Today in Rhein-Main: What did the Hessians do in the lockdown in the evening?

Good evening, it

that you can't eat more than three times a day, or four times for our sake.

We would already know what to do with all the asparagus and strawberries that are currently left in the fields because demand has dropped significantly.

Customers calculate more tightly because they feel inflation and are worried about the war in Ukraine.

It's nice that we live in a market economy and that lower demand is reflected in lower prices, so that one or the other still treats themselves to something.

And it's a pity that the crisis then affects farmers, who cannot easily reduce their own costs.

Let's hope things will look better again next year.

Manfred Koehler

Head of department of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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But life

is not a single agony either. The State Statistical Office reported on Tuesday that last year there were 2,160 more births in Hesse than in the previous year, and it was the highest number since 1997.

"Many corona babies in Hesse," writes the Rhein-Main-Zeitung of the FAZ, because colleague Rainer Schulze is pretty sure that was due to all the boredom in the lockdown times.

And raises the question of how many of the 61,550 newborns were called "Corona".

It remains to be seen whether there was also a boom in this regard.

One of the most popular questions

is what will change permanently once the pandemic is over.

And one of the industries that is looking to the future with particular concern is the trade fair industry.

But maybe it is the case that virtual meetings cannot replace a real meeting of manufacturers and buyers during the day at the exhibition stand and in the evening at the hotel bar.

In any case, the organizers of the book fair reported on Tuesday that 4,000 exhibitors had already registered for this October's event, twice as many as last year.

And in addition

, the new Hessian Prime Minister Boris Rhein (CDU) emphasized the importance of climate protection in his first government statement +++ a work by African artists is shot into space with a weather satellite, the regional reference: Eumetsat, the operator of these satellites is based in Darmstadt + ++ Höchst Porcelain Manufactory is insolvent.

I wish you a pleasant evening

Yours, Manfred Koehler

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

for Wednesday

High chance of rain, temperatures between 12 and 22 degrees.

birthday

on

Jörg Cezanne

(Die Linke), Member of the German Bundestag from 2017 to October 2021, Groß-Gerau (64);

(The Greens), Head of Department of the City of Wiesbaden (60);

, former track and field athlete from Gelnhausen, third at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul (55);

, dancer, founder and director of the Academia de Tango, Frankfurt (55);

, Chairman of the Hessian Polo Club Luisenlust, Hirzenhain (55);

, head chef at the Ente restaurant in the Hotel Nassauer Hof, Wiesbaden (44);

, Managing Director of Asbach GmbH, Rüdesheim (44).