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Zeitgeistlyrik: Uprooted and Banished Zeitgeistlyrik: Literature Nobel Prize Herta Mller 2009: A Banat Swabian poetess Was born in 1953 In a hamlet called Nitzkydorf, Which lies in Romania. She came to Berlin in 1987. Wrote verses to mete out justice ... ( added 29 days 14 hours ago.)

Walking Along the Southern Vosges in France (Satis Shroff) Frankenthal-Missleheim is an excellent nature reserve in the South Vosges of France. You can go along the Col de la Schlucht, which is a gorge, via Trois-Fours, past Martinswald to Frankenthal and Holneck, where you can see... ( added 86 days 17 hours ago.)

Adieu, Mr. Jackson We Love You, Mr. Jackson Your longing for your mythical island: Neverland, Got the better of you. ( added 142 days 19 hours ago.)

Book Reviews Creative Writing Critique: Chicken of India Unite! Review: Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger. Atlantic Books, London, 2008. Man Booker Prize 2008. German version: Der Weisse Tiger' published by C.H. Beck, 2008. Aravind Adiga was a... ( added 145 days 20 hours ago.)

Gurkhas: Better Late than Never in Britain Recently, I was surprised to receive an e-mail from 10 Downing Street. It was Gordon Brown. Tears ran down my cheeks as I read the happy news that hed capitulated in the bureaucratic fight against the Gurkhas. It had been the MoD against the... ( added 177 days 15 hours ago.)

Black Forest Lyrik Schwarzwaldlyrik (Black Forest Poems): AUTUMN LEAVES IN KAPPEL (Satis Shroff) Autumn leaves dancing in the sky, Gleaming as the sunlight Caresses them. Out in the distance, The blue Schwarzwald, With its melange ... ( added 294 days 19 hours ago.)

Frankfurter Buchmesse: Pearls from the Bosporus Frankfurter Book Fair: What happens when a TV moderator organises a show and prizes are awarded to Veronica Ferres 43 (best actress), Misel Maticevic 38 (best actor), Contergan' (best film) and the best show Germany sucht den Superstar?' An... ( added 1 year 34 days ago.)

A Thousand Years of Zähringen The ruins of Zähringen's castle lies o n a hillock overlooking the Vale of Dreisam. And the hamlet of Zähringen is a part of Freiburg. Zähringen is 1000 years old, reason enough to celebrate a festival with the inauguration of the Zähringer... ( added 1 year 153 days ago.)

Goethe: A German Writer of the First Rank Johann Wolfgang Goethe, who was lifted to nobility as J. W.von Goethe in 1782, was born on August 28, 1749 in the town of Frankfurt. The Goethes lived in a large, comfortable house in the Hirschgasse, now called Goethe Haus. Besides practical... ( added 1 year 198 days ago.)

Dalai Lama's Realpolitik: A Policy of Appeasement Commentary on Tibet: Dalai Lama's Realpolitik: A Policy of Appeasement The Chinese poet Dong Guanfu writes in his blog: "We cannot win the heart of the Tibetans if we only develop their economy. If we cannot manage to understand this, then... ( added 1 year 231 days ago.)

Fasnetzeit: How the Germans and Swiss Celebrate the Nights of Fasting Fastnachtzeit in Friburg (Germany) and Basle (Switzerland) When we cry ‘ Narri, Narro! 'in Freiburg, they rejoice in Cologne, Mainz and Düsseldorf, for it is carnival-time. And the German and Swiss TV channels have mostly carnivals on their... ( added 1 year 290 days ago.)

Film review: Darjeeling Limited, a Journey to India and Within (Satis Shroff, Freiburg) Darjeeling Limited is a road movie with three different protagonists, Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman, who we are told are brothers. One looks like a Hawk-nosed Italian (Adrien Brody) with fine features and a heavily pregnant wife... ( added 1 year 307 days ago.)

On Doctor Faustus and Mephistopheles Dr. Johann Faust, the man who sold his soul to the Devil. A mythical figure? Certainly not. I went to the pretty town of Staufen via Bad Krözingen from Freiburg. From the distance you can see the ruins of a castle looming above the vineyards on a... ( added 2 years 34 days ago.)

Votive Art in the Swiss Alps Switzerland : Votive Images of the Mountain Chapel at Stoos Stoos is located in the Alp world of inner Switzerland 1300m above sea-level. This was once a region dominated by shepherds and farmers. Till 1933 you could go to Stoos only by foot... ( added 2 years 97 days ago.)

Impressions From Switzerland It’s a sunny afternoon when Claudia and I boarded the ICE (Inter City Express) train from the Black Forest town Freiburg, then switch trains at the Swiss Badische Bahnhof (SBB) and travelled via Olten in a Swiss regional train towards Luzern. The... ( added 2 years 99 days ago.)

Bombay Brothel ‘ You’re not going to get away this time. And you’ll never ever bring a Nepalese child To a Bombay brothel,’ I said to myself. I’d killed a man who’d betrayed me And sold me to an old, cunning Indian woman, ( added 2 years 175 days ago.)

OLERON: An Unforgettable Isle on the Atlantic Coast (Satis Shroff, Freiburg) It was a beautiful sight. The sun was going down after a hot and sultry day, a scarlet mass, and the sky was a bright orange with shades of yellow and azure above. There were some clouds languidly moving ahead. A flock of sea-gulls dived and... ( added 2 years 181 days ago.)

The Charms of Spoken English Whether you hear Radio Nepal, the BBC, CNN or the Voice of America, there’s no such thing as ‘correct spoken English.’ There is no standard as such, even though the Queen’s English is regarded as a measuring yard. As George Bernard Shaw said, ‘No... ( added 2 years 192 days ago.)

Ethnic Roots Abroad Claudia, Maria, my sister Neeta and I had lunch together. We'd cooked Nepalese food comprising: chicken, potatoes, rice and chutney and ice-cream as dessert, and sat watching some videos of Neeta’s trip to Europe, when I suggested that we should... ( added 2 years 192 days ago.)

Beliefs and Customs in Germany and Nepal Whereas the older people in Asia pray the whole day and are in communion with God because the life-span in Asia is shorter, I had the impression here in Europe that the older generation are still living it up. You’re pensioned at 67 years in... ( added 2 years 192 days ago.)

The Interitance of Loss and Loss of Intercultural Competence ‘ My characters are purely fictional,' says Kiran Desai. In her book (The Inheritance of Loss) she has tried to do exactly that, namely to capture her own knowledge about what it means to travel between East and West, and to examine the lives of... ( added 2 years 192 days ago.)

Ah, Darjeeling Tea! DRINKING TEA IN DARJEELING The 126 year old cobalt blue coloured narrow-gauge Darjeeling Himalayan Railway train chugged and snorted its way from Kurseong to Darjeeling via Ghoom along the serpentine route, against the silvery backdrop of... ( added 2 years 192 days ago.)

Pollution in the Himalayas Opening the doors to the world and tourists has brought not only advantages but also disadvantages to Nepal for instance. Tourism and foreign aid have brought not only dollars, deutsche marks, sterling pounds and yen,but also its share of... ( added 2 years 192 days ago.)

Let's Live Together, Despite the Differences I met Toni Hagen ages ago in Freiburg where he’d come to give a talk about Nepal, and I must say he made a jolly good impression. As a long-time Freiburger, I went with him to a local tavern near the Schwabentor for a swig of German beer. ‘I’ve... ( added 2 years 194 days ago.)

Madly in Love With Venice It was a bright sunny morning when Claudia, Giacomo, Silvana I headed for Italy from Freiburg. The first Swiss town we went through was Basel, which is known for its university and chemical firms near the Swiss-German border. The sky was a... ( added 2 years 194 days ago.)