The Frankfurt "Theater des Lachens" was awarded the 2023 Children's and Young People's Theater Prize by the INTHEGA Board for trend-setting children's and young people's theater in the area. The award ceremony took place last week during the INTHEGA congress in Bielefeld. The "Theater des Lachens" presents a diverse range of theater to the city and region.

With effect from June 1, 2023, the position of Head of Economic Development in the Municipality of Frankfurt (Oder) has been reoccupied with Sebastian Jungnickel. Claus Junghanns, Mayor and Councillor for Order and Safety, Economy and Central Services: "I am very pleased that the city of Frankfurt (Oder) could win a competent and strong leadership head of economic development with Sebastian Jungnickel. ..."

Starting July 30, the open-air summer festival "Classics without Borders" will lure musical delights to the most beautiful parks in the twin city of Frankfurt (Oder)-Słubice. Over six weekends, guests can expect a crossover program of chamber music, contemporary interpretations and original arrangements, performed by international ensembles, with free admission. Also on the program is a children's opera that invites you on a journey through the world of classical music.

The Oekumenische Europa-Centrum Frankfurt (Oder) e.V. in cooperation with the European University Viadrina has brought the monumental sculpture SORRY by Polish artist Joanna Rajkowska to Frankfurt (Oder). For the first time, the work, which was named one of the ten most important art events in Poland last year, can be seen internationally.

The current exchange deadline affects holders of driver's licenses born between 1965 and 1970 who are still in possession of a paper document. These must be exchanged by January 19, 2024.

For this year's HanseStadtFest, which will take place in Frankfurt (Oder) from July 7 to 9, 2023, sustainable mobility is also a focus of the planning, in addition to the colorful program. For example, a comprehensive traffic concept has been developed that largely dispenses with private transport and instead relies on environmentally friendly means of transport. For a lively city center, areas of Karl-Marx-Strasse will also be integrated into the event area as a pedestrian zone.

As part of the festive opening program for the HanseStadtFest "Bunter Hering" the city marketing Frankfurt (Oder) organizes on Wednesday, July 5, an attunement of the special kind: For the first time in the history of the city is invited to a common yoga experience in a church. The yoga hour in the St. Mary's Church will be led by a trained yoga teacher, who will design a contemplative and at the same time vitalizing yoga unit.

For the second time, Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice are jointly organizing the Cultural Summer in the twin city. Rich in events in various formats, such as concerts, family festivals, performances, open-air cinema, the twin city offers cultural entertainment every weekend from June 30 to September 2 in familiar and newly discoverable places of the Oder cities.

The employment agency Frankfurt (Oder) offers on Tuesday, 27 June 2023 a telephone consultation around the topic "part-time employment" for interested parties from the districts LOS, MOL and the city of FFO.

IdeaExpo, Europe's largest youth event for technology and science, is inviting students to take part in the big school quiz at Frankfurt's Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Gymnasium on Friday, June 30, 2023 from 8:30 to 10:15 a.m. In total, more than 600 students from four schools in four cities will answer questions on STEM, climate protection and economics in four shows at the same time.