An atmosphere like at a fair reigned last weekend on around the first Police Classic Cars Museum in Marburg. At a summer festival, the Marburg Police Motorsports Club 1990 was celebrating its 20th anniversary.
The development of the club since its founding was a real success story, according to Mayor Egon Vaupel. In 1990, a core group of eight policemen started the association.
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"This is a close match!" German decathlon team manager Claus Marek told journalists last Saturday. The next day, his team in fact had victory in the bag. With a total score of 38,268, the German track and field team was just 13 points ahead of their American rivals. However, American Joe Detmer scored the best individual result - he was the only athlete to crack the magic 8000-point limit in Marburg. weiter

"Why is literary criticism in Germany so important?" That was the question put by Marcel Reich-Ranicki to his audience on July 5 at the end of the panel discussion in a fully occupied auditorium in Marburg. And then he answered it himself: "Because it was banned in Germany." Reich-Ranicki has written numerous literary reviews in Germany for over 50 years, in a concentrated and precise manner, and has thus significantly shaped the country’s literary life. weiter

Permanent values! Marburg’s sustainable management of its assets has been shown by this presentation to the press of the city’s Opening Balance Sheet. On the occasion of the establishment of a new bookkeeping system for the city called "Doppik” (for double-entry book-keeping of accounts), Egon Vaupel, Marburg’s Mayor and Treasurer, explained the results to journalists. weiter