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Welche deutschen Serien helfen mir beim Deutsch lernen?

Useful if you are learning the language

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Book Haul: Berlin 2016

More reasons to read German fluently!

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The flopped Stalinallee (1949-1961). What happens with a birthday gift to the Red Tsar.

Fascinating history

Joep de Visser's avatarHistories from the capital of the 20th century

Renaming the street into the Stalinallee. (Berlin-Mitte/Friedrichshain, December 1949/January 1950. ©Unclear)

Ever since there was traffic between Berlin and Frankfurt a/d Oder, there must have been a -about 100 kilometer long- road between these cities. Since Berlin’s expansion around 1700, it was named the Frankfurter Straße – and since the late 1780s, a part was named the Große Frankfurter Straße. City’s gates came and went, barricades were thrown up and blasted down. The (Große) Frankfurter Straße had a serious history – until a heavy air-raid at the 3rd of February 1945 wiped out most of it. Yet, this all is only a prehistory of the Stalinallee – as the street was called since December 1949.

By renaming the street, the East German politicians didn’t only congratulate Stalin with his seventieth birthday – but they also dedicated their most prestigious urban project to the Soviet dictator. The Stalinallee should be the labor paradise, the incarnated socialist utopia – so it had to be…

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Chicken, lentils and vegetable stew

I have acquired a taste for Linsensuppe from the Cafe Kafka in Wien; this sounds like a nice recipe too!!

cathyc's avatarThis and That

This was a ‘it’s in the cupboard’ recipe. It’s cheap and makes enough for 6 serves.

Ingredients

5 chicken wings
2 sticks of celery diced
2 carrots peeled and diced
1-2 onions peeled and diced
several cloves of garlic peeled and finely chopped
tin of tomatoes, crushed if not already
a cup of red lentils, washed and picked over if necessary
water or stock of some sort
ghee (or oil for frying)
some sweet paprika (I used 1 teasp)
some roasted and ground cumin (I used 1 teasp)
some chilli powder (I grind mine and it’s superhot, so I didn’t use much)
salt and pepper to taste.

Method

Fry onions until softening, add celery, carrots and then after a few minutes the garlic. Keep stirring. Low enough heat that nothing burns, especially the garlic. Add the paprika, cumin and chilli powder to taste. Next the tomatoes, perhaps two cups of…

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Timeline 26 -St. Ives/British Modernism

BonBonToro's avatar妄想現実

Last stop was “Bauhaus”

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  • 1951

Peter Lanyon’s Porthleven was created for the 1951 Festival of Britain, which took 14 months to complete.
Lanyon destroyed it after an argument with Ben Nicholson, and repainted it in four hours. The result is an invigorating gust of a painting, with the clock tower of the fishing village from which it takes its name visible among a mass of swirling marks, as though we’re being blown around the village’s harbor.
You can really feel the sense of rush within this piece in the invigorating sharp edges and swish of the marks within this piece. Taking 14 months to complete and then ruining it because of one argument…that is a bold thing to do as an artist. I know I wouldn’t be able to do that as an artist ahahah I’d feel so much stress of I had destroyed an artwork I spent 14 months doing.
But as the…

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Creative Photography

A view I know well and some interesting techniques-

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Une petite histoire d’amour

Encore!

Tina GL's avatarAutour du monde

Elle n’a pas eu le temps de se reposer. Elle est sortie de la maison et est allée acheter un journal au café. elle a pris une tasses de café au lait. il est sorti lui aussi pour acheter une timbre pour une carte postale

Il l’a vue

elle l’a vu

<<Bonjour>> a-t-il dit froidement
<<J’espère que tu vas bien>> a-t-elle dit sans sourire.
<<Non, pas exactement, si je parle franchement>>
<<Qu’est-ce qui se passe?>> a-t-elle demandé
<<Rien de spécial. J’ai mal à la tête, mal à la gorge, mal au dos, mal aux jambes…>>
<<tu es allé chez médecin?>> a-t-elle demandé
<<oui, mais il n’y a pas de médicamemts pour mal au coeur,>> at-il répondu.
<< je sais comment vous guérir>> elle a dit heureusement
<<comment ?>> il a demandé intrigué
<<venez et marchez avec moi au parc et je vous dirai>> A-t-elle dit comme elle a tenu sa main

quand ils…

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Bookshops in Berlin

Cafe Tasso is great on many levels and excellent stock. I also enjoyed visiting the BuchKantine in Alt Moabit http://www.buchkantine.de/buchhandel/

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(1) Mitte Kollwitzkiez Prenzlauer Berg.

There were several areas of Berlin we went to that struck me as places I’d love to live and this area would have to be top of the list.

The first bookshop we went to was St George’s English Bookshop.

Can’t recommend this place too highly. It has an excellent selection of stock, both new and secondhand with a special emphasis on local. This is the place to buy English translations of German books. I’m in the middle of one now: Going to the Dogs by Erich Kästner. It has nice seating and a really good feel to the place.

If only Geneva had such a place. We did have a specialist English bookshop, but most people here would rather support Amazon than a local bookshop. Thankfully Berlin doesn’t seem to have this disease.

Next we went to Shakespear & Sons. This has…

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Une petite historie d’amour

Tina GL's avatarAutour du monde

Il la voit.
Elle le voit
Il la trouve gentille.
Elle le trouve gentil.

Il dit, <<Je t’aime.>>
Elle dit, <<Je t’aime.>>
Ils s’embrassent.
Mais Voici Pierre qui arrive

Elle répond, <<Mais oui, je le connais.>>
Il demande, <<tu l’aimes>>
Elle répond, <<Je ne sais pas.>>
Pierre demande, <<Tu veux aller au café, chérie?>>

Dimanche elle le voit au parche ell le voit au parc.
elle demande, <<tu m’aimes?>>
il répond, <<Ah oui, Je t’adore>>
Elle répond, <<je t’aime, moi aussi.>>

Ils s’embrassent.
Mais Voici Charles qui arrive
il est parti sans dire rien
Elle ne se souciait pas parce qu’il était seulement charles

chaque soir, elle a rencontré le
il demande <<tu m’aimes?>>
elle ne répond pas
il demande <<tu m’aimes?>>
elle ne répond pas

elle pleure toutes les nuits avant de dormir
elle se sent seule
elle une sève que personne ne pourrait remplir ce creux dans son coeur.

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David Foenkinos: Charlotte

A moving self-portrait and a wonderful artist

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Vorbemerkung: Die in eckigen Klammern gesetzten vierstelligen Zahlen sind mit den entsprechenden Blättern in Leben? Oder Theater? [4] verlinkt, die violetten Stellen sind aus diesem Stück zitiert, die grün markierten Passagen stammen aus dem vorliegenden Buch von Foenkinos.


Eine junge Frau, großflächig gemalt in kräftigen Farben, brünettes, nach hinten gekämmtes, halblanges Haar, das Gesicht durch Stirn, Ohr, Augen und Augenbrauen, die Nase, den Mund mit tiefroten Lippen und das Kinn konturiert. Eine tiefblaue Bluse betont das ins Orange gehende Gelb der Haut.

Die Frau schaut uns, die Betrachter, an – mit den Augen, das Gesicht ist dem Gegenüber nur halb zugewendet oder: bleibt halb abgewendet. Die Pupillen sind auf uns gerichtet, im Auge der Frau jedoch nach rechts ganz an den Rand gerutscht. Der Mund ist geschlossen, die Mine ruft den Eindruck von Misstrauen, Abwendung, Vorsicht hervor. Das Haar wirkt helmartig wie ein Schutzpanzer.

Die junge Frau ist Charlotte Salomon…

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