Good evening,
no Christmas rest yet, anywhere.
A truck that overturned on the Autobahn 66 from Frankfurt to Wiesbaden early on Thursday morning and landed across the road blocked rush-hour traffic.
At Frankfurt Airport, police officers arrested a suspected Islamist from Offenbach, and there was an arrest warrant for Deniz B.
Only a quarter of Hessian retailers are satisfied with the Christmas business so far.
Manfred Koehler
Head of department of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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Yeah, isn't there any good news two days before Christmas Eve?
Yes, yes.
The colleague responsible for monitoring the Hessian sparkling wine market, Oliver Bock, reports on a study according to which 55 percent of Germans want to toast with sparkling wine on New Year's Eve, which is a lot of people, and so Henkell-Freixenet in Wiesbaden expects that for this The company is doing better in 2022 than in 2021. After the strict Corona rules were lifted, there was a great need to catch up to meet friends and celebrate.
At Rotkäppchen, on the other hand, one is satisfied with another result of the survey, according to which the Germans only name luxury foods such as sparkling wine in fifth place in the "savings potential" of private households - after holidays, gastronomic experiences, subscriptions and entertainment.
Whereby: Hopefully subscriptions don't mean subscriptions to newspapers!
There is also good news
that Christmas parties in companies have not been completely canceled this year.
Patricia Andreae asked around and found out that sometimes there was at least one visit from colleagues to the Christmas market.
And where there was enough money, a department met up in a restaurant like in the blissful golden days and had a good time.
Although:
For some Frankfurters, the company party was perhaps the only big Christmas party.
With a feeling for the right timing, the Frankfurt city administration let it be known that only one person lives in 53 percent of Frankfurt households.
The rate has been roughly constant for years, with women and men splitting up roughly half in one-person households.
Also interesting: The younger people living alone live closer to the city center, the older ones further out.
Hopefully they'll be invited quite often these days.
And
Carsten Knop also deals in an essay with the tradition of writing Christmas letters +++ Tim Bendzko is one of the stars at the Ball des Sports on January 21 in Frankfurt +++ the actors of the musical "Cats" inspire the audience in the sold-out Alte Oper with top artistic performances.
We wish you a pleasant evening and, above all, a peaceful Christmas
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.
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