For a Few Seconds, Only the Human Being Remains There is hardly anything left in modern football that cannot be measured. Running patterns are tracked, sprints counted, physical loads compared, sleep monitored, nutrition optimised. A player’s body is observed, trained, protected and analysed in areas a coach thirty years ago probably did not even know […]
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Part 1 – The First Day of the Trial At the end of this story, there will be a verdict. What that verdict will be, even the author does not yet know. This time, the outcome will not be decided first, followed by a story carefully constructed to lead us there. This time, it will
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Someone Has to Be Responsible, After All Life wasn’t easy for humans in ancient times. Thunder rolled across the sky, and nobody knew why. The sky suddenly went dark even though it was the middle of the day. The ground began to shake, mountains spat fire, diseases appeared out of nowhere, and every now and
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When “Better” Suddenly Becomes Very Expensive German engineering has a reputation that hardly needs explaining. Precision, safety, durability, technical solutions where someone, somewhere, apparently decided to run the numbers one more time even though the answer had already been correct. Much of this has contributed to Germany’s economic success, and much of it deserves exactly
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Technology, Thoughts in EnglishI have been dealing with this case for quite some time now. I have read newspaper reports, compared press releases, looked up laws, placed statements side by side, formulated questions for authorities and probably watched those 55 seconds more often than I would have liked. And yet something strange keeps happening. The more I learn
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This article returns to the beginning of the Schmotzer case. Not with the knowledge of what would later happen in court, but from the perspective of the time itself. What matters at every stage is only what was known, verifiable and capable of being substantiated at that particular moment. The investigation we follow on this
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Humans, Society, Thoughts in EnglishBetween Unanswered Questions, Public Anger and a Rule of Law Under Pressure Four acquittals. An immediate waiver of appeal by the public prosecutor’s office. A final judgment. At least in criminal-law terms, that could have been the end of the Schmotzer case. Yet since 4 August 2026, the exact opposite has happened. The case is
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Humans, Society, Thoughts in EnglishWho Was Entitled to Decide That Schmotzer Had to Die? The acquittal is final. On 4 August 2026, four men were acquitted by the Innsbruck Regional Court of the charge of animal cruelty. The public prosecutor’s office waived its right to appeal. The criminal proceedings are therefore over. But the legal examination of what happened
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Future, Humans, Society, Thoughts in EnglishPrologue – A Cat Who Refuses to Disappear from the Headlines Under normal circumstances, the story of Schmotzer would probably have already begun to fade from public attention. That is how our news cycle works. An event shocks us, thousands comment on it, social media erupts – and a few days later, the next story
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When the World Quietly Moves On It is remarkable how inconspicuously the greatest changes slip into our lives. They rarely arrive with a loud explosion. More often, they are simply there one morning. After an update, the smartphone suddenly looks different. The bank has redesigned its app. At the supermarket, the person ahead of us
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