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The celebrity jury has decided: Kira Geiss from Magdeburg is the new Miss Germany. With her newly gained fame she wants to do good for young people.

The 20-year-old Kira Geiss from Magdeburg was awarded the title "Miss Germany" on Saturday evening (March 4). In the final, she prevailed against nine other candidates who had been selected from 15,000 applicants prior to the event at Europa-Park Rust. Instead of a crown, she received the title "Female Leader Award" and prize money of 25,000 euros - and the obligatory Miss Germany sash.

"The election for Miss Germany has grown and has developed from a talent competition into a female empowerment platform for the voices of the present," says the event's official website. Consequently, Geiss was honored for her commitment to youth work. This year's jury included Bruce Darnell (65), Ruth Moschner (46), Nicolas Puschmann (31) and Monica Meier Ivancan (45), and Frauke Ludowig (59) and her daughter Nele led through the evening.

"It's incredibly important to me to do good to my fellow human beings and to integrate positivity and forbearance into my everyday life," the 20-year-old is quoted as saying. "Last year I therefore helped found a youth community here in Magdeburg, which is committed to promoting young people on a social, creative and musical level." After the triumph, she wants to use the attention she has gained to set up a Germany-wide youth platform.

First trans woman was in the final this year
Kira Geiss follows Domitila Barros (38) from Berlin. The social entrepreneur and actress, who grew up in a slum in Brazil, won over the jury with her parents' street children's project, in which she is actively involved.

This year, Saskia von Bargen (19) was the first trans woman to take part in the final of a Miss Germany election. She sees it as her mission to educate people about gender reassignment surgery and wanting it.

The German pop singer Andrea Berg (57) has been with her current husband Ulrich Ferber (63) for around 20 years. In a new interview, both reveal how much they still love each other.

He didn't want to get married again until he met his Andrea
Berg moved from Krefeld to Swabia after about eight months, Ferber told the "Bild" newspaper. She fascinated him because even though she was a star, she was "very down to earth and approachable". "I didn't want to get married again until I met Andrea."

The wedding followed in 2007, and last summer the two celebrated their 15th anniversary. Berg published a current picture on Instagram and one from the celebration at the time. "I would do it again," she wrote.

"The initial love became a team," the singer now explains. "We no longer walk around with little hearts in our eyes." The two, on the other hand, have much more in common: "We grew together, experienced a lot of beautiful things together and mastered crises." And there is also "so much that I would like to experience with Uli".

Berg recently made a declaration of love to her husband on Instagram. "What a feeling, too good to be true," she said of shared pictures in which the two look at each other in love. "We met for the first time 20 years ago, since then you have been my rock in the surf..."

After three years, Adel Tawil (44) is back with new music and deep insights into his innermost being. Because hardly any album has been as personal as "Spiegelbild", which fans can now listen to. Tawil used the corona pandemic to process the "wounds of long years, the demons of even longer nights" in 16 new songs.

"There was a time in my life when it was very dark," he says in an interview with the news agency spot on news. "It's not like that at the moment, but you never know how things will develop and what awaits you in the future. I feel the same as any of us." The pandemic changed the native Berliner. He had reset his priorities, "it is particularly important to me that the time with the family is not neglected".

"Consolation and grief take time"
Last year he had to cope with a "very heavy loss": the death of his close friend, mentor and producer Andreas Herbig. "He was a true genius, but also a good friend and a loving person and father. I still think of him very often and often wonder what the boogieman would have done." With "Nirvana" he wanted to pay tribute to his friend because it was the last title they worked on together. Tawil further explains: "Consolation and sorrow take time. Herbig will stay with us forever through his music and his unique sound. Even if he is no longer with us, he will always be present through his music."

Adel Tawil: "Suddenly my head was on fire"
Tawil "can hardly wait" to perform songs like "Nirvana" or "Autobahn" live again. Because not being able to perform during the pandemic "burdened him more than I thought". "It was a real dry spell for all artists," said the singer. "The anticipation is all the greater now that we can finally be back on stage."

Caution and prudence are now extremely important to Tawil during his performances, because the singer has had many an accident. "In fact, I've fallen off the stage at a confusing spot," he recalls. And there was also a small fire accident during the video shoot for the single "Feuer und Eis": "Unfortunately, a chain of unfortunate coincidences led to my head suddenly burning. Luckily, I instinctively acted correctly and immediately took all my clothes off Body torn, so nothing worse happened. But the shock was great."

Adel Tawil's tour dates
Starting in the summer, fans will have the opportunity to experience Adel Tawil's new songs live. His open-air tour starts on June 17th in Munich. It continues in Hamburg (June 24), Stuttgart (July 19), Chemnitz (August 10) or Oldenburg (August 11). Further performances are planned in Echternach (Luxembourg) on July 20th and in Schaffhausen and Zofingen (Switzerland) on August 12th and 13th.

After a short break, the "Spiegelbild" tour will start on October 5th in Rostock, followed by Erfurt (October 6th), Cologne (October 7th), Bielefeld (October 8th), Koblenz (October 10th), Hanover (October 12), Frankfurt (October 13), Berlin (October 14) and Leipzig (October 15).

The Oscars will be presented in Hollywood in just over a week. Then after the award ceremony, hopefully the winning films will be the focus again and no scandals like the slap that moderator and comedian Chris Rock (58) caught from Will Smith (54) after he made a joke at the expense of his wife Jada Pinkett Smith (51) had made.

Will Smith's slap overshadowed the Oscars

For Will Smith, it was the fall from Hollywood's Mr. Nice Guy to violent bully. Film projects with him were partially put on hold, at least for the time being, and he rarely appeared in public after the incident. We're guaranteed not to see him at this year's Oscars, as he earned himself a ten-year ban from the awards ceremony, despite dropping out of the Academy the very next day. It wasn't all bad for him that night, though, as before he became a Hollywood leper, he picked up the coveted Best Actor trophy for 'King Richard'. His beating victim had so far largely remained silent about the incident.

Chris Rock unpacks

Largely. As it has only now become known, Chris Rock had briefly made the slap in the face an issue when he tried out new material for his upcoming comedy tour to live audiences in January. That reports the 'Wall Street Journal'. The comedian joked, "What everyone wants to know...did it hurt? Yeah, hell, it hurt!" He added: "He played Muhammad Ali, I played Pookie." With that, Chris was alluding to film roles. Will Smith played the famous boxer, while Chris Rock played a loser as Pookie in 'New Jack City'. "I got hit so hard, 'Summertime' rang in my ears," he continued, referring to Will Smith's hit song. At least Chris Rock will be safe at this year's awards.

US actor Michael B. Jordan (36, "Creed III – Rocky's Legacy") has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Wearing a cobalt blue suit, he unveiled his plaque on Wednesday. As the movie star prepared to receive one of the top awards in the entertainment industry, he beamed with pride while his friends, actor Jonathan Majors, 33, and director-writer Ryan Coogler, 36, gave heartfelt speeches praising his career.

The 2,751. person with a star
Coogler recalled her first encounter with Jordan at a Starbucks near Universal Studios. Speaking about working together on Black Panther, he said his late pal Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020) was probably looking at them right now and smiling.

Majors was next on the podium. Among other things, he said, according to "NBC News": "I am very honored to call you my friend...no man on this planet deserves that more...I love you to the moon and back."

Jordan is the 2,751. Person who received a star on the Walk of Fame. A day earlier, actress Courteney Cox (58) received the 2750th plaque - she was celebrated on site by her former "Friends" colleagues.