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Achtung beim Heimwerken – 2025 verletzten sich 11 000 Menschen beim Heimwerken so schwer, dass sie im Krankenhaus behandelt werden mussten. Die Menschen in Österreich werken zuhause fleißig an ihren Do-it-yourself-Projekten. Dass besonders gerne Männer heimwerken, zeigt sich auch in der Unfallstatistik 2025: Männer führen diese mit 81 Prozent der spitalsbehandelten Unfälle im Bereich Heimwerken an. Von offenen Wunden über Knochenbrüche und Sehnen- und Muskelverletzungen bis hin zu Amputationen ist die Liste an Verletzungen bei Heimwerkarbeiten lang. Einfache Vorsichtsmaßnahmen können hier unter anderem die Finger schonen und schwere Verletzungen verhindern. Überlege dir im Vorfeld kurz – und wenn auch nur eine Minute –, was passieren könnte und welche Maßnahmen Schutz bieten – zum Beispiel eine Schutzbrille gegen wegfliegende Späne, eine standfeste Unterlage für den richtigen Schnitt oder eine Schnittschutzhose für das Hantieren mit schweren Werkzeugen. Infos zu diesem Thema und zu vielen weiteren Themen wie Gratisbojen erhöhen die Sicherheit am Bodensee, oder Sicherheitstipps beim Grillen findet ihr auf https://www.kfv.at/

With more and more people in need of humanitarian aid, and less and less cash available to provide it, the EU attempts to plug some of the funding gaps while pushing to work ‘smarter’.

In 2006, 31 million people around the world needed emergency humanitarian aid. This year, according to UN estimates, this figure will be almost eight times higher: a staggering 239 million people.

Overlapping crises

Doriana Somma is project manager at Missione Calcutta Onlus, an Italian NGO that operates in India, Kenya and Ukraine, among other countries. She paints a bleak picture in an interview with Radio 24, highlighting that the humanitarian sector is today facing an unprecedented crisis, with aid workers struggling to provide services to some of the most deprived people on the planet.

Somma adds that the global development context is changing too, with a series of overlapping crises making things even more complicated.

Doriana Somma, Project Manager at Missione Calcutta Onlus (in Italian):

“I would also like to mention that there are no longer isolated or sporadic emergencies. Armed conflicts cause forced migration; economic crises and climate change are constantly intertwined. So humanitarian organisations must adapt and find creative solutions, on extremely tight budgets, to deal with crises that are becoming ever-more protracted and complex and that ultimately take on a permanent character.”

When it comes to the crisis hotspots that affect the EU most directly, the major one is of course Ukraine. And humanitarian efforts there are clearly thwarted by the ongoing bombardments.

But the Middle East is close enough, and a new humanitarian crisis is mushrooming in that region too. We’re not just talking about Gaza, either – Lebanon is also hard hit, as Elisabeth Viinalass, the Middle East expert of Tallinn-based NGO Mondo, tells Kuku Radio.

Elisabeth Viinalass, Middle East Project Manager at Mondo (in Estonian):

“All of a sudden, a very large number of people in Lebanon – more than a million, in fact – were forced to relocate within the country. Since they fled so quickly, they couldn’t take much with them. And now people have nowhere to go; no food, no hygiene supplies; nothing. Where can they stay? Those who can are staying with family and friends. Others have found refuge in temporary accommodation centres, which are mostly based in school buildings. But there are also a lot of people who are simply sleeping on the streets in tents.”

And these domestic refugees come on top of all the refugees from neighbouring countries that Lebanon was already hosting.

Elisabeth Viinalass, Middle East Project Manager at Mondo (in Estonian):

“There are Palestinian refugees who arrived decades ago. There are approximately 400,000 of them. Then there are the Syrian refugees who arrived between 2011 and 2013. Around 1.5 million of them. This makes Lebanon the country with the highest number of refugees per square metre and per capita in the world.”

Money, money, money

Doriana Somma points out that, on top of the ever-increasing need for humanitarian support, resources to pay for this are dwindling. Indeed, a sense of ‘donor fatigue’ among the general public is regularly being reported by Europe’s NGOs, and this is not the only funding stream to be seeing a downturn.

Doriana Somma, Project Manager at Missione Calcutta Onlus (in Italian):

“Undoubtedly one of the most significant challenges to highlight is the reduction in international funding, which is plain for all to see: many governments are cutting their budgets for humanitarian aid and development cooperation, at a time when the number of highly vulnerable people is growing exponentially. Organisations undoubtedly find themselves having to make very tough and difficult choices: deciding which programmes to keep and which to close, and therefore who to prioritise and who, unfortunately, not to prioritise.”

It obviously made headline news around the world when US president Donald Trump controversially closed down USAID, the US Agency for International Development, pretty much overnight a year ago, along with slashing the country’s humanitarian aid budget. Just the previous year, under the Biden Administration, the US was providing some 38 per cent of all emergency assistance tracked by the UN.

While some American money continues to trickle in, for example via the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund, Oxfam warned in January that the radical US aid cuts could lead to one child under the age of five dying every 40 seconds by 2030.

The European Commission described the global humanitarian system as “at breaking point” on Wednesday (27 May), as it presented a new strategy meant to address the various challenges.

As a collective, the EU and its 27 member states are the leading donor of humanitarian aid to populations affected by disasters around the globe. These efforts receive strong and consistent support from EU citizens, with 91 per cent of respondents to a 2024 Eurobarometer survey considering this an important use of EU money.

One prong of Brussels’ new strategy is about making humanitarian aid more productive – in other words, doing more with less, but also boosting the efficiency of existing mechanisms (joint procurement, shared transport fleets and so on). For more cost-effective supply chains, the EU will introduce a ‚Humanitarian Supply Chain Charter‘ and make its funding conditional on the sharing of more logistics data.

Safety and security

But funding is far from the only challenge the sector is facing. Let’s return to Somma from Missione Calcutta.

Doriana Somma, Project Manager at Missione Calcutta Onlus (in Italian):

“There is also a growing sense of operational insecurity. There are so many colleagues working in extremely difficult contexts, where international law – including international humanitarian law – is not respected. It is plain for all to see that hospitals, schools and civilian infrastructure of all kinds are being targeted, and humanitarian workers themselves are becoming targets. Obviously, this is a cause for great concern.”

This argument is backed up by David Montano Inturias, who is the Médecins du Monde coordinator for public health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He illustrates some of the safety issues faced by his organisation’s humanitarian workers in the country, notably in the region most affected by the latest Ebola virus disease outbreak. RTBF shares his comments.

David Montano Inturias, Coordinator for Public Health in the DRC, Médecins du Monde (in French):

“The DRC has been in a chronic state of crisis for over 30 years. But it is true that, particularly now, in the east – in Goma and Bukavu, for example – the area has been taken over by the M23 movement, which complicates matters enormously. Support for development projects in the occupied areas is more or less non-existent, because these organisations are not officially recognised. Humanitarian staff are, at times, victims of armed robberies in the occupied areas, North and South Kivu, and Ituri too. There is a great deal of conflict and instability and a volatile security situation, which makes working in the community very difficult.”

According to the EU’s new ‘joint communication on humanitarian aid’ adopted on Wednesday, 334 humanitarian workers were killed, 192 were injured, 109 were kidnapped and 45 were unlawfully arrested in 2025. As such, another prong of the Commission’s strategy is to step up actions to protect aid workers.

Animal-borne outbreaks

Since we have touched on the subject of Ebola, it is worth mentioning that last Friday (22 May), the Commission announced the release of 15 million euros of emergency aid to subsidise medical interventions, prevention and screening in the DRC and Uganda, the countries hit by Ebola.

This most recent outbreak of the virus, which began just over a month ago and is believed to have originated in fruit bats, is already thought to have resulted in a few hundred deaths, primarily in the DRC.

EU-funded humanitarian flights have already transported medical supplies, laboratory equipment and protective gear to affected areas. And, as RTBF reports, a huge new delivery was coordinated between Brussels and UNICEF just last weekend.

Hadja Lahbib, Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management (in French):

“Firstly, we have allocated an additional budget of 15 million to assist the Democratic Republic of the Congo, particularly in Ituri, where this new Ebola outbreak is taking place. This is a strain for which we have neither a vaccine nor a treatment. UNICEF supplies are currently being loaded, which the EU is transporting at its own expense. These consist mainly of tents, protective equipment and paracetamol. Everything needed to contain this outbreak and prevent it from spreading to neighbouring countries and becoming a pandemic.”

That was Hadja Lahbib, the EU commissioner for equality, preparedness and crisis management.

https://www.rtbf.be/article/ebola-en-rdc-cent-tonnes-d-aide-humanitaire-decollent-de-liege-vers-la-republique-democratique-du-congo-11729624

Another animal-borne virus making the news at the moment is, of course, Hantavirus.

On this subject, Canary Island-based epidemiologist Amós García Rojo speaks to esRadio Castilla y León in a bid to quell the public’s fears.

He explains that this virus primarily causes disease in rodents, but can be transmitted to humans through direct contact with rat faeces, urine or saliva. Either because humans inhale microscopic airborne particles from these sources, particularly in an enclosed space, or because they consume contaminated food. He acknowledges that person-to-person transmission has occurred in the Andes variant, but stresses that this transmission is not at all straightforward.

The first cruise passengers infected were likely on a bird-watching trip in Argentina, observing birds next to a landfill site where there were presumably rats.

García Rojo laments that public-health alerts such as these will continue to occur, and with increasing frequency. He lists a number of factors for this.

Amós García Rojo, Epidemiologist (in Spanish):

“The ongoing progression of climate change; the increasing number of animal diseases being transmitted to humans; the fact that poverty continues to have a devastating impact in certain parts of the world – like now with Ebola […]; the reality of globalisation; and the fact that certain human interventions in nature have a clear impact on the likelihood of this problem arising. For example, deforestation in the Amazon, one of the world’s great lungs, has allowed animals carrying certain viruses to come ever closer to humans. All these factors mean that we will continue to face crises of this nature with increasing frequency. Because unfortunately we are doing nothing to combat climate change, nor to tackle poverty, and neither are we taking seriously the need to consider human health as being linked to animal health and environmental health.”

https://www.esradiocastillayleon.es/castilla-y-leon/actualidad/amos-garcia-presidente-de-la-aev-el-hantavirus-no-tiene-nada-que-ver-con-la-pandemia-del-coronavirus

Bothersome bears

And on the subject of our inability to maintain a respectful distance between human settlements and wild animals, there has been a recent spate of bear attacks in Eastern European countries.

A bear attacked a 72-year-old man in a remote area of northern Romania on 21 May, just 10 days after a 53-year-old woman was killed in a similar attack in the same area. There was also a fatal bear attack in Poland in late April.

Now it’s Bulgaria’s turn. BNR reports that a bear killed a young man on 16 May in a relatively urbanised area near the capital Sofia. Although the mountainous area is designated a park, houses are creeping ever higher up the slopes.

Our Bulgarian colleagues interview Dr Raycho Ganchev, an expert on the brown bear, who comments on these animals’ increasing desensitisation to humans.

Raycho Ganchev, Bear Expert (in Bulgarian):

“Wild animals, especially predators, tend to flee when a human approaches, when they smell a human, or when they hear noise made by a human. But we have witnessed that in recent years, bears have lost this respect for humans in Bulgaria – both in their territories and even in urbanised areas or on the outskirts of villages, towns and neighbourhoods in mountain regions.”

https://bnrnews.bg/main/post/474132/uvelichena-li-e-opasno-populatsiyata-na-mechki-u-nas

In a separate conversation, Ruslan Mihaylov, Secretary General of the Bulgarian Hunting and Fishing Union, points the finger at Brussels.

Ruslan Mihaylov, Secretary general of the Bulgarian Hunting and Fishing Union (in Bulgarian):

“For the past 19 years, the bear has been protected at the insistence of the EU. Since our accession 19 years ago, the bear has been designated a strictly protected species, and as such is subject to oversight by the Ministry of Environment and Water. But the Ministry of Environment and Water does not have the same network as the forestry services. It is unable to monitor and manage the populations in the various mountain ranges in the manner that they were regulated until 2007.”

He adds that, as a result, no one knows how many bears there actually are, and he firmly advocates culling those living close to human settlements.

This view is shared by many people in Romania, home to the largest bear population in the EU. After the ban on bear hunting in 2016, bear numbers have increased rapidly and currently sit at around three times the ‘optimal’ level. As the species‘ traditional habitats in the Carpathian Mountains have become cramped, bears have moved towards urban settlements, sometimes far from their native mountains and forests. They roam the streets of cities, feed on rubbish and attack households. They have killed at least 27 people in Romania over the last two decades, and ten times that number have been seriously injured.

In recent years, the Romanian government has adopted several laws to keep the bear population in check, against a backdrop of protests by environmental organisations. In November last year, the government adopted an emergency ordinance that simplified the procedure for euthanising bears that posed a danger in inhabited areas.

Environment minister Diana Buzoianu explained that the new regulations were put in place to protect communities in case of imminent danger, but did not give people a green light to shoot them in other cases.

Diana Buzoianu, Romania’s Minister of the Environment (in Romanian):

“With this law, we did not mandate that bears be shot. We provided an option. We removed the requirement for a gradual approach, but emergency committees can still determine there is no danger and decide not to shoot bears that are, for example, between one and two years old, if they deem there is no risk to the community. This is an assessment to be conducted by the emergency committee, which includes the mayor, a vet, a national forest service representative and the police.”

This said, President Nicuşor Dan is mounting a legal challenge to a new law, adopted last month, that would allow twice as many bears to be hunted ’preventively’ this year and next, says Radio România.

The head of state claims that the law violates both Romanian law and European law by setting quotas in the absence of detailed scientific justifications and periodic assessments of the bear population.

https://www.romania-actualitati.ro/stiri/romania/presedintele-nicusor-dan-contesta-la-ccr-legea-privind-majorarea-numarului-de-ursi-ce-pot-fi-vanati-id228767.html

Das war wieder die Radio B 138 Live Sendung “ Beschwingt am Vormittag “ mit Diethard Grammer

mit dabei waren,

Sam The Sham&The Pharaos, The Guess Who, Minglewood Band, George Thorogood,

Randy Bachman, Bob Seger, Keith Hampshire, David Wilcox, Streetheart, Colin James,

Jonny Rivers, Glenn Frey, The Kings, Chilliwack, John Cafferty, BTO, John Mellencamp,

Triumph, Sass Jordan, Stampeders, Fludd, Barney Bentall& The Legendary,

Bronsville Station, The King Bees,

31.05.26 Playlist (Albinoni Teil 2.)

Komponist: Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)

Der Schauplatz dieser Huldigungsmusik ist das Tempetal in Thessalien. Der Inhalt besteht aus einer Abfolge von Rezitativen und Arien, in denen die Nymphe Dafne, der Windgott Zeffiro, die Blütengöttin Flora, der Gott Apollo und der Flussgott Peneo eine Geburtstagsfeier zu Ehren von Aurora, der Göttin der Morgenröte, vorbereiten. Zu Beginn freuen sich alle über den schönen Festtag. Dabei wirbt Apollo um die Liebe Dafnes, die aber nur die Tugend ohne triebhafte Leidenschaft sucht – die von Aurora propagierte reine Liebe. Die anderen stimmen ihr zu, und alle preisen Aurora.

Nach dieser Einleitung verspricht jeder Teilnehmer Aurora ein Geschenk, das seinen Begabungen entspricht. Dafne will Aurora ihr reines Herz weihen und enttäuscht damit Apollo, der sich selbst Hoffnungen darauf gemacht hatte. Flora erklärt, Aurora mit zwei Kränzen aus weißen und roten Rosen zu schmücken. Apollo will seine geliebte Zither auf Auroras Altar legen und in Zukunft eine andere Zither verwenden. Zeffiro will zur Feier sanfte Winde, die Zephyre, aussenden. Peneo verspricht, sich vorsichtig auf seinem Flussbett auszubreiten, ohne Schäden zu bewirken.

Anschließend wählt sich jeder spielerisch eine Blume, deren Eigenschaften Dafne miteinander vergleicht. Die Verlierer müssen Aurora jeweils mit einem Lied ehren. Den Abschluss macht Peneo. Er bringt bei dieser Gelegenheit einen weiteren Namen ins Spiel, Elisa (Kaiserin Elisabeth), denn das größte Lob für die Morgendämmerung sei es, dass sie die Sonne ankündige. Elisa sei am selben Tag zur Morgenröte geboren. Es folgen weitere Arien zur Huldigung Elisas, die Aurora in jeder Hinsicht ebenbürtig sei. Um ihr eine dauerhafte Erinnerung an diesen Tag zu geben, verwandelt sich Dafne in einen Geburtstagskranz. Apollo ist entsetzt, doch da die anderen Dafne für dieses Opfer loben, verwandelt er den Kranz zum Schutz vor Blitzen und als Zeugnis für ewiges Leben in Lorbeer. Alle preisen Aurora und Elisa.

Eindrücke vom Gedenken an die Befreiung des KZ-Außenlagers Gunskirchen vor 81 Jahren.

Mitten in einem Waldstück, „Hochholz“ genannt, auf dem heutigen Gemeindegebiet von Edt bei Lambach befand sich das KZ-Außenlager Gunskirchen. Überlebende bezeichneten es als die Hölle. Viele der Häftlinge waren ungarische Jüdinnen und Juden. Sie wurden von den Konzentrationslagern Mauthausen und Gusen auf Todesmärschen nach Gunskirchen getrieben. Tausende Menschen starben auf dem Weg dorthin. Jene, die das Lager erreichten fanden katastrophale Bedingungen vor. Sie waren mehr oder weniger sich selbst überlassen, wurden kaum versorgt, Krankheiten breiteten sich schnell aus. Nach Schätzungen waren 20.000 Menschen im KZ Gunskirchen interniert, 5.000 überlebten die Bedingungen nicht. Viele weitere starben nach der Befreiung an den Folgen ihrer Gefangenschaft.

Vor 81 Jahren, am 5. Mai 1945, befreiten Soldaten der 71. US‐Infanteriedivision das Lager.

Daran erinnert die jährliche Gedenkfeier, zu der die Gemeinden Gunskirchen und Edt bei Lambach gemeinsam mit der Welser Initiative gegen Faschismus einladen. Heuer fand sie am Samstag, 9. Mai 2026 statt.

Schüler*innen der Mittelschule Gunskirchen haben das Programm mitgestaltet. Sie setzten sich mit dem Thema „Täter*innen“ auseinander und berichteten, welche Gedanken sie nach einem Besuch der KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen, beschäftigten.

Das Mauthausen Komitee Österreich errichtet derzeit einen offiziellen Gedenkort am ehemaligen Lagergelände. Die Eröffnung findet am Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2026, 13:00 Uhr statt.

Mehr Informationen:

Gedenkinitiative Gunskirchen-Edt: www.lager-gunskirchen.at

Informationen zum KZ-Außenlager Gunskirchen: www.mauthausen-guides.at

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Außerdem zu hören sind Ausschnitte vom „Fest der Freude“, das am 8. Mai 2026 am Wiener Heldenplatz stattfand.

Zum Weiterhören: ein Gespräch mit Zeitzeugin Lucy Waldstein

Die 119. do trans-Art Performance von Astrid Rieder mit Karina Benalcázar eröffnete einen Raum jenseits klar definierter Formen. Im Zentrum standen die Stimme und die additive, abstrakte Zeichnung. Klang und Linie traten in einen wechselseitigen, lebendigen Dialog, verdichteten sich. Obwohl Sängerinnen es gewohnt sind, sich direkt an ihr Publikum zu wenden, war Benalcázar eingeladen, ihren Blick bewusst auf die papierene Leinwand zu richten. Aus diesem Perspektivwechsel entstand ein Dialog, bei dem Zuhören und Reagieren wichtiger waren als das Präsentieren selbst. Als Publikum war man gespannt, was als nächstes kommen würde. Benalcázar fügte ihrer enormen stimmlichen Bandbreite auch perkussive Elemente und kurze Piano-Melodien hinzu. Und Rieders Bild wuchs unaufhaltsam von den zarten Linien zum mehrdimensionalen Farbenspiel.

W dzisiejszej audycji przedstawimy Państwu Panią Natalię Pietsch i Grzegorza Piekarskiego, którzy byli gośćmi na 23 Festiwalu filmowym Crossing Europe w Linzu. W wywiadzie mówili oni o: swoim filmie „ Miasto które wyjechało”:

Zapraszamy do wysłuchania!

„John Fitzgerald Kennedy volt az Egyesült Államok legfiatalabb, legvonzóbb, egyik legnépszerűbb és első katolikus elnöke. Talán az ő esetében a legnagyobb az eltérés a mítosz és a valóság között” – Az Egyesült Államok elnökei című könyvnek az Egyesült Államok 35. elnökéről írt fejezete bevezető soraiból idéztünk. A szerzővel, Hahner Péter történésszel, a Rubicon Intézet főigazgatójával beszélgettünk. Megtudhatjuk, hogyan sikerült 1960-ban az ifjú Kennedynek egy jóval tapasztaltabb ellenfelet, Nixont legyőznie, milyen felelősség terheli a kubai Disznó-öbölben végrehajtott akció kudarcáért, mi a szerepe és feladata az általa alapított Békehadtestnek, milyen tévedések vezettek a vietnami háború elindításához, és miért alakulhatott ki mítosz a személye körül.

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