Tag: Circle and across
Column: Slow is better – District of Munich
Hardly any topic divides the Germans as much as the question of a speed limit. Good to observe recently, when the signs for 120 were unscrewed again on the Giesinger…
Column: Why unknown perpetrators blow up vending machines – district of Munich
Addiction breeds invention, at least when the necessary material is lying around at home. And which smoker doesn’t know that urge to blow up the cigarette machine on the next…
Circle and across: Ghost hunting in the Würmtal – district of Munich
In a metropolitan area like the greater Munich area, there are few places where you don’t meet anyone. Unless a lockdown has been imposed due to a pandemic, this is…
Column: Woker Leberkäs – District of Munich
Germany is considered the land of poets and thinkers, but its largest federal state is not. Bavaria has probably produced more well-known butchers than philosophers. In Gerhard Polt, probably the…
Something has built up in the Munich area – Munich district
There is a lot of time to think in traffic jams. About the meaning of life, public transport – and how it could come to this. The rediscovery of slowness…
Bomb New Year’s Eve: The demolition experts have ammunition – district of Munich
Unforgotten is friend Karl’s grandfather, who wanted to show us kids on New Year’s Eve where the hammer hangs. He held a home-made firecracker, oh what, a bomb in his…
Column: More courage! – District of Munich
The manger, the star, the shepherds in the field and the angel – these are the well-known Christmas motifs, widespread and varied from the Gospel of Luke. The version of…
Circle and across: penguin weather in the district of Munich – district of Munich
One shouldn’t be surprised at the moment if some strange figures wobble by outside. The first thought that they probably had one too many mulled wine could be true, but…
Column: Mindful humor does not exist – district of Munich
The traditional national garment of the Moroccans is the djellaba, a floor-length cloak that differs from the thawb of the Arabian peninsula in that it has a pointed hood. Of…
Munich district administrator and his homework – Munich district
When Christoph Göbel turns off the light in the district office in the evening and his chauffeur takes him home, it’s far from over. Putting your feet up, watching TV,…