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Welcome to our new homepage for Bavaria: Munich, Nuremberg and the Merkur regions at a glance

2021-04-23T23:04:46.428Z


Brand new and long overdue: Here you will find all relevant news for the Free State with a special focus on the metropolises of Nuremberg and Munich as well as our Merkur regions (local).


Brand new and long overdue: Here you will find all relevant news for the Free State with a special focus on the metropolises of Nuremberg and Munich as well as our Merkur regions (local).

Dear readers, welcome to the new Bayern homepage. From now on you will find everything that is important for Munich, Nuremberg, the Merkur regions and for all of Bavaria at Merkur.de/bayern. My name is Klaus-Maria Mehr. I head the Bayern team at Merkur.de and would like to briefly introduce you to our departments, our new home page and ourselves.

For years, our growing Bayern team has been providing you with stories, reports, background reports, but above all news and tickers on everything that moves Bavaria on a daily basis in the three separate departments Local, Munich and Bavaria.

Since March 2020, we have also set up a corona reporting that is unique for and in the Free State.

Our loyal readership is growing every day.

We are creating a completely new team of experts for Bavaria's largest cities and regular, critical reporting for the respective city and region.

Our Nuremberg team is already there.

Regensburg will follow shortly.

While everything was previously done in different departments, we are now bringing everything, really everything that moves Bavaria together on one home page and at a glance for you.

What's new?

What can I find on the new Bayern homepage?

Corona in Bavaria

: You want the latest Corona news from and for Bavaria? The current

news ticker

for the Free State will always be waiting for you at the top of Merkur.de/bayern. The daily updated

Corona numbers

per district with a Bavaria map and a detailed explanation from our data experts can always be found in the upper area of ​​the Bavaria home page.

Everything from the Merkur regions

(also called: local) can of course also be found on Merkur.de/lokales, or on the department pages of our 17 Merkur regions, where they provide around 130 local editors from Miesbach to Freising with Germany’s densest local coverage every day . We are now picking out the most important and nationally relevant local news for you and presenting them on the new Bayern homepage.

Similarly, our daily reporting for Bavaria's cities of

Munich

and

Nuremberg will

have its own place on the new Bayern homepage.

The most important news from the state capital and the Franconian metropolis can always be read up-to-date and first on Merkur.de/bayern.

We are currently also building a

Regensburg department

with our own reporters and editors.

When the time comes, Regensburg will also have a permanent place on our Bayern homepage.

There for you daily from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.: The Merkur.de-Bayern team introduces itself

And so that you know who is actually providing you with news on a daily basis, we will briefly introduce our departments and ourselves.

Lucas Sauter-Orengo and Lukas Schierlinger - our Munich editors

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Lucas Sauter-Orengo.

© Lucas Sauter Orengo

  • Lucas Sauter-Orengo:

    Born in Munich.

    Studied in the three rivers city of Passau, her parents were a mixture of Allgäu and Spain.

    After several positions in the Munich media world, now online editor at Merkur.de & tz.de.

    Responsible for reporting from the state capital.

  • Special Skills:

    Still firmly believes that the West End is "coming".

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Lukas Schierlinger

© Marcus sleep

  • Lukas Schierlinger:

    Always from Munich.

    After studying political science at the LMU, I ended up in the online editorial team of Münchner Merkur and tz.

    Commutes between the Isar beaches and deep snow slopes and prefers to write about the peculiarities of the state capital.

  • Special skills:

    Was the first person to ski down the Giesinger Berg.

Katharina Haase, Veronika Mahnkopf and Franziska Konrad - our editors for Merkur-Land

  • Katharina Haase:

    Originally from southern Hesse, she now feels very much at home in Munich.

    After studying journalism, countless internships at home and abroad and a traineeship followed.

    Now at Münchner Merkur online, mainly responsible for the local.

  • Special skills

    : Does not speak Bavarian, but now understands it perfectly.

    Favorite words: tip-clapper, diridari and grumble.

  • What your

    colleagues say

    : Grumbling is the keyword.

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Franziska Konrad

© Franziska Konrad

  • Franziska Konrad:

    Comes from a beautiful Swabian town called Kuchen.

    But has now found a second home in Bavaria.

    First studies in Augsburg, then traineeship at Isar-Loisachbote in Wolfratshausen, since 2020 in the online editorial team of Münchner Merkur, here with a focus on the local.

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Veronika Mahnkopf

© sleep

  • Veronika Mahnkopf:

    Lives in the wonderful Pfaffenwinkel between Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Munich.

    After studying German at LMU Munich in 2006, volunteered at the Weilheimer Tagblatt - and got stuck in the online editorial team of Münchner Merkur.

    In between times Tegernsee, entrusted with everything local from Munich since 2017.

  • Special skills:

    Ancient Mercury veteran with a lot of insider knowledge and a keen sense for local stories

Katarina Amtmann and Tom Eldersch for Bavaria & its metropolitan regions

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Katarina bailiff

© Katarina bailiff

  • Katarina Amtmann

    - Born and raised in Middle Franconia.

    After studying in Bamberg, Iowa and Passau, I ended up in the state capital Munich.

    Writes about everything that happens in Bavaria - currently with a focus on Corona.

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Tom Eldersch - our man for Bavaria and Nuremberg.

© Tom Eldersch

  • Tom Eldersch - our man for Bavaria and Nuremberg.

    Tom Eldersch, born in Dachau, grew up in the Fürstenfeldbruck district, and consequently volunteered at the Fürstenfeldbrucker Tagblatt.

    Before that, he studied German at the LMU in Munich.

    Tom Eldersch is currently building up our Nuremberg department and is also taking care of political and corona issues in the Free State.

  • Special skills:

    Knows everything, really everything, about Bavarian history.

  • This is what his colleagues say:

    There is strength in calm.

    Damn old.

Team leader

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Klaus-Maria More.

© Thomas Plettenberg

Klaus-Maria Mehr:

Actually from Regensburg, but since 2014 by choice Tegernseer, there also volunteered at the Tegernseer Zeitung and then changed pages - to the onliner editorial team.

Online editor and online local expert since 2016.

Before that he studied politics in Regensburg and Munich.

Special skills:

Knows all 130 local editors in Merkur Land by name.

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Source: merkur

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