Annual review
Winners and losers of the year
Definitely a winner of the year: US pop singer Taylor Swift set a Spotify record
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2023 was a turbulent year, a lot happened. Things went better for some than for others.
Loser of the year
Marco Goecke
Director and chief choreographer of the Hannover State Ballet, attacks the critic Dog poop and is released. Smelled like trouble.
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Albart
Mascot of the European Football Championship 2024 in Germany.
Albarn.
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Joasia Zakrzewski
Scottish long-distance runner, comes third in the Manchester-Liverpool ultra marathon, but runs four kilometers in between automobile.
At five kilometers she would have come second.
Annalena Baerbock
Foreign Minister has to cancel her visit to Australia because her plane is on strike.
If only she had taken the car.
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Lord of the Lost
German rock band, bottom of the list Eurovision Song Contest.
Lord of the Last.
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Young man
unknown, tried the water fountain “Jet d’eau” on the Lake Geneva to hug will be thrown up and hurt.
You first have to come up with the idea.
Bundeswehr procurement office
Authority ordered digital radio devices for 1.3 billion euros that do not fit in the vehicles.
That’s why it suits the procurement office.
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Hansi Flick
Bundesberti, expelled from the DFB.
Just why? Things went great against Liechtenstein.
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CDU
Party, shows the former presidential palace in the Georgian capital Tbilisi instead of the Berlin Reichstag in a promotional video.
But they also look similar.
Winner of the year
Darya Varfolomeev
16-year-old German gymnast, wins five gold medals at the World Championships – and one silver.
So it gets even better.
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A380
Giant aircraft, eight of which were reactivated by Lufthansa.
We are pleased.
Taylor Swift
Pop star, according to Spotify, the first artist there with 100 million listeners per month.
That’s why we have the Amigos!
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“Titanic”
Satirical magazine, averts bankruptcy.
No joke.
Nathalie Pohl
Extreme swimmer, becomes the first German to cross New Zealand’s Cook Strait in 6 hours, 33 minutes.
Would have taken longer with Deutsche Bahn.
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Margaret II
Queen of Denmark, has given up smoking.
Is she sniffing glue now?
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Currywurst
Meat specialty, back in the VW canteen.
But there is an additional charge.
Joey Chestnut
US engineer eats 62 hot dogs in ten minutes in a competition.
Formerly worked at VW.
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Boris Becker
Idol, coach and TV expert again after being released from prison.
Is he sniffing glue now?
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Udo Lindenberg
Singer, creates the first number one hit of his career with rapper Apache 207 and the song “Komet”.
Hat done.
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