Germany Restricts Schiffer's Filming Career

World | August 5, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
Germany Restricts Schiffer's Filming Career Supermodel Claudia Schiffer has been banned from filming a television commercial at Germany's highest mountain peak because authorities said it would defame a national landmark. Photo by DDP

Supermodel Claudia Schiffer has been banned from filming a television commercial at Germany's highest mountain peak because authorities said it would defame a national landmark. Schiffer, 33, was to appear in a spot for a mail-order company alongside giant inflatable catalogues perched atop the Alpine summit Zugspitze -- elevation 2,962 meters. But a spokesman for the Bavarian state forestry ministry, Josef Miller, said the blonde beauty, who is now pregnant with her second child, would have to find a new backdrop "to protect a national landmark".

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