Luxurious yachts and boisterous parties belong together like the Boot and Düsseldorf. And that's why the Blue Motion Night is traditionally celebrated on Monday evening at the famous water sports and boat fair, where numerous celebrities celebrate in the ambience of the world's most expensive watercraft at the invitation of fair boss Werner Dornscheidt and boat boss Petros Michelidakis.
Two years ago, however, the party was supplemented by another program item: the presentation of the Ocean Tribute Awards. The award, worth 20,000 euros, promotes innovative and sustainable ideas and products to protect the oceans and bodies of water.
The award is donated by Boot itself, the German Sea Foundation and the Monegasque Prince Albert II Foundation, which is why the eponymous prince presented the prize himself last year as a star guest.
Boris Herrmann took on this task this year. He became known to a wide audience last autumn when he brought the climate activist Greta Thunberg from England to the USA on the yacht "Malizia II". Herrmann did not come by water this time, but had previously announced that they want to travel to the event by environmentally friendly train.
Longside Herrmann were, among others, North Rhine-Westphalia Finance Minister Lutz Lienenkämper (CDU), bread millionaire Heiner Kamps, US Consul General Fiona Evans, District President Birgitta Radermacher (CDU), Chamber of Commerce President Andreas Ehlert, Düsseldorf architect Christoph Ingenhoven, opera director Christoph Meyer, actress Nina Ensmann, designer Thomas Rath, TV presenter Jean Pütz and Unicef ambassador Heribert Klein on the guest list.
Of course, the Düsseldorf speedboat champion Roger Klüh and Mona Küppers, President of the German Sailing Association, couldn't be left out.
Source: RP Online
