The studio rejected the idea as they wanted a sequel, not a prequel, though Schumacher was able to include very brief events in Batman's past.

Although the Social Democrats showed strong support for the expellees especially under Kurt Schumacher and Erich Ollenhauer, social democrats in more recent decades have traditionally been less supportive — and it was under Willy Brandt that West Germany recognized the Oder-Neisse line as factual as part of his Ostpolitik.

Schumacher agreed to return for Ferrari part-way through 2009, as cover for the badly injured Felipe Massa, but was prevented by a neck injury.

Schumacher was born in Hürth, North Rhine-Westphalia, to Rolf Schumacher, a bricklayer, and his wife Elisabeth.

When Schumacher was four, his father modified his pedal kart by adding a small motorcycle engine.

Nevertheless, when Schumacher needed a new engine costing 800 DM, his parents were unable to afford it ; Michael was able to continue racing with support from local businessmen.

Prior to directing the Spider-Man films, Raimi lobbied to direct Batman Forever when Tim Burton was ousted from the director's chair, but was rejected in favor of Joel Schumacher, whose reputation at the time outshone Raimi's.

While Williams continued to dominate F1 in 1993, Patrese found it difficult to live with his new team-mate Michael Schumacher and before the end of the season Benetton informed Patrese that he was " free to seek an alternate drive ".

Häkkinen was close to winning the 1990 Macau Grand Prix but missed out due to a controversial accident with Michael Schumacher, which resulted in his promotion to Formula One with Team Lotus.

In Hungary and Belgium, however, only one point though Schumacher took advantage of fully because he won only in the Hungarian Grand Prix and at Spa while he was leading he made contact with David Coulthard.

Häkkinen and Schumacher arrived at Suzuka with the title still up for grabs though Häkkinen was clearly favored by the superiority of the Mclaren while the Ferrari had developed during the course of the championship.

In the last race of the season, Häkkinen won again with an unfortunate Schumacher who took pole position was forced to start from the back of the grid due to a problem encountered on his warm-up lap and had made a good recovery in the race before a puncture forced him to retire.

Villeneuve was seen driving a VW before stopping and saying at the camera that he has nothing against German guys ... much less for the " allemandes ", referring to the vehicle and German girls — a reference to his rivalry with Michael Schumacher and for the incident at the 1997 European Grand Prix.

The pre-season betting was that Senna would coast to the title, but with the banning of electronic driver aids, the Benetton team and Michael Schumacher initially proved more competitive and won the first three races.

Schumacher was disqualified from that race and banned for two further races for overtaking Hill during the formation lap and ignoring the subsequent black flag.

Four more victories for Hill, three of which were in races where Schumacher was excluded or disqualified, took the title battle to the final event at Adelaide.

Schumacher's penalty was for blocking and forcing Hill off the road at the Belgian Grand Prix ; Hill's was for colliding with Schumacher under braking at the Italian Grand Prix.

During the race he passed championship contender Michael Schumacher on the track and was leading late in the race, well ahead of the eventual 1997 World Champion Villeneuve, when a hydraulic problem drastically slowed the Arrows.

His driving partner there was Ralf Schumacher, the younger brother of Michael.

Hill was leading late in the race, with teammate Schumacher closing rapidly, when he suggested that team principal Eddie Jordan tell Schumacher to hold position, instead of risking losing a 1 – 2 finish.

A British firm, Schumacher Racing, was the first to develop an adjustable ball differential in 1980, which allowed nearly infinite tuning for various track conditions.

Schumacher also raced at the SKUSA SuperNationals, an event taking place each year in Las Vegas, along with F1 drivers Sébastien Buemi and Nelson Piquet, Jr .. Felipe Massa also used karting in September 2009 to test his condition in Brazil, two months after his Hungarian Grand Prix freak accident during qualifying.

Schumacher was also forced to go to the gravel to avoid Montoya.

Both Schumacher and many modern-day proponents of appropriate technology also emphasize the technology as people-centered.

In addition to Buddhism, Schumacher also credited his ideas to Gandhi.

Montoya's retirement during the race also meant that Räikkönen finished 2nd in the championship, just two points behind Schumacher.

At this time at university, Joseph Deiss was also the chairman of the Board of Directors at Schumacher AG in Schmitten ( FR ) and chairman of the Raiffeisenbank in Haut-Lac, Courtepin ( FR ).

Schumacher has also directed two adaptations of the books of John Grisham, The Client ( 1994 ) and A Time to Kill ( 1996 ), the latter as the personal choice of Grisham.

Schumacher also served as the director for the music videos of two songs appearing in the franchise, " Kiss from a Rose ", by Seal and " The End Is the Beginning Is the End " by The Smashing Pumpkins ( co-directed with Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris ).

In 1999, Schumacher also directed the music video for " Letting the Cables Sleep " by English rock band Bush.

The actor is also a frequent collaborator with director Joel Schumacher, and has appeared in The Lost Boys, Flatliners, Phone Booth and the big screen adaptation of A Time to Kill.

However Schumacher retired in more than half his races that season and ended up behind team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella having also been out-qualified 10 times during the season by the Italian.

This was also Schumacher ’ s last opportunity to drive a race car with a roof.

In 2001, Michael Schumacher equalled Alain Prost's then record 51 Grand Prix wins at the Hungaroring, in the drive which also secured his 4th World Title which also matched Prost's career tally.

Schumacher also won his seventh World Drivers ' Championship title at Spa in 2004.

Michael Schumacher has won the Belgian Grand Prix 6 times and Ayrton Senna won 5 times ; including 4 times in a row from 1988-1991, and Kimi Räikkönen and Jim Clark both won 4 times ( Clark also won 4 times in row, from 1962-1965 ).

After switching to Renault engines, they also won the constructor's championship in with Schumacher and Johnny Herbert.

Michael Schumacher, David Coulthard, Ralf Schumacher, and Takuma Sato have also won there, traditionally the end of the Formula Three season, where drivers from almost every national series participate.

It is also the home of Seven time Formula One World Champion, Michael Schumacher.

Ralf Schumacher, Olivier Panis and Christian Klien also made their first stops on lap 9.

Trulli's team-mate, Fernando Alonso, also crashed at the tunnel, like Schumacher, during the race, and consequently lost second place.

Bergstein also attempted to cast her friend, sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer to play Mrs. Schumacher, and Joel Grey as her husband.

The Brawn-guided Scuderia also powered Schumacher to five consecutive drivers ' titles, from to.