Good evening,


On Tuesday, the heads of government from the federal and state levels will meet again to discuss how to proceed with the corona policy. Hesse's Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) wants to join the demand that unvaccinated people have to pay for corona rapid tests out of their own pocket in the future. This is what our Wiesbaden correspondent Ewald Hetrodt writes. Bouffier also wants to discuss whether the incidence should continue to be the only key figure for looking at the infection rate. An objection that could meet with approval, especially in Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Fulda and the Main-Taunus district. Because here the incidence value has risen in the past few days. If it reaches level 35, loosening can be withdrawn. Then, for example, a test is again mandatory for visitors to indoor catering.


Marie Lisa Kehler

Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Another topic (but don't worry, Corona will be with us again in this newsletter). How often do you hear people from New Frankfurt say this one sentence: "I HAVE to learn the bridge names". Then the first, the second, the third year on the Main comes into the country and the bridge names are still not secure. Appointments are still made “at the green bridge” or at the “railway bridge at the Ostpark”. After all: everyone knows the Eiserner Steg. After reading the article that our unofficial bridge officer Matthias Trautsch wrote, the names still won't fit. But there is a lot to learn in return. What, for example, the doe and the rooster have to do with the bridges in this city. In the series “Our Frankfurt” we present five bridges that you should definitely have crossed. And yes, dear Peter Maffay,there are five. Not seven. Those who never consider going from “Hibbdebach” to “Dribbdebach” (or vice versa) are welcome to take another look at the series parts of “Unser Frankfurt” that have already been published. For example, we have selected the five most beautiful places for a date (on both sides of the Main) or five bars that you should know about in the Bahnhofsviertel.

When you sit in one of these hip bars, it might be time to read through the interview with Theodor Dingermann, pharmacy professor. He talks to editor Sascha Zoske about the most pressing question of this time: Should there be compulsory vaccination? Dingermann answers with a clear “yes and no”. “I don't favor that. You shouldn't enforce such a duty against the majority opinion in the population, ”he says. “We will have to rely on people to see that vaccination is one of the most effective preventive measures in medicine. Only if it turns out that all attempts to get people to vaccinate voluntarily do not have any effect, one should rethink "Dingermann also goes into this in an interview with the FAZ,why the delta variant could also bring something positive with it. When asked whether we will ever close the chapter “Covid 19” again, the pharmacy professor has a clear answer: “We will not be able to close it, but the disease will develop endemically, such as influenza. The virus will not go away and people will continue to die from it. This is another reason why it is important that we protect ourselves as well as possible with vaccines. "that we protect ourselves as well as possible with vaccines. "that we protect ourselves as well as possible with vaccines. "

And in addition, the existence of the Pfungstädter brewery is once again at stake +++ Frankfurt is about the question of how the retail sector in the city center has to reposition itself after the pandemic +++ we whet the appetite for open-air cinema: 177 films in seven days - the film festival Weiterstadt starts on Wednesday.

Stay healthy,

Marie Lisa Kehler

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At times, thicker clouds pass through, and showers are possible.

Temperatures between 11 and 25 degrees.

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Tuesday, August 10th

Achim Knecht

, CEO and city dean of the Evangelical Church in Frankfurt and Offenbach (64);

Tilman Wittershagen

, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Ark Frankfurt (61);

Wolfgang Fink

, CEO of Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE, Frankfurt (55);

Markus Hankammer

, Managing Director of Brita GmbH, Taunusstein, President of SV Wehen Wiesbaden (53).