Munich

Munich – November 09, 2026 -- People with cancer and their relatives in Germany can call a free, confidential expert hotline on 0800 2030040, Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The service, called "Halt bei Krebs," is run by GSK and staffed by medical professionals.

Medical staff explain diagnoses, therapies and side effects

The hotline is aimed in particular at people with multiple myeloma, myelofibrosis, ovarian cancer or uterine cancer, and at their families. Staff explain the disease, its treatment, symptoms and side effects, and help callers relate that information to their own situation.

The aim is to help patients understand their illness, prepare for doctor appointments and make informed decisions together with their treatment team. On request, the team also points callers to self-help groups and associations. Email support and the service's website supplement the hotline.

Munich – November 06, 2026 -- Animal rights group Animal Equality staged a protest at the Mytheresa shareholder meeting in Aschheim near Munich, targeting board chair Nora Aufreiter over caged-hen egg supply at US grocer Kroger.

Aufreiter chairs the supervisory board of LuxExperience, the parent company of Munich luxury fashion retailer Mytheresa. She also sits on the board of Kroger, the second-largest grocery retailer in the United States. Activists used a large screen mounted on a moving truck, placards and chanting to show conditions for caged hens and to link the fashion company to them.

Rüsselsheim – November 05, 2026 -- Football fans chasing tickets to the 2026 NFL Munich Game on November 15 can win some of the last ones in a city-wide scavenger hunt run by Jeep, the NFL's automotive partner in Germany.

Football Bromance sends fans across Munich

Jeep's new brand ambassadors, "Football Bromance", lead the "Ticket Hunt". Clues and tasks guide fans to different stations around the city, where they can win a few of the remaining tickets before kick-off.

Ten branded Jeeps shuttle guests around the city

Ten specially branded Jeep vehicles will run as shuttles in Munich over the football weekend. The U-Bahn exit leading to the arena will also be fully branded in Jeep style to greet arriving fans.

Stuttgart – November 04, 2026 -- Electric bassist Wolfgang Schmid will receive the 2027 German Jazz Trophy, a lifetime achievement award worth €15,000, at a ceremony on June 30, 2027, at 19:00 in the SpardaWelt Eventcenter in Stuttgart.

The ceremony opens the Jazz Open Stuttgart 2027. Winners also receive a statue by Stuttgart sculptor Otto Hajek. The prize is presented by the Sparda-Bank Baden-Württemberg's Foundation for Art and Culture, the magazine neue musikzeitung and JazzZeitung.de.

The jury credits Schmid with establishing the electric bass in jazz

Martin Buch, a jury member and CEO of Sparda-Bank Baden-Württemberg, said Schmid established the electric bass over decades as a distinctive, virtuosic and stylistically boundless jazz instrument. As a musician, composer, producer and teacher, Schmid inspired generations of players and made German jazz visible far beyond the country's borders, Buch said.

Munich – November 04, 2026 -- E.ON Energie Deutschland has launched "TreueStrom", an electricity tariff that pays customers 240 euros in bonuses over their first 24 months of supply.

Three 80-euro payments go straight to your bank account

The bonus is split into three payments of 80 euros each. They are paid at the start of supply, after 12 months and after 24 months. E.ON does not offset them against bills. It pays them directly into the customer's checking account.

The tariff also includes a 24-month price guarantee.

E.ON sends a follow-up offer automatically before month 24

Before the 24 months of supply end, E.ON automatically sends customers a follow-up offer. Customers do not need to switch providers themselves. Martin Endress, managing director for customer business at E.ON Energie Deutschland, said the aim is to give customers financial benefits and planning certainty without unnecessary switching effort.

Munich – November 04, 2026 -- The Austrian comedy "Aufputzt is' – Ein Weihnachtsdebakel" streams in the ARD Mediathek from December 15, 2026, and makes its German TV debut on December 25, 2026, at 10 p.m. on BR Fernsehen.

A Viennese site manager sinks into holiday chaos

Andi (Gery Seidl), a construction site manager in Vienna, is racing to finish a major contract just before Christmas. At the same time, he wants to give his wife Steffi (Marlene Morreis), her young daughter and the demanding mother-in-law a perfect holiday. Between picking up the Christmas tree and hunting for the doors ordered for the site, he is soon overwhelmed.

Munich – November 04, 2026 -- German drivers will be able to leave their card licence at home from the end of November, when the digital driving licence is due to launch. After the digital vehicle registration document, the driving licence is the next document to move onto the smartphone. ADAC legal experts have explained how it works and what motorists need to know.

Setup requires your ID card's online function and PIN

Users must first prove their identity online. This requires the online ID function of the German identity card and its PIN. The licence is then stored digitally through the Federal Motor Transport Authority's free i-Kfz app.

The digital licence is valid only inside Germany

At launch, the digital version is accepted only in Germany. Anyone driving abroad must still carry the card licence.

Munich – November 03, 2026 -- LOBERON's pop-up stores in Munich and Hamburg are open until the end of January 2027, and both launched with grand opening events featuring designer Guido Maria Kretschmer and his joint home collection with the brand.

Munich store covers 477 square meters at Viktualienmarkt

The Munich pop-up at Viktualienmarkt 6 opened on October 1, 2026, and runs until January 30, 2027. Under the motto "The Home of Joy & Light," it combines room concepts, personal advice and a shopping experience across 477 m2. A large ribbon greets visitors at the entrance.

Munich – November 03, 2026 -- German travelers planning for 2027 want to book by mood, drop the extras they won't use and, in some cases, hand their inbox to an AI agent while they are away, according to Booking.com's latest forecast.

It is the eleventh edition of the annual forecast. It draws on a survey of German travelers and on insights from the industry. For its 30th anniversary, the company also added input from its own travel and technology experts, who identified nine trends.

76% of German travelers would pick a destination by feeling first

Three-quarters of respondents would choose a trip mainly by how they want to feel, not where they want to go. Some 55% would use a search tool that suggests destinations based on their mood. Gen Z leads here: 70% of German Gen Z travelers would share wearable and smartphone data with a travel provider to personalize a trip, compared with 30% of baby boomers.

Munich – November 03, 2026 -- Germans are the most likely in Europe to say that "cute" no longer just means "cute-looking." A new Sanrio-commissioned study finds that 50.8% of German respondents see the word's meaning shifting, the highest share of any of the five countries surveyed.

Half of Germans say "cute" has changed in a decade

In the "Hello Kitty: Beyond Cute" study, 51% of German adults say the term means something different than it did ten years ago. Among Gen Z the share is nearly two-thirds. Those who see a change link cuteness mainly with positive feelings (30%) and with kindness and care (22%). Appearance alone matters less than it once did.

Germany also posts the highest share of people who feel more connected to others after a cute moment, at 44.1%. Another 44.5% tie cuteness to community and mutual kindness.