Barely 15 years old, jacob schramm already has six, seven years as a ski racer under his belt. Eppenreuther is considered to be a rough skier. He has not yet decided on a special discipline, but as an U16 skier he is only allowed to compete in slalom and giant slalom anyway. For the youngsters super G and downhill are taboo.

At the races in the german school cup he has to compete with alpine kids or students of the skigymnasium berchtesgaden, who can do twice or three times as much snow training. Jacob is the only flatlander in the german top of his age group – he is currently in 12th place, but has also been second before – and is glad that he can train in the fichtelgebirge despite the current bad snow conditions. At the hempelsberg in oberwarmensteinach, the lift operator has created a base for the ski talent with artificial snow so that at least technical training is possible.

The schoolboy from grafengehaig has 20 races left on his schedule this year. And he has thought about what goes on in the head of a skier during a competition.

Adrenalin helps
Jacob schramm: "you're standing at the start and right away it's time to go. Excitement is good because adrenaline helps the body to perform at its best. Taking a deep breath and beating his chest two, three, six or seven times to push himself, to catapult himself out fully motivated and with all the energy at his disposal.

Then it gets serious. The starter closes the barrier. There comes the question: "ready?" You do not answer, lift the sticks over the barrier and stick them in the snow. During the command ,3, 2, 1 – go!' you go wild, but don't get overly motivated. You start in the previously long viewed run. Colleagues, coaches and parents shout you out of the starting gate, and you attack from the very first second.

Everything you repeated just before the race, you have to do now: bend your hips and always put weight on the ski; knees in front, hands in front; come from behind in the steep passage; and: full attack.
Imagine it's all at stake. Olympics 2014 in sochi, second run, you are first, but you have only four hundredths advantage. A whole nation is cheering for you and was roaring you down the slope. Were you going to give it your all or rather finish in fourth place? Of course the risk is high to fail because of a small mistake. But if you risk a little, you can also win a lot.

Full groove in the world cup circus
Who does not ride on full groove, has nothing to look for in the world cup circus. You can lose everything with a fall, a fender-bender – but it's a matter of nerves. You live for skiing, you train for such moments for years, and when it's there, nobody thinks: well, 2. Or 3. Place is also good. It's all about winning and what comes after: fame, glory and a hell of a lot of training again … You can't let up in this sport, and if you don't understand that, you can't stay on top for long.

Now comes the fourth, fifth, sixth pole, and the race goes well. What to do? Of course, you risk to win! To get everything out of yourself, not to ski already, but to ski fast, which also brings mistakes with it, such as jerking or inside skiing.

Ted ligety is brainless, but the best
Now comes the part. The place of all places in this run. You've been standing here for a few minutes, trying to remember exactly what to do right so as not to do wrong. But actually you can only go wrong here, you think. You think! If you start to think, it will be nothing. You have to go down the hill almost brainlessly, without thinking, as fast as you can and get around the red and blue poles. See ted ligety. The guy is just brainless, but the best in giant slalom. In a fraction of a second, in which you think, more mistakes creep in than in a whole run, in which you do not think. So when you get to the spot of all the spots, you just pull through, put the ski in traction and put all your weight on the edge of the piste.

"Best time!"
Shortly before the goal, the flachstuck. Now blob not let up! You weigh less than most of the competitors. So what! You drive a hell of a lot better than the other grattler! So go as low as you can and put less pressure on the turns than you did before in the steeps so you don't get buried in the snow and lose time.
The last gate, a red one, is coming towards you. A few more meters and you'll be at the finish line. "Best time", it sounds from the loudspeaker – and now the real thrill begins. You can hardly believe it, you had a bad feeling. But your bad feeling was better than that of the others.

Now comes the countdown. The best skiers are still on top. You already see yourself beaten, every opponent ahead. But somehow always a few tenths or hundredths are missing. The strongest competitor comes last. His time seems to stand still – but so does he. He made a bigger mistake.

You can hardly believe that you have won with a little luck and pure adrenaline. The first wishes of happiness reach you, and the up and down ride of your feelings ends on the summit of mount everest. You are the winner. You, who had already been written off and could show it to everyone. A real thrill, this sport."

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Thomas fink has raised more than 60,000 euros in the past 16 table concerts of the rotary club. The 17. Edition stands on monday, 14. January, at 7 p.M. In the evangelical church on. "I am happy when a lot of money is brought in", says the legendary niederndorf jazz pianist in the run-up to the concert. The proceeds will go to the herzogenaurach distribution center of the erlangen food bank.

Since the beginning, the rotarians of herzogenaurach have supported the boards. The current president of the herzogenaurach rotary club, alfred sammetinger, used to drive for the collection tours himself. From the very beginning, there has always been a close connection between the club and the herzogenauracher tafel, sammetinger explains in a press interview.

It all started as jazz concerts with his students, fink recalls. When the concerts were moved to the cafe of the mobelhaus fischer because of the large crowds, the tradition of the tafelkonzerte was born. In the beginning, fink's schoolchildren took over part of the concert. For some years he has been playing alone with changing guest musicians.

Guest star norbert nagel

On monday norbert nagel will be the star guest on the saxophone. Norbert meyer-venus on bass and werner treiber on drums will accompany the band. The concert promises again jazz of the finest. Loyal fans from herzogenaurach have appreciated this for years and look forward to top-class musical enjoyment.

Music has been an essential part of fink's life since his earliest childhood. Fink tells about his beginnings as a traveling musician in the 50s and 60s. He has played mainly in american clubs. Later he was house pianist at the bayerischer rundfunk and founded the thomas-fink-trio. It's hard to imagine the jazz scene without him. Fink remembers that a colleague from the bamberger philharmoniker once said: "thomas doesn't just make music, he lives music."

And so it is: "I simply live music", he affirms. Anyone who talks to thomas fink immediately notices his passion and enthusiasm for music. Also about the technical details of a flugel or piano female fink impressive detail to erzahlen. He is still alive today, says the man from niederndorf, and adds: "there are still so many possibilities in music, even after so many years." fink was awarded the cultural prize of both the city of herzogenaurach and the district of herzogenaurach.

Preparations for the table concert have been underway since august. Alfred sammetinger reveals: "thomas fink is of course our mastermind here." fink selects the musicians and wins them for the concerts. He is supported by his son gerald fink. The organ of the protestant church is specially prepared for the concert by a technician for thomas fink.

A call for tolerance

What the pianist has in mind for the 17th century?. Table concert wishes? "That we meet people's taste, that they go home happy and like to come back again", answers fink. And of course, as large an amount as possible should be given to the herzogenauracher tafel. In conclusion, he adds a more general wish. People had such different tastes in music, and yet you allow others their own taste. It would be good if people could have different opinions about each other, just as they have different musical preferences. Sammetinger and fink agree that this is especially important today.

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The bookseller puts on a pair of clumsy glasses, puts on a headset and straps little boxes to her fist. The first step is wobbly, then run it off.

In the virtual reality of "vonderland" she is a rabbit. The exhibition hall 4.1. Has disappeared – we are on a tropical island in the sunset. This year, the frankfurt book fair is embarking on a journey into the future of ernacy.

VR, AR, AI – abbreviations abound: virtual reality, augumented reality, artificial intelligence are just a few of them. 800 square meters have been cleared by the trade fair for the new area. Holger volland, vice president of the frankfurt book fair and author of the book "the creative power of machines," says: "there are more and more technologies that are able to tell stories. We want to make these technologies tangible."

Gerhard lauer is a professor of modern german literature and digital humanities in basel. He thinks it's right for the book fair to be about technology. "The point of a trade show is to gain orientation. Publishers and booksellers want to know: where is the journey going??"In the dispute over copyrights, print publishers and online providers had been in constant conflict – today, fortunately, both sides are "no longer in the trenches". On the contrary, there is "a new interplay between the digital and analog worlds.

To make the future tangible, the book fair has brought in expert knowledge. The fair's "the arts+" area, which had been limping along since 2016, was merged with the "biennale of the moving image," B3. Together, the cooperation partners have brought 25 VR works to the trade show. There is a 360-degree video, a giant screen running around the corner with 3D films, an animated historical map of ancient china, and much more.

The munch museum in oslo lets art intelligence curate an exhibition: an algorithm calculates the "emotional color tone" from pictures and texts by the norwegian painter and selects the matching music from a database. The BUX app offers video and audio tours through zurich in the footsteps of gottfried keller or james joyce, during which supplementary explanations (AR elements) can be selected.

What will the book industry look like in ten years?? Our "hunger for stories" will be the same, says prof. Lauer, but not the way we share them. "There will be more options, more media, more formats. If we embed the book in our digital environment, then it has a chance."In an interview with the german press agency, he develops a few scenarios:

– computers write texts: "AI will not replace the author, but it will support publishers," says lauer. "In the science sector, this is becoming enormously important, it's exploding right now." computers make books on specific topics from scientific articles. A book about battery technology that was written in this way was very successful. It opens up a "huge market" for science publishers.

– this also applies to literature? This is possible with poetry: a viennese agency fed an algorithm with poems and turned them into a text that was published in an anthology. Writing programs are also being used for more stereotypical series, without publishers hanging on to the rough end of the stick. But it will be a long time before machines write good novels.

– computers evaluate texts: a hamburg-based start-up called qualifiction has developed the "lisa" software on an AI basis. She analyzes texts and wants to use them to predict book successes. The database will be maintained with bestsellers and less successful books. Within seconds, the algorithm can evaluate the potential for success, say the founders. Nine publishing companies and 400 authors have already used the.

– online communities: social platforms are becoming increasingly important. 80 million readers and authors exchange texts via the wattpad platform, for example. There are authors who are completely out of this world. One example is marah woolf, author of numerous "new romance" titles. According to her own figures, she has sold – without publishing – one million e-books, hor books and paperbacks.

– data analytics: data-mining would make it possible to find the ideal book for every reader. All you had to do was combine the facebook account, the profile on the dating platform and the amazon orders, says lauer. E-readers could report back to the publisher how quickly, how far and how often texts were read. All this data is available. What is missing is an open debate on the subject.

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The level was extremely high. The english "r was rolled that it was a real joy, and even the darned "ti-aitsch" all the readers read fluently from their lips, or rather through their teeth. We’re talking about the exciting district english reading competition, which the eighth-grade winners of middle schools in the district faced on tuesday. The competition was held for the tenth time this year.
At the district competition in kronach, it was not only a question of correct pronunciation and intonation, but also of a flowing presentation. Whether the participants had pronounced and emphasized everything correctly was decided by a jury – consisting of teachers from the respective schools as well as deputy district administrator bernd steger. Although reading in front of an audience is no easy task, the bookworms showed little sign of excitement. In the first round, the five eighth graders and the one eighth grader read a text of their own choice. The eventual winner mergim alin chose "touring the everglades". The real challenge came in round two, when they had to read aloud a text selected by the organizer andrea karl-kremer – a specialist advisor at the gottfried-neukam middle school – in a lively, expressive and, if possible, error-free manner. This was the beginning of the english-reading "bat action time!" – an enchanting story about ben the bat and his best friends toby the pigeon and izzy the owl, who set off on a rude adventure. Only a few minutes were given to them to read the book. Nevertheless, all participants did their job very well. Congratulations!
To the "reading king mergim alin was deservedly chosen. It is no coincidence that the 14-year-old was able to communicate the text very clearly and confidently; after all, he is a native speaker (native speakers).

Off to the district competition!

The eighth-grader grew up in london and came to weibenbrunn with his albanian parents only a year and a half ago. English is then also the favorite subject of the lese-konig, who is now on 3. The contest was held for the tenth time this year, and the winners will represent the district at the county level in may in bayreuth. All participants (gottfried-neukam-MS kronach: leonard muller (m8a) and abdallateef al haj saleh (8c), MS pressig: gloria gotz (8a), MS kups: benjamin fischer (8b) and mergim alin (8a), MS windheim: dimitrios antonin) were rewarded with book gifts and a certificate that will surely look good on a job application. The district winner was also presented with a gift from the district, which was handed over by steger. "With english you can get around the world", he urged them to learn the world language comprehensively. He as well as karl-kramer and the new head of the school authority in kronach, gisela rohde, were very pleased with the excellent performance of the team. "This is my first official act in my new function and also for me an exciting thing", rohde, who has only been a visitor to the castle since the 15th century, said he had never seen anything like it. Marz is active at the kronach school board.

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Ingrid kieninger is convinced that projects like "erasmus" are the right thing to do calling for europe to grow together. The project, which involves schools from six countries, will last two years. The schools get to know each other, visit each other, perform common tasks. "Europe should get to know each other better, says the teacher of the middle school. "And we contribute to that".

The "erasmus" school project has already been running for a year. In addition to the middle school in herzogenaurach, schools from poland, croatia, greece, romania and latvia are also involved. They have now all sent young people to herzogenaurach. After visits to crete in greece and zagreb (croatia), the next stop is herzogenaurach. In may, it's off to latvia.

"Erasmus" summarizes several individual projects required by the european union. They are based on the idea that "europe is only more than an economic union when people from different countries meet, get to know each other and work together"." what is formulated rather nuchternly in the press release works with a lot of commitment and elan, as kieninger reports. "We are in constant contact with each other", says the herzogenaurach native. 33 teachers from all schools have formed a whatsapp group, with pictures and information posted daily. They all learned about the floods in crete that flooded the roads, or they were taught about the school strikes in croatia. The social network is close-knit. "We learn an incredible amount about the details of the countries". In this way, they get to know each other's tradition and culture at first hand, as it were quite incidentally.

Creation and motivation

"It's more than just a school exchange," says the, says ingrid kieninger. For the schools have been in intensive contact for two years. Together with colleagues ute schott, andrea duthorn and werner forst, she is also in charge of the current project in herzogenaurach. "Creation and motivation" it's called and the focus is on communication in english.

It's not the native language for all the students, says kieninger. All the more, the students can examine and experience that english also plays a role in their everyday lives and in their professional future. "The aim of the project is to make the importance of a common language of communication (english) clear to the schoolchildren on many levels and to challenge their motivation to learn the language", it says in the project description.

This has been implemented on several fields since monday. Privately, the 30 or so students, of whom the letten form the largest group, are accommodated in host families. This already demands the mutual contact. At the school itself, there were five joint workshops yesterday. The children made pottery, handicrafts and sang, and were allowed to take all the products home with them. But before that, they will be used as decorations for the grand finale dinner on friday.

The activities focus on christmas themes, but also on an in-depth look at herzogenaurach "as a small but very international city. The organizers are being supported by the companies puma and schaeffler, which are giving the schoolchildren an insight and also providing interview partners on these topics. In english, of course, which is usually the norm for international companies anyway.

Mayor german hacker also gave his speech in english on monday at lunchtime. The young people were to be received at the city hall. In addition to the guests, around 40 students from the fifth to eighth grades of the middle school also took part in the event.

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Vacations on the farm is the comedy in three acts, which the theater group of the parish "st is performing. Laurentius" performing in these days. What son wendelin (martin reichel) and his mother liesl (katharina brutting) expect as a lucrative new source of income, however, makes the farmer from kalblhof (matthias gruner) quite skeptical. Driving in his role as old servant and miner christian habermann. Like no other, he bridges the gap between the rustic countryman and the "city dwellers" to the point. He makes expressions that only a "truwier" can make knows.
The servant can not do much with the wishes of the north german guests. And when he was talking about the "educated hoard, man descended from apes, then they were apes. Chewing gum manufacturer otthold (manuel brutting), his wife vera (theresia dresel) and journalist paham jost (stefan hafner) have a hard time with the customs on the farm. You can see the "religious marchenland" and many other customs and usages do not understand.

The spectators keep coming
In between stands the maid kathl (petra zitzmann), who is not averse to compliments, but can also defend herself resolutely. That in the end everyone somehow finds each other and everything comes together is to be expected in a fun play.
The obertrubach theater series takes place for the 27th time. Times interrupted once a year instead of. And to the 27. For the first time, it is pastor werner wolf who directs the event. He has also brought the obertrubach theater into being himself. Wolf also chooses the pieces.
It is his concern to get away from the frivolous and the fashionable-contemporary, which often all too compulsively aims below the belt. Wolf seeks the hearty, perhaps also innocent spab. As the unchanged high audience response proves, his idea of a gentle theater evening is well received by the people of obertrubach and the surrounding area. "It's my first time here", said pastor michael gehret from pinzberg "and i'm glad that it's not ordinary here, but simply funny". "I got a ticket by chance", said gisela bauer.
"I think the theater is good, the servants just great", praised the mayoress of hiltpoltstein. Anna heid from wohlmannsgesees, on the other hand, has already played "at least fifteen times" been there when the actors from obertrubach take the stage. "It is already, funny and sociable, so it must be", she says. Christian habermann, too, can perhaps no longer imagine life without the theater. He has been with the obertrubach group since the very first day. And also this year the role of the servant is formally cut to his body.

Double load
Pastor wolf is also happy about young talents like katrin schmitt, who ventures onto the stage for the first time. "You must have a tribe, but I know I will find many open-minded people here", wolf is pleased. Without the often invisible helpers, however, even all the showmanship would be nothing. The prompter lisa neuner, the make-up artist hedwig karl, the technicians mirco and pascal reichel and also the stage designers erwin dressel and fritz-walter reichel contribute a lot to the success of the production. And that's not all the helpers yet.
Respect also deserves how well pastor wolf copes with the double burden of work. Because the holidays are especially busy for priests. This year, a pastoral hard case has become very close to his heart. Then it was a matter of taking the hurdle and being funny again. Perhaps one must say "should", because the changeover is not always easy for him either, admits wolf.

Date the scheduled eight performances are already completely sold out. An additional performance has therefore been scheduled for tuesday, 8. January, scheduled. Start is at 20 o'clock.

Tickets can be ordered from mirco reichel at tel. 09245-989042 can be ordered.

Money from the lottery goes largely to the expansion of the st. St. Mary's in obertrubach.

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Schalke’s supervisory board chairman steps down: clemens tonnies looks resolutely into the camera with a blue-and-white scarf around his neck, spectators sit in the arena in the background.

The photo that the hard-hit FC schalke 04 published on tuesday to mark the involuntary farewell of the powerful chairman of the supervisory board came from better times – and missed the reality by a mile. Tonnies’ resignation followed massive protests from his own fans and the corona scandal at his meat company. The news also came in the middle of the discussion about a supposed state guarantee for the revierclub, which is in dire straits financially.

"We have successfully led FC schalke 04 through many crises with heart and soul and a high level of personal commitment," wrote tonnies in a letter of resignation obtained by the deutsche presse-agentur, "from which we have always emerged stronger than before."To achieve this again will be a herculean task – for the schalkers, who on tuesday elected the previous deputy chairman jens buchta as the new chairman of the supervisory board, and also for tonnies himself.

The corona outbreak at the tonnies meat plant in rheda-wiedenbruck had made negative headlines nationwide. He wanted to make his "contribution to reorganizing the german meat industry as a whole," wrote the entrepreneur, who had been a member of the club’s control committee since 1994 and had chaired it since 2001. Among the schalke supporters, however, tonnies was already highly controversial because of his comments about africa last year, which were interpreted as racist.

Only on saturday, parallel to the last game of the season at SC freiburg (0:4), about 1000 fans had demonstrated against the powerful schalke boss on the club’s ground. At the entrance to the old schalke gluckaufkampfbahn, a banner was recently emblazoned with the words: "no exploiters at S04 – tonnies out!"And on a bridge and on the construction fence of the old park stadium there were posters with identical demands for resignation. And: "no racists on schalke!"

Tonnies had repeatedly tried to explain his statements about africa at the time. In his letter of resignation, he affirmed: "those who know me know that this decision ‘as a schalke fan through and through’ was very difficult for me after so many years." A concept for the "future-oriented repositioning" of the club had also been "elaborated and written. And urgently needed.

After 16 games without a win, coach david wagner’s team finished the past season in twelfth place. Even before the corona crisis, liabilities had grown to almost 200 million euros. In order to secure its continued existence, the club is now said to have applied for a guarantee from the state of north rhine-westphalia to secure bank loans of up to 40 million euros. Neither NRW minister president armin laschet (CDU) nor the club itself wanted to confirm this. For it other made themselves proud.

"I don’t think that’s honorable, knowing full well that the public may feel differently," said borussia dortmund’s club boss hans-joachim watzke. "It is demanded of us as fubball-bundesliga that we pay the same taxes, that we pay them punctually – which is a matter of course. But if the federal government or the state or whoever decides to help corona-damaged companies, then the same rights obviously don’t apply to us. To say in principle that fubball clubs must be excluded from this, that does not correspond to my principle of equal treatment."

Nevertheless, the issue is politically explosive. "There is no decision in any burgschaft question," appeased laschet. According to the "westdeutsche allgemeine zeitung", however, there is already a positive decision in the castle committee of the state government. The planned burgschaft was first reported by the "handelsblatt" newspaper.

An immediately introduced question from the green parliamentary group was aimed, among other things, at ensuring that the taxpayer would end up having to pay for the loan default if the cash-strapped schalke people were no longer able to service the loan. In addition, it was also reminded of other low-class NRW clubs that had fallen into disrepute. "In this respect, the question of equal treatment or distortion of competition automatically arises if a single club is to be given the million-euro castle in question," write grunen deputies horst becker and josefine paul.

"There will be no lex schalke," laschet affirmed. There have also been NRW subsidies time and again in recent decades, including for schalke – for the arena construction, for example. However, the financial situation has not improved, on the contrary. The corona crisis alone is said to have resulted in a loss of 26.1 million euros. The hook on the burgschaft formulated watzke: "the country must naturally examine whether these are real corona effects or not."

The club was in financial difficulties long before the pandemic. Schalke is the first club to set its own limit on player salaries at 2.5 million euros a year. And a security that has been popular in the past will probably not be available for a long time: asking tonnies for a loan. Even though he wrote: "I will of course remain associated with FC schalke 04 for the rest of my life."

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These are the last days of 2018. Many people are now looking back or venturing a look ahead to the next year. We asked celebrities from the district: how was it for you, the year 2018?? What are they looking forward to in 2019? And what they prefer to postpone until 2020? In the next part: district administrator thomas bold (CSU).

1. What was your high point in 2018?

Thomas bold: there are many outstanding projects, z. B. The construction work on the BBZ in munnerstadt, the bavarian music academy, the rhon mountain house or the decision to build the rhon nature experience center at the klaushof wildlife park with an office in the district. The most important thing in all of this is the excellent cooperation between the district council and the administration for the benefit of the citizens. That makes me proud!

2. What was your low point in 2018?

For me personally, the death of my deputy alfred schrenk was a painful loss. Since 2014, he has been a loyal and reliable deputy for me, has attended many appointments and has been a worthy representative for the district. After walter muller and wolfgang back, he was already the third outstanding local politician we have lost in the current election period in the county council. I am very moved by this.

3. What are you looking forward to in 2019?

I am pleased that we are continuing to invest in our schools, trams, administration, the opnv and are addressing forward-looking issues such as z.B. Advancing e-mobility, telemedicine and digitization. Besides, part of our reconstruction and renovation work, the main building and the extension, will be completed, so that the move can take place in spring summer. In addition, the music academy will be inaugurated, and we continued the jobblogger project and the location campaign.

4. What they stopped doing or did differently in 2019?

I would be happy if I had more time for some things. But as the saying goes, when the wind of change blows, some build walls and others windmills. I belong with the others!

5. What do you prefer to postpone until 2020?

I'm not a person who puts off things that are pending. Everything has its time and every time has its challenges.

The questions were asked by Benedikt Borst

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In consultation with the office for rural development (ALE), it proposed to postpone this measure and to put it out to tender together with the rehabilitation of the local thoroughfare. "With the prices, they don’t give us any hope that it will be more favorable for us, but we reckon with better chances to get a company at all," explained bauer.

Due to the postponement, the rehabilitation of the local thoroughfare should no longer begin in the second half of this year, but as soon as possible in the spring of next year. One advantage would be that the construction site would not remain over the winter. The work on the entrance to the village was to be completed in 2020. The council unanimously agreed. For the redesign of the mainland, builder april announced that construction would start soon.

Other municipalities had already agreed, but in the segnitz council the recommendation of the mayor’s committee to increase the subsidy to the kitzingen animal shelter from 20 to 70 cents per inhabitant did not find a majority. With the approximately 900 inhabitants this had meant a mehrauand of 450 euro per year. "We should not be so rude everywhere, there are already enough others in the pocket," found bischoff and proposed 50 cents as a compromise. The council agreed on this with five votes to two.

"Disappointed that so few people were interested," bauer said of the response to an event held in march at the community center to recruit volunteers for the segnitz fire department. Of the 280 or so segnitz residents contacted, only 20 expressed interest. Ten of them were recruited for the army.

The segnice council approved the association of hobby gardeners and nature lovers for the 30th anniversary of the attack. April the may festival below the parking lot on the main. The municipality, on the other hand, could not help the association to find a place for its equipment. 12 to 15 square meters were needed. Bauer appealed: "if someone else wants to hokern a hall, he should please think of the community".

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The burggegfluster "lighthearted times" by romy denk (BR from 2. August) inspired the former pastor of mangersreuth, klaus kuhrau. He has written under the title "our way to school" the following is an article we are pleased to publish:

"Now, at the age of 77, I would love to walk once again in peace and quiet, just for myself, along our former school path, which I walked at the age of seven! That was in eppendorf in saxony from the last property in the freiberger strabe, the schneider-bayern, about two kilometers to the center of town. We had moved here from east prussia in 1944.

For more than ten years, from the first to the tenth grade, I walked along this path, which also varied through alleys and country lanes. Our road was neither asphalted nor paved, but full of potholes and dirt – peppered with cow patties and horse apples.

Milk on the cart

When I left after seven o’clock, the farmers brought their milk cans to the milk house in a handcart, or the farmhands brought potatoes and grain to the cooperative on horse-drawn carts. One after the other, the classmates joined in. The first was my friend peter, a bombed-out man from chemnitz. Then erich, cursed from pomerania.

Gerd and ulrike came from the village. Gisela’s family had a small factory, renate’s a greengrocer’s shop.

But boys and girls mostly went for themselves. On the way to school, we watched closely to see how far the cherries, apples and pears were behind the fences so that we could "mice" something in the evening. The trout in the village stream! What an experience, when i took out the first one by hand together with the coarser ones and fried it in the pan at home. She hooted again!

Interesting the content of our pockets: basically a pocket knife. There were also matches and combs, as well as barter items such as glass marbles, cartridge cases, tin soldiers and cigarette pictures. In the seventh grade, I had brought it to an impressive collection of 300 pieces in several cigar boxes!

The little joys

At the bohme-backer a cream roll for 30 pfennigs or at milch-hubner a sour cucumber for ten pfennigs or in consumption a stick candy, an hour lollipop. Those were the little joys on the way. It took us half an hour to get to school – and the farthest ones were the first ones there. Siegmund, from the butcher’s shop across the street from the school, was the last to arrive, or late.

The way home could take up to two hours. Damme building after a heavy rain! Watching the pottewitz blacksmith put the horseshoes on a horse. It may have smelled like a burnt hoof!

There were no cars. Even the doctor and the pastor made their visits by bicycle.

With mother or father to the school, if one had then still one?! Then you would have been a mother’s son, a mamabubi! But also snowball fights or class wedges, a kind of vigilante justice, were possible on the way home.

Today, once again, we will go to school in peace and quiet, just for me! What a lot of memories came back! Later the saying came up: the way is the goal."

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