Good evening,


On Thursday, when else. Most cinemas do not want to dare to restart until July 1st, although they could have opened earlier according to the relaxed Corona regulation. But Thursday, the traditional program change day, seemed to make sense to many operators of the movie theaters in Hesse: “It's about the cinema being part of everyday life again,” says one. There is great uncertainty in the industry about whether and how quickly film lovers can be lured back into the halls. Our cinema expert Eva-Maria Magel asked around. Not only unanswered questions about the seating arrangement in which the distance regulations still in force should be taken into account, but above all the uncertainty as to whether the viewing habits of movie buffs during the mandatory break are even more oriented towards the possibilities of streamingdrives the cinema owners. According to their description, they have an “oversupply” of good strips - many were held back because they could not be marketed during the pandemic.

Helmut Schwan

Head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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    The vision of a city in which bushes, trees and perhaps even briskly sprouting weeds help to safeguard biodiversity and provide shade, a city in which green facades cool the skyscrapers - such a vision is for Frankfurt in the coalition paper of the new V-traffic light designed. The first plants are already hanging on the Eden Tower in the Europaviertel. They should make a contribution to the microclimate. The "evergreen" is in mats and is watered via a hose system. Rainer Schulze took a look at how far the project on the almost 100 meter high residential tower had come. At the end of the year, around 200,000 plants should hang on the facade there, wind and weatherproof. That was planned long before the coalition dominated by the Greens stipulated that this would have to be the standard in the future.Thomas Maier put together how far the reality in Frankfurt is from these blooming dreams. The Main-Tor-Quartier serves him as a deterrent example. The open spaces in the area on the western edge of the old town, which was built only a few years ago, appear largely as a stone desert - with poorly planted raised beds and small plane trees rooted in the gravel.

    But, signs and wonders, environmental awareness cannot be stopped. On Tuesday the trade fair reported that it had brought “Eurobike”, the trend show for pedalists, from Friedrichshafen to Frankfurt. Lord Mayor Peter Feldmann (SPD), who is also the chairman of the supervisory board, would like an “active trade fair” that not only takes place in halls but also in the city. For example, with tours on the many cycle paths that are soon to cross the region. Transport Minister Tarek Al-Wazir (The Greens) presented on the same day how far progress has been made in laying these along federal and state roads. From 2014 to 2020, more than 80 million euros were invested in this, a total of around 120 kilometers were built, expanded or renovated in order to promote the promised turnaround in traffic.Patricia Andreae points out in her comment on the Eurobike trade fair that in the long term, however, it will hardly be able to replace the International Motor Show that has moved to Munich with half a million visitors. 

    And in addition

    , a man with a knife on the Zeil in Frankfurt with a view of the terrible events in Würzburg caused a large police operation.

    Everything went off lightly.

    In addition, a police officer in the Alsfeld district court admitted to having sent messages with right-wing extremist content, but was sentenced to a suspended sentence not for this, but for violations of the weapons law;

    the delta variant of the corona virus is causing new uncertainty in schools in the region.

    Take care of yourself

    Yours Helmut Schwan

    The

    weather

    for Wednesday

    Summer is over for the time being.

    According to the forecast, it will be no more than 22 degrees "warm" in the region on Wednesday, the tendency to showers and thunderstorms remains high.

    On Thursday it should even be a little cooler.

    Have

    your birthday

    on

    Wednesday June 30th

    Dieter Pitthan

    (SPD), former mayor and honorary citizen of the city of Langen (80);

    Claus Wisser

    , Frankfurt entrepreneur, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Friends' Association and co-initiator of the Rheingau Music Festival, holder of the plaque of honor of the City of Frankfurt (79);

    Gerhard Bökel

    (SPD), former Hessian interior minister, honorary member of the Hessian district assembly, Frankfurt (75);

    Kirsten Worms

    , Director of Administration for the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse, Bad Homburg (59);

    Stephan Sturm

    , CEO of Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, Bad Homburg (58);

    Armin Häuser

    (CDU), chairman of the Wetterau district council, former mayor of Bad Nauheim (57).