2 January - Bad Reichenhall Ice Rink roof collapse 9 February - Bundesvision Song Contest 2006 February - April - 2006 European floods 26 June - Murder of Frauke Liebs 31 July - 2006 German train bombing plot 22 September - Lathen train collision 26 September - 2006 Idomeneo controversy 26 September – 1 October – Photokina in Cologne 20 November - Emsdetten school shooting October - 2006 German troops controversy