Being part of a company for 25 or even 40 years is a rarity these days. So it's all the better that we were able to celebrate this special occasion with 163 colleagues at the Wolkenburg in Cologne on 24 November.

According to United Nations projections, up to ten billion people could be living in the world by 2050. Consequently, one of the major challenges of the future will be to feed these people healthily without overburdening our planet. As a food retailer and a daily companion to our customers, we are working hard to meet this challenge.

A supermarket is currently being built in the Lankwitz district of Berlin that is setting new standards - both ecologically and architecturally. The second REWE Green Farming store celebrated its topping-out ceremony at the end of September, bringing it a big step closer to its opening in spring 2026. What makes it special? It is the first REWE Group store to be planned and built entirely using the BIM (Building Information Modelling) method. In this interview, Thomas van der Broeck, Head of Digital Construction & Processes, explains why the project is pioneering for construction at REWE Group.

It is an architectural jewel, a Cologne institution with an exciting history and REWE Group's smallest retail brand all in one: the Cologne wine cellar is one of the largest historic vaulted wine cellars in Germany. In this interview, Sven Reinbold, managing director since June, talks about his first 100 days in the cellar, his ideas for reorganising the sales line and the current challenges in the wine trade.

Three special stories shine in the run-up to Christmas: Charly Hübner becomes a satirical escape helper in "Der Held vom Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse", Eva Victor deals with an assault with black humour in "Sorry, Baby". Sky/Wow is honouring Mozart with the opulent series "Amadeus".

There is a cinema, away from the mainstream, in which situations are more important than stories, images more significant than words and nuances more profound than dialogue. Two films this autumn prove how well this works as satire. In "Bugonia", Yorgos Lanthimos places the fate of humanity in the hands of a conspiracy theorist. Ari Aster centres the often absurd drama of the Covid pandemic on the small town of Eddington in New Mexico. The new eight-part miniseries "The Beast in Me" with Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys on Netflix is far more darkly mysterious.

In the big screen stories, autumn is human. For example in Kelly Reichardt's crook comedy "The Mastermind", in which a young father plans an art heist in the autumnal US province. Bookseller Agathe is secretly waiting for someone to steal her heart in the romantic comedy "Jane Austen and the Chaos in My Life". Meanwhile, the crime-thriller series "The Savant" with Jessica Chastain on apple tv+ generates suspense.