The carnival street parades are in full gear. One of the most prestigious and largest parades traditionally takes place on Rose Monday in Mainz. Video courtesy of rheinmaintv.

"Don't worry, be happy!" Or in the case of painter Ernst Mente at Der besondere Kunstmarkt in Leopoldshafen, "don't be depressed, just paint!" Mr. Mente discusses how he taught himself to paint after a career in the kitchen.

This Yabla video shows a machine from the Karlsruhe company SAC which inspects textiles for defects. If you are a fan of Technik, this video is for you!

The RT Radiotonteam can consolidate all of your old videos and keepsakes into a digital video. Here Mr. Grund, the owner of the company, discusses some of the more embarrassing moments...

The RT Radiotonteam can consolidate all of your old videos and recordings into digital keepsakes. Here Mr. Grund, the owner of the company, discusses some of the more interesting moments...

Representatives of Sirius Advanced Cybernetics LLC (SAC) are in Stuttgart for Vision 2014, the world's leading machine vision trade fair. We get a look at their booth, while they explain what image processing is and present three of their company's current products.

The painter Benno Treiber tells us about his latest exhibition in Leopoldshafen and about how he chose his subjects and his life the last twenty years Spain.

Scenes of horror from Castle Frankenstein and Rhein/Main Scene's own Thomas Raudnitzky reports. Viel Spaß zum Halloween!

"King Thrushbeard," one of the Grimm brothers' fairytales, tells the story a haughty princess who mistreats her subjects. But in the end - at the hand of a wise and forgiving suitor - she learns an important lesson in life. Viel Spaß!

Reading from Goethe's Faust, world-renowned actor Klaus Maria Brandauer delivered a brilliant performance at the grand celebration of Goethe University's 100th anniversary in Frankfurt.

Wine is much more than an alcoholic beverage. For connoisseurs, wine can also be an investment, since some wines can become more valuable with time. The wines are in good hands in Germany's only Winebank! Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

Yet another grim fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm with an ambiguous moral: Pay your bills or your children will be taken away from you? Brilliantly narrated by Bastian Pastewka, from the series Legendary: Tales from Around the World.

There is no place for the failure of the World Cup in the mind of Joseph Blatter. Unfinished stadiums and possible mass demonstrations are no problem for the FIFA president. He is certain that the World Cup will be a success, but that the European teams will have a tough time getting to the final match! (video copyright dpa)

Berlin's reigning mayor Klaus Wowereit is the longest reigning head of government in Germany. In this exclusive interview, he discusses the construction debacle of the new Berlin Airport and his plans for introducing social housing to Tempelhof Field. (video copyright dpa)

On a Sunday evening around 6 p.m., there was an earthquake in South Hesse, with the epicenter in Ober-Ramstadt near Darmstadt. With a strength of 3.2 on the Richter Scale, there was no major damage reported, but the quake certainly gave some of the residents quite a scare!