The good news are that I've been invited to interview for a halftime-position within (slightly stretched) commuting distance from Nuremburg including some teaching at university-level and some research within the general area of homological algebra and representation theory with the goal of achieving a PhD at some point in the future.

The bad news are that I received my rejection letter from the Graduiertenkolleg I was applying for.

The ugly (to make the triple complete more than as a characterization of any other properties) is that I still have the possibility to get in touch with the people in Bochum and in Osnabrück and talk to them about possibilities to do a PhD without the specific funding from the Graduiertenkolleg.

And if all of this falls through, there's still the regular application season beginning in mid-April.