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It is perhaps a suitable dramaturgy for a humorous award ceremony: The Karl Valentin Order of the Munich Narrhalla went to the actor, cabaret artist, singer and artistic director in 2021 Dieter Hallervorden, 87. However, due to the pandemic, the medal has not yet been presented. This will now happen on Saturday, April 22, following the theater performance “Biedermann and the Brandstifter” with Dieter Hallervorden in the role of Biedermann at the Berlin Schlosspark Theater.
The justification of the Narrhalla: Dieter Hallervorden, who can look back on decades of successful career in the film, literature, theater and music industries, not only impresses with his multifaceted work, but also knows how to use the German language in a wide variety of ways , his neologisms such as “Palim palim” and “Zumsel” are known throughout Germany. The multi-talented cabaret artist, creator of the fictional character “Didi”, founder of the Berlin cabaret stage “Die Wühlmäuse” and artistic director of the Schlosspark Theater in Berlin and the Mitteldeutsches Theater in Dessau-Roßlau, is always up to date issues positions.
“The Karl-Valentin-Order is one of the few medals that you only get once in a lifetime,” says Hallervorden about his award. “For that you have to have done something extraordinary first. I would never dare to put myself on the same level as a phenomenal great like Karl Valentin. But I still can’t deny a kind of soul mate.”
Research
Nadia Harbeck, physician and professor.
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Nadia Harbeck, Head of the breast center at the LMU-Klinikum, has been awarded the German Cancer Prize in the category of clinical research – together with Ulrike Nitz from the West German Study Group. “They have made outstanding scientific achievements in avoiding over- or under-treatment with chemotherapy in early breast cancer and in developing modern de-escalation strategies,” says an LMU statement. The prize of the German Cancer Society and the German Cancer Foundation is one of the highest awards in oncology.
Drill
The student tunneling team from the Technical University of Munich, or TUM Boring for short, won the “Not-a-Boring Competition” in the USA for the second time after 2021. The competition was held in Bastrop, Texas at the site of Elon Musk’s tunnel boring machine company. “Compared to the last competition, not only did a 30-meter-long tunnel have to be drilled as quickly and accurately as possible, but a curve had to be driven,” shares Tobias Jaeger from Texas with; he is part of the 30-strong TUM Boring team. “Our machine has reached a top speed of seven millimeters per second,” writes Jäger. This makes it 14 times faster than tunnel boring machines used industrially. “In addition to the high speed, they impressed with the ability to drill with a tight curve radius”. The students from Munich “invested more than a year in the development of the machine”. They won the competition by a wide margin, ahead of teams from Switzerland, the US and Great Britain.
Protection
Forest expert Rudolf Nützel.
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As managing director of the Munich district group of the Federal Nature Conservation Association (BN). Rudolf Nützel in the past he did not mince his words when he did not find the concerns of the environment and nature sufficiently taken into account by local politicians and administration. Now he is where the course is set and where decisions are made: After 28 years at BN, the forest scientist with a doctorate has been in charge of the nature conservation and biodiversity division in the municipal department for climate and environmental protection (RKU) since April 1st. Nützel, who also worked as an expert and lecturer at the universities of Weihenstephan-Triesdorf and Munich, has written various books, for example about forest path hikes in the Bavarian Alps and in Munich and “101 things you have to know about the forest”. . In 2022, together with the RKU, he published the 48-page booklet “Käfer in Munich”.
“Of course, it hurts us to lose such an experienced environmentalist and networker. At the same time, we are pleased that he can contribute his energy to this new position. We hope that together we can achieve even more to preserve biodiversity in our city.” , commented Christian Hierneis, BN chairman in Munich. His deputy Thorsten Kellermann adds: “With Dr. Nützel, the city has brought a recognized expert on board. Now it really has to use this potential. That’s why we will continue to support the work in the RKU in the usual friendly, but constructively critical way.” The new managing director of the BN district group in Munich is Martin Hänsel, Nützel’s previous deputy.
Convey
Awarded: Gerd Müller (CSU), the former German Development Minister.
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Former German Development Minister Gerd Müller (CSU) will be awarded the Eugen Biser Prize on May 8th in the Allerheiligen Hofkirche in Munich. The Eugen Biser Foundation honors “outstanding personalities from public and academic life” who, in the spirit of Eugen Biser’s (1918-2014) theology, are committed to Christian values and a dialogue with other religions, worldviews and cultures based on freedom, peace and tolerance would have deserved. According to the jury’s statement, the 67-year-old Müller is committed to human dignity, equality and respect for others.