Maria "marianne rumpel from obernbreit celebrated her 90th birthday on monday. Birthday. She received her guests, among them mayor bernhard bruckner, but only one day later, on new year’s eve, as she had to leave on the actual "jubilee day" was on the way. In the allgau, as she reported, because travel is one of her passions, not as far as it once was, where it went to america, but on the road she still likes to be.

She was born on 30. December 1929 in obernbreit as maria anna stolz, from her two first names comes the nickname marianne by which she is known in the town. After seven years of elementary school and the compulsory year in obernbreit, she began an apprenticeship as a saleswoman in the food and delicatessen store deuerling.

In 1952, she married the butcher jakob rumpel, with whom she moved to frankfurt at the beginning of the 1950s and in 1958 to her own terraced house near offenbach. In 1983 her husband died and after she had never let her connections to obernbreit wear off, she moved back to her hometown, where she built her own house in 1970.

She has been a pensioner since 1990. A rustic pensioner, who until two years ago was still traveling in her own car. Today she does her shopping by bike and she is not too far from marktbreit how much she is rooted in the village was shown on new year’s eve by the obernbreit symbolic figures, the "hucklkatz, they surprised with a stand in their own house. Because marianne rumpel is also active here, as "aushilfshucklkatz", in case one of the ladies should drop out.

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That spain is no longer classified as a high-risk area in germany is seen by the german travel association (DRV) as "good news, especially for families with children under 12".

Especially this young target group could not be vaccinated and therefore had no chance to avoid the quarantine, the DRV said on request. "The lifting of the classification is a clear facilitation for the travel of families ? Not only for the summer vacations, which end in mid september at the latest, but also for the upcoming autumn holidays."

Germany’s largest travel group tui expects demand for bookings to pick up after the decision, especially from families. "This now gives another push for families in particular, who no longer have to put their children in quarantines," tui spokesman aage dunhaupt said on friday. This would also provide more planning security for the autumn vacations, for example for popular travel destinations such as majorca.

The DRV also reiterated on friday its call for a move away from a purely incidence-based approach to the classification of travelers. "Instead, the actual risk situation for travelers and the burden on the health system in the respective destination area must be given greater consideration."

Due to falling corona infection figures, the federal government on sunday removed the whole of spain, including the popular vacation island of mallorca, from the list of high-risk areas. This means that all quarantine regulations for holidaymakers returning from spain no longer apply. The coarse area of lisbon is also no longer a high-risk area as of sunday. But the only region in portugal that remains on the list is the popular algarve vacation region.

Countries and regions with a particularly high risk of infection are classified as high-risk areas. Unlike in the past, however, it is not only the number of infections that is decisive. Other criteria include the speed at which the virus is spreading, the burden on the health system, and the lack of data on the corona situation.

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It will be a somewhat different travelogue: andre schumacher comes on sunday, 26. January, at 5pm with the multivision "wild europe, 3517 kilometers with child and cone" to the old synagogue in kitzingen.

Question: where does your restlessness come from??

Andre schumacher: maybe it’s because I’m an east german. When the wall came down, I was 15 years old. My best friend from school and I wanted to get out and explore the world right away. The next summer we set off and cycled through scandinavia for six weeks. Just into the blue. That was a trip that shaped our lives – we got a taste of the wide world.

Where and when did you discover your passion for travel??

Schumacher: right there: in norway. For me until today one of the most beautiful countries in the world. In the following years we cycled through the country twelve times. During this time we had the idea to cycle from patagonia to alaska. That was in 2003, when I was 28. We traveled for two and a half years. After that the idea came up to make books or slideshows out of the travel adventures. That has then taken on a life of its own. After that we went to antarctica and also around the world in 80 days.

The most beautiful place in the world?

Schumacher: patagonia is the longing destination par excellence, followed by norway and the canary islands, which have become my second home.

How many days a year are you on the road??

Schumacher: on tour i am from january to april, earlier it was even more. In the meantime i have a rough farm in mecklenburg and am a family man, so it has become a bit quieter. I now also organize trips and take people to very special places, one month in spring and one month in autumn. The rough trips for me have become rarer, most recently I cycled with my family for half a year to spain through six european countries.

How many travel passports have you worn out??

Schumacher: i think three. On my journey through the world in 80 days I used up one passport alone.

Why you could never be an employee?

Schumacher: actually i am an architect. But I chose a breadless life as a lecturer. I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

Are there still countries you haven’t been to??

Schumacher: in total, there were not that many. Just because I travel slowly. Sometimes even bicycle travel is too fast for me, then I go to fub. The last bike trip with our child had an average speed of 1.26 kilometers. It’s on the slow journeys that all the wonders happen. Then you can throw away the travel guides and all the things happen that travel stands for.

How do you finance such a life?

Schumacher: that carries each other. The lectures throw off the money for the next trips. Besides, as I said, I also organize trips, away from the mainstream.

How did the wild europe project come about??

Schumacher: we thought for a long time about how we could move with a small child – that led us to the cargo bike. We put the little one in there. The idea was to combine our new home on the baltic sea with spain, my wife’s homeland. Then we rode without planning on the least possible detours. Maybe it was the best trip ever. Our child was one and a half years old and by the end of the trip he spoke six languages fractionally.

What exactly can the people of kitzingen look forward to??

Schumacher: if other organizers and the press are to be believed: a cool, original, funny and aesthetically pleasing travel show. My presentations are different from other presentations. I would say that you have never seen anything like it.

Where are you right now?

Schumacher: i am packing my tour bus for my tour that will take me through 30 cities by the end of march.

The next project …

Schumacher: … Probably before my haustur: probably I will travel mecklenburg and show the country as no one has seen it yet.

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FDP and grune have called on chancellor angela merkel to take a clear stance on the unrest in hong kong during her visit to china.

The grunen-politician jurgen trittin declared on thursday: "as a major european trading partner, germany must … Also throwing his weight around on political issues."The chancellor must make it "unmistakably clear that, with regard to hong kong, compliance with the principle of ‘one country, two systems’" for germany and all of europe is non-negotiable". FDP politician alexander graf lambsdorff told dpa that merkel must "press hard" for compliance with the treaty’s civic rights for hong kong.

The chancellor is expected to hold talks with chinese premier li keqiang in beijing this friday and with state president xi jinping in the evening. Overshadowing this 13. Visit is overshadowed by the trade dispute between china and the U.S., the unrest in hong kong and the conflict with the uyghurs.

In the trade dispute with the u.S., some hope recently sprouted after chinese state media reported that new direct talks between the two parties to the dispute are to take place in early october as part of the two countries’ regular strategic economic and trade dialogue in washington. According to the report, "significant progress" is to be prepared at the working level as early as mid september.

A meeting of the chancellor with leaders of the protests in hong kong is not planned, according to government spokesman steffen seibert. Shortly before the start of the trip, they had asked merkel for a meeting. He could not provide any news about the chancellor’s travel plans, seibert said.

For months, protests have been taking place in hong kong, often ending in clashes between a small number of demonstrators and the police. The protest movement fears increasing influence of the chinese government on hong kong and a curtailment of their freedom rights.

For its part, even before the visit, the federal government again appealed to the parties to the hong kong protests to resolve the conflict through dialogue and without violence, on the basis of the laws and freedoms that apply to hong kong and to the relationship between china and the special administrative region.

The federal government’s human rights commissioner, barbel

kofler (SPD), criticized in the editorial network germany: "in terms of civil and political rights, the situation in china has deteriorated significantly in recent years."Freedom of expression is being increasingly curtailed. She is also "very concerned" about the treatment of minorities such as the tibetan minority or the uyghurs and other muslims. In xinjiang, the home of the uyghurs, hundreds of thousands of people are imprisoned in re-education camps.

In some regions, the so-called social credit system is being used

tested, kofler continued. The behavior of all burgers observed in the course of a comprehensive monitoring will be evaluated. Points will be awarded for desired behavior, points will be deducted for undesired behavior, for example for running a red light – but also for actions critical of the government.

Merkel is accompanied on her three-day trip by a large business delegation. She will visit companies in peking and on her second stop wuhan on saturday. In wuhan, she wants to talk to students at the local huazhong university. Merkel was last in may last year in china.

Lambsdorff said that should china take violent measures against the peaceful demonstrators in hong kong, as it did in 1989 in tiananmen square, germany must condemn this together with its european partners. Sanctions must not be ruled out. In a strategy paper, the FDP parliamentary group demands a strategy of "sovereign dialogue at eye level" from europe in its dealings with the economically and militarily emerging people’s republic of china.

Trittin warned that it must also be made clear from the german side that entry bans against german deputies, as recently happened in the context of the planned trip of the bundestag’s "digital agenda" committee, are not acceptable.

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Several other road users had to avoid the driver who caused the accident in order to avoid being involved in the accident themselves. The damage to property amounted to an estimated 50,000 euros. The two people involved in the accident were only slightly injured and were taken to the lichtenfels hospital by the emergency medical services. The B 289 had to be completely closed for a time between grobheirath and the junction to the A 73 for the accident investigation.

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Elmar wendenburg delicately reaches for the hand of his wife dorothea. They look deep into each other’s eyes. The two of them don’t have to say much on the bench in their garden at home: after 70 years of marriage, they know about each other: "above all, there is love!", says the 93-year-old senior with a mischievous laugh and receives a nod of approval from his 94-year-old wife. "Love has kept us together for 70 years, through all the highs and lows," adds elmar wendenburg, adds elmar wendenburg.

On wednesday, the mentally active couple will celebrate the rare occasion of their gracious wedding anniversary in their house on the stephansberg – together with their daughters sylvia and isolde, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. One or two guests of honor will drop by. Andreas stark, the head burgermeister, has also confirmed his attendance. It was important for the couple to celebrate the day of the catholic-church wedding: on 29. July 1950 they were married in the knight’s chapel at habfurt. They had gone to the registry office a day earlier.

Dancing close to each other

Elmar wendenburg, a native of habfurt, and the refugee girl dorothea nafe from wroclaw met on club bales. Dancing and chatting brought them closer together. The common future was sealed and also received the necessary rustzeug by the former breslau company of the parents-in-law of elmar wendenburg in habfurt again founded. "Iron merchant" this is simply the name of his profession, in which he moved the business to bamberg in 1953 and, in his own words, made it one of the leading specialist shops in northern bavaria.

The company has long been sold for lack of a successor. But the wendenburgs were never bored without gainful employment: "we gave a lot of parties", dorothea wendenburg remembers the guests in her house with pleasure. Her voluntary work for people in old people’s homes in bamberg also kept her fit until she herself was very old. For decades, the couple had subscriptions to the bamberger symphoniker and the E.T.A.-hoffmann theater. As passionate and talented music lovers they have sung in the tenor and alto voices in the oratorio choir. "I was even an honorary member", tells elmar wendenburg. And: "we have seen the whole world!", he sums up the common desire to travel.

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Old age is now taking its physical toll on both of them. Two "good spirits take care of the household and the cooking, something dorothea wendenburg used to do alone with bravura. The two daughters, who live in bamberg, also take care of the elderly parents and make them happy, for example, with regular sunday outings to the surrounding area and visits to restaurants. In their quieter everyday lives, the wendenburgs continue to read a lot, books such as classics of world literature and, of course, the french day: "what happens locally is of interest to us!", they say as if from one mouth.

You know that it is a grace and a gift to be able to spend a long life together in love. What have they experienced and certainly suffered in those 70 years?! But we refrain from the obligatory question about the recipe for a happy marriage, instead we listen with amazement as elmar and dorothea wendenburg celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary. Wedding day in your sights …

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