FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff)

Review: Bernhard Grzimek: Serengeti Lives On (Satis Shroff)     © Satis Shroff with Bernhard Grzmek at the La Redoute, Bad Godesberg, October 21, 1986 'Why is Grzimek so interesting now?' you might ask. The reason is a film by Roland Suso Richter (screenplay by Marco Rossi) on the life of the charismatic nature conversationalist and documentary filmer. The German actress Barbara Auer plays the role of Bernhard Grzimek's first wife Hilde, who depicts a courageous, unhappy person. After World War II she helped build the Frankfurter Zoo with her husband Bernhard. She raised the sons Michael and the adoptive son Thomas. Another son named Rochus doesn't feature in the film at all. Hilde, a faithful soul in real life, was considerate towards her husband, even though she was aware of husband's amorous affairs with other women. She allowed her husband to go to Africa with son Michael under the condition that he bring him safely back. Al...

Review: Bernhard Grzimek: Serengeti Lives On (Satis Shroff)                Photo © Satis Shroff with Bernhard Grzimek at the La Redoute, Bad Godesberg, October 21, 1986 ' WHY is Grzimek so interesting now?' you might ask. The reason is a film by Roland Suso Richter (screenplay by Marco Rossi) on the life of the charismatic nature conversationalist and documentary filmer. The German actress Barbara Auer plays the role of Bernhard Grzimek's first wife Hilde, who depicts a courageous, unhappy person. After World War II she helped build the Frankfurter Zoo with her husband Bernhard. She raised the sons Michael and the adoptive son Thomas. Another son named Rochus doesn't feature in the film at all. Hilde, a faithful soul in real life, was considerate towards her husband, even though she was aware of husband's amorous affairs with other women. She allowed her husband to go to Africa with son Mic...

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MIGRATION IS UNIVERSAL (Satis Shroff) The urge towards mobility, whether on one's own decision or political supression, has existed ever since the advent of human beings in this world. People from different ethnicity have been fleeing, travelling, moving, migrating, establishing settlements, colonies, ghettos in foreign shores. Migration has a big effect on the identity of the person depending whether he or she feels at home in the new country's social, political and geographical environment. Freiburg's theatre will be staging the effects and consequences of migration in the identities of the people. The collective title of these projects is: who decides who's allowed to live here? The Freiburger theatre is staging a weekend (27 th and 28 th of March 2015) to the following themes: migration, residence-permits, intercultural encounters and identity. 'Volkerwanderung' is a living melange of stories about the beginning of journeys, be...

Rathausgasse, Freiburg mit Leute in Trachten

Fotoessay: WALDHAUS IN THE BLACK FOREST (Satis Shroff)   A Writer's Journal 2015 WALDHAUS: an eco-educational centre (Satis Shroff) FREIBURG has a five-year old Waldhaus (forest house), which is an ecological centre, located on the right side of the tram-stop Wohnhalde 6. The Waldhaus is open for the public, scientists, teachers, students, wood-specialists, families and visitors. At the beginning of the 18 th century there was a great destruction of forests and it was Hans Carl von Carlowitz who found the appropriate words and called it a challenge to use wood so that it can be sustainable and yet exist for usage. He wrote words to the effect in his forest-handbook in 1713. Some forth-five years ago the word 'Waldsterben,' meaning the death of the forest became a household world even in the English language. Waldsterben was a theme in Radio Nepal when I was a B.Sc. student in Kathmandu. As a result we have become careful, cons...

About the Author: (c) Art by satisshroff, freiburg Literature is translating emotions and facts from truth to fiction. It’s like a borderline syndrome; between sanity and insanity there’s fine dividing line. Similarly, non-fiction can be transformed into fiction. Virginia Woolf said, ‘There must be great freedom from reality.’ For Goethe, art was art because it was not nature. That’s what I like about fiction, this ability of transforming mundane things in life to jewels through the use of words. Rilke mentioned one ought to describe beauty with inner, quiet, humble righteousness. Approach nature and show what you see and experienced, loved and lost.(Satis Shroff) Satis Shroff is a prolific writer and teaches Creative Writing at the Freiburger University of Education (PH). He is a lecturer, poet and writer and the published author of five books: Im Schatten des Himalaya (book of poems in German), Through Nepalese Eyes (travelogue), Katmandu, Katmandu (poetry and ...