North Rhine-Westphalia

In the 90s, Harry Wijnvoord sold refrigerators and garden furniture on television. Now he wants to give them something else: a hit that puts the wanderlust feeling in pandemic times into words.

A fire in an apartment building in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, claimed two lives. There are first findings, but the cause of the fire is not yet known.

The verdict has been pronounced, even if it is not yet final: a driver who negligently killed two men must go to prison.

Praise is used sparingly: Your own family members can be very harsh critics, which TV presenter Florian Silbereisen often has to experience.

The Düsseldorf district court found that the actor and doctor had no intent to defraud. But now Joe Bausch has to pay for his official apartment.

Horst Lichter has had a career that includes both a lignite factory and a television show about junk. Now someone has even set out to play him in a movie.

A defeat made the boxer Axel Schulz great and unforgotten: in 1995 he was defeated by George Foreman on points, which was very controversial. In the show "The Masked Dancer" Schulz flew out of the competition with a somewhat clearer verdict.

There have been harrowing cases of child abuse over the years. Bergisch Gladbach, a city near Cologne, has inadvertently become a cipher.