Rescued
The largest folk festival in the world is not for those on a budget. For all those who can’t afford a stroll with a gingerbread heart, a rollercoaster ride or drinks in the beer tent, there is the “Wiesn for everyone”. Instead of at Theresienwiese, it will take place on September 30th at the Vineyard Munich (Emersonstraße 1, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.) in Obergiesing. For the children there is a bouncy castle, baking waffles, face painting, crafts and making bird food together. Chilled beer for adults. In addition to cotton candy and roasted almonds, food that has been rescued and processed is eaten. The program also includes a sustainable raffle, a karaoke show and live music from the Ukrainian band “Bebis Garden”.
The free Oktoberfest is organized by the association “Food saving & more“, which was founded in February 2022 in a small group with four companies and 20 food rescuers, quickly grew into a large association and won the German Neighborhood Award last year. “Food waste is the third largest cause of climate change,” says the founder Carmen Nolte. She sees herself as an environmentalist, and her mission with the association is stated on the website: “To save edible food from destruction, to support those in need and to integrate disabled people, refugees and disadvantaged fellow human beings – thereby protecting our earth and thereby stopping climate change.” Several social and environmentally friendly projects are running at the same time: for example, delivering rescued flowers to senior centers and children’s homes or the plan to set up flower pots in the neighborhood.
Honored
Lydia Staltner.
(Photo: LichtBlick Senior Aid e. V.)
Her work has already been recognized by Angela Merkel, honored with the Bavarian State Medal and on Wednesday the Federal Cross of Merit was added. Started twenty years ago Lydia Staltner with their charity work. In 2003 she founded the Lichtblick Senior Citizens’ Aid Association, which today supports around 25,000 pensioners in need. In Bavaria, the number of people affected by insufficient pensions increases every year. In 2006 there were around 82,000 people, according to the DGB pension report there were around 129,000 at the end of 2021 and around 137,000 in mid-2022.
Open
Laim is not exactly rich in cultural places, some even speak of it as a rather “snoring” district. Now there is a meeting point: the sisters Laura and Alexandra Steinkewho have been running the casual open-air Café Steinchen on the corner of Fürstenrieder and Agnes-Bernauer-Straße for three years, have worked with the Mucbook team Marco Eisenack for the temporary use project “The Pearl”.
In the rooms of the former Chinese-Mongolian restaurant Asia Perle at Agnes-Bernauer-Straße 51, they opened a place for culture, art and events at the weekend, or as it is called in modern German: a “Creative Hub” including a bar, which is open from Thursday to Thursday will be open on Saturdays from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. It should be a “feel-good place” for conversations, live music, exhibitions, yoga, and also a place with the opportunity for creative people to rent rooms. “The location,” enthuses Laura Steinke, “fascinated me the first time I visited it; it really is a magical place.” The pearl should shine until March 2024.
Celebrated
Gaby Dohm.
(Photo: imago/APress)
The “Black Forest Clinic” achieved incredible ratings in the 1980s. Up to 28 million people tuned in to watch Professor Brinkmann and Sister Christa experience ups and downs. The two main actors Klausjürgen Wussow and Gaby Dohm Television history. Today the ZDF series is cult. The Munich native has starred in comedies, crime novels, romances and can also be seen from time to time on game shows or on the red carpet. On Saturday Dohm celebrated her 80th birthday.
The actress can still be happy about the success of the “Black Forest Clinic” decades later. The New Osnabrücker Zeitung She said at the beginning of 2021 that she had recently seen a few episodes of the series in reruns and thought: “God, how good this series was.” In 1989 the “Black Forest Clinic” ended after 70 episodes.
She was born in Salzburg and Dohm grew up in Berlin. After her first roles at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, she moved to the Munich Residenztheater in 1966, where major roles soon followed: Natalja in Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters”, Marie in Georg Büchner’s “Woyzeck” and Gretchen in Goethe’s “Faust” in 1974. She gained international attention for a role in “Tartuffe” directed by the Swede Ingmar Bergman. The actress has lived in Munich with the director Peter Deutsch for decades. She has a son with her former husband Adalbert Plica. In her private life, Dohm doesn’t make much of a fuss about her. She did not want to give an interview on the occasion of her birthday.
Asked
Gerd Sutter.
(Photo: Jan Greune / LMU)
professor Gerd Sutter, a sought-after conversation partner during the corona pandemic, has moved his chair for virology into the LMU’s microbiology building, which has just opened. The vaccine researcher has already developed a number of vaccines and is currently working in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO), among others, on a platform that will simplify and accelerate the development of vaccines. His chair was previously housed at the English Garden.
The LMU opened the new building for the Institute for Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses on the Oberschleißheim campus on September 14th.