Or.. how Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune in the Breidenbacherstrasse in Mainz reached a global audience of over 50 million viewers.Via Chinese Global Television Network Six degrees of separation is the idea…
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is an excellent national Sunday newspaper. It’s just that they don’t know sh*t from clay when it comes to forecasting the Bundesliga. Just look at last…
Why do I always have problems with the Allgemeine Zeitung, our local rag? A couple of years back, they lifted an image from this post and used it in their…
Bugger Bastille Day. (Even if Mayence is still a bit French) Even the normally-so-staid-not-to-mention-boring Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung let yesterday’s HISTORIC and WELL-DESERVED win in the World Cup final go to…
Special pseudo-edition of the Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung journalisted by VK and JW from across the way on the occasion of Lena’s girlfriend Jenny’s and one-time admirer Phillip’s wedding yesterday. Heaps…
It’s not as if you can really overlook tramlines. And it’s not as if they just pop around the corner without any warning. Now idea how it happened, but a…
“It’s absolutely NONE of your business how often we……! Well I never! I can’t believe you asked me that question, young man!” Husband: (sotto voce): “Ei, mer gehe uff’m Meenzer…
I met Andrew van (“with a small “v”) Leeuwen – surrounded by a bevy of lovelies , one of whom turned out be his sweet wife Anne – on the…
“Mayence” (which is what the Froggies ..er.. French call the place ) is a new magazine featuring young funky entrepreneurs. No big surprise, then, that Paul and KaffeeKommune zwei are…
I’ve been involved professionally in virtual teams (tends to come with the territory when you work for a multinational corporate group…), but none have been as enjoyable as the one…
A very young looking 50….. Anton, Berti, Conni are cartoon characters created by ZDF, one of the 2 national TV channels supported by TV license fees. They date back to…
Sophie Preußer… – is doing 2 degrees (BA in Cultural Ethnology – almost finished, BA in Journalism – just started) – working for ZDF, one of the 2 national taxpayer-funded…
Norbert Trock has packed up his tent and moved on to the next oasis. Wherever that may be. So what do I do now…?
Reminds me of the intro to the long-running German TV crime series “Tatort” (“Crime Scene”). Moves were made to replace it with something more modern (after a mere 38 years…).…
Television crew from ZDF’s “Ultimate Weekly News” (which tells you what sort of program it is…) lurks on the market, trying to entrap people into saying something that they’ll carefully…
…wenn ihr Mainzer seid” (“On your feet/Get up if you’re a Mainzer” – classic Mainz 05 fan chorus ) The Allgemeine Zeitung ran an article on Mainz Daily Photo the…
Translation as (pdf) here ….in the summer (if you can call it that…) of the Year MMXI that the renowned bird scribess Cibus Mercator of the Moguntiae Genera Papyrus did…
They’re going to make a big star out of me…..” ©Johnny Russell/Voni Morrison Bird from the local paper turned up yesterday, asking me ALL sorts of questions and threatening to…
There are few enough remnants of Mainz’s mediaeval city wall without their being imprisoned. Up until 10 years ago, this was a petrol station on the Rheinstrasse. BP closed it…
