Music

"The courage to redesign the forchheimer stadtfest has been rewarded", innkeeper christoph kauer is pleased. After four sunny days in forchheim, the organizers draw a thoroughly positive conclusion. From ascension day to sunday, a wide range of music and events with eight stages and eleven food and attraction stands attracted numerous guests to the city center. "The party was glorious. The concept, which was aimed at everyone, has worked", stresses manfred schade of the "heimforteil" association of handlers. "The many visitors who strolled through the city center on thursday show that it was a very popular festival."

Peaceful festival in forchheim

The city festival has established forchheim as a "brand" made better known and the whole city benefits from it. Schade has many "unknown faces" the czech people presented a folk tale called "the coarse rube". This speaks for the fact that the festival has gained supra-regional fame. The varied program in particular sets the new town festival apart from other "overcrowded beer festivals" from.

The fans of cultivated instrumental orchestral music living on the obermain became aware once again at the autumn concert in the pater lunkenbein hall on sunday evening what a jewel the ebensfeld music association is after all. About 350 listeners were offered a varied program from legendary film music to musical works to rock sounds.

Italo-western-movie-music by ennio morricone, the one from "the life of brian well-known song "always look on the bright side of life" or the waltz "by candlelight – already the prelude of the concert with the 40 musicians paying wind orchestra could be heard. The ensemble also took the audience on a journey to africa with a medley of songs from the children’s film "the jungle book". As lively and cheerful as the musicians played, the audience saw bar baloo and mogli dancing through the gymnasium in front of their eyes, as the melody to "try it with gemutlichkeit" played sounded.

"This was ready for television", said an audience member who came with her grandson on saturday and, like many visitors in the sold-out gewolbekeller of the stadthalle, gave the actors heidi lehnert, olga seehafer, benjamin bochmann and martin habermeyer bravos.

Marchenschatz
In honor of the grimm brothers, who 200 years ago published the first edition of their "kinder- und hausmarchen" (tales of children and their homes) the director nina lorenz and the actors had chosen the story of the donkey, the dog, the cat and the rooster and adapted it for the stage. The result is a funny and exciting play that also includes some (humorous) drama. It is not only fascinating for children, but was also well received by the parents and grandparents of the little spectators. The actors are bursting with joy, outdoing each other in wit and charm and showing full body effort in hopping, jumping, running and dancing. In addition, for the first time, they accompany their singing themselves with accordion, ukulele, violin and percussion instruments such as a pan, wooden board or coffee cup.

Their band name "ramsch und rosen" julia lacherstorfer and simon zochbauer "borrowed" from a viennese old goods store. Not only because the two austrian musicians like the piece; it is also symbolic for their music. "In the store there are many things that at first sight seem old and dusty. But when you remove the dust from them, underneath there is something very nice", tells julia lacherstorfer. She and simon zochbauer have a similar approach to music: they interpret old folk songs in their own way. On sunday evening the duo performed in the schuttbau in rugheim.

In new formation

Chairwoman Barbara Goschenhofer of the "culture" association, which provides cultural momentum not only in the hofheim district of rugheim, announced the musicians with the remark that julia lacherstorfer had last year she was already thrilled when she performed with the band "alma" had performed there.

The beginning of the "stagnant time" the hochstadter senior citizens’ advisory council took the opportunity to look back on a successful summer and fall event that will definitely be repeated next year.

At the end of august the "hochstadter sax’n" played in both hochstadter senior homes on. Five saxophone virtuosos from a subgroup of the town band played old hits. Old familiar things like "marina, "mexico" and capri-fischer was heard, the "bohemian dream" then formed the conclusion. As the leader of the quintet confirmed after the concert, a somewhat different program was rehearsed especially for this day. The "sax’n, who have been around since 2004, prefer to play swing music, because that makes the most fun with the saxophone.

His boxes haven’t all been unpacked yet, but he’s already set up his study: since the beginning of september, alexander berger has been the new chaplain of the parish community of st. Hedwig in the parish house of kitzingen. Next weekend, the young priest will be ordained at the sunday service in the parish church of st. Johannes officially introduced.

The 29-year-old was born and raised in aschaffenburg, germany. He studied theology in wurzburg and vienna, after which he completed his studies in the parish community of st. Vienna. Laurentius am spessart in marktheidenfeld his diaconate internship. He will now spend three years in the parish community of st. Hedwig. Hedwig to gain his first experience as a priest and participate in pastoral care.

He is the man about whom many people in bad bruckenau say he is simply running for the wrong party: jan marberg (31), SPD, head of the cultural office and skater. As a teenager, he and his friends knocked on the door of the mayor of his hometown. The young people wanted a special ramp for their sport. "In april was the talk, in august was the ramp. I thought that was great", he says. Now he wants to become such a mayor himself, he says. He presented 30 concrete goals for it.

Jan marberg wanted to create a multigenerational house, introduce a citizens’ budget and lay fiber optics to the curb. He wants the city to focus on environmentally friendly means of transport and offer them for rent, including e-cars. He calls for a separate location campaign "i believe that county marketing is of no use to us in the long run" – and sees the relationship with the state baths as in need of improvement. "We must create an offer that will bring us on a par with the state baths", he emphasizes.