The tour starts in the capital of Germany, Berlin along a lake and a river. Its a solely flat Team Time Trial, to mix the General Classement at the beginning.
The second stage brings the riders to northern Germany along the baltic sea from Rostock via Lübeck to Kiel where I would count on a mass sprint. On the other hand a group could go trough, cause you will find breakaways, which will fight for the first mountain points.
The third stage takes also place in northern germany, but along the north sea from Hamburg to Wilhelmshaven. Its kinda flat too like the second stage and you also find one mountain cat. 3. So likely it will end in a mass sprint, but you cant be that sure.
The fourth stage starts in good old Westphalia in western Germany, in a bicycle-exited city called Münster. The stage goes through the Ruhr Valley into the Sauerland, where you find the first biggs hills. Today we probably won't see a mass sprint. Either a group will win or the Classicsprints, cause the riders have to pass 3 Mountains cat. 3 and 1 mountain cat. 2.
The sprinter will thank good, that they have a last flat stage today. But they will be a bit tired, cause yesterday was a bit harder than the first 3 stages. The stage starts in Gießen and goes to the south of Germany to Karlsruhe. You likely will see a massprint today, but the last for sure.
The is a day for breakaway's and classics. The stage starts in Saarbrücken and the riders will ride about 50 km through France until they arrive Germany again. Until km 130 its kinda flat but then the riders have to climb on top of the seekopf a cat. 2 mountain. We will see some attacks here for sure, so the stage winnder won't be a sprinter today. The stage ends in Rottenburg at the Neckar with a flat end.
Today it's the day for the General Classements Guys, the riders have to pass 3 mountains in the Schwarzwald, 2 cat. 2 and a finish on the Feldberg, a cat 1 mountain with gradients about 10%. Today the classement will separate the wheat from the chaff. But we probably won't see a preliminary decision.
The 8th stage is a Individual Time Trial along the Bodensee where the Time Trial Guys can make some time against the real Climbers. But the Time Trial isn't that flat, its kinda hilly, which makes the stage a bit more exciting.
So here we have the royal-stage of the German Tour 2011. The stage starts in Kempten in South Germany and goes through the Alps to Austria, the third Country the riders passed during the tour. The field has to pass 2 big mountains, 1 cat. 1 the Heiterwand and the stage ends in Ischgl where the riders have to overcome a 15% gradient and average of about 10 %. Just the real Climber will reach the mountain first, and if there is some TT Guy, who isnt that fit, he will lose a lot of time. So the stage is very interesting and the tour will probably decided today.
To sum up, I can say that it's a kinda nice tour, Sprinters have their 3 Stages to probably make the decision for the Green jersey, the classics have 2, maybe 3 stages to win a stage. There are 2 Time Trials, 1 Team and 1 Individual, to compensate some time before the mountains and the climber and GC-Guys have 2 mountain finishes. The riders also see a lot of Germany, starting in the Capital, over the North to the West and then to the Alps.
i'm open to criticism and suggestions.
greets ava
i'm editing at the moment, and write some things to the stages. so if you find another mistake, just tell me. 
