Good evening,
record prices were achieved at a wine auction and aid projects were supported in the process.
A region shows solidarity, and news from Kyiv brings relief.
In addition, the next meeting of the municipal representation for foreigners in Frankfurt casts its shadow.
The weekend in retrospect, the week in perspective.
Marie Lisa Kehler
Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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Wine auction without an audience:
For the second time, the wine auction of the Association of Prädikat Wineries (VDP) in Eberbach Abbey had to do without an audience.
Nevertheless, the winegrowers were satisfied.
And donation projects also benefited from the sale.
Because a selection of top wines from the three wineries Robert Weil, Sankt Antony and Battenfeld-Spanier was auctioned together with an original picture by the well-known contemporary artist Bernd Zimmer, which adorns a bottle label, as well as other wine bottles.
The proceeds, at least 31,500 euros, go to flood-damaged Ahr winegrowers and to aid projects in the Ukraine.
A total of 305,000 euros was turned over that evening and around 3,000 wine bottles were sold.
Children safe:
In many places in Hesse, people took to the streets at the weekend to express their solidarity with Ukraine.
On Friday evening, for example, around 2,000 people gathered on the Römerberg in Frankfurt to listen to the live broadcast of the Ukrainian President, who called on the people of Europe to support Ukraine in a video message.
"Don't be quiet!
Don't close your eyes to it.
Support us as much as you can,” these words echoed across the square.
The people in the region are certainly not quiet.
On Sunday, 4,000 people met at Frankfurt's Hauptwache to join a rally by the "Pulse of Europe" movement.
The solidarity seems limitless.
Again and again the editorial staff of the Rhein-Main-Zeitung receives emails from private initiatives,
initiate aid projects and ask for support.
You can find a list of the projects and appeals for donations from various organizations at faz.net/ukrainehilfe.
Sometimes there are also small and large success stories among the mails.
For example, a message that made the editors happy.
All 24 children who lived in the Ukrainian children's home "Our Kids", for which the FAZ readers donated in 2017, were brought to safety from Kyiv.
Together with educators and the director of the home, they managed to escape to Poland.
They are housed in an SOS Children's Village and are all healthy.
Sometimes there are also small and large success stories among the mails.
For example, a message that made the editors happy.
All 24 children who lived in the Ukrainian children's home "Our Kids", for which the FAZ readers donated in 2017, were brought to safety from Kyiv.
Together with educators and the director of the home, they managed to escape to Poland.
They are housed in an SOS Children's Village and are all healthy.
Sometimes there are also small and large success stories among the mails.
For example, a message that made the editors happy.
All 24 children who lived in the Ukrainian children's home "Our Kids", for which the FAZ readers donated in 2017, were brought to safety from Kyiv.
Together with educators and the director of the home, they managed to escape to Poland.
They are housed in an SOS Children's Village and are all healthy.
Work made more difficult
: The municipal representation for foreigners has attracted a lot of attention in recent weeks.
The committee meets once a month in the Römer and is supposed to represent the interests of every fourth Frankfurt resident.
Because so many are foreigners.
Because there have been repeated tumults in the meetings recently, the members of the KAV have unintentionally focused on the question of how they treat each other.
The question of what they have already moved has receded into the background.
Most recently, the KAV hit the headlines after Jumas Medoff, chairman of the KAV, received anti-Semitic threats.
Hüseyin Kurt is the longest-serving member of the board.
In an interview with FAZ editor Mechthild Harting, he speaks very openly about why he thinks it is making it more difficult for the KAV to work on content, what role some city councilors play in this and why he thinks it is important for the KAV to continue to serve the interests of as many groups as possible - even if this means that the search for consensus is made more difficult.
And in addition, department head Manfred Köhler asked how things were going with the billion-euro long-distance traffic tunnel project in Frankfurt +++ the jukebox musical "Saturday Night Fever" celebrated its premiere in the new adaptation by Ryan McBryde at the Staatstheater Darmstadt +++ we'll tell the story by the Beukes family, who swapped the South African wilderness for the Rhein-Main adventure and found out: cuddling with lions can be less exciting than finding your way around in the urban jungle.
Stay healthy,
Marie Lisa Kehler
You can also read current reports from the region in Skyline-Blick, our live news blog for the Rhine-Main region, and on the Rhein-Main-Zeitung website at www.faz.net/rmz
The weather for Monday
It will be very sunny again.
Only occasionally do loose clouds appear in the sky.
In addition, the temperatures rise to up to 7 degrees
have birthday on
Monday, March 7th
Manfred Hellwig, former managing partner of Hippodrom GmbH, Frankfurt (85);
Folke Mühlholzer, Chairman of the Management Board of the Hessen agency, Wiesbaden (62);
Sebastian Weigle, General Music Director of the Frankfurt Opera (61);
Thomas Ollinger, President of the Bundesbank Head Office in Hesse, Frankfurt (55);
Florian Rentsch (FDP), Chairman of the Association of Sparda Banks, Frankfurt, former Hessian Minister of Economics (47).