At the German hunting horn championship at Kranichstein castle, some 40 kms (24 mls) south of Frankfurt, June. Some 110 hunting horn groups and 1700 musicians from all over Germany are taking part in this two-day event.
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Horn blowing contest
At the German hunting horn championship at Kranichstein castle, some 40 kms (24 mls) south of Frankfurt, June. Some 110 hunting horn groups and 1700 musicians from all over Germany are taking part in this two-day event. -
The traditional Bakery
Richard Kling in his bakehouse at Frankfurt’s Sachsenhausen district where I visited him last night. Kling usually works at least six days a week from midnight until 7.00 am. Traditional bakeries like this one are a dying trade – in 1975 some 300 independent bakeries were registered in Frankfurt. Today, only 18 are left. -
Lynx
A lynx at the Hanau Wildpark, taken June 9. The orginal population of the Eurasian Lynx in Germany was already exterminated in 1850. After being reintroduced in the 1990s the lynx nowadays can be found (or could be – it is mainly a nocturnal hunter and very reclusive) in mountainous areas and national parks. -
World Bank President
Jim Yong Kim, the President of the World Bank, takes a question by Claudia Buch, left, Vice-President of Bundesbank, the German cantral bank, during a Q&A session following his lecture on the role of developping countries and poverty in world economy at Frankfurt’s Johann Wolfgang Goethe university, June 9. Kim also stated that the world is more or less unprepared for a new pandemic that he said was very likely to happen at some point in the future. -
At a Soccer Match
Police in riot gear, armed with a video camera, march towards hooligans who climbed over the fence and entered the pitch shorty before the end of a German 3rd soccer league relegation match Kickers Offenbach vs 1. FC Magdeburg, May 31. Offenbach, Frankfurt’s eastern neighbor city, lost 1-3.
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