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Next Monday at 11:11 a.m. the time has come: the Shrove Monday parades will start moving - after they had been canceled for the past two years due to the pandemic.
The carnival strongholds of Cologne and Mainz already presented their floats today.
Chancellor Scholz will be present in Mainz as "Scholzomat".
The caricature on wheels is one of ten floats of the Mainz Carnival Association (MCV).
The move is to move more than seven kilometers from Mainz Neustadt through the city center at the cathedral to near the main train station.
Photo: Kristina Schaefer / epd
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A “sharp east wind” is blowing in Mainz: Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, is putting up her umbrella on behalf of the EU to weather the attacks by the Russian dictator.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin looks a bit pale – almost as if he were out of breath.
Photo: Frank Rumpenhorst / dpa
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After weeks of work behind closed doors, wagon builder Dieter Wenger presented his creations together with MCV President Hannsgeorg Schönig.
The 83-year-old has implemented drafts by the draftsman Michael Apitz on current affairs and designed them as polystyrene figures.
Less designed his first carriage for the Shrove Monday train back in 1962.
Photo: Kristina Schaefer / epd
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A German Michel is freezing in bed because the gas supply from Russia has been cut off.
Title of the car: "Cold Haze".
Photo: Kristina Schaefer / epd
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The motto of the current Mainz campaign is: "In Mainz, Fastnacht stands for peace, freedom, tolerance!" to wear a headscarf.
Every year, the Rhenish carnival strongholds of Mainz, Cologne and Düsseldorf compete for public attention with their floats.
Photo: Kristina Schaefer / epd
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In Cologne, Vladimir Putin will be taking part in the Rose Monday procession twice this year.
One motif shows the dictator fraternally kissing the devil.
Photo: Political Moments / IMAGO
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On another wagon, the Russian ruler turns the world through a meat grinder as the vampire Nosferatu.
Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd / dpa
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A motto car shows Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) as "Habück" in front of a sheikh who has a gas tap on his face.
Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd / dpa
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In the clutches of Xi: Chancellor Olaf Scholz is not doing well in Cologne either.
The Chinese ruler Xi Jinping stretches out his octopus arms to the German head of state, as an overpowering figure in the background of the only seemingly self-sufficient chancellor.
Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd / dpa