city in the federal state of Thuringia, Germany
Weimar residents ask for donations for widow and three half-orphans of Ukrainian soldier
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The 2029 Finals in Thuringia? Erfurt, Weimar, and the Free State of Thuringia are exploring the possibility of jointly hosting the major multi-sport event ... Show more
Up close with filmmakers at the TeleVisionale: Whether grand emotions, dark secrets, or socio-political themes - | the new series season offers stories as ...
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Kahla porcelain must give up: Why Thuringia will not save the company: Requiem: It is slowly becoming lonely and dark in the porcelain country of Thuringia ...
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Desire for a child at 21: Why Klara from Weimar doesn't have time to wait: In her third pregnancy, everything was finally supposed to go well for Klara ...
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Renovation and restoration: Goethe's house in Weimar closes for several years
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After gas explosions in Weimar: Renewed search for missing emergency physician on site called off.
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Paid articlePaywall This is the holiday destination Erfurt-Weimar Airport is focusing on: A bird in the sky as a plane approaches Erfurt-Weimar Airport at sunset.
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Paid articlePaywall After shocking crime in Weimar: Trial begins, two perpetrators still at large: Until the evening of Easter Sunday, the police secured evidence at the crime scene ...
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Paid articlePaywall Live from the Weimar Onion Market 2026: Thousands of visitors on Saturday +++ Prices at a glance
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A heartfelt ceremony for the city's most famous daughter: Weimar Prize for Ute Freudenberg
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"Worse than in GDR times": Motorists have long complained about the A4 motorway between Weimar and Erfurt. Why the renovation won't begin before 2030.
Kim Fisher gives the laudatory speech for her friend Ute Freudenberg in the Weimarhalle
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Thrown with stones: Youths attack father and son in Weimar: Youths threw stones at a father and his son in Weimar on Thursday.
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Paid articlePaywall Onion Market Queen Johanna: How Weimar made her sleepwalk (With video): Johanna Will looks back on a multifaceted year as Onion Market Queen.
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On a police run in Weimar: Police car crashes into university library: After an Audi clipped a police car on Saturday evening, the latter crashed into the wall ...
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Paid articlePaywall Roswitha I. reigns as the new queen over Weimar's 373rd Onion Market: Roswitha Rauh, pictured here with her predecessor Johanna Will, is the queen of the ...
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Diego from Weimar didn't make it: "We can't put our pain into words.": The small dog Diego from the Tiefurt district of Weimar was searched for for a ...
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Weimar prepares for the Onion Market: Full closure begins earlier than usual: 16 mobile access barriers will be distributed around the city center.
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Police suspect deliberate explosions in Weimar: After the destruction of two buildings in Weimar, police assume the explosions were deliberately caused with gas ...
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Weimar expert Dreyer: Is a new 1933 looming after the AfD victory?: The AfD wins the election in Saxony-Anhalt: Historian Michael Dreyer sees no parallels to the ...
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Uwe Timm warns against AfD: “The dangers are underestimated, just like in Weimar”
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Key FactsUwe Timm warns of underestimated dangers in dealing with AfD
Aug 30, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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- Uwe Timm received the Goethe Prize at Frankfurt’s Paulskirche and delivered his speech there.
- Timm recalled Weimar, where a small political elite allowed the National Socialists and Hitler to reach power.
- He pointed to nearly 30 percent nationwide wanting to vote for a party such as the AfD.
- Timm urged actively defending democracy against nationalist, chauvinist and authoritarian attacks.
"Dangers are underestimated as in Weimar."— Uwe Timm, in the Goethe Prize speech at the Paulskirche, warning about the AfD and drawing parallels to Weimar.
German Red Cross competition - | Schmalkalden residents are state champions: With a convincing performance, the team from Schmalkalden won the state competition ...
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Germany, France and Poland's Weimar Triangle leaders are sending a unified message to Moscow. After last month’s Leipzig drone attack ... Show more
AfD District Administrator Sesselmann loses against Linnemann in court: AfD District Administrator Robert Sesselmann's appeal against a court decision has ...
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Key FactsWeimar court rejects Sesselmann’s appeal against Linnemann
Aug 12, 2026 · Reading time: ~30 sec.
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- The Weimar court’s ruling can no longer be challenged.
- Sesselmann challenged the Meiningen Administrative Court’s successful injunction, but the appeal failed.
- According to the court, Linnemann said at a press conference on 20 October 2025 that a 120-year-old school in the district had closed contrary to the AfD’s programmatic goals.
- The Meiningen Administrative Court had previously found that Linnemann merely referred to the closure ordered by Thüringen’s education ministry and did not claim that Sesselmann was responsible.
Full of school supplies, empty bank account: What Fridolin's first day of school costs in Thuringia
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AfD attacks Bauhaus: Weimar University warns of a “patriotic turn”: The Bauhaus University Weimar has responded to the AfD's government program in ...
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Paid articlePaywall “We have a problem everywhere”: Right-wing extremism report for Weimar and the Weimar region
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Paid articlePaywall Tenant (89) from Weimar to pay for wear and tear on apartment - | after 27 years: Normal wear and tear in an apartment must be accepted by the landlord ...
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All fascism, or what?! - | Historian Kowalczuk describes East German tendencies: Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk in early 2025 in the packed "LiteraturEtage" in Weimar ...
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Spontaneous baby joy: Identical twins bring double joy in the delivery room in Weimar
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Reichsbanner: Weimar didn't have to perish: The National Socialists lost votes, Hindenburg didn't have to appoint Hitler as Chancellor: Why Weimar ...
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1926 - | no anniversary - | “No festival in the anniversary year?”: The 50th anniversary of the Bayreuth Festival was cancelled. Instead, the ...
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Paid articlePaywallBattleship Protest: The Decisive Years of Weimar: Big industry attacks the government, bourgeois parties shift to the right: The Grand Coalition is supposed to ...
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Paid articlePaywall Breaking news: Hazardous materials incident at A4 rest area in the Weimar region.
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Katja Hoyer: Why the term "Weimar" is being used so often again today. Jan Hollitzer talks with historian and author Katja Hoyer about her new book in a new ... Show more
New ranking: Weimar in Thuringia is a good choice for short trips and nationwide: Weimar's "White House": the historic town hall on the market square with ...
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Culinary events: Great moments of enjoyment at the Hotel Elephant Weimar: The legendary hotel is expanding its culinary event program. Numerous top chefs will be ...
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Breaking news: Floods in Weimar - | Heavy rain expected to last until noon: Schwanseestraße in Weimar was completely flooded around 7 a.m. Even the sidewalk was ...
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Paid articlePaywall Half-starved in a completely filthy bed: Weimar parents must go to prison for neglecting their child
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"Unclear smoke development": Airbus with 232 people on board makes emergency landing in Erfurt
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Key FactsEmergency Landing After Smoke Detected in Airbus
Jun 29, 2026 · Reading time: ~30 sec.
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- An Airbus A321 with 225 passengers and seven crew members made an emergency landing at Erfurt-Weimar Airport due to unclear smoke.
- The flight was en route from Greece to London when the alarm prompted a safe touchdown at Erfurt.
- Passengers were evacuated and accommodated in the terminal where they received assistance.
- A replacement aircraft is scheduled for the morning while technicians investigate the smoke's origin.
Conducting at the Deutsche Oper: Conductor Anna Handler: After a bachelor's degree in Munich and Weimar, she applied to the Juilliard School. Today ...
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Weimar resident spontaneously sings with Linkin Park: "Singing was the last thing I was prepared for"
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Paid articlePaywallBauhaus University Weimar in crisis: Employees rebel against the leadership: Peter Benz (right, here at the opening of the Weimar Student Research Center) could ...
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Paid articlePaywall Serious accident in Weimar: Motorcyclist falls over hood: Serious accident in Weimar: A motorcyclist was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
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Paid articlePaywall Weimar resident delights tens of thousands with nature photos: The unusual story behind the pictures
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Thuringian court confirms priority of nature conservation in gypsum mining in the southern Harz Mountains
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Paid articlePaywall A summer evening full of theatrical magic: Gerlinde Sommer invites you to the DNT Weimar summer theater. The stage is set for culture, encounters ... Show more
Unusually spectacular: Weimar's arts festival begins on high stilts and with tuned cars - | and also in Apolda
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36th Emden-Norderney Film Festival: Fans even come from Weimar for the "London Shorts"
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Katja Hoyer on Weimar during the Nazi era and today: “A frightening pattern”: Katja Hoyer became known three years ago with her book “This Side of the Wall” ...
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“It does make me a bit uneasy”
German-British historian Katja Hoyer on why people should be cautious about drawing parallels between modern Europe and the ... Show more
Take off 71 meters above Weimar with the world's highest mobile panoramic lift
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Paid articlePaywall Attack on pension institution in Weimar: Fire department called out because of acid balloons
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Weimar band concert in Holzerode: 122 bands and cultural figures demand cancellation
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Despite political frustration: Thuringians stand more clearly in favor of democracy than ever before.
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Current parallels with Weimar – Success of the new state government will determine Germany’s stability
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"Fatal signal": Supporters of the Buchenwald Memorial show solidarity with BgR Weimar
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Near Weimar, the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp 81 years ago was commemorated. At the memorial event, keynote speaker Hape Kerkeling spoke ... Show more
"I have no understanding for that": Minister-President Voigt wants to end the lamentations of young people
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Paid articlePaywall Wittumspalais in Weimar reopens: The Wittumspalais in Weimar has been fully renovated, and a sensational painting is on display for the reopening: a large ...
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Weimar band concert in Holzerode: Protest due to neo-Nazi past in Thuringia: A planned open-air concert by the band "Weimar" in Holzerode (Göttingen district) is ...
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Buchenwald survivor celebrates 100th birthday with punk music: He loves hard sounds and isn't afraid of long-haul flights: Andrei Ivanovich Moiseenko from ...
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🚨 Skilled worker shortage in Thuringia - | but there are levers we can use: A new study shows that foreign skilled workers often avoid the East - | partly ... Show more
Brutal attack in Weimar: Head struck with a spade: A brutal attack with a spade occurred in Weimar on Thursday evening.
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After Weimar: Funding cuts for alliances against the far right are a trend: Mobit project manager Romy Arnold has a clear opinion on the cancellation of funding ...
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Buchenwald Concentration Camp: Controversies surrounding the 81st anniversary of the liberation
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Kufiyas in Buchenwald: Protest in front of memorial remains banned: Activists wanted to demonstrate in front of the Buchenwald memorial. The city of Weimar ...
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Commemoration at Buchenwald Concentration Camp: Kerkeling warns against a “culture of turning a blind eye”
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"Violent dignity of the victims": Court prohibits demonstration in front of Buchenwald memorial site
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Fundamental rights in danger: Are resolutions in Weimar and Dresden harbingers of the "culture war"?
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Dispute over Buchenwald Commemoration: Weimar Prepares for Weekend of Protests: The dispute over the "Kufiyas in Buchenwald" campaign is causing numerous ...
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Attempted kidnapping in Weimar: Man escapes from car, witnesses call the police: After a scuffle, the suspected kidnapper's car, a VW Golf ...
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Paid articlePaywall What happens after leaving the political stage? A woman from Thuringia and a man from Berlin report.
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40 years after horrific double murder: Weimar case to be reopened: Decades after the death of two sisters, the lawyer demands an acquittal. He suspects the ...
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