Today in Rhein-Main: Where it is particularly beautiful

Good evening,

made you a Frankfurter by birth or as a result of moving: there is no reason for that.

Imagine this: according to a brand-new survey, life is more comfortable in just six cities around the world, including places like Vienna and Zurich that there's no shame in losing to.

In the quality of life study by the British “Economist” group, none of the cities in Germany did better than Frankfurt!

Ours always said so.

No mention of Munich, Hamburg or Freiburg, where one would otherwise suspect the good life.

Manfred Koehler

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

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This is of course also due to Frankfurt's brilliant mayor,

who always offers something to talk about, quite different from the probably totally dull and bored mayors of other metropolises.

Now, for example, Peter Feldmann (SPD), after repeatedly refusing interview requests from journalists, simply gave himself an interview.

That's actually the solution: politicians don't wait for critical or insistent questions from journalists, but simply ask the questions themselves!

Question from Peter Feldmann: Why don't you just resign?

Answer from the mayor: For me that would be an escape from responsibility.

The employees of the city administration received this innovative work by e-mail.

You would have to be an official, pure luck.

Above all, of course, in Frankfurt.

We don't know how Kassel fared in

the city ranking, the city can't be ahead of Frankfurt.

There is no reason at all to do so at the moment.

The quality of life there is modest, at least for everyone who deals with the documenta, after anti-Semitic elements were discovered among the works of art exhibited there.

The Hessian Art Minister Angela Dorn (Die Grünen), who has now decided to take the leap forward, is also under pressure: on Thursday she spoke out in favor of a fundamental structural reform of the art show.

In addition, the clever minister pointed her finger at the general director of the documenta, Sabine Schormann, who was supposed to work through the events.

It remains to be seen whether Dorn will manage to get out of the spotlight again.

And

the Hessian Economics Minister Tarek Al-Wazir (Die Grünen) has called on the Hessians to save energy

the Frankfurt airport operator Fraport is building a freight hall for DHL

parking spaces in Wiesbaden are being converted into bike lanes, although the number of cars is increasing.

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 tip for the weekend

The Dienstbach sisters Jennifer and Nathalie - well known from the state capital Wiesbaden for a long time - have opened their new restaurant "Les deux Dienstbach chez Künstler" in the former canteen of the Künstler winery in Hochheim.

The rooms have been stylishly renovated and redesigned.

Only three- to five-course menus are served, which are intended to be an expression of the French way of life and joie de vivre.

There are not only artist wines, but also some French wines.

"Les deux Dienstbach chez Künstler", Gemeinrat-Hummel-Platz 1a, Hochheim, telephone 0 61 46 / 5 25 92 28, Internet www.weingut-kuenstler.de.

The

for Friday

In the morning there will be showers and thunderstorms, then the weather will calm down temporarily.

New thunderstorms in the evening.

Highs around 26 degrees.

have

on Friday

Meinhard Matern

(CDU), Managing Director of the Bad Homburg Stadtbahn company, Mayor of Bad Homburg from 2018 to July 2021 (69);

, Chairman of the Ernst May Society, Frankfurt (68);

, President of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz (67);

, director of the Paul Hindemith Institute, Frankfurt (58);

, actor, comedian and theater director from Wiesbaden (55);

, managing partner of Heilerde-Gesellschaft Luvos Just GmbH & Co. KG, Friedrichsdorf (53);

, from 2007 to January 2022 director of the SWR state broadcaster Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz (53);

on Saturday

Johnny Klinke

, director of the Tigerpalast Varietétheater, Frankfurt, bearer of the Goethe Plaque of the State of Hesse, awarded the Binding Culture Prize and the Hessian Culture Prize (72);

, game inventor living in Roßdorf near Darmstadt (70);

, Chairman of the General German Automobile Club Hesse-Thuringia, Frankfurt (61);

, founder and president of Kronberg Academy (60);

, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt (52);

On Sunday

Gerhard Obermayr

(CDU), head of the city council in Wiesbaden (59);

, Frankfurt actress (51).