In the no man’s land of handball

in the no man's land of handball

Last weekend, franz xaver hetterich played his first game in the handball regional league. At least for his home club, the TV marktsteft. Finally, some will have thought there. The 22-year-old back, who played in the bundesliga with the youth team of HC erlangen and later also played in the top flight for TSV rodelsee, has just returned from a six-month internship in the USA.

They couldn’t do much with his favorite sport there. "The amis don’t know handball. I’ve never seen anyone play handball," says hetterich. Down there in anderson (south carolina), two hours by car from atlanta, in the deep south of the states, american football is the absolute number one sport. Clemson university is not far away, a university that is considered a hotbed of talent for football and that won the coveted u.S. College football title last year.

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1000 Concerts of the “dorfrocker” attended

She sits weekend after weekend, month after month in the car and drives to concerts of her favorite band. And that for years. Both sides of her car adorned rough stickers with the logo of the group. The band in question is the "dorfrocker", at her most loyal fan around anja wolf, who last weekend celebrated the 1000th birthday of her family. Concert of the french partyrock band visited – and that in kitchener in canada.

The "village rockers thank their fans for their extraordinary loyalty with a very special gift: a joint trip to las vegas. "This is the absolute insanity, and we are pleased that we have such a faithful companion for more than twelve years – since our dorfrocker-beginning 2007 – at our side, which supports us so great, so fantastic, so unbelievable", the village rockers write on their facebook page.

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Merz, seehofer and the end of the coalition

With former bavarian minister president gunther beckstein (CSU) and long-time munich mayor christian ude (SPD), sparkasse mainfranken had invited two political bigwigs and experts on the current political scene to an evening of discussion. The two top politicians discussed the current political situation with moderator bernd zehnter. The financial institution had chosen this format instead of their previous corporate language to address customers and visitors.

A touch of markus lanz

The evening looked a little like the early talk show hosted by markus lanz on ZDF. The two well-known former functionaries were not on the TV show, but on the stage of the steigerwaldhalle. Moderator zehnter had taken over the lance-role to provide the men with steep slopes, so that besides general analyses they might also talk out of the closet for a change. CSU-man gunther beckstein and SPD-grobe christian ude love each other from time to time.

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The sinti are not welcome in habfurt?

Johannes and petra goger no longer understand the world. The operators of the hotel goger in augsfeld were no longer allowed to accommodate the guests who had camped on their meadow in recent years and were conspicuous above all for one thing: their lack of attention. However, local residents are apparently bothered by the fact that the campers are sinti and roma.
"If those had been fat mobile homes of rich pensioners, no one had been upset", says hotel owner johannes goger and points to a pile of letters. The gogers have been in contact with the district administration about the "camping site affair" an exchange of letters took place, but the points of view seem to be completely irreconcilable: the landlords take the position that short-term camping on their meadow ("our ground") cannot be prohibited.

A tent camp?

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Putting the cello on its knees

Putting the cello on its knees

Christine wittenbauer seemed at a loss: "is this a classical concert??" the host city archivist’s perplexity at the audience funeral in the former synagogue about what the nurnberger feuerbach quartet is about to do was nicely played. But somehow it was classical, as rock classics were put into the guise of a classical string quartet. A friday evening not soon to be forgotten.

Donovan’s hurdy-gurdy man

Lukas kroczek was a prize winner in the "jugend musiziert" competition. Then a young student at the richard strauss conservatory in munich. Now he’s a philharmonic. That doesn’t stop him from putting his cello over his knee and using it as a guitar. To this end, he sings solo donovan’s "hurdy gurdy man" from 1968. A little later, max eisinger does something similarly colorful when he uses a kind of children’s keyboard to create the signature song of the world hit "take on me from aha plays. With the gestures of a rock star and in childlike joy, the second violinist stands there, also a multiple prize winner and philharmonic musician, just like violinist jamila musayeva or violist eugen hubert.

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Us courts block execution of mentally disabled man

uS courts block execution of mentally disabled man

The lawyers of hill, who was twice convicted of murder, have been claiming for years that their client only has an intelligence quotient of 70 and the mental abilities of a 12-year-old. This means he could not be executed under current law. In addition to human rights activists, the leading legal association in the u.S. And medical experts, celebrities such as ex-president jimmy carter had also argued that the delinquent should be spared.

U.S. Supreme court bans executions of mentally retarded in 2002 as "cruel and unusual punishment". But the criteria for determining mental disability are left up to the states. Georgia applies the strictest standards: it requires that the disability must be proven "beyond reasonable doubt". This condition is not met in the case of hill, argue the authorities. Because of an objection to the execution method, hill had already narrowly escaped execution last summer.

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Vfb clings to platitudes before rom game

Vfb clings to platitudes before rom game

"We want to try to make the impossible possible," sports director fredi bobic told the dpa news agency ahead of schwaben's seemingly hopeless eighth-final rematch with lazio rom in the europa league. "You can give presents at easter and christmas", bobic said and coach bruno labbadia emphasized: "we are not going on a coffee trip here"."

Even the professionals do not think about giving up despite the heavy 0:2 mortgage from the home game. "Anything can happen," said captain serdar tasci before the ghost match at the stadio olimpico on thursday. "We have worked hard for the europe league. We're not going to let that go so easily."His center-back colleague georg niedermeier assured: "we're not going to let this one go. If we make it 1:0 early, a lot is possible."Goalkeeper sven ulreich clung to the platitude: "anything can happen in soccer."

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Children need more protection in airplane emergencies

Children need more protection in airplane emergencies

For children who become ill during a flight, there is sometimes only limited care available. This is the conclusion reached by scientists at duke university who analyzed data from american flights.

First aid kits on board are not always designed to provide the necessary treatment for the next generation, write researchers in a study for the journal "annals of emergency medicine".

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Groundbreaking for a mammoth project in munnerstadt

"What lasts long becomes good. There is hardly a project where this is so true." with these words, district administrator thomas bold opened the ceremonies for the official groundbreaking for the new vocational training center (BBZ) in munnerstadt. Ten years ago, the issue was raised for the first time, he recalled. Then it was first a question of whether there would be a general renovation or a new building. In 2013, manfred steigerwald from caritas schulen ggmbh approached the district again and then the district council decided to transfer the academy for social pedagogy and the vocational school for geriatric care to the caritas schulen. "Then the conditions for the new building had to be created", according to the district administrator. That was first of all the procurement of the building site. An area close to the city was found, thanks to the augustinians, who sold the site. The plans were coordinated with the partner, in the meantime rudolf hofmann was managing director of the caritas schools.

Thomas bold praised the caritas diozesanverband with domkapitular clemens bieber, as well as the government of lower franconia, which was represented by gustav eirich, responsible for the schools, for the "excellent support" . The cooperation with the city of munnerstadt had also been excellent, especially with regard to the parking lots and the access road. A traffic circle is planned. The school management of the BBZ has also worked very actively together with the colleagues. He regretted very much that harry koch was present at the groundbreaking ceremony, but would no longer be in office when the school moved in. The district administrator also singled out the architect professor gunther benkert, who had won the architectural competition. "I am pleased that the groundbreaking ceremony marks the official start of the work", said the district administrator. But he also asked the neighbors for understanding. "It will not always be without noise and dust."

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An unforgettable day in bamberg

An unforgettable day in bamberg

Kilian ort and christoph schuller will never forget this day and this success in their lives. At the 81. The duo from regional league leader TSV bad konigshofen caused the first big surprise at the table tennis singles championships in bamberg. In the eighth final of the doubles competition ort/schuller knocked out the national players patrick baum/ricardo walther, seeded third, with 9:11, 8:11, 11:9, 14:12 and 12:10.

The joy was accordingly great, not only for the two protagonists, but also for the small number of fans on the tribune. "We didn’t think we had a chance beforehand," ort revealed, "there was a lot of respect at the beginning." this was subsequently discarded. "When we decided the third and fourth rounds for ourselves, our opponents became nervous."With the audience behind them, the two musicians from bad konigshofen played themselves into a real frenzy. "Then you get a result like that," says schuller with a wink.

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