Unemployment rises by 969 people as usual for the season – unemployment rate at 6.5 percent: In January, a total of 14,558 people were registered as unemployed in the city of Frankfurt (Oder), the district of Märkisch-Oderland and the district of Oder-Spree.

On June 9, 2024, the European and local elections will take place in Frankfurt (Oder). In addition to the European Parliament and the city council, the local councils of the nine districts will also be elected. To ensure that the elections are conducted properly, the election office of the city of Frankfurt (Oder) is looking for electoral assistants who would like to volunteer in one of the 55 electoral boards at a local polling station or in one of the 12 postal voting boards.

The mat is their stage: in the new production by the Bürgerbühne at the Kleist Forum, five young high-performance wrestlers explore their own extreme sports biographies. "Sekundenglück" is a performance between competition, dance theater, lecture and video installation and celebrates its premiere on February 14 at the Studiobühne. Director Hannes Langer and his team are working closely with the Frankfurt Sports School and the Hansa 90 wrestling club on the project.

At the beginning of the year, the cooperation center would like to present its current projects and talk to the actors of international cooperation about their annual priorities as well as possible cooperation on events with a characteristic reference to partner cities. The team therefore invites you to an exchange at the Frankfurt-Słubice Cooperation Center (Bolfrashaus) on Tuesday, 13 February 2024.

On Tuesday, February 6, 2024, from 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m., the scenic reading with sounds of "Von einem der auszogog, das Fürchten zu lernen" will take place in the Kurfürstensaal of the Viadrina Museum. The event is aimed at children aged six to ten. The fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm will be brought to life with sounds and noises during the reading. The children can also get active on site and produce some sounds themselves.

In the open consultation hour "You have questions - we have answers", the employment agency and job center are offering advice at the "MehrGenerationenHaus" (MGH) Mikado on Tuesday, 6 February 2024. Experts from the employment agency and the job center will be on hand to support you with re-entry as well as reorientation, show you what the employment agency and job center have to offer or help you find out for yourself which direction you should take in the future.

The Distel cabaret theater presents a fast-paced journey through the issues of our time and their distortions at Frankfurt's Kleist Forum on February 4. In "Wer hat an der Welt gedreht", the satirists from the capital show with bitter humor that the nation has been dancing on a volcano for a long time.

Applications for four places on the Municipal Development Advisory Board are open until 15 February | The Municipal Development Advisory Board (KomEB) Frankfurt (Oder), which is to be founded in the first quarter of 2024, is working on the topic of "Inner city transformation in the twin city: Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice are shaping the future in Frankfurt (Oder)" to ensure the further sustainable development of the city center. The process for citizens to join the Frankfurt KomEB began on Thursday, January 25, 2024.

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the pro-European protests on the Kyiv Majdan, the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) is showing works of art from the "Revolution of Dignity". From Thursday, February 1, the exhibition "Contested Decision for Europe" can be seen in front of the library in the Viadrina main building. Viadrina graduate and literary scholar Iryna Kovalenko will lead a tour of the exhibition on February 1. Another guided tour will be offered on February 20.

As part of the exhibition "Frankfurter Gesichter in der Artothek", a discussion with artists will take place on Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at 5 p.m. in Galerie B, Lindenstraße 4: Using different techniques, intentions and modes of expression, the predominantly regional artists depicted portraits and people during the GDR era.