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Ship ahoy! On a sunny day, the citizens of Marburg celebrated their Harbour Festival on the banks of the Lahn. "When we started the idea some years ago, some people smiled”, said Mayor Egon Vaupel, "But now standing here on this floating stage looking across to the newly built terraces of the Lahn, it gives me a feeling of sensation.” more
What happens when children talk about their future? And what happens when these children address demands to the adults who are shaping that future?
About one hundred young people aged twelve through fifteen met between May 13 and 16 in the University City of Marburg to discuss what they expect from their political leadership in terms of making the world a more just place. more
Action and reaction could be seen during the third day of the National Football Championship of the Visual Impaired in the Georg Gaßmann Stadium in Marburg last weekend. After the fifteenth minute, Thomas Horn, the striker of the Marburg team SSG Blista kicked the ball into the opponents’ net, with an 8-metre penalty kick. The coach helped him by knocking on the right and left goal posts, so that Horn could orient his shot. He put the ball into the bottom corner. more
On stage! After some 20 years as head of Marburg’s Hessian State Theatre, Ekkehard Dennewitz is handing over his job to Matthias Faltz, the new director of Marburg’s theatre company. Faltz will be leading this important cultural facility in a city where not only the many students enliven the cultural scene, but where the city council has appropriated approx. €4 million for culture in 2010, including funds for the Hessian State Theatre, which is also financed by the State of Hesse. more