Wolfgang Hampel, Heidelberg singer, satirist and composer, author of the global success 'Satire is my favorite animal' - according to many critics and readers one of the most humorous books of all time: "I have a nightmare, it's huge. Reality overtakes satire and I'm unemployed!"

Wolfgang Hampel, Heidelberg singer, satirist and composer, author of the global success 'Satire is my favorite animal' - according to many critics and readers one of the most humorous books of all time: "I have a nightmare, it's huge. Reality overtakes satire and I'm unemployed!"--------------------------------------- Many ESC fans around the world are voting with great enthusiasm for Wolfgang Hampel to compete for Germany at the ESC 2025 in Basel. There are more and more emails every day. We've never experienced this before. It's an absolute record. We're very excited to see what Wolfgang Hampel will decide. --------------- STERN Kristi Noem will probably become Secretary of Homeland Security in Trump's new government South Dakota's Governor She made short work of animals: Noem is to join Trump's cabinet November 12, 2024 10:47 a.m. 3 min Kristi Noem is to be Trump's new US Secretary of Homeland Security. The governor of South Dakota made headlines because she killed some animals. However, she is also a farmer. According to a media report, the designated US President Donald Trump has chosen the controversial Governor Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security. The 52-year-old is to head the department responsible for Trump's core issues such as internal security and immigration, reported the broadcaster CNN, citing two insiders. In the spring of this year, Kristi Noem, governor of the US state of South Dakota, shocked the American people with the story of how she shot her 14-month-old dog years ago. But that was not all. Despite the devastating response to her confession, Noem then went one step further on the CBS show "Face the Nation" and suggested that Joe Biden's German Shepherd "Commander" should have been killed long ago. The "First Dog" had recently made headlines with numerous biting attacks. Therefore, it was now time to make "a decision" about him too. Now you don't have to take every crazy idea that a US politician expresses on a talk show seriously. In the case of Noem, however, things are a little different. The 52-year-old Republican has both feet firmly in Donald Trump's camp and was even considered a "running mate", i.e. a possible candidate for the vice presidency at Trump's side. After all, he has already attested that she is a "hot politician" who does "a great job". Noem is 52 years old and says she works as a cattle rancher, farmer and small business owner. She has three children with her husband Bryon. She has a bachelor's degree in political science, which she earned at South Dakota State University. She began her political career in 2007 as a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives; there is no record of her having any desire to kill pets from that time. Three years later, she was elected as a member of the US House of Representatives and has been the first woman to hold the post of governor of South Dakota since 2019. Kristi Noem is a die-hard anti-abortion activist Noem understood early on how to cause a stir in politics. In the past, she made a name for herself as a supporter of the Tea Party movement and, above all, as a staunch anti-abortion activist. After the end of the blanket right to abortion in the USA, she added fuel to the fire in a TV interview. "Every single life is precious," the Republican replied when asked whether a pregnant, underage rape victim had to give birth to the child. "I don't think a tragic situation should be perpetuated by another tragedy." Another topic on which the Republican likes to provoke with her statements is gun law. Noem is an avowed gun lobbyist. In 2023, at an event organized by the gun lobby NRA, she proudly boasted that her almost two-year-old granddaughter already owned a rifle, among other things. And then the dog killings... The British Guardian got the ball rolling when it quoted from Noem's as yet unpublished biography "No going back". In it, Noem describes how she actually wanted to train her dog "Cricket" to hunt pheasants. The dog, who was around 14 months old, was too boisterous and scared the birds away. Cricket also killed chickens on a neighbouring property "like a trained assassin" and snapped at Noem herself. So she shot the dog. According to the Guardian, she wanted to use such descriptions to underline her willingness to do "difficult, messy and ugly" things as a politician if necessary.