Today in Rhein-Main: In the forest of the future there are fir trees

Good evening,

what does the forest of the future look like?

How can small talk work even if you really don't feel like it?

And why couldn't only the gas surcharge apply to gas customers?

Questions to which the current Hauptwache has answers.

Marie Lisa Kehler

Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Discharge required:

The concern that many customers will no longer be able to pay their gas bills is already driving the region's utility companies.

They are demanding relief packages from the state for people who are having financial difficulties.

It is certain that the gas surcharge, which amounts to 2.419 cents per kilowatt hour, will be passed on to customers.

However, not all regional gas companies can say exactly what additional burdens customers will have to reckon with.

Business editor Daniel Schleidt asked Mainova, Darmstadt-based Entega, Offenbach-based Evo and Frankfurt-based utility Süwag.

A spokesman for Süwag AG confirms that it could not just stay with the gas levy, but that a so-called storage levy is also expected.

And that too is passed on to the customers.

Experiment “climate-stable forest”:

What does it look like, the climate-stable forest of the future?

Which tree species can also survive under the constantly worsening conditions?

And even more important: where should it come from, this forest?

Jannik Jansen tries at least with his work to give an answer to the last question.

He's a cone picker.

Equipped with seven collection sacks, enough sunflower oil to protect your hands against the resin of the trees, picking stick and picking bucket, the arborist climbs up the trunk of a coastal fir tree, well secured.

His goal: collect as many cones as possible.

Later, young coastal firs are to be grown from the seed, which, like black pine, Douglas fir, cedar and robinia, are considered candidates for a climate-stable forest.

Small talk for beginners:

At a party the other day.

A friend had invited.

No one from the mutual circle of friends was there yet, the hostess herself had no time.

So took a glass, bravely stood at a bar table with strangers and started the good old small talk machine.

Weather?

hot today

Getting there?

Extremely curvy.

How do you know each other?

Ah, from before.

conversation is running.

Everyone at the table is ready to engage in a no-deep chat.

Similarities are discovered, the long-awaited arrival of friends fades into the background.

Small talk is more than superficial "bla-bla".

At least that's what rhetoric trainer Laura Fonzetti says.

The relaxed conversation can help to relax tense situations, can bring people into contact and build a bridge for later deeper conversations.

Fonzetti would like to improve the reputation of small talk again and in an interview with our author Rainer Schulze gives tips on how this can be successful.

A common topic is advisable, says the communication trainer.

The classic, the weather, affects everyone.

Holidays or travel could be other topics.

“Small talk is about making contact and getting to know each other on the surface,” she says.

This could lead to a more in-depth conversation.

And if not?

Not bad either.

Then there was just a little chat.

In an interview, Laura Fonzetti explains which topics are not suitable for small talk, how people can learn the fine art of chatting and why it can sometimes bond together to complain collectively, in which the weather also plays a major role.

And

since Tuesday, the investigative process in the Ayleen case has no longer been with the public prosecutor's office in Freiburg, but with the public prosecutor's office in Giessen.

According to the current status, it is assumed that the 14-year-old girl from Gottenheim in southern Baden in Hesse

pianist Igor Levit receives the Ludwig Landmann Prize for courage and attitude

are the plans, the pulpit of the To make "Ginnheimer Spargels" available to the public again, on ice

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

for Wednesday

A mix of sun and lots of cumulus clouds.

Occasional showers and thunderstorms, locally with heavy rain and strong gusts.

27 to 31 degrees

have birthday

on

Wednesday 17 August

Karl Dietrich Seikel

, from 2019 to July 2022 Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the FAZIT Foundation and from 2019 to July 2022 Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH (76);

, Frankfurt-based composer and theater director, former President of the Hessian Theater Academy (70);

, President of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Wiesbaden (61);

, Chairman of the Board of Management of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, Frankfurt (57);

, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wiesbadener Volksbank (48);

, Germany head of data center operator Equinix, Frankfurt (46);

, Director of the Light Film Festival Frankfurt International (43);