You won’t find Patricia Hanebeck in the ranking of the most successful German women soccer players if you you drill down the hall of fame of the national team. You definitely might find her if there was a leaderboard for the most talented and impressing players of the last decades, though. Recently, Patricia published her biography, written in collaboration with German author Leni Rempe. Here is a review of her book called “Nachspielzeit – jede Minute zählt” (overtime / injury time – every second counts).
The book is available as hardcover, paperback and e-book.
Patricia Hanebeck – Some Bio and Stats
Patricia was born in 1986 and grew up in Sankt Augustin, a town adjacent to former German capital Bonn. She was the first girl ever to play soccer at her home club, ASV Sankt Augustin, one of the major sports clubs in her city. According to the German Soccer Association statistics , she played an overall of 276 matches, thereof 180 wins and 80 goals. However, this statistics seems to miss her matches for Bad Neuenahr, where she had her first Bundesliga match. Despite playing for the Under 17 16 times and the Under 19 14 time, Patricia Hanebeck has never been nominated to the national team. She finished her career at the end of the 2016/17 season playing for TSV Crailsheim in the 2nd Bundesliga. The key milestone of her career is definitely the Under 19 World Championship 2004.
Patricia Hanebeck with her own biography (private picture)
Patricia Hanebeck – The Biography
“Nachspielzeit – jede Minute zählt” is comparably compact. The paperback is about 100 pages, the letters are printed comparably large. Leni Rempe takes the position of a narrator and tells the story of Hanebeck’s life in short episodes. Thereby, Rempe does not only talk about her discussions with Hanebeck, but also meets other important people of her career like her mother or her first soccer coach, but also with former players.
If I would describe the book in two words, I would chose “honest” and “fair”. It feels that Hanebeck really told Rempe what she felt in the described characteristic situations of her life. On the other hand, the book is trying to stay on the fact level when it comes to other people. There would have been easy chances to directly blame people. In one section, the book describes how “Patti” was more or less kicked out of the squad of FCR Duisburg with the help of her former girlfriend and some other players, who knew before her that her contract will not be prolonged. However, the book does not tell the name of any of these people. I especially had to smile when Patricia described how in her very first German Cup Final, played in front of 20,000 people in Berlin, her former Duisburg coach was doing a goalie substitution for the penalty shots. Lena Hohlfeld replaced Kathrin Längert – but the book does not name that there was also a private relationship which played a role in that decision. Even when it comes to national team nominations, where Hanebeck has definitely been treated unfairly in the past, she is not going for the “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” principle.
I am sure the book would have a lot more pages if Hanebeck would have allowed the reader some more voyeurism about the insights of women soccer. But this book is not about the (mis-)behavior of others, it really focuses on the main actor, Patricia Hanebeck herself. This finally makes it a short(er), but great read.
Patricia Hanebeck – Private Life and Problems
Hanebeck’s biography is not just about soccer. it starts with her private life as a kid in the Rhineland area, how she got around with boys and girls of her age. It is not a big deal of the book that Hanebeck is affected to women, but the most impressive part of the book maybe is when the book describes Hanebeck’s mental problems and panic attacks and how they influenced her life, also on the soccer ground. She impressively describes how one attack hit her int he middle of a match and how she somehow survived the remaining minutes.
The book ends with one of the most dramatic hits of Hanebeck’s life: short before the publication of the book, her father Jürgen Hanebeck died of cancer.
Patricia Hanebeck – My View on “Nachspielzeit – …”
When you first open the book, you might be touched by a feeling of disappointment: 100 pages, comparably large letters and quite some pictures at the end does not really feel like just having purchased a great value for money. It is a comparably quick read, but intense. The book is very compact in the way it is written and structured. Leni Rempe did a very wise job in structuring “Nachspielzeit – jede Minute zählt” in that way. If you are interested in sports, I would absolutely recommend to go for this book. If you look for soccer scandals, I am likely personally able to tell you more of them than this book will give you. You simply need to value what you get instead.
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For the second part of my "review battle" of museums dealing with visions around the future, we leave the Museum ...
Frank Renfordt is back - and this time he is wearing his cowboy hat again! The Cumberland River Project releases ...
Typically, my trip reports are about one travel. Sometimes, there are one-day stories like the 24 hour train ride through ...
The German band Brokof is active since 2007. They established in the German music scene and already released five studio ...
A lot of traveling is ahead of me. I just returned from a trip to Bochum, watching my first two ...
I typically receive quite a lot of jazz promotion. However, I rarely find albums and EPs which I really enjoy ...
The Cumberland River Project is on the final straight towards a new release. On 22nd March 2023, Frank Renfordt and ...
Germany is sunk in strikes of different kinds, mainly in transportation business. I have been impacted this week by that ...
The name is already suggesting: this one is the debut album of a band named Pawn Painters. The German act ...
Right the day after the Sound of Nashville show in Cologne on 5th March 2024, I headed to Frankfurt. Again, ...
France, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia - I am just coming back from a massive aviation trip, which is the ...
Which genre are you thinking about when the arrangement solely consists of a piano, a cello and a vocalist? If ...
Just two weeks after I featured the Dümptener Füchse women's team at Erlensee, I had them on my schedule again ...
I struggled a bit compiling the Songs of the Week this time. The partial flight miles for my current trip ...
In June 2021, I shared the album Guns Against Liberty. The band behind that album is the Hamburg-based melodic hardcore act ...
The Selfkant is truly a remarkable municipality in the very West of the Federal Republic of Germany. The border to ...
As I knew it would be rather late after I visited the TSV Erlensee Floorball Bundesliga home matches vs. Dümptener ...
With Be Okay To Not Be Okay, I present you another debut album from Germany. While you might not know the ...
February 2024 is quite an intense month for me. Even though the trips I have planned and done are comparably ...
The second match in the Großsporthalle Erlensee on 17th February 2024 was a match in the South-West division of the 2nd ...
As part of my initiative to have more sports coverage in 2024, I traveled to Erlensee on 17th February 2024 ...
Coming back from the United Arab Emirates and about to head to Malaysia soon - thus, some really interesting experiences ...
I always enjoy sharing some new German artists with you. This time, I listened to a debut album by the ...
When I introduced you to the Audi & Siku Museum Höing about three years ago, you already saw that the ...
My trip to the handball matches at the EHF Euro 2024 preliminary round matches in Berlin did not feel being ...
Carnvial in Cologne - and I am in he United Arab Emirates this weekend. It is rather party season, no ...
I am always a bit of extra-flattered when my most frequently used promotion platform shows an album by a German ...
I am always flattered when there are new, interesting German acts who are releasing country music. This week on Flyctory.com ...
Having dinner with some frequent traveler friends in Frankfurt lead to a one night stay in the German city, famous ...
With the ISTAF Indoor 2023, I kicked off my campaign to intensify my athletics coverage in 2023. The more, I ...
January 2024 has already passed and we are running into the first February 2024 edition of my weekly release radar ...
Especially after I reviewed the amazing album Das ist keine Übung in October 2023, I was really looking forward to see Alex ...
Slope are doing a quite rare mix of metal, hip hop and electronic sounds. The band developed their style during ...
Quite early before the release of Reliquien, I receved the first press information about the debut album by German artist ...
There are a lot of zoos and animal parks in the Rheinland and Ruhrgebiet region of Germany. The TerraZoo in ...
This review is about some singer-songwriter pop from Germany - more precisely: quite from the Rheinland area I grew up ...
In the relations of my home town Cologne, we are celebrating a big Songs of the Week anniversary with this edition. My ...
I still feel that in many athletics meetings, the track events are somehow still more in focus than the field ...
After a few mentions in my Songs of the Week, I was really looking forward to listen to the new album ...
After I had already flown the Airbus A320 simulator by Aerotask in Essen, I was really looking forward to my ...
Wernigerode being located right North of the Harz mountains might not be the most obvious location for an aviation museum ...
On 6th January 2024, I have been in Switzerland to cover two floorball matches, Zulgtal Eagles vs. Visper Lions and ...
Getting into the FInal4, the semifinal and final event of the German Floorball Cup, is likely one of the most ...
After I gave you my report of the field and side events of the 2004 Sparkassen Indoor Meeting in Dortmund, ...
In general, I plan to increase the frequency of my athletics coverage during 2024. The first event of that sports ...
This week, I published how I feel to concentrate on one Country Music Playlist - at least until I found ...
This week, I am dealing with quite a lot of music postings during the week. There are two reasons for ...
There is hardly any more controversial topic between my wife and I than music by Andreas Dorau: while I feel ...
Seeing one of the very first appearances of the Faroe Islands at a EHF Euro in handball just felt too ...
This time, my Songs Of The Week consist of 14 new releases as of this week. The Christmas break is definitely ...
Andreas Dorau is one of the artists I follow for the longest time in my life. In 1997, just when ...
Happy New Onbaord-Food Year! At least, there is one flight experience from 2024 in this posting already, a Lufthansa Business ...
While I still had a rather short list of album releases, there was already quite a lot of stuff for ...
The Christmas weeks are typically the ones with the lowest number of releases. Unfortunately, quite the majority of the songs ...
Is it really New Year's Eve already again? The last day of the year? I am posting this one in ...
Yeah, I am still more of an album person. I feel that a long-play is still able to tell stories ...
It's time to look back to . After I shared my new format My Year in Travel with you the first time, ...
Irish folk rock made in Franconia, Germany? Fiddler's Green proof that this can be quite a success. With The Green ...
It's Christmas Eve, the main day of the Christmas celebrations in Germany. However, all the holiday songs seem having been ...
I already featured the Nuremberg-based band Strife 85 twice in my Songs of the Week this year. Right before the holiday, ...
Typically, there are two sorts of album reviews at Flyctory.com: I received the vast majority of reviews as a promo ...
I already introduced you to the Museumkaart in the Netherlands, which may be a very profitable (but a bit of ...
Staying at the ibis Budget Aachen Raeren Grenze has been a hotel night I have been looking forward to do ...
The Christmas countdown is steadily running to zero - which more and more means that new releases get sparse. I ...
A vacation album? The title Urlaub in der Bredouille sounds like a road trip album to some French region... But ...
A big name in the schlager business: 41 years after Andreas Martin releases his very first studio album, he is ...
Aufbruch is a very interesting EP release from Germany as of 15th December 2023. The band recording it, Ticket To Happiness ...
Not only during the carnival season, music is a core part of the identify of my home town Cologne. Thus, ...
As you know, I am very interested in iconic public transport systems. Thus, I had to visit the Schwebebahn, the suspension ...
His show in Aschaffenburg 2019, the main stage appearance at the C2C Berlin 2020 and now Cologne 2023: Eric Paslay ...
John Garner - this musical act name sounds like a solo artist, but is in fact a quintet. The German ...
Unfortunately, I could not complete the Country Christmas Playlist this year due to technical issues. However, since the days become ...
Chinese lantern shows and other illuminations have become more and more popular in Europe during the recent winter seasons. In ...
I am a bit of angry as the tool I loved to use to scan for new country releases does ...
December, when the frequency of album releases significantly decreases, is also a time for me to have some more outside-of-the-box ...
Even though the soil in Monheim was quite muddy, the Ben Zucker concert I had there in July was definitely ...
Especially during the last months, I felt again how much interesting music is coming from Hamburg. The city in the ...
Willow Parlo's Facebook profile states With the window open, Willow Parlo turns the backdrop of the depressing and monotonous city ...
Afrer his very interesting album release Going Solo, I was really curious about how Gergor McEwan would be alike live on ...
Typically when I fly from the B Gates at Frankfurt Airport (FRA), I love opting for the Air Canada Maple ...
Before I have just been close to the NH Collection Hamburg City, I knew that this hotel will give me ...
After my previous Songs of the Week editions were rather pop-alike, I was rather surprised that my release radar this time is ...
The clumsy yet unswerving attempts of being an artist - that's how Jules Atlas describes himself on his Facebook profile ...
The Nacht der Gitarren concert series with Jim Kimo West took me to quite some nice places in late 2023. I had ...
London, Faroe Islands, another trip tp England, Sweden, USA - the last weeks of 2023 involve quite a bit of ...
After his 2019 album Traveling Son and the 2022 Take it Slow, Memories is already the third Michael Lane album I cover ...
I am typically glad to run into new bands and interesting acts. A few weeks before the release, I received ...
For the music review weekend of 24th November 2023, I picked a bunch of rather new German acts in my ...
Wacken could be just a normal village on the countryside of the German state of Schleswig-Hostein. However, when you mention the ...
There are so many art museums and technical museums out there. However, do we really care sufficiently about the items ...
After their debut album Hollow Throne has already been successful, the German melodic post hardcore band Maelfoy is releasing their sophomore album ...
In order to cover the Home Free concert in Hamburg in September 2023, I had a night at the ibis ...
Oh, Christmas is approaching quickly now. A huge number of songs I scanned for my Songs of the Week this time ...
When I started listening to the album UWE of the German band Frollein Motte, I liked their cheeky and straight sound. You ...
How could I ignore am album starting with a (for me) very special song released on a (for me) very ...
After my eleventh Food I Had Onboard posting majorly concentrated on two Lufthansa First Class legs between Frankfurt (FRA) and ...
TraMy trip in late October / early November 2023 involved a lot of traveling. Once I made it back to ...
I had a short trip to Hamburg this weekend, watching my last Nacht der Gitarren show (see my Reutlingen show report) ...
Sonia Liebing established in the wider range of well-known German schlager artists the last years. On her homepage, she is ...
Finn & Jonas are twins. They are doing German indie-pop songs. After they grew regionally and have a national fan ...
Just as it felt convenient to stay somewhere closer to the office where I work, I had a night at ...
I had a quite intensive week, exploring several interesting rail trips as well as being back in Pittsburgh and in ...
Source is the fourth album by the German band Alphawezen. However, the most recent album release has happened fourteen years before ...
I always love being able to look into new names, new sounds, new bands. This one is about the rock ...
Roberta John Joni Mitchell is a Canadian-US-American singer-songwriter, who majorly did folk and pop music in her career. She has won ...
A very interesting part of visiting Heidelberg Castle is the Deutsches Apothekenmuseum, the German Pharmacy Museum. It is giving an illustrative ...
Luke is a German artist and band, who are doing blues rock and Americana rock music. After two EP releases, ...
The two world wars have caused significant damage to most German cities - especially those with a somehow-strategical meaning. Thus, ...
Halloween is not that much of a big deal in Germany - but some parts of my home country have ...
40 years of Doro Pesch on stage - I really feel a bit of bad that I am not in ...
Having a cheap hotel close to the main station after the Kelvin Jones concert in October 2023. My aim, when ...
Just two months until Christmas. You feel that in my this week's edition of the Songs of the Week definitely. First ...
Myle is a rather new artist from Southern Germany. On 20th October 2023, the pop artist is releasing his debut ...
Just about a month after I saw Randall King at the Cologne Club Volta, I was back there again on ...
In order to to cover the local Nacht der Gitarren show, I headed to Reutlingen in mid-October 2023. As the weeks before ...
Before we checked out the new Wellnest private spa in Cologne, my wife and I felt it is a good ...
At the end of September, some miraculous things were happening on the Instagram accounts of the Country To Country Festivals ...
I felt it is a good time to publish my next episode of Food I Had Onboard in this week in ...
I spent almost the entire week at work in Dublin at one of our offices. Quite an intense time, which ...
Finally, he is in Germany! I was so excited to see Jim Kimo West at the Nacht der Gitarren ("Night of the ...
Despite the album Collections being his debut one, the Southwest German Sebastian Schaffer is not a "newbie" at all. He ...
FRAUPAUL is a rather new band from Hamburg. Recently, I ran into some of their songs of the second EP ...
After my wife and I overall had a nice stay at the Wellnest Private Spa in Essen, we were curious ...
After I had the opportunity to see Kelvin Jones at the Heart To Heart show in Dusseldorf and the preparing ...
Maybe, due to the national holiday in Germany, the list of new songs was rather short on the platform I ...
The Geschwister Hofmann (namely: "Hofman Siblings") have been a German schlager duo of two sisters. From their first stage appearances ...
It's already five years ago since Antje Schomaker released her debut album Von Helden und Halunken. The feature singles to her ...
In 2021, I introduced you to Alex Diehl the first time. That year, he released the amazing EP Die Songs, die ...
Golf? In Germany, the sport is rather regarded to be elite entertainment, a free time activity for the rich. Our ...
Unfortunately, I had to kick out quite a lot of songs from my list, which I really liked. They just ...
Sacropolis is a German-French indie-pop project. However, the members are not coming from the Saarland or any similar close-to-the border ...
Big release day for Collapse Under The Empire: with Recurring, they don't just publish their tenth studio album overall, the German ...
I recently ran into the music of German artist They Called Me Phoebe for the first time. The more I ...
Schrobenhausen North of Munich is typically known for as one of the German centers of asparagus farming. The city is ...
There is somehow always some sort of "topic" behind each and every Songs of the Week episode. If I would pick one ...
Busy times: just three days after I saw Home Free in Hamburg and eight days after the Randall King show ...
The story of the hard rock project Rising Wings is indeed a rather unique one: the band was already active ...
Getting to the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf required a rental car from Stuttgart Main Station to the town ...
Home Free - the a capella country band has built a fan base all over the world nowadays. I was ...
When Swiss International Air Line recently released the seat map of their new Airbus A350 fleet, a real advantage of ...
The Songs Of The Week is one of my favorite categories of posts on my blog. Even I don't know how the ...
It is just mid-year 2023 and I already start working on my 2024 Rock of Ages International Tour list. I am sure ...
I love small regional air service like the Essential Air Service in the USA or flights to small and rather ...
Wow - I had so many albums this week. Even if I skipped all travel posts and do the regular ...
The Blackwhitecolorful is a band from my home town Cologne. After a 2020 album release, Brace for Impact is their sophomore ...
If you regularly follow my Songs of the Week, you already know the upcoming German artist Bellucci Boi. I introduced you ...
Are we really in the double digits now? I am really happy about my "new" category Food I had Onboard. Also, ...
The public transport situation of Dusseldorf Airport (DUS) is a bit more complex than it might feel at first sight ...
September 2023 will be a quite busy monh. If I finally receive all press passes I envisage to get, there ...
In March 2020, just at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Melanie Wiegmann went to the Maltese island of Gozo ...
While covering the German Athletics Nationals 2023 in Kassel, I was looking for an accommodation near the hosting venue Auestadion. I ...
One evening with six different artists? The opening night of the Heart To Heart concert series definitely came with high ...
When I prepared for the review of this album, I read in one magazine article that Gregor McEwen is a ...
I have quite intense weeks at work, not too many thrills on the Flyctory.com side. The next weeks will have ...
The title of the album Guten Morgen, schönes Leben translates to "Good morning, beautiful life". The artist who wrote it is German ...
Looking for a hotel to cover the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf did not give me too many options ...
If you think about famous German harbor cities, you might initially think of places like Hamburg or Kiel. However, Duisburg ...
This weekend, I have been traveling through England, doing some musical-chasing. As mixed as the stuff I have been doing ...
Actually, we never stopped playing are the first words to the press notes to Back on Track, the comeback album of ...
Madsen is indeed a German family rock band. Three of the six band members are brothers, the band name is ...
Very often, a song I feature as a Song Of My Life is also a track which made me listen ...
The Bergischer HC is a handball club in the German Bundesliga. Visiting one of their home matches requires a bit ...
I am still relaxing from all the trips I had during the last weeks. Nonetheless, things are just busy and ...
Rap and pop music - Mo-Torres is one of the more modern style musicians of the Cologne music scene. On ...
I am surprised that it has never been there before, stated Jackson Dean, one of the four artists, who will ...
Home is where the heart is - I had the idea to this posting about my favorite cities of the ...
The website of the FC St. Pauli Museum states that a club like no other deserves a museum as no other. Indeed, ...
As part of my overnights bridging the night between two mandatory days at the office in Cologne, my last stay ...
After some rather intense week of traveling, I feel rather happy to spend the next two weekends in and around ...
Turn of Tides or Where the Waves Come From - that's quite an album title, ain't it? The artist behind ...
It is some three years ago since I reviewed the album 555 by the German synth-pop project X-Perience. I was ...
Why not doing some jazz-pop in summer? Quite early before the release, I had the opportunity to listen to Sequel by ...
The first day of our Iceland Ring Road trip brought my wife and I to the Air France / KLM ...
Just a week after I stayed at the Mercure Cologne City Friesenstrasse, I tried out another hotel of the Accor ...
My first posting from the Manforter Stadion at the #TrueAthletes Classics 2023 in Leverkusen has been about the field events. Now, ...
I never know what is really happening when I compose a new episode of my Songs of the Week. Until Friday, ...
World class athletics in walking distance to my home? The #TrueAthletes Classics in Leverkusen has been on my bucket list ...
Sasha did so many genres already. He is majorly known as a pop artist, but also did rockabilly records with ...
The Monheimer Sommer is a small series of open air concerts, driven by the city in the Rheinland region. Apart from ...
Some interesting indie-pop from Germany: I already featured Santans in my Song of the Week postings. However, on 28th July 2028, ...
When I reviewed the album now by the German rock band Fury in the Slaughterhouse in April 2021, it has been their ...
Being on a five-day seminar in Lünen North of Dortmund lead to a comparably long stay at the Hampton by ...
What are you doing as a hobby travel blogger when your company (the professional work...) is requesting you to meet ...
While I had quite an intense week in regards of scanning country music new releases, the German and international music ...
Electronic music is typically neither the genre I listen to personally nor the type of music which frequently represented in ...
Some classic hard rock by a new German band project? I got curious when I ran into Rise Up, the debut ...
Due to its harbor, Hamburg is a very important place for trading goods of all kinds. Not too surprisingly, there ...
NH Hotels are rolling out a new brand of hotels in Europe: nhow (pronounced as "now") is a group of ...
Newcomers and established artists, rock and schlager, party songs and deep messages - I feel that this edition of my ...
Tom Astor is likely the most important living artist of the German country music scene. In 2023, he did not ...
With this fourth posting, I am closing my coverage of the German Athletics Nationals 2023. The Auestadion in Kassel hosted ...
I start my coverage of the second day of the German Athletics Nationals 2023 in Kassel with the field events ...
I am a huge fan of the field events in athletics - and thus, I am really glad to also ...
The German Athletics Nationals (or German Athletics Championships... or Deutsche Leichtathletik-Meisterschaften) 2023 in Kassel were truly one of the events I ...
Some surprise in this week's posting: I selected a very special instrumental track to lead my Songs of the Week ...
After I gave you three postings about the music at the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf already, it is ...
Closing day in Pfulllendorf - after Saturday came with a long line-up and a lot of acts, the musical side ...
Motorbikes and good music - I am having a really good time in Pfullendorf at the Lake Constance region in ...
After the great musical warm-up on the first day of the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf, Saturday was something ...
My first full festival coverage with Flyctory.com - I was really nervous while sitting on the train to Stuttgart and ...
The closer you get to summer and vacation time, the easier it is for comparably minor acts to have a ...
I am not a Harley rider and I will travel to Pfullendorf by rental car. But I am really looking ...
I have to give in, that is not a normal posting. I felt that with any major anniversary for Flyctory.com, ...
One more Food I had onboard until I have a full set of ten postings. Hope you also enjoy reading ...
Traveling out of nowehere: I compiled this set of songs in Swansea in Whales, watching the very last Rock of ...
Time to add some more death metal to the Media Reviews of Flyctory.com: after the May 2021 release A Hill To Die Upon, ...
I always enjoy introducing you to emerging artists. One of the reviews I feature about a rather less known artist ...
Right before my wife and I visited the Wellnest Private Spa in Essen during the Christmas holidays of 2022, we ...
The name of the German city of Wuppertal in the Bergische Land region near Cologne is indeed a perfect fit ...
I typically rather focus presenting new and emerging act in my Song of the Week, but this time, the list of ...
My visit at the Sea Life in Munich has still been under Covid-19 regulations. However, I feel that most of ...
I received so many great albums this week - no chance to process a fair fraction of them. However, the ...
After there was some confusion about my coverage of the German debut of the Rock of Ages musical in Munich, I was ...
Sad and touching moments just need to have a good hotel stay for your soul. For the very last leg ...
Back to the Kantine in Cologne: just less than a month after I saw Kip Moore in their major and ...
In November 2022, right after my birthday, a German world-class band was in focus of my Flyctory.com coverage. One day ...
The former concentration camp site at Bergen-Belsen might not be as prominent as Dachau, but it is nonetheless one of ...
Due to my recent illness, I have to reduce my travel activity in June significantly. Nonetheless, there will be ten Rock ...
It's already some four years ago since Silbermond released their last album Schritte. Even though the chart placements were fine, it ...
A 75k ATP Challenger right next to the city where I grew up? Troisdorf near Bonn and their tennis club ...
I have struggled quite much with health issues this week - which also prevented me to travel to some British Rock ...
Some harder rock from Southern Germany: Grenzenlos have been growing their fan base during the last years significantly. The have ...
On 23rd May 2023, the Sound of Nashville concert series had a very special even in Cologne's Helios37. Despite being ...
I love to have a look to German artists, which might not be in key focus of the media. Sören ...
A public holiday in (parts of) Germany gave me the opportunity to collect some status Tier Points for my British ...
When I first googled of "Palila", I ran into a cute yellow-white bird. Palila from Hamburg, however, are less cute ...
I received the album Maniac by the Munich post-hardcore band Marathonmann way before its release on 19th May 2023. Short message: I ...
Catharsis by pain - that's a quote I read frequently about the Hamburg doom metal bnd Moor. For their debut ...
Oops, I did it again. Just within about a month, I feel that I had a nice volume of flights, ...
Sound of Nashville time again. Right after I returned from a brief trip through the Nordics, Semmel Concerts and their ...
After the volume of songs in the last two weeks has been rather thin, this week's Songs of the Week comes with ...
At the German version of The Voice Kids, a ten year old girl quickly persuaded the coaches in the blind auditions ...
Germany meets Belgium and Belgium meets the Netherlands. Needless to say that also Germany and the Netherlands touch each other ...
I did a bit of an ESC week this week, featuring Guildo Horn's Guildo hat Euch lieb! in my Songs of the Week and ...
Even though Accor is likely the second-most frequented hotel group in my bookings, a night in Bremen in April 2023 ...
The album Therapy In Melody was definitely one I was looking forward to. Two of the featured singles by the band Indecent ...
There are these days in life which you remember. The days you exactly remember what you did on that day ...
I am quite surprised about a rather short list of new songs today. Might be because of Labour Day on ...
There is quite some blues focus on the releases I opted to share with you released as of 5th May ...
The artist name Sebel is a short form for the civil name of the artist, Sebastian Niehoff. He is a ...
From the Highwayman to the Bluesman: about a year ago, I reviewed the album Highwayman by Tino Z.On 5th May 2023, the German is back ...
As I told you in previous postings, I initially gather candidates for my Songs of the Week, before I narrow the ...
Let's take you on a trip to Iceland. This is the first proper entry to my Trip Report, which takes on ...
I am always glad to present you German artists, who have a touch of international-style Americana and country music influences ...
Just at the end of the week in which I covered the concert of the Wellerman band The Longest Johns, I ran ...
This April 2023 episode of my Spotlight interviews is one I have been a bit of nervous about, indeed. After ...
Visiting Dortmund, my wife and I also headed to the Naturmuseum (Nature Museum) in the city of the German Ruhrgebiet. After the ...
Using public transport all over Germany for 49 Euro? Sounds like the perfect deal, especially if you are a visitor ...
As I am having some quite intense travels ahead of me, I currently try to prepare as much contents for ...
Reading sessions, artsexhibitions... and concerts - if you look at the tour dates of Kati von Schwerin, you already see ...
In 2018, four Bristol guys recorded an old New Zealand shanty, which was about 150 years old at that time ...
Even though Heidelberg is a tourist magnet for many reasons, the Heidelberger Bergbahnen (Heidelberg Funiculars) are part of it. They offer you ...
After some rather intense traveling, I am glad that there is just a short trip this week. I concentrated on ...
While I struggled with their self-titled debut album Musa Dagh, some other critics had a completely different view about the first ...
In January 2023, I took a rail trip hitting all 16 German states in one day. Apart from that geographic ...
For a night after a photo trip to the Harz mountains in January 2023, I had a one night stay ...
Despite the album name Hamburg, the German indie-pop band North West is in fact from the very North West of Germany, ...
Not too many releases due to the Easter week. The week was dominated by my Rock of Ages coverage. First of all, ...
I had quite a lot of rock music recently on Flyctory.com. Especially German artists made it quite frequently into my ...
I have to give in: the red carpet is not my favorite location. Nonetheless, I felt very thankful that after ...
I had seen the musical Rock of Ages 73 times before this show - but show #74 made me kind of extra-nervous ...
Duisburg in the Ruhrgebiet might not be on the top of your list when you plan a trip though Germany ...
Pop, rock, schlager and much more - I feel that this week's Songs of the Week is a really nice mix of ...
Vanessa Mai is back with a new album. However, the German artist with Croatian roots is going back to her ...
Das ist die Wahrheit - "That's the Truth" is the title of the 2023 album of the rock band VIVA ...
Attending a frequent traveler meeting nearby, I had the opportunity to visit the Hampton by Hilton Frankfurt Airport towards the ...
The last legs of the 2023 Weird Al Yankovic European Tour, Rock of Ages shows, the Pittsburgh Penguins and many ...
I have to give in: the song leading this week's Songs of the Week might also be a candidate for the ...
Floorball playoff time in Bonn: on 26th March 2023, the SSF Dragons Bonn hosted the first best of three match ...
Four decades of guitar riffs - the hard rockers / metalheads Black Hawk already have quite a long history. The ...
After a lot of tour-chasing Weird Al Yankovic and watching the Pittsburgh Penguins, the first weekend home after quite a ...
Technically, I had already closed the list of potential reviews as of 24th March 2023. But then came Sophia and ...
Leony is one of the most interesting emerging artists in the German pop music market. She is currently part of ...
In order to explore Hamburg and upgrade my contents about the Northern German city, I had a two night stay ...
I am always impressed where the Songs of the Week each weekend finally end of. This time, for example, i have been ...
Sometimes, it is easy to select the leading track of my Songs of the Week: I had two hot candidates, but ...
On 10th February 2023, I ran into the single release All my Songs by the German duo Mael & Jonas (in fact, ...
Back to my former home, the Harz mountains: watching two matches of the Red Devils Wernigerode, visiting my student residence ...
Even though Brühl right South of Cologne is just home of 45,000 inhabitant, there are mutiple major attractions in the ...
Ten shows within three weeks - I was just so flattered to welcome Weird Al Yankovic and his lovely band ...
After my most recent edition of my Songs of the Week majorly featured German artists and a lot of pop, my song ...
Wolfgang Petry is back: just about one and a half years after Auf das Leben and half a year after Crosswalk to ...
After I have been quite impressed by her recent development, I was quite curious about 24-1, the new album by German ...
Heading to Hamburg for a day just in the middle of Weird Al Yankovic tour-chasing for country music? February and ...
They started as a school band in my home town and gained global reputation: AnnenMayKantereit released their fourth album Es ist ...
He is having the unofficial nickname The singing Gentleman's Cake and had a huge song about a cat's toilet - Helge Schneider ...
I love gathering songs for Songs of the Week, as the result is so unpredictable, even for me, until short before ...
Endlevel are a German band, who mix thrash and death metal elements. On 24th February 2023, they released a new ...
I was quite surprised when I received the press kit for Antonia Kubas' debut EP: Liebe und Musik ("Love and music") ...
Damn, it is already four years... And it is more than 2,750 postings since then. On 25th February 2018, I ...
The music of OH FYO! is described as a mixture of pop and hip hop elements. I received their album Level ...
Medieval hard rock, Gothic, dance music? Tanzwut is definitely one of these bands in the German music scene, which are ...
Today is a very special day to me: Weird Al Yankovic is playing is first-ever concert in Germany tonight, at ...
Wow, it's already half a dozen of episodes. This time, I start my Food I Had Onboard posting with two ...
Damn - just when I had a massive travel volume, the number of new releases of all genres went up ...
February and early March 2023 held a couple of concerts and shows for me. Thus, right after returning from the ...
I can't really you explain you my sympathy... But I ran into Kammer III, the latest album by Malte Vief ...
Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, USA, Canada - and of course Germany lay ahead of me for the ...
An album with a bunny - how could I not give a review of Warlord, the album by the stoner rock band ...
For some reviews, I just need much longer than expected to find a good slot in my publication planning. One ...
I am kicking off the most stressful part of the year, quite likely. This week, I headed off to Peterborough ...
The Donots have steadily grown and became an established part of the German rock music scene. They also had quite ...
Time to present you some music from Germany this weekend: The Rehats are doing folk-pop and already exist since over ...
After my - a bit of weird - trip of passing all 16 German states and eleven largest cities of ...
The story of the album The Candle and the Flame is really dramatic and touching. Australian artist Robert Forster recorded the nine ...
Bitburg is a comparably small town in the German Eifel region in West Germany, not too far away from the ...
The ISTAF Indoor in Dusseldorf was truly an sports event I was looking forward to very much. First of all, ...
This weekend was really difficult for me to plan ahead. With the ISTAF Indoor in Dusseldorf, I had a fixed ...
I felt that genug, the debut EP by German singer IUMA, is a nice addition to the release reviews as of ...
Despite the project name sounds rather Ruhrgebiet-alike, Umme Block are an electronic pop duo from Munich. The German artists release ...
27th January 2023, the first Flyctory.com concert coverage of the new year. I will feature a couple of really cool ...
What a day - on 14th January 2023, I traveled through all 16 German states in a 24 hour train ...
Despite the band is "just" existing since 2000, Ravenblack is already the twelfth studio album by the German dark rock band Mono ...
Oh wow, I really have to limit myself this week. There is so much good music being released this week ...
Reviewing German artist Alexander Liebe and his album Spielautomat has been a typical Flyctory.com story. I received the album through a ...
The band name Keimzeit Akustik Quintett roughly translates to "Sprout Time Acoustic Quintet". The band, which is located Southwest of ...
The 19th August 2022 edition of my Songs of the Week was lead by a Norwegian-origin band: Hey Rosie by ...
The night before the two floorball matches of the Red Devils Wernigerode against UHC Weißenfels (women) and the Berlin Rockets ...
How could the Christmas days end better than with some warmth, sauna, whirlpool and... wait... It will be damn full ...
AIthough has just been a day trip, but I just felt it is too long to tell the story of ...
Okay, I give in: this trip is weird. While people typically feel that I am "just" a die hard aviation ...
Wow, that's massive! After I had a quite thin list of new releases since mid-December 2022, Christmas break is officially ...
Ski Holiday sounds like a perfect band name for a winter release, doesn't it? The band has British and German ...
The band name Groenalund feels quite Swedish. In fact, there are references to Sweden in the band history. First of ...
I felt that the current discussions about the closing down of the village of Lützerrath in Germany are a good ...
Especially when I wrote my Best Ones 2022 posting recently, I absolutely felt that I should increase the coverage of sports events ...
Back in the Harz region: I loved to be in the area where I used to live for some seven ...
For a trip to Pinneberg just outside Hamburg, I needed a stay close to one of Hamburg's regional train stations ...
Welcome to the first Songs of the Week posting in 2023! Despite the music industry is slowly getting back to business, I ...
Even though one of my early Flyctory.com posts was about my B777 Singapore Airlines First Class experience, it took me ...
The Wasserturm in my home town Cologne is indeed one of the most iconic hotels of the city. Literally, the ...
Dud you ever feel like learning more about the current operations and future plans of Germany's largest airport? Frankfurt Airport ...
I guess that the next weeks will be more intense. Depending if you look at the publishing or the cut-off ...
The last posting of the year - Best Ones 2022 is introducing you to my best experience last years (as ...
While the music market is more and more focusing on singles and even writes weird stories like Taylor Swift's "Top ...
Since I started working with Flyctory.com, I present you a list of my favorite songs at the end of every ...
A trip to a Frequent Flyer meeting lead to a post about train rides: Less than two weeks after the ...
The German amusement park Phantasialand is regularly rated to be one of the best and especially most atmospheric spots of ...
Christmas weekend - Marry Christmas to everybody who is celebrating. I guess that this week and the following one will ...
Asam Church in Munich is regarded to be the most beautiful church in the Bavarian capital. Thus, on one of ...
I like Hamburg - and especially in recent times, I have been very frequently around the Reeperbahn region. There are ...
I was quite surprised that finally 15 songs made it into my Songs of the Week as of 16th November 2022 ...
Now that Christmas is getting closer, it is also a great opportunity for less known artists to receive some additional ...
Music from Hamburg: King LX is a rather new collaboration from the Northern German city. On 16th December 2022, they ...
March 2020 changed my life. Covid-19 temporarily took me quite a bunch of habits, which I felt to be essential ...
Even in the United States, you nowadays run into the green coaches of Flixbus. The company turned out to dominate ...
Just some ten days left until Christmas. Instead of my typical album preview, I this time go for a preview ...
The Pergamonmuseum is one of the key touristic places in Berlin. The museum features over 250,000 objects of German-lead excavations ...
I was quite amazed that there were quite a lot of interesting single releases this week. At least artists from ...
Basta by the German band Sündflut is one of these records, which I just had a short listen to and just ...
Nina Hagen is one of the most iconic entertainers in the German cultural scene. The German "Godmother of Punk" wrote ...
A lot of Christmas songs, a lot of covers and best of albums are the new releases in the - ...
The Christmas business is more and more turning towards TVs, toys and other stuff, while the music industry is doing ...
Myle has definitely been a raising artist in Germany during the last to years. He played the important SWR3 New ...
Especially when I visit large places for Flyctory.com, which give me a lot of memories - and pictures - I ...
Almost four decades of music, 13 albums, more than 6,000 shows - even though Boppin' B are no chart-busters, they ...
Time for another episode of Food I had onboard. Between September and November 2022, I had some really interesting experiences, ...
"Little Christmas" - as there is Thanksgiving in the United States, the volume of new releases is significantly reduced, just ...
After quite a while as a band member, German David Gramberg decided to turn solo. On 25th November 2022, you ...
A Line in My Skin is a new album by the German artist Karo Lynn. I guess it has been the ...
Samuel Rösch became famous by winning the TV show The Voice of Germany. I already had a look into his music ...
After I loved his 2021 album One Can Wreck It All, I was really excited to see that there will be ...
The Reeperbahn area in Hamburg's borough St. Pauli has undergone quite a significant transformation. Some decades ago, the red light and ...
Very interesting weekend this time: with the shows of Milky Chance and Brett Young, both in Cologne, I had quite ...
Quite a lot of interesting music on Flyctory.com in November: after the Alexander Ludwig and Nik Wallner show in Cologne, ...
I love country music - but I always feel very gifted when I am able to present you some other ...
They started in school years in Kassel, Germany and are now a global musical success. The song Stolen Dance catapulted the German ...
There are so many Christmas music albums each and every year - I typically try to filter out interesting ones ...
There are two major soccer clubs in Hamburg - and they are so different. If you look at their national ...
Unexpected encounter in October 2022: right when I was about to have my first Eurowings Discover intercontinental flight to Tampa ...
The musical even of the week to me was definitely the announcement of the 2023 European Weird Al Yankovic tour ...
Especially if you frequently watch concerts in Germany and neighboring countries, you simply know Tina Tandler. You might not know ...
The 7th November 2022 is one of these days I will hardly forget so quickly. In a Weird Al fan ...
This is already the second time I met Nik Wallner for a Spotlight interview on Flyctory.com. While the first time we chatted ...