With skis, bus and train
Admittedly, in this so-called winter they are rarely seen: these people standing on the S-Bahn or U-Bahn platform with skis and poles in hand and backpacks on their backs to set off on a ski tour. But for all those who (can) do it in the near future, there are tips: are long for a winter Michael Vitzthum and his comrades-in-arms Angelica Feiner such as Barbara and Sven Schmid traveled through the mountains by bus and train, researched new routes, took photos and wrote texts. At the beginning of the year, her book “Natürlich mit Öffis” was published by Rother Bergverlag as, according to the publisher, “the first ski tour guide in the Alps”, which describes all tours exclusively with public transport. “This book contains all our passion and motivation for how we can do our favorite pastime in a gentle and environmentally friendly way – namely without a car,” explains Vitzthum, who works as an art director, “and in a way that doesn’t force us to do without, but opens up completely new possibilities for us.The great fun factor here is that great circular tours, crossings and crossings are only possible with public transport – routes that you would never be able to take by car, because the car determines the starting and end point in the mountains takes on a whole new quality.” On Thursday, January 19, the quartet will present their work in the Harry Klein Club (starts at 8 p.m., admission from 7 p.m., the bar is open). The evening will be moderated by BR employee Elisabeth Tyroller. Arrival: of course by public transport, logical.
With vocal power
Olivia Reichert, DSDS participant from Munich, received a yes from Dieter Bohlen.
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With “Men” by Herbert Grönemeyer and “Memory” by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Munich native is Olivia Reichert, 22, on Saturday in the first casting episode of the 20th season “Deutschland sucht den Superstar”. Olivia, who also acts as a comedian, pulled out all the stops: the new juror, rapper Katja Krasavice, was able to quickly win her over with her sexy twerk – i.e. the hip and pelvic dancing style – and persuade her to spontaneously twerk duet on the DSDS stage. The spirited appearance also convinced the rest of the jury, Dieter Bohlen’s yes was the deciding factor.
With history knowledge
Historians say that if you want to understand the present, you have to look at history. And the three who, each with a guest, gather a few times a year in the Munich Literature House for the “Historical Quartet” are very familiar with it. Martin Schulze Wessel is a professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University and one of the leading experts on Eastern Europe, Andrew Wirsching Director of the Institute for Contemporary History. Together with Ute Daniel from the Technical University of Braunschweig, they will discuss new non-fiction books on Monday, January 16, at 7 p.m. Among them “Understanding the Pain of Others” (Propyläen) by Charlotte Wiedemann, in which the author asks how a culture of remembrance is cultivated, why some crimes against humanity such as German colonialism have so far hardly been remembered, or in general: how empathy develops. A readable, vividly written book. Guest this time is the journalist Andrea Böhm. www.literaturhaus-muenchen.de.
With expertise
Ingolf Baur, TV presenter and film author, has his brain electrified to find out whether it can increase intelligence.
(Photo: German Museum)
The lightning bolts on Faraday’s cage in the Deutsches Museum are among his earliest childhood memories, “that’s when I got the spark for science,” he says Ingolf Baur. Now the TV presenter and film author has been awarded the Helmut Fischer Prize for Science Communication by the Deutsches Museum. The award ceremony will take place on January 17th in the Deutsches Museum.
Baur, who studied physics, astronomy, biophysics and classical singing, is a science presenter and author of numerous television documentaries. Many of his films revolve around the extinction of species, the climate crisis or geoengineering, the 58-year-old also moderates the magazine “nano” on 3sat. “To be precise, even in complex contexts, and to simplify only as far as it remains correct. And then puzzle over until things get to the point.” This is how Ingolf Baur describes his way of working, which always involves full commitment: He sometimes has his brain electrified to find out whether this can increase intelligence. Wolfgang M HecklDirector General of the Deutsches Museum, adds: “Ingolf Baur makes it really easy for his viewers to understand current research and also to grasp the importance of scientific work for our future.”
The prize, which is worth 5,000 euros, has been awarded jointly by the Deutsches Museum and the Helmut Fischer Foundation since 2016, to which Fischer has transferred the entire corporate assets of his measurement technology company.
With mandate
Anne Riethmüller is the first woman to head the Bar Association.
(Photo: Loredana La Rocca)
Anne Riethmuller was elected President of the Munich Bar Association, she is the first woman to head this body. The Chamber is an organization of legal self-government, it supervises the 22,500 lawyers in the Higher Regional Court district of Munich and represents their interests vis-à-vis authorities, courts and organizations in Bavaria. Riethmüller, born in 1967, is a specialist lawyer for family and inheritance law, she is a member of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and was elected to the Bavarian Constitutional Court at their suggestion.