FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff)

Satis Shroff's ZEITGEIST LITERATURE : Zeitgeistlyrik: O, FREIBURG (Satis Shroff) : Zeitgeistlyrik: O, FREIBURG (Satis Shroff) O, Freiburg (Satis Shroff) O, Freiburg! March 24,1599 was the day. Three women were ...

Zeitgeistlyrik: O, FREIBURG (Satis Shroff) O, Freiburg (Satis Shroff) O, Freiburg! March 24,1599 was the day. Three women were sentenced as witches and killed. To think this town organized a reception, For Marie Antoinette on May 4, 1770 It also deported its 375 Jewish citizens On October 1940 to Gurs and Auschwitz. As if in a heavenly wrath,  Freiburg was reduced to rubble and ashes, Heaven seemed to be glowing; Clouds began to melt and burn over the town. A scenario within twenty minutes, Created by the Royal Air Force. Twenty minutes that were burnt Into the collective memory of the Freiburger.   Frau Adolph and my mother-in-law still talk About it when we have a coffee afternoon With Schwarzwäldertorte. Frau Adolph says: ‘ Freiburg was razed to the ground. Stones, roof-bricks, broken glass, kaput windows Singed curtains, burnt books, files in smithereens. A traumatic nightmare.’ But I’m proud Freiburger have developed, Both

Satis Shroff's ZEITGEIST LITERATURE : The Charms of Spoken English (Satis Shroff) : THE CHARMS OF SPOKEN ENGLISH (Satis Shroff) Whether you hear Radio Nepal, the BBC, CNN or the Voice of America, there's no suc...

THE CHARMS OF SPOKEN ENGLISH (Satis Shroff) 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 two British subjects speak exactly alike. Whether you have a Cambridge, Oxford, Cockney, provincial or colonial dialect is immaterial. You don't have to be shamed of it. A Freiburger Badische slant is just as good as a Texan drawl. Being understood is the point. You try to express, not impress. You speak presentably. There are naturally circles wherein your choice of words should stamp you as a cultivated person as distinguished from an ignorant one. That is where either one puts one's best foot forward and throws in all the rules of rhetoric and the performing arts and makes a show of it, or perhaps makes a fool out of oneself. But that's another matter. It all

Satis Shroff's ZEITGEIST LITERATURE : SINGING IN THE SCHWARZWALD (Satis Shroff) : Musikverein-Kappel 2015 Bowing after the applause: mgv-kappel Musikverein-Kappel 2015 The audience A smiling Rene..(mgv...

Musikverein-Kappel 2015 Bowing after the applause: mgv-kappel Musikverein-Kappel 2015 The audience A smiling Rene..(mgv-kappel) Musikverein-Kappel 2015 Bernhard Winter: music conductor Weihnachtskonzert in Freiburg-Kappel 2015:mgv-kappel