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On no other day of the year do the guards of the royal-privileged sharpshooters' society show so much public presence as on the first sunday of the sharpshooters' festival. Seeing and being seen was the motto of yesterday's holiday parade to the schutzenanger, where schutzenmeister siegfried jakel welcomed the numerous societies and friendly delegations from the city area.
At the same time it was the day of the kings with the reigning guardian king jorg lesch, the ladies queen bianca hetz and the youth king andreas osterlanger. The city had dressed up in their honor. The flower decorations at the historic town hall were in full bloom, the people of burgerhausen had put on their festive decorations, and colorful flags were tautening in the wind that was driving scattered rain clouds in front of it in the sky, which, however, just in time had a chance to see the light.
Also acoustically the rough event announced itself. The hochstadt music society entertained the gathering crowd of guardians at the town hall, and when the deafening bollerschusse sounded along kronacher strabe, the never-ending procession of guardians marched through the narrow passage at the upper gate, accompanied by the tinkling play and the ringing of bells.
Seven bands, from the schwurbitz brass band to the lichtenfels marching band of the knighthood of andechs-meran, provided musical accompaniment to the fascinating spectacle.
Impressive was the number of friendly guard associations and societies that came to pay their respects to the members of the royal-privileged sharpshooter society of lichtenfels. From bamberg, bad staffelstein/ebensfeld, coburg, grub am forst, neustadt, kronach, schwurbitz, redwitz, marktzeuln, kosten, mistelfeld and schney they had traveled to be celebrated together with the royal privileges.All had dressed up powerfully. The chains of the majesties glittered in the sun, the flags were proudly carried forward, and behind them the ladies in their beautiful dirndls waved to the lichtenfels guards, while the gentlemen marched by and lifted their hats.
The colorful picture was completed by the rough clubs from the city area. The traditional costume society D'werdenfelser is an enrichment for every parade. Not to be overlooked were the various delegations of the lichtenfels gymnastics team, which received additional applause for their athletic performances. No less proudly presented themselves the athletes club, the fubball club with its successful offspring and the scouts st.

Michael busch animox is still missing. "Animox would be really cool, if this would stand in this closet someday!" leon looks in the closet, goes through book after book, but the story about people who can turn into powerful animals is not in the closet today. "He is a real "bookworm, says sebastian ort, father of the nine year old. And the two younger siblings, nico and anna, are also developing in the direction of children who love to read, with anna specifically reaching for the rainbow fish.

However, with the start of the exit restrictions due to the coronavirus, a problem arose. The books at home were already read, the bookstores closed and the reading material ran out. "It was born out of necessity, so to speak", explains the father with a view of the colorfully painted cupboard. An idea born out of necessity, but one that works, as he sums up after a good week. "I still had an old cupboard at home. We first painted it together."

The audience was enthusiastic. "The event is a real enrichment for the city", stressed armin laake, first time visitor at "hammelburg moves. The man from untererthal also swarmed for another reason: "i found it great that besides the good music here i met people i haven't seen for years."

Peter Kleinhenz, himself a jazz pianist and owner of the piano_buhne in reith and as such an organizer of rough music events, is also impressed: "the idea is great and can be developed further. Although this is not my favorite kind of music, I found the wide range of sounds very good. I almost felt at home in wandelbar",

"The weather is brilliant", david notes with relief. The sun is shining, it's not too cold, and most importantly, it's not raining like it did during the church fair parade on sunday. Because who wants to pick up his dance partner for the wash dance soaked through? David and all the other wasenzieher in any case not. For him it is already the third time that he takes his girlfriend cordula to the wash dance. This is an old tradition at the albertshofer kirchweih.

For more than 125 years, the unmarried boys from albertshof have been picking up their girls and taking them to the "wasen" to waltz and dance a polonaise together. But before the boys could pick up their dance partners, they met yesterday at the fahre. Even the former, because married, boys could not be missing: the goikerer. They all have a peacock feather on their hats and follow the boys with their tractor, which has been converted into a goiker, or rooster.

You just want to give something back quickly at the aldi checkout and run hard naked into the wrong door? They put on makeup in the morning and think that this is their face, until they realize in the evening that this is only my makeup. – if such irritations haunt you more often, then you belong to the "adaptive" ones. Their number is clearly increasing, which is no wonder, given the increasing madness at all levels in this society.
For all those who are not yet completely absorbed by the matrix, there will be a cultural event in april that may help more than hurt: radio influenza will be active again, this time with a film "impressionen anpassungsgestorter" at the utopolis cinema in coburg. And a little bit around it, of course, because one of the creators of radio influenza, ahmet ozer, says it right away: "so me… I do not keep my mouth shut."
And that’s it. Johannes titze and ahmet ozer, two friends from coburg, did not want to keep their mouths shut in the face of said madness, but they also did not want to go on stabbing people in the wounds and stirring things up and so on. One of them, titze, works in television and film and is the father of three children, the other, ozer, has a wild biography of a machine builder, core driller, cowboy, and he doesn’t even know what he has done. Both with a penchant for art, asked themselves how they could transform themselves and the world, how they could gain influence, and so called radio influenza into being around 2012. There were shows between video art and speech rounds with belly dance, in the riding hall, in the weird, in the public space.
And, yes, they want to be contagious, want more people to notice the madness. All this violence on the internet and in reality, the general exhaustion "well, I get burnout just watching TV", ahmet ozer turns head and eyes. What he also plays in the film. He comes to his friend, completely exhausted, asks for advice, gets possible solutions and these are then played in and out in cinematic scenes. "He says, "that’s more like the crazy one between the two of us, johannes tietze explains the constellation "and i am left with the task of sorting out and realizing the situation." technically this happens in the basement studio in coburg north. Everything is self-made, including the music, preferably electronically.
It is not explicitly about coburg, but very much so, there are a lot of influences, many people are involved, they will also find themselves, yes, that’s what it’s all about, participation, get involved, it won’t work without you, the more colorful, the better the event. So the two fall in their enthusiasm into the word. And this is how the film of about 60 minutes was made (or better still in the making), without script, improvising, living. "First we had the date, then the location, i.E. The cinema with the big screen and the small stage in front of it, and then we asked ourselves what we were going to do with it", reports titze. "This approach has been preserved with us, it will be good."
the duo has no budget, after all, they want to remain independent. But the fact that oskar heublein from utopolis is already running constant commercials before the films for this event, which is presented as part of the vhs cinema initiative, makes them very happy.
How the film continues beyond coburg "well, let’s show it here first, let’s see if people like it" titze remains on the ground. After all, titze and ozer see themselves as being responsible to the extent that they will be able to arrange for the film to be shown on the 18th of december. April in any case want to provide further help, at a merchandising booth, with a little music, a few drinks of course…

Cinema utopolis coburg impressions adaptation supporter. A film evening by ahmet ozer and johannes titze. 18. April, 20.15 o’clock. Tickets are available at the volkshochschule coburg and at the cinema box office.