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I found it. not a short story but a novel, though, namely The Walking Shadow by Brian Stableford (ISFDB).

Freezing in and out of time zones, a pop-star/messiah takes his adoring followers with him on a jaunt through time and space as far as the end of time will allow.

It had a German translation.

I found it. not a short story but a novel, though, namely The Walking Shadow by Brian Stableford (ISFDB).

Freezing in and out of time zones, a pop-star/messiah takes his adoring followers with him on a jaunt through time and space as far as the end of time will allow.

It had a German translation.

I found it. not a short story but a novel, though, namely The Walking Shadow by Brian Stableford.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?185245

it had a German, translation, as well.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?738072

I found it. not a short story but a novel, though, namely The Walking Shadow by Brian Stableford (ISFDB).

Freezing in and out of time zones, a pop-star/messiah takes his adoring followers with him on a jaunt through time and space as far as the end of time will allow.

It had a German translation.

Not a short story, it sounds like the Brian Stableford novel The Walking Shadow. (I say "not a short story", but for all I know, he expanded it from a short story into a novel.)

While giving a speech to his followers, the protagonist turns into a chrome statue (via some physics process, but from his POV it happens miraculously) and unfreezes in the future.

I found it. not a short story but a novel, though, namely The Walking Shadow by Brian Stableford.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?185245

it had a German, translation, as well.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?738072