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The upper franconian chess championship 2020 is history – of a now 31-year history in the franken-akademie of schney. The winner of the main tournament was 37-year-old doctor michal michalek. From the district’s point of view, it was good to see that two of the top places had very close links with the district of lichtenfels.

Breithut satisfied with rank 3

It was a tough tournament, four days and seven rounds long, and on monday the first place was to be decided. But it fell completely unexpectedly. Kurt-georg breithut, who had good prospects of winning the tournament, made no attempt to win against ralf riemer, and a little later michal michalek, who was only half a point ahead of him, only had to beat him to a draw against horst wunder.

High-priced BMW, mercedes VW and occasionally skoda vehicles are in vogue among thieves. This is not only according to anne hofer, press spokeswoman at the police headquarters in upper franconia, but was also confirmed over the weekend in the town of kulmbach. There, so far unknown perpetrators stole a mercedes GLE AMG worth 100,000 euros and set it on fire early on saturday in a wooded area between leuchau and lindau – presumably because they couldn't get any further with it. In addition, a BMW 3 series with kulmbach license plates worth around 45,000 euros disappeared.

Crime scenes: koditz and hollfeld

But that's not all – on monday morning, car thieves struck again in the region – in kodnitz near hof and in hollfeld, apparently with a penchant for products from the bavarian engine works. Police officers in bautzen, saxony, stopped a black BMW 1 series stolen a few hours earlier in kodnitz. At this time, the owner was still completely unaware of the situation. She only became aware of the theft when the police in bautzen informed her that her car had been stopped there during an inspection. The driver had been towed at the checkpoint. The eight-and-a-half-year-old car has a current value of about 10,000 euros.

The friedrich loeffler institute for animal health (FLI) on the island of riems near greifswald reported on monday 160 cattle, 799 sheep and 41 goat farms where the pathogen was detected. A further increase is to be expected as lambs and calves continue to be born whose mothers became infected last year, FLI president thomas mettenleiter said on monday. All federal states affected except bremen.

A vaccine will not be available before 2013 because of the lengthy testing phase required for approval, even in trafficked animals, mettenleiter said. This deadline alone is a "very ambitious goal". Progress has been made in researching and diagnosing the pathogen, which causes severe deformities in foetuses and stillbirths during the gestation period. "A mass-market test for the detection of anticorps will probably be available in the near future."

At the athletics meeting in ostrava, the 28-year-old won with a world-class distance of 78.07 meters, ahead of wenxiu zhang from china (76.99), who finished third in the world championships, and anita wlodarczyk from poland (74.81). "I am of course happy about this result," said heidler. For the 2011 world championship runner-up it was already the fourth victory in her fourth competition of this olympic season.

Heidler missed her own world record from last year (79.42) in ostrava by a good one and a half meters, the world best performance of the woman from russia aksana miankova (78.19) only by twelve centimeters. "I still don’t feel technically as confident as last year, but i’m in better shape," she said.

Is it actually still about rainer bruderle? No. It's about eye-high and power games, about joke-tellers and alpha-madchen, it's about the fact that even manners sometimes make other manners sick.

This – and infinitely more – has been said and written and broadcast for just under a week, in the most sophisticated newspapers of the republic as well as in tweet-instant format. We read about women who torture their husbands to hospital, and about the hope that old heavy souls will get stressed out by the linen-using wife. And you can't always tell immediately from what is thought and meant and how, whether you are looking into a shit-storm – or into the "suddeutsche".Nevertheless, rainer bruderle is at the beginning of the story. And with him the "stern-editor laura himmelreich. She, 29, has written about him, 67, that he stared at her breasts in a bar a little over a year ago, during what was actually a professional meeting.

During a trip to stockholm’s nightlife, germany’s handball players climbed to fifth place in the european championships – then, on sunday morning, they finally went home with a clear order from the association’s top management.

"Our goal remains an olympic medal in tokyo. The team has proven that it has what it takes," said DHB president andreas michelmann at the end of a european championship with highs and lows.

A barn caught fire on friday in the center of stadelschwarzach (prichsenstadt, lkr. Kitzingen) on fire. Nearby homes evacuated as a precaution, police say. The fire in the wurzburger strabe was extinguished by 23.39 o’clock noticed and reported. At this point, the barn, which also housed a workshop, was already engulfed in flames.

The fire departments from stadelschwarzach, prichsenstadt and wiesentheid prevented the fire from spreading to neighboring buildings and brought the fire under control. As a precaution, residents were awakened and brought to safety. The respiratory protection team was able to remove a pressurized gas cylinder from the burning building and bring it to safety. The roof skin was continuously checked from the basket of the telescopic rescue platform of the wiesentheid fire department using the thermal imaging camera so that immediate action could be taken if the roof skin broke through, as the neighboring bakery building is only about one meter away.

The annual guest performance of the bayreuth festival of young artists, which has been held in parallel with the wagner festival since 1950, offers the people of neustadt a special sound experience. The wide region got something from the visit of several hundred (more or less) young, but above all mostly outstanding musicians from all over the world. Neustadt bei coburg is one of the few places to enjoy a concert of this kind every year. On friday, the finnish chamber choir dominante impressed the packed hall of neue kultur.Plant.Town with its "heavenly sounds.

Even if this room was actually too small for the performance of the 30-voice choir and its dry acoustics did not allow its excellent sound to be fully effective, dominante, as expected, provided a different kind of encounter. The choir, which cooperates with the finnish radio under the direction of seppo murto, first bowed to the german choral literature with mendelssohn bartholdy’s motet "denn er hat seinen engeln befehlten" (for he has commanded his angels) and josef rheinberger’s evening song.

"Encounter art – linger over wine" – this was the motto of the art week that took place in ramsthal. "It was a great success", the organizers and artists thea kebler and bernhard gobmann-schmitt sum up the event. They and their team from the association "erlebenskunst ramsthal" organized numerous events that attracted visitors from near and far. "We are particularly pleased that many people came from far away to visit the individual events", says thea kebler. Numerous program points, which were dedicated to the most different ranges, ensured for the fact that for everyone something was present. The art week in this form took place for the second time already. Everything was organized on a voluntary basis, a great effort, but more than worth it. "We want to hold the art week again in two years' time." But now it's time to look back on the event – and to rest a bit, after all, the whole thing had a lead time of about a year and cost a lot of energy.

Super harmonious

24 exhibition sites in ramsthal made the art week an experience. "Many artists were here the whole week and have rented a place in the town", reports thea kebler. "When selecting the artists, we made sure to offer as broad a palette as possible", says thea kebler. They love the place, the cooperation was excellent. "We found it really super harmonious," recalls, says gobmann-schmitt.
But not only art exhibitions were on display. There were also concerts, a film evening and, as a highlight, the improv theater, which was very well received by the visitors due to its imaginative presentation. But not only new things were presented: with the presentation of the epic of gilgamesh, the most ancient poem from ancient babylonia, the church set new accents. "We had a very good response here, the church was very well attended", says thea kebler. Trong's concert at the ramsthal sports hall was also well attended. As part of the art week, there was also a reblaus painting competition. Annika haub won the jury prize among the numerous entries, and mariella friedrich received the visitors' prize.
"We received a lot of praise for the art week, the visitors were enthusiastic", the two draw a summary. And the event had another positive effect: "we were able to get people excited about art and get them to engage with it," says thea kebler, kebler is pleased.

"Our aspirations are premonitions of the abilities that lie within us, harbingers of what we will be able to achieve", once wrote goethe. But he's never ridden the regional express either.

For my part, when I went from munich (where I did an internship at playboy) to bamberg, I only wished to catch the connecting train in nurnberg. But nothing there. No connection, only fellow sufferers. A missed train is like a drug addiction – it prevents you from arriving on time, but it connects people of all classes.