Past news

Anne Voigt has been head of the Frankfurt (Oder) Music School since June 2025. Born in Hamburg, she is a trained saxophonist, music teacher and long-standing head of department with more than 30 years of experience in teaching, ensemble work and artistic practice.

In an open letter, the Pro Wirtschaft alliance addresses an appeal against the excessive regulation of housing construction, which is massively hindering urgently needed investment and the creation of affordable housing. The alliance members are in favor of practical reforms in housing construction and are calling for rapid relief for investors, municipalities and the economy in the region.

New generation at the helm of the BSOF: Felix Mildenberger is to become the new Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Brandenburg's only A-list orchestra. He succeeds Jörg-Peter Weigle,whose contract ends with the 2024/25 season.

A great success for the MOVE team from the Oder-Spree district: the tour for mobility education and participation of young people has been nominated for the nationwide "Good Citizen Participation 2025" award.

Minister Keller accepted an invitation from the Oderland-Spree Municipal Working Group (KAG) on June 27 to find out about current projects in the area of economic development and business park development. The work of the KAG was presented by the chairman of the working committee, Mr. Rainer Schinkel.

The city of Frankfurt (Oder) and the municipality of Słubice are partners in the Interreg VI A project "Mobile Twin City", which will run from 1 May 2024 to 31 October 2026. Since the beginning of the year, the digital bilingual newsletter "Mobile Double City" has been published by the Frankfurt-Słubice Cooperation Center and sent by e-mail.

In the 50th volume of the Viadrina publication series "Mediation and Conflict Management", Claudia Schymik analyzes the challenges a works council faces when internal conflicts threaten to block the committee.

Under the motto "Strategically aligning foreign trade - strengthening Brandenburg's positioning on the world markets", the state of Brandenburg, together with the state working group of the Chambers of Industry and Commerce (IHKs), today launched a comprehensive dialog process to revise the 2018 foreign trade concept.

East Brandenburg companies were recognized for their commitment to practical career and study orientation on site and schools were certified with the "School with outstanding career orientation" seal.

A total of 91 companies applied for the Brandenburg Future Prize this year. Six of them were nominated by the main jury for the final on November 21 at the Holiday Inn Berlin Airport Conference Center in Schönefeld. From our region, this is Metall- und Balkonbau Hansmann GmbH from Jacobsdorf.