Following the “Enough is enough!” demonstration on 15 June, nursing staff from Leipzig’s hospitals and trade union representatives from ver.di met with Holger Mann (SPD), the Member of the Bundestag for Leipzig, on 18 June. The trade union’s invitation stated: “We would like to discuss our demands in an open dialogue with Leipzig MPs Holger […]
The Leipzig-based start-up R3LEAF (pronounced ‘releaf’ in English) is based in the old cotton mill and focuses on construction in the face of the climate crisis. On 11 June 2026, start-up founder Tore Waldhausen and R3LEAF were nominated at the REAL Future Conference in Hanover for the final of the Prop Tech Germany Award in […]
It often starts gradually. Children move to another city, friends become fewer, a partner passes away, or mobility declines. What remains are often long days with little social contact. For many older people, loneliness has now become part of everyday life. That’s how an email began that reached us after the MACHN Festival. The Leipzig-based […]
The ver.di trade union, Die Linke and the “Leipzig Stands Together” alliance had called for a rally on 15 June at Leipzig’s Naschmarkt, followed by a march to the Volkshaus. By 5.30 pm, the rally venue had already proved too small; participants were packed shoulder to shoulder, though this did nothing to dampen the mood. […]
It has been over a week since Germany also took note of the fact that “Spain wants to legalize the residence of around 500.000 migrants.” Meanwhile, in the US, ICE agents are hunting down citizens who look like migrants and shooting people who document this hunt. In Germany, meanwhile, one party has included the goal […]
Jens Spahn, parliamentary leader of the CDU/CSU in the German Bundestag and a self-declared admirer of Donald Trump, said in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung: “Is it really wise, as Europeans, given the dependency we have on America, to conduct this debate in this way right now? And the answer is no.” That remark […]
Is it actually difficult to classify the US attack on Venezuela? At least Chancellor Friedrich Merz claims this. The current discussion in Germany is, to put it mildly, very strange, ranging from “Finally, dictator Maduro is gone!” to “The US attack on Venezuela, which violates international law, must have consequences!” But does anyone, both in […]
On October 28, Leipzig University unveiled its new, brain-inspired supercomputer to the local press. Before being allowed into the university’s “hallowed halls” to see SpiNNaker2 in action, Prof. Dr. Jens-Karl Eilers (Vice-Rector for Research at Leipzig University), Dieter Lehmann (Director of the University Computing Center), Prof. Dr. Jens Meiler (Director of the Institute for Drug […]
Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar: Zum deutschen Artikel. In the first part of our conversation with Professor Riedel-Heller, we discussed what loneliness is and how it manifests across age groups. We now turn to health and prevention. When we speak about loneliness, it is, on the one hand, a feeling — an impairment […]
Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar: Zum deutschen Artikel. The topic of loneliness has increasingly drawn public attention, not just since the COVID‑19 pandemic. In the past, loneliness was often self‑chosen, for instance by hermits, but today it has become a heavily mediated term. Many people discuss it; initiatives such as the Martinsschmaus Foundation […]
Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar: Zum deutschen Artikel. Rafael Laguna, Director of the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND), made a striking comment in an interview during the annual courtyard festival on September 11, 2025. He said verbatim: “My parents were translators, just like yours. They’re gone. The job is gone; it […]
Even though I refer to voices from the (dis)United States of America in the following piece, Germany has not yet reached that point. However, there are initial signs that representatives of the German “liberal democratic basic order” (FDGO) and defenders of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (GG) are being called upon […]
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