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As Germany celebrates its national holiday, the Day of German Unity on October 3, Germans around the world are inviting guests to celebrations marking the unification of Germany 13 years ago. It is also a day to remember that well over 40 million Americans consider themselves descendants of German immigrants.
In Washington, German Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger and state of Hesse Minister President Roland Koch are co-hosting an event for nearly 3,000 people, the largest such event at any diplomatic representation in the capital. This year's celebration in Washington has been generously supported by the state government of Hesse, as well as the corporate sponsors Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Börse Group, Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide, Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, KPMG, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, LSG Lufthansa Service Holding AG and Messe Frankfurt. A number of US companies have also made contributions.
Germany Info is taking this opportunity to introduce the state of Hesse.
With just over 6 million residents and 8,100 square miles, Hesse is Germany's fifth largest state. With Frankfurt as seat of the European Central Bank, close to 400 other financial corporations, and the Frankfurt International Airport, Hesse boasts one of the most important financial and logistical centers worldwide. The state of Hesse - with its numerous and important US military bases - has also been a home to generations of US soldiers and their families and "safe haven" to US troops returning from missions abroad, such as Iraq.
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Frankfurt
Homepage (in English)
The
Frankfurt Book Fair - this year from October 8-13 - is the world's largest
trade fair for books, multimedia and communications.
The Hessian state capital, Wiesbaden, is home to about 270,000 residents and
lies in the Rhein-Main area, one of Europe's economic centers.
Wiesbaden
Homepage (in English)
In the towns along the 372-mile-long Fairy Tale Road, much of it in the state
of Hesse, you can trace the milestones of the lives to famous Hessian, the
Brothers Grimm, and enjoy festive depictions of the local tales they made famous
worldwide.
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Road Worth Traveling - The Fairy Tale Road
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The Wiesn - from a wedding to the largest public festival in the world! |
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3. Americans in Germany:
several objectives:
a) becoming familiar with the date of 6th of October in Connecticut ,
officially declared as German-American day
b) why / warum ? >> contributions of Germans in this society see your notes on General Steuben
c) looking at what Americans have contributed to German society
d) Americans meet up with Germans at two very different and very important occasions
of the last century
title : Americans and Germans:
subtitle:
Close Encounters
of the Crosscultural Kind
#1 who did the study and where was it done?
Lana Rings (Ph.D., University of Southern California)
She teaches all levels of German, second language acquisition, crosscultural issues, especially between Americans and Germans, etc.
She spent a year in Kiel, Germany many years ago (and has been back since).
She is also interested in female mythology and has four cats, expensive roller skates, and a season pass to Six Flags Amusement Park.
"I have a long road to travel before I can accept that I am a cultural being in my way of loving (not only of making love) and of hating, in my friendships, my dreams, my fantasies, my anger, in all that makes me a human being like all other human beings. ... I must accept the knowledge that I can never completely change my way of being and thinking, which has become entirely involuntary and necessary to me, like breathing. ... "ng for which I am reproaching [people of a culture differ
--Raymonde Carroll on human beings trying cultural analysis
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German life is a mix of generations-old traditions and dynamic cultural development. Germany Online offers highlights of what's new - and old.
Cell Phone Tips http://www.german-way.com/german/handy.html
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Welcome to Germany...a country rich in experiences! | |
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Germany Fall is a great time to travel, and this fall may be quite special--since travel to Europe is down and bargains are starting to pop up all over. Maybe a trip to the Black Forest should be on your "to do" list? There's always Oktoberfest, although reservations will be tough. (This Pauline Frommer article has some ideas around the hotel crunch.) But given the unease in the world, perhaps revisiting some history would lend perspective: The Third Reich Tour, a Munich walking tour, and a visit to the Dachau Memorial are reviewed and recommended in our Munich Travel Planner. Sunday September 07, 2003 #
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GERMANY/AUSTRIA/SWITZERLAND
Photo Gallery 1
Photo Gallery 2
Photo Gallery 3
Photo Gallery 4
With historic photos of Berlin and the Wall in 1969.
Photo Gallery 5
Photo Gallery 6
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 A Trabi Breaks Through the Wall This restored artwork first appeared on the East Side Gallery section of the Berlin Wall in 1990. Artist Birgit Kinder restored it in 2000, as part of an effort to preserve one of the last standing remnants of the Berlin landmark. Links to this and other photos below. Photo © Hyde Flippo |
 The Brandenburg Gate Das Brandenburger Tor is now Berlin's best known landmark. Since Oct. 4, 2000 it has been under renovation. Links to this and other photos below. Photo © Hyde Flippo |
Some of our photos are available as Picture Postcards that you can send for free to anyone with an e-mail address.
Permission to download and use any of the photos on this photo sampler page is granted only for personal, one-time use, as long as proper credit is given. (That includes school projects.) Other than for conditional private, one-time use, these photos may not be reproduced or distributed in any form, electronic or otherwise, or used for any commercial purposes without the express permission of Hyde Flippo.
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BERLIN
Berlin Gallery
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Berlin 2000
Berlin Gallery 1
Berlin baut um - Berlin under construction
Berlin Airlift
Landmarks
Facts and photos related to Berlin landmarks of the Luftbrücke
of 1948-49. Includes our new Berlin
Airlift page.
The East Side
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Part of the disappearing Berlin Wall.
Facts and photos.
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Martin Luther A major film, "Luther", on religious reformer Martin Luther, directed by Eric Till and premiering in late September as well as a Luther exhibit starts a tour of the United States this summer. While history may remember him first as the founder of the Protestant Reformation, Luther was also a brilliant linguist, gifted musician and passionate husband and father. This month, InFocus takes a closer look at the man Life magazine ranked third among leading figures of the past millennium.
Luther the Reformer
In the early 16th century, religious leader Martin Luther launched a protest that shook the authority of the church in Rome, brought new power to ordinary believers and ultimately led to the Protestant movement in Christianity. Today, churches that take Luther’s theology as their guide have some 60 million members.
Luther’s New Testament, published in 1522, and his complete Bible, published in 1534, infused the Reformation as they made the Scriptures accessible to ordinary people. The energy Luther devoted to the work of translation gave birth to his reputation as the father of modern German.
Music played a central role in the early Lutheran church, in part because Luther himself was a music lover. As a boy, he was trained to sing in a Kurrende – a chorus that offered its services door to door for holidays, weddings and funerals. He sang for the rest of his life, and also showed considerable skill on the lute and recorder. When Luther began reforming worship in the German church, he saw music as one of the best ways to inspire believers.
On the eve of Easter Sunday in 1523, while Martin Luther’s sermons were igniting religious protest across Germany, 12 nuns escaped from a convent near Grimma, Saxony, and fled to Wittenberg, where they petitioned Luther for aid. Disowned by their families and with nowhere else to turn, nine of them took refuge in the home of Luther’s friend the painter Lucas Cranach until marriage arrangements could be made for them. The last to be married was 24-year-old Katharina von Bora, a proud woman from an aristocratic but impoverished family. In June 1525, nearly all of Wittenberg was shocked to learn that she had offered her hand in marriage to Luther, the former monk and celebrated theologian.
Museums in Germany are presenting special exhibitions on artist Lucas Cranach, who died 450 years ago this year. |
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BAUHAUS 1919-1933 || The Bauhaus occupies a place of its own in the history of 20th century culture, architecture, design, art and new media. One of the first colleges of design, it brought together a number of the most outstanding contemporary architects and artists and was not only an innovative training center but also a place of production and a focus of international debate. At a time when industrial society was in the grip of a crisis, the Bauhaus stood almost alone in asking how the modernization process could be mastered by means of design. || Founded in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus rallied masters and students who sought to reverse the split between art and production by returning to the crafts as the foundation of all artistic activity and developing exemplary designs for objects and spaces that were to form part of a more humane future society. Following intense internal debate, in 1923 the Bauhaus turned its attention to industry under its founder and first director Walter Gropius (1883-1969). The major exhibition which opened in 1923, reflecting the revised principle of art and technology a new unity, spanned the full spectrum of Bauhaus work.
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klicken>>> und >>> schreiben! task: a) research the following links to become familiar with the notion of the " Bauhaus" and the activities originating from a new movement in archtecture b) schreibe auch Namen of artists and architects who have become famous as founders of this "new school"
LUDWIG MIES von der Rohe
http://www.bauhaus.de/english/bauhaus1919/architektur/architektur_mies.htm
Walter Gropius
http://www.bauhaus.de/english/bauhaus1919/architektur/architektur_gropius.htm
http://www.bauhaus.de/english/bauhaus1919/index.htm
The Bauhaus began with an utopian definition: "The building of the future" was to combine all the arts in ideal unity. This required a new type of artist beyond academic specialisation, for whom the Bauhaus would offer adequate education. In order to reach this goal, the founder, Walter Gropius, saw the necessity to develop new teaching methods and was convinced that the base for any art was to be found in handcraft: "the school will gradually turn into a workshop". Indeed, artists and craftsmen directed classes and production together at the Bauhaus in Weimar. This was intended to remove any distinction between fine arts and applied arts.
Let us therefore create a new guild of craftsmen
without the class-distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen
and artists! Let us desire, conceive, and create the new building of the future
together. It will combine architecture, sculpture, and painting in a single
form, and will one day rise towards the heavens from the hands of a million
workers as the crystalline symbol of a new and coming faith.
Lyonel Feininger, Cathedral, wood-cut for the Bauhaus Manifesto, 1919
Henry van de
Velde, Art School building in Weimar, 1904-11
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Interested in the world of leather? Come in and explore our fascinating museum. The name of the German Leather Museum may not lead everyone to expect a museum of world ethnology, yet it is largely through its many non-European exhibits that the museum has built up an outstanding reputation that both at home and abroad. |
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...So that's it, thought I. They've disfigured this good old wall with an electric sign. Meanwhile I deciphered one or two of the letters as they appeared again for an instant; but they were hard to read even by guess work, for they came with very irregular spaces between them and very faintly, and then abruptly vanished. Whoever hoped for any result from a display like that was not very smart. He was a Steppenwolf, poor fellow. Why have his letters playing on this old wall in the darkest alley of the Old Town on a wet night with not a soul passing by, and why were they so fleeting, so fitful and illegible? But wait, at last I succeeded in catching several words on end. They were:http://www.levity.com/corduroy/hesse.htm |
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Bauhaus 1919-33HermanHermann
Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962), novelist and poet, born in Calw, Germany. He was a bookseller and antiquarian in Basel (1895-1902), and published his first novel in 1904. His works include Rosshalde (1914), Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), and Das Glasperlenspiel (1945, The Glass Bead Game). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. From 1911 he lived in Switzerland. His psycholgical and mystical concerns made him something of a cult figure after his death.
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Disciplinary Devices
Punitive
devices from the 16th to18th century such as shame masks, thumbscrews, handcuffs
or executioner's axes communicate an idea of the jurisdiction of that period.
Punishment was mainly an act of retaliation, rehabilitation not having been
intended. Physical punishment was clearly given preference over imprisonment.
The small but representative collection is explained and supplemented by
graphical illustrations, giving it a vivid character.
other collections in the old Saxony region:
klicke hier unten an "Coburg"
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task:
1. read the historic background / note taking for the history buff only
2. visit the following links and note- taking is a MUST !
objective:
become familiar with names and sites of a beautiful and extremely friendly world-city
optional:
Bavaria: Germany's No 1 Vacation and Tourist State
B) dann / then >>>weiterschreiben /continue to write short summaries on the chronological events of the early German history (sieh hier unten )task 1:
a) write key words about what you see and read about :
Augusta Treverorum (TRIER)
>>>>>>>>>hand in for a 'graded class activity'
b) take a virtual visit to the city where your German teacher went to school during her teenage years.....
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Life German life is a mix of generations, old traditions and dynamic cultural development.
Clean lines, exceptional quality and a modern functionalist style
have made German design famous the world over. History and industry are
as important in its development as are form and function.
Germany has one of the vastest and most prolific media industries in
the world. German-based print, radio and television deliver high-quality
journalism that is widely respected by both the German public and
international media experts.
Soccer is the most popular sport in Germany, tennis, hockey, and basketball have caught up, and there are even some people devoted to America's favortite pastime - baseball..
There is no state church in Germany, but most people belong to a
Christian Church. Freedom of faith and freedom of religion are
guaranteed by the „German Basic Law“.
A short guide to German wines.
A German cookbook.
A new environment of tolerance and multiculturalism coupled with surging creativity has spawned a remarkably innovative subculture in Germany's big cities over the last decade. Especially in music, theater and design, young people are finding new and original means of artistic expression
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Country Guide for Germany >>>> Task : 1. click on the Germany - link below 2. open each poster und chreibe den Titel unter dem Bild 3 beschreibe, was das Poster-Bild Dir zeigt (zwei - drei sentences ) describe what you see in this poster image Gallery of photos > >click >>> Germany
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Albrecht Dürer
Bauhaus 1919-33
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Landeskunde Landeshauptstädte und Länder materials : two maps which compliment each other task: complete each map with the missing link >>>>fill in the capital or the name of the state objectives: a) become familiar with the states and their capitals und schreibe sie dann in Dein Arbeitsblatt optional b) describe in detail the neighbors surrounding each state, making references to north,west south etc...by looking at the map below GERMAN CULTURE and HISTORY
objectives:
a) visual reading and personal impressions
b) cultural awarness training, recognizing similarities and differences
>>TASK : 1. klicke >>>> dann rechts / then right bei 'Livecams' 2. >>>dann schau rechts / then look on the right click unter THEMEN,>>> then choose >>>> 'IMPRESSIONEN' 3. schreibe den Titel und spiele zwei Mal eine Sektion/ write the title and let a section play two times 3. beim dritten Mal schreibe auf Englisch Deine "keywords' ...../ thrid time write YOUR English 'keywords' which are evoked by that section| Weltkulturerbe |
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Berlin Photo Project Captures World of Contrasts
"Imagine … your photos will open my eyes." This gentle suggestion is the inspiration behind a touring photography exhibition making a one-month stop at the German Foreign Office in Berlin starting this week. On display are a vast array images from 45 countries that, despite their diversity, have one thing in common: They were all taken on April 30, 2002, by young adults under the age of 16.
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Inventor of the Mercury Thermometer
Is a sweater enough, or is it time to get out the winter coat? Will the milk keep long in the refrigerator? Is it a cold or a fever? A quick glance at the thermometer provides all the answers. This precisely calibrated instrument may be taken for granted today, but a number of hurdles had to be crossed before it could function properly. When it was first developed, the liquid used to gauge temperature was often impure and led to inaccurate readings. The glass container was often shaped inconsistently and expanded and contracted unpredictably. The first to solve these problems was German physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, whose "double thermometer" - using two glass tubes, one inside the other - became a prototype for the instrument as it is known today.
Fahrenheit was born in 1686 in the Baltic seaport of Danzig (Gdansk), which belonged to Prussia at the time but is now in Poland. His parents died when he was young, and he was apprenticed to become a merchant. But Fahrenheit, who never attended a university, felt he was destined for science. In 1710, he began to travel and learn about the world on his own. Fahrenheit developed an interest in thermometers, which had been invented in Italy in the mid-17th century. Recognizing that the varying quality of the glass was an impediment to accuracy, he developed a temperature-resistant glass that expanded only slightly when warmed. Early thermometers used a mixture of alcohol and water to measure changes in temperature. In 1720, Fahrenheit replaced this solution with mercury, which was available in purer form, and expanded and contracted reliably with heat changes.
Fahrenheit based the scale of his thermometers on three fixed points. The lowest point, 0 degrees, corresponded to the lowest temperature he was able to produce, that of an ice, water and salt mixture. The middle point he designated as 32 degrees, the freezing point of water, and the high point as 96 degrees, the approximate temperature of the human body. After developing the mercury thermometer, he used the boiling point of water (212 degrees) for the high mark. Fahrenheit's unround numbers, which cause such difficulty when converting to the Celsius scale (first described by Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius in 1742), were likely based on a simpler scale that put the benchmark points at 0, 4 and 12. Each of these figures was multiplied by eight to provide for smaller gradations, putting the freezing point, for example, at 4 x 8, or 32.
Before his death in The Hague in 1736, Fahrenheit also developed such instruments as the hygrometer, for measuring atmospheric humidity, and optical equipment, including a model of the human eye. While most countries switched to the Celsius temperature scale in the 1960s, it never caught on the United States, where zero still means bone-chilling cold and a day isn't truly hot until it hits 100 degrees.
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