The new Neubiberg youth parliament is full of energy. The 13 representatives of the young people in the municipal council have just submitted an application that the municipality should organize an open-air cinema with them on the meadow next to the airfield in the landscape park. The young people imagine the event in such a way that the spectators sit on the western slope of the cemetery hill. From her point of view, one advantage of this place would be...
Patriotism in Wartime Putin's youth: Russia's offspring swear eternal loyalty to their "motherland". Girls also swear allegiance to Russia in the youth army © Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP Russia's youth army is gaining momentum. Young people swear allegiance to Russia even though they know about the war in Ukraine – some of them probably because of that. At the Museum of the Battle of Stalingrad in Volgograd, Russia, dozens of children and young people stand in a circle to take...
With the Dino youth club, the first building to be built entirely according to the principle of recycling is to be built in Haar. This means: No waste is left behind and the materials used can be reused. Because there is a lot to consider, representatives of the municipality, planners, municipal councilors and employees of the aging meeting in Jagdfeld recently came together in the town hall for a workshop. An architect's office wants to submit drafts by the end...
It's only 20 minutes but Felix Rahimpour's whole world lies in those 20 minutes on Friday. He has been waiting for this day for months, preparing for it for hours, only to be disappointed in himself and his performance in the end. "I should have practiced more intensively," he says. His buddy replies: "You're never satisfied with yourself." Felix Rahimpour shrugs, he's used to competitions like this. The 16-year-old student from Neufahrn has been playing the piano since he was...
theatre "Zero Years" about a youth full of anger and fear The actors Annika Hauffe and Oscar Hoppe in the play "Null Years" at the Mecklenburg State Theater. photo © Jens Büttner/dpa In "Zero Years" Hendrik Bolz describes his youth in East German prefabricated buildings. A year after the publication of the book, the material comes to the stage. An evening of great intensity succeeds in Schwerin. Thousands of kids grew up like him: Hendrik Bolz, aka Testo from the...
What helps against the emigration of young people from the countryside to the cities and how protection against right-wing extremist appropriation in the countryside can be achieved are the topics of a study by the universities of Bamberg and Eichstätt. The Catholic University of Eichstätt (KU) announced on Thursday that they want to look at self-organized projects in the border triangle of Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia.The researchers wanted to see how youth culture works in structurally and financially weak rural...
Dejen Mezgebe is standing in the office of the Tigray Independence Party, behind him a small partition with the party's logo, in the adjoining rooms there are deserted desks and empty bookshelves. It doesn't seem like many people have stopped by here in the past few months. "I was in the bush," says Dejen, referring to the civil war in the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia, which began in November 2020 and lasted almost two years. A fragile peace has...
Judgment in Bayreuth After Mistelbach's double murder: Long-term youth sentences for daughter and friend The daughter of the murdered von Mistelbach couple arrives at the Bayreuth Regional Court at the beginning of the trial © Daniel Karmann / DPA A year ago, Mistelbach's double murder caused nationwide horror. The Bayreuth district court has now imposed long-term youth sentences on the daughter of the killed couple and her boyfriend. In the trial of the Mistelbach double murder, the two accused were...
They came from Perpignan, Yvelines or Martinique: 200 young people are brought together for four days by the government to express themselves on the energy choices of tomorrow, with the hope, all in all moderate, that their voice will be heard. This "Youth Forum" closes a public consultation on energy in France, initiated before Parliament legislates on the subject, at best this summer.Friday, Lionel, Victoire and the others met for the second day in a row, in a large room...
After the strike which mobilized hundreds of thousands of people on Thursday, it is the turn of the youth to pound the pavement this Saturday. A dozen youth organizations are marching this Saturday in Paris against the pension reform, actively supported by La France insoumise which hopes to "bounce back" on the success of Thursday's inter-union mobilization.The organizers do not intend to bring together the million or two million demonstrators – according to police or CGT estimates – who were...
