Today in Rhein-Main: Continue voluntarily with a mask

Good evening,

new corona rules have been in force in Hesse since Saturday, wearing masks is now largely voluntary, for example when shopping.

Did everyone jump into the hustle and bustle with a bare face?

We looked at that and also where a city like Marburg stands in comparison to Frankfurt or Offenbach when it comes to the topic of traffic turnaround, how nice it was in the snow on Sunday and what to say to people who like cabaret.

Customers remain cautious:

This is a rough summary of what Petra Kirchhoff saw in small and not so small shops during a long tour of Frankfurt on Saturday.

Only a few use their new freedom on the first day without wearing a mask.

So many remained cautious.

And: The larger the shops were, the more unprotected faces were to be seen, which may remain the case in the coming days and weeks.

It is also interesting to ask whether shopkeepers are exercising their domiciliary rights and asking to wear a mask: some are doing so.

Traffic turnaround:

Marburg also wants to reach them.

There has been a dispute over transport policy for decades.

The city is squeezed into the narrow valley of the Lahn, the paths, especially in the old town, are narrow.

In addition, two thirds of the employees commute to the university town.

"All of this makes mobility a challenge," says Marburg's Lord Mayor Spies.

With a mobility and traffic plan, the city with its almost 80,000 inhabitants wants to free itself from exhaust gases and noise and be climate-neutral by 2030.

And because almost all large municipalities have similar issues, comparisons are obvious: Marburg is further along than Frankfurt or Offenbach, writes our colleague Thomas Meier.

Today like then?

When times are politically tricky, parallels to the Weimar Republic are often drawn.

The Frankfurt Volksbühne in the Großer Hirschgraben is trying to do this in an entertaining way.

"Lights out, knives out!" is the name of her new cabaret program "about the terribly topical twenties", as she calls it herself.

Michael Quast, Ingrid El Sigal and Ulrike Kinbach present songs and texts.

Claudia Schülke took a look at it, and anyone who wants to know whether it's worth buying a ticket for one of the next performances can take this sentence from her review of the performance as an indication: "One should send school classes to these two amusing history lessons. "

And

the Hessian Farmers' Association also justifies rising food prices with the expected lower crop yields, because farmers would produce less of the increasingly expensive fertilizer+++On Saturday, around 80 people took part in a so-called peace march against the Ukraine war to the Russian Consulate General in Frankfurt involved, the organizers were, according to their own statements, Russians living in Germany, Germans of Russian origin and German nationals +++ the onset of winter in spring was particularly striking in the Taunus, which Florentine Fritzen describes.

Greetings from the editorial team

Jacqueline Vogt

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

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for Monday

The day begins with changing clouds.

In the late afternoon it will rain.

Temperatures between 5 and 7 degrees.

have birthday

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Monday April 4th

Thomas Gebauer,

spokesman for the Medico International Foundation, bearer of the Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt (67);

(Die Grünen), Member of the German Bundestag until October 2021, Darmstadt (65);

(Die Grünen), member of the Hessian state parliament (constituency Darmstadt-Stadt I), parliamentary group leader in the Darmstadt city council, chairwoman of the Darmstadt Art Association (64);

Frankfurt architect (60);

(CDU), Head of Department of the City of Frankfurt from 2011 to September 2021 (53);

Managing Director of the Sana Clinic in Offenbach (49);

(CDU), member of the German Bundestag (Wiesbaden constituency), district chairman of his party (44);