Today in Rhein-Main: going to the theater, an exclusive pleasure

Good evening,

Do you know where your food comes from?

Who grew the potatoes that are in the supermarket and which cows gave the milk that is in the refrigerated section?

The so-called regional window was created in Hesse a few years ago for people who are interested.

This is a label that indicates the origin, there is also a website of the same name that lists the labeled products.

Producers who want to print the seal on their goods have to pay an annual fee of between 11.20 and 224 euros per item, depending on the size of the company and turnover, but at least 112 euros.

Added to this are the fees for the annual checks by independent testing institutes.

Jacqueline Vogt

Department head of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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The seal is not without controversy, for various reasons.

For some, the term "regional" is not narrow enough, while others are bothered by the types of packaging.

The limits of what the seal provides information about and what it basically stands for have been discussed for a long time.

The business side of the Rhein-Main-Zeitung explains why it is in particularly high demand right now.

International attention:

 The trial against a Syrian doctor who is said to have tortured has begun at the Higher Regional Court (OLG) in Frankfurt. After the first global trial on the genocide of the Yazidis, which ended in November with a sentence of life imprisonment, the second trial relating to the events in Syria and Iraq as a result of the Arab Spring is beginning at the Higher Regional Court. The whole world is watching the process.

The details: 36-year-old Alaa M. is charged with crimes against humanity. He is said to have tortured people in 2011 and 2012 as a doctor in a military hospital and military intelligence prison in Homs. He is the first suspected active torturer who has to answer before a constitutional court. A week ago, the Koblenz Higher Regional Court sentenced secret service employee Anwar R. to life imprisonment because he was in charge of murder and torture in Al-Khatib prison in Damascus - in contrast to this, Alaa M., who is now on trial in Frankfurt, is said to have been a prisoner himself, attributed to the opposition by the regime have committed violence. The Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt had initially rejected some cases from the indictment,the allegations were not specific enough. After a complaint from the Attorney General, the Federal Court of Justice decided shortly before Christmas that the indictment should be heard in full. Anna-Sophia Lang reports on the process.

The subscribers first:

The disastrous development of the pandemic these days with enormously increasing incidences naturally also has an impact on culture. A number of ensembles in the region are struggling with quarantine regulations as a result of infections. The scene itself is struggling with how to deal with the restrictions on capacity utilization to a maximum of 250 spectators. The reaction is the same as in football, where Eintracht, for example, mainly allocates the 1,000 seats that it is allowed to occupy in the upcoming home game on Friday to season ticket holders. The Frankfurt Opera acts in a similar way: Only subscribers can see their latest production. Guido Holze and Eva-Maria Magel have compiled how the 250 are found among those and how other houses do it.

And in addition, on Wednesday in Hesse, only the Werra-Meißner district was below the limit of 350 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days and was therefore not a so-called hotspot +++ the state of Hesse continues to contribute to the costs of corona tests at daycare -Children, at least until the end of the Easter holidays on April 22nd +++ the defender Emir Karic from the second division soccer team SV Darmstadt 98 tested positive for the corona virus and will be canceled for the game against Ingolstadt on Saturday. 

Stay healthy, stay with us

Best regards

Jacqueline Vogt   

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Thursday January 20th

Stefan Messer

, Managing Partner of Messer Group GmbH, Bad Soden, Honorary Senator of Goethe University Frankfurt and Technical University Darmstadt, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Slovenia (67);

, Frankfurt architect (64);

(independent), outgoing mayor of the city of Nidda (63);

, Managing Director of GWW Wiesbadener Wohnbaugesellschaft mbH (54);

, President of the Wiesbaden Chamber of Industry and Commerce (48);

, Managing Director of Eintracht Frankfurt Stadion GmbH (34);