Out of protest, the idea was born that two Bamberg ethnomusicology students did not want to leave their city to Karl Moik. He made guest appearances with his Musikantenstadl in Bamberg - and without further ado the "Antistadl" was founded. That was 20 years ago, but the progressive folk music festival still exists. This Friday the 20th anniversary will be celebrated at the E-Werk in Erlangen."Folk music is Rock'n Roll" is - still - the motto of the event, to...
A coach with around 60 school children from Belgium drove into a traffic safety trailer in Middle Franconia - there were several minor injuries. The Autobahn 3 was completely closed in both directions after the accident early Wednesday morning between Höchstadt Nord and Schlüsselfeld, the police said. The driver of the bus was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. The rescue service treated five slightly injured children on site, the other occupants were unharmed, according to the police.The bus...
44 years, 16,000 working days and not even late: Willi Mehler has defied all odds for decades and observes, measures and reports the weather in Herzogenaurach, Franconia. source site
44 years, 16,000 working days and not even late: Willi Mehler has defied all odds for decades and observes, measures and reports the weather in Herzogenaurach, Franconia. source site
Willi Mehler is 84 years old and a very busy man these days. "We have until a quarter to eleven, then the next ones will come," he lets you know when you walk through the hallway lined with six documents into his house at ten o'clock sharp. Dettelbacher Pilgrimage, Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund, volunteer fire brigade, city youth band, the sports club, everything is there, Mehler has left out nothing. However, the most important document is different and hangs in the frame next...
from Olaf Przybilla, MarktheidenfeldFor decades, the Franconian town of Marktheidenfeld has been at odds about how to deal with the artist Hermann Gradl, who was born there and was Adolf Hitler's "favourite landscape painter". In the 1990s, the increasingly irreconcilable debate was also carried out in the national media, since then the fronts have been considered hardened. In the meantime, a consensus seemed difficult to imagine, but it has now come about: The city council distances itself from the honorary...
It might just be the best time to take a look at Fürth. A Munich publishing house, manufacturer of playing cards, is causing amusement there because it put Fürth in a quartet with the allegedly "Ugliest cities in Germany". Now there were times when people in Nuremberg's neighboring town would not have just acknowledged this with a pitying smile. In the meantime, however, Fürth's main problem is no longer the awkward mockery of humorists, to whom a travel guide from...
Markus Söder wants to abolish the age limit for mayors and that's when all eyes are on the state capital. Dieter Reiter from the SPD would pave the way for a third term in office, but above all his Greens competitor Katrin habenschaden would hardly be the favorite in the 2026 mayoral election. A mayor of the Greens in the heart of the Söder territory? Would cause particularly unpleasant attention nationwide.In the prime minister's cosmos, not only does Munich play...
An integration council is a fine thing, but ideally you should also have integrating staff for it. In Nuremberg, the latter has fallen into a bit of a twilight these days, to say the least. There, when the newly elected council met, it became known what one of the councilors once said on one of the so-called social platforms: "Please understand that it's easier for me to write 'gypsy' instead of 'unemployed Roma ethnicity with criminal records'".Now you have to...
The paths of the Internet are unfathomable and it is difficult to reconstruct exactly why a card game from Munich's Riva publishing house is making waves in two Franconian towns right now. The quartet takes care of the supposedly "ugliest cities in Germany", has a manageable depth of thought and has been on the market since 2018. research of Süddeutsche Zeitung lead to the city of Hof, maybe someone cleaned up the box with the most shallow gifts of the...
