Today in Rhein-Main: The paper crisis worries the book industry

Good evening,

nice that you have subscribed to and even read this newsletter.

But with all the love: you really don't have to print it out.

As a result, material for book printers is increasingly becoming a scarce commodity. 

Marie Lisa Kehler

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

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Just in time for the start of the book fair, our author Alexander Jürgs asked around at various booksellers in Frankfurt to find out how they survived the Corona months and what challenges they are currently facing

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After all, the following sentence also applies here: after the crisis is before the crisis.

One thing is certain: more was read again during the crisis.

People had time and leisure.

That helped the booksellers.

Many already set up a kind of book delivery service in the first lock-down and even rode their bikes to their customers.

Creative problem solutions were required.

You can read tomorrow in the FAZ (which, by the way, is also available as ePaper or in digital form as a multimedia edition - if you want to save paper) why not only the paper shortage but also the Brexit is currently bothering the industry.

Classroom teaching at the university

The students, who have been allowed to return to the lecture halls of the universities since Monday, do not want to know anything about crises for the time being. They finally want to experience what many only know from stories. They want to look each other in the eye while discussing, find friends in fellow students, go to the cafeteria after the lecture, plan the next flat share party. None of this was possible or only possible to a very limited extent in the past few months. Since Monday, however, it has been possible for many to return to the lecture halls - albeit under strict conditions. And they differ from university location to university location.

At the Goethe University in Frankfurt, security personnel check whether the building can be entered.

Among other things, only those who have recovered or have been vaccinated or who can present a current negative test can come in. FAZ editor Sascha Zoske asked the students what it felt like to study together in one room and attended Bernd Skieras' lecture. The economics professor wants to try out a teaching model in person over the next few weeks, which he learned to appreciate in the online phase.

Corona, it seems, serves as a justification and excuse for pretty much everything.

The fact that the attractiveness factor in inner cities suffered before the pandemic began is often ignored.

There were definitely vacant shops before spring 2020. And the complaints of retailers about online trading could already be heard a few years ago.

The city of Hanau no longer wants to remain in grumbling mode.

Action is the order of the day.

The city center is to be revitalized with creative concepts and a thirst for action.

The city is looking for “accomplices”, that is, people who help to strengthen the inner city structures.

The “Hanau recharge” program is aimed at them.

Markets, events and cabaret are intended to attract customers to the city.

This is what Hanau Marketing GmbH is committed to. In addition, pop-up shops are to be created. The city wants to support courageous business people with the store search, rent and marketing campaigns. The entrepreneurs should be able to try out their ideas for a few months. If these are accepted by the customers, a property for long-term rental can be searched for. The aim is to revitalize the city center and expand the range. The city is ready to invest in this - for example in real estate in the center. Change, at least that's the plan, can be controlled a little better and promoted in a more targeted manner. “We're not looking for profit. In individual cases, the black zero is always enough for us, ”says Hanau's Lord Mayor Claus Kaminsky (SPD) in conversation with our author Luise Glaser-Lotz.

And the book prize has also been awarded +++ the Frankfurt SPD is responding to the accusation that a candidate from its ranks incited postal voting fraud in the local elections +++ work on the Nied level crossing has begun.

Stay healthy,

Marie Lisa Kehler

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Tuesday October 19th

Winfried Ottmann

(CDU), full-time district member of the Main-Kinzig district (68);

, CEO of Stada Arzneimittel AG, Bad Vilbel (57);

(CDU), First Councilor of the City of Kelkheim (50);

, head of the Hessian Literature Forum in Mousonturm, Frankfurt (40).