Overview

• Police closed the A3 in Unterfranken toward Frankfurt after a crash, reporting that one involved person fled and may be injured.
• A 51-year-old motorcyclist in Gera died at the scene after falling and being run over by a truck, according to police.
• Investigators in Nordhausen are seeking witnesses after a firecracker was thrown through an open balcony window into an apartment, causing damage but no injuries.
• Vienna’s Burgtheater held a large memorial for director Claus Peymann, whose body is being returned to Berlin for burial on September 26 at the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof.
• New DIE ZEIT reporting highlights personal accounts of how parental pressure shapes careers and why some adults sever contact with parents as a form of self-protection.