Marcus Kloeckner

Marcus covers news related to the U.S. military community in Germany. He graduated from Marburg University with a master’s degree in sociology, media science and American studies.

kloeckner.marcus@stripes.com

Shamiek Moore voices the titular hero in “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.”

Movie listings for the week of June 2

Here is what’s playing at on-base theaters.

Kaiserslautern Outdoor Recreation plans a tour to Provence and the French Riviera on June 30. Pictured: Simiane la Rotonde village and lavender field in Provence, France.

Tours from Europe bases

Recently announced concerts and events for June 2 and beyond

Halle Bailey and Jonah Hauer-King star in the live-action Disney remake of “The Little Mermaid,” now showing at select AAFES theaters.

Movie listings for the week of May 26

Grafenwoehr Outdoor Recreation offers a fishing course June 2-4.

Tours from Europe bases

Here is a sampling of upcoming trips scheduled by military bases.

Bruce Springsteen has two concerts scheduled in Germany this July, in Hockenheim and Munich.

Recently announced concerts and events for May 26 and beyond

Listings for recently announced concerts, special concerts and shows and on-base theater events.

Ansbach Outdoor Recreation plans a tour May 13 of Neuschwanstein castle near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany.

Tours from Europe bases

Here is a sampling of upcoming trips scheduled by military bases.

SZA has scheduled a concert in Berlin on June 9 at the Mercedes-Benz Arena.

Recently announced concerts and events for April 14 and beyond

Listings for recently announced concerts, special concerts and shows and on-base theater events.

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire that broke out after a civilian truck rammed parked U.S.-military fuel trucks on the A3 autobahn near Parsberg, Germany, on Dec. 20, 2021. The driver of the commercial semitrailer died and U.S.-personnel are currently under investigation for negligent homicide.

German police investigating two US soldiers in fatal Bavaria autobahn crash

A truck driver was killed in the flaming wreckage Dec. 20 after he ran into one of four Army vehicles that had gotten separated from a convoy and were parked in the emergency lane of Autobahn 3 near Parsberg.

German and American firefighters battle flames at an agricultural storage area in Delkenheim, Germany, early Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021. U.S. Army firefighters from Wiesbaden helped extinguish the fire, which broke out in a large manure heap.

US Army crew joins Germans to knock down fire in giant dung heap

The fire broke out about 5 a.m. at an agricultural company’s depot in Delkenheim, a part of Wiesbaden, said Fabian Kiefer at the city fire station headquarters.

Patients wait outside a COVID-19 vaccination bus in Hoppstaedten-Weiersbach, Germany, on Nov. 16, 2021. Americans in Rheinland-Pfalz are eligible to receive vaccinations and booster shots from the bus, which travels throughout the state.

Rheinland-Pfalz vaccination buses give Americans way to receive booster shots against coronavirus

Rheinland-Pfalz has dispatched six buses around the state since August to supermarket parking lots, city centers, sports clubs, schools and leisure facilities. The buses have administered more than 60,000 doses so far.

With rising rates of new coronavirus infections, the German state of Bavaria has implemented tougher restrictions. For eating indoors in restaurants, like this one in Weiden, customers must follow the “3Gplus rule,” a reference to the first letter of the German words “geimpft, genesen, getested,” meaning “vaccinated, recovered or tested.” But you now need a PCR test to get in, antigen tests are no longer allowed.

Bavaria enacts coronavirus measures restricting the unvaccinated as case rates rise

The state of Bavaria, which hosts tens of thousands of U.S. service members and their families, enacted rules Tuesday restricting many unvaccinated people from some public activities and facilities.

Airmen from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, work to untangle a metal fence from a pile of rocks that washed up on the banks of the Nims River in Rittensdorf, Germany, during the severe flooding last month. More than two dozen airmen from the base volunteered to help clean up along the river banks on Saturday, July 31, 2021.

‘These are our neighbors’: US airmen who survived catastrophic floods help German villages recover

Village leaders in Rittersdorf last week reached out to the U.S. military community, asking for help in cleaning up debris still scattered in the basin. About 25 people at Spangdahlem Air Base answered the call for help, base officials said, as did a few airmen from Ramstein Air Base.

Restaurants and shops open up again to customers in Limburg an der Lahn, Germany on May 30, 2021. Coronavirus restrictions have eased in much of the country as incidence rates have fallen in recent weeks.

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US service members in much of Germany can go to the movies again as coronavirus restrictions ease

Movie theaters, entertainment parks and other businesses were allowed to reopen Wednesday as several areas where U.S. forces live in Germany reported coronavirus incidence rates that allow local officials to ease federally mandated restrictions.

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