Breaking Barriers: Female Entrepreneurs Making Waves in Male-Dominated Industries

Breaking Barriers: Female Entrepreneurs Making Waves in Male-Dominated Industries

Jacqueline Hausotte has carved itself into a male domain. Eight years ago, the Leipzig native founded a stonemasonry business. Now she stands between gravestones and granite blocks, the company dog ​​strolls across the yard. Proportion of women in the start-up sector is 20 percent Hausotte’s stonemasonry business is now the largest in Leipzig. But the … Read more

Foreclosure Rates Remain Low in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt: Experts Not Concerned

Foreclosure Rates Remain Low in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt: Experts Not Concerned

Number the number of foreclosures is still comparatively low A foreclosure usually occurs when owners can no longer pay their loan. Last year, 1,197 applications for compulsory auctions were submitted to the district courts in Saxony, and 847 in Saxony-Anhalt. No figures are yet available from Thuringia. Compared to the previous year, the increase is … Read more

2023: Mibrag Coal Production Drops by 30% – Transition Towards Sustainability

2023: Mibrag Coal Production Drops by 30% – Transition Towards Sustainability

2023: Mibrag produces 30 percent less coal than in the previous year Zimmer climbs the drop down a metal staircase. The wind blows in his face. The conveyor belts whir constantly. But the impression of uniformity is deceptive. In 2022, during the energy crisis, Mibrag produced around 17 million tons of coal. Last year it … Read more

Funding Programs Vital for Construction Industry, Says Federal Construction Minister

Funding Programs Vital for Construction Industry, Says Federal Construction Minister

At Federal Construction Minister Klara Geywitz said on Monday that three construction funding programs are important for the severely weakening construction industry: “Every funding euro triggers orders in the tradesmen’s books and stimulates domestic demand. It is precisely these impulses that we need now.” Managing Director of the Main Association of the German Construction Industry, … Read more

Thuringia Cinemas Experience Increase in Ticket Sales for 2023, Still Below Pre-Pandemic Levels

Thuringia Cinemas Experience Increase in Ticket Sales for 2023, Still Below Pre-Pandemic Levels

In Thuringia, too, people went to the cinema more often to see “Barbie”, “Oppenheimer” and the like. Around 1.79 million cinema tickets were sold in the Free State in 2023, according to current information from the Film Funding Authority (FFA). That was 16.1 percent more than the year before. In the year before the corona … Read more

Farmers Protest Against Economics Minister Habeck’s Visit to Factory

Farmers Protest Against Economics Minister Habeck’s Visit to Factory

In Floh-Seligenthal in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district, farmers protested on Thursday against the visit of Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens). According to police, around 200 farmers and craftsmen blocked the access roads to the nougat manufacturer Viba’s factory with tractors, cars and vans. There have been protests from farmers nationwide for weeks, partly because the … Read more

Cinema Employees Union Calls for Strike: Films in Jeopardy, Popcorn Supplies Low

Cinema Employees Union Calls for Strike: Films in Jeopardy, Popcorn Supplies Low

Films could be canceled in several cinemas in the coming days and popcorn bags could remain empty. The reason? The ver.di union is calling for a strike. The service union ver.di has called on employees of the cinema companies CinemaxX and CineStar to go on strike from Thursday as part of the nationwide collective bargaining. … Read more

Thuringia’s Teacher Shortage: Over 650 Hired, But Challenges Remain

Thuringia’s Teacher Shortage: Over 650 Hired, But Challenges Remain

Erfurt (dpa/th) – 653 teachers were hired on a permanent basis in Thuringia in the first half of the 2023/24 school year. At 166, so-called lateral entrants made up a quarter of the new hires. This corresponds to the previous year’s level, the Ministry of Education said upon request. In addition, 262 educators were hired … Read more

Thuringia’s Development Bank to Expand Loan Programs with Increase in Equity Capital

Thuringia’s Development Bank to Expand Loan Programs with Increase in Equity Capital

Erfurt (dpa/th) – Thuringia’s development bank should be given more financial leeway to expand its loan programs. The state should now work to ensure that more low-interest loans are available for municipal investments, restructuring the economy and families building and purchasing their own homes, explained the parliamentary managing director of the CDU parliamentary group, Andreas … Read more

Thuringia’s Education Minister Holter discusses challenges of governing without a majority

Thuringia’s Education Minister Holter discusses challenges of governing without a majority

Erfurt (dpa/th) – Governing without a majority and a tolerating partner – this is not an ideal solution for Thuringia’s Education Minister Helmut Holter. “One can only hope for Thuringia that there will be a stable majority in 2024 that will also enable good governance,” said the left-wing politician to the German Press Agency in … Read more