-takers in the getaway car while the police tried to free her. The German media made a kind of Saturday evening entertainment show of the event; they did interviews with the gangsters while they were sitting in their getaway car, pressing a pistol against Silke’s temple. The police had several opportunities to end the drama, but they couldn’t because wherever the gangsters appeared, they were surrounded by a bunch of cameramen and reporters. The connectio
