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In the organizer's words:

Stories that inspire and inform - told by the Düsseldorfers who have experienced them first-hand. Four times a year, presenters Hans Onkelbach and Christian Herrendorf invite four exciting people from the most beautiful city on the Rhine to a cozy matinée at the Kom(m)ödchen. Over coffee and pastries, they talk about the most memorable, touching and fascinating moments of the year. ZweiVier takes place on July 6 and looks back on April, May and June. Four men and women will be interviewed over the course of the weeks leading up to the event.

The first interviewee has now been chosen: doctor Ingo Alldinger has agreed to join us on stage. He caught my attention because he does a really unusual podcast. Entitled "Der Proktologe - Arsch voll Wissen" (The proctologist - an assload of knowledge), he chats casually about our daily metabolism and its, well, products. Sometimes it takes some getting used to, but it's always interesting. Especially as it affects us all.

The second guest is Heike Schneidereit-Mauth, who is active as a pastor in many ways: as a priest at the university hospital as well as through her commitment to people affected by sexualized violence. This is why she is involved in investigating the case in which two men in a Düsseldorf parish were victims of such violence and even more victims are suspected.

The third guest will be Dorothee Krings from the features section of the "Rheinische Post". She published her first novel a few weeks ago: "Days of Glass". In it, she tells the story of the glassmakers' strike in 1900, which had a huge impact in Düsseldorf. At that time, the Gerresheim district was home to one of Germany's largest factories for glass containers. Dorothee tells the story through the fate of two very different women. The book provides a dense insight into the history of this city, which was also shaped by glass production.

Sabrina Proschmann, co-chair of the SPD parliamentary group, completes the guest list and will discuss Düsseldorf's path to affordable rents. From the opposition in the city council, she wrested a program of 8,000 new apartments from the Lord Mayor. Now she has discovered that an important part of this plan is in jeopardy: the Bergische Kaserne site will probably not be built after all because the Ministry of Defense will not hand it over.