FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff)

FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff): SCHWARZWALD SONG: Black Forest Cuisine (Satis Shro... : SCHWARZWALD SONG: Black Forest Cuisine  Subtitle: Torte, Speck and Sausages (Satis Shroff) Black Forest, St.Peter in winter ...

FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff): SCHWARZWALD SONG: Black Forest Cuisine (Satis Shro... : SCHWARZWALD SONG: Black Forest Cuisine  Subtitle: Torte, Speck and Sausages (Satis Shroff) Black Forest, St.Peter in winter ...

SCHWARZWALD SONG: Black Forest Cuisine  Subtitle: Torte, Speck and Sausages (Satis Shroff) Black Forest, St.Peter in winter  Two friendly German colleagues of Peter Reichenbach, Oberried: Greetings from the Schwarzwald The Maria Chapel of Oberried OBERRIED: Schwarzwälder Torte, Speck and Sausages (Satis Shroff) Oberried is a wellness place, tucked away on the highest Black Forest mountains. From here you can trek to Feldberg and Schauinsland. There’s a church with a big, the Heimatmuseum called ‘Schniederlihof’, the mountain museum Schauinsland and for young and elderly the amusement park Steinwasen located on a hillside. The reason I went there with my friend Klaus Sütterle was to pay the local butcher Peter Reichenbach in his Metzgerei. It was a short drive past beautiful Foret Noir scenery. Up there it was still winter and there was snow all over the slopes, spurs, hills and rooftops of the Black Forest farmsteads. T...

FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff): Be Well Educated and Not Instructed (Satis Shroff)... : Be well Educated and not Instructed (Satis Shroff) Welcome to the capital of united Germany. Remember going to Bonn in the former d...

Be well Educated and not Instructed (Satis Shroff) Welcome to the capital of united Germany. Remember going to Bonn in the former days--before the Wall was pulled down by both German people from the West and east. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. It was constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961.  The Wall cut off West Berlin from all of the surrounding East Germany, until government officials opened it in November 1989. The demolition of the long Wall began on 13 June 1990 and finished in 1992. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls who had orders to shoot at anyone trying to escape to the West. It was accompanied by a wide area called the "death strip" that contained anti-vehicle trenches, "fakir beds" with nails and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its po...

FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff): A MOMENT OF MAGIC: Satis Shroff : A MOMENT OF MAGIC  (Satis Shroff)   She had short, golden hair Tied neatly behind With a blue satin-scarf. Yet I saw her We...

A MOMENT OF MAGIC  (Satis Shroff)   She had short, golden hair Tied neatly behind With a blue satin-scarf. Yet I saw her Wearing a diadem, A flowing satin gown, Like a princess.   A meek, submissive smile A movement of her fair hair Akin to a Bolshoi ballerina In moments of embarrassment and coyness. Her blue Alemannic eyes, Sweet and honest, Knew no intrigue, Neither treachery Nor rebellion. ‘I was brought up to obey,’ she whispered. Pure bliss and love sublime, A book you could read. Plain and straight, Not in-between the lines. An openness, and yet She's resolute and seeks Perhaps stability Or security?   A neglected childhood With pain and punishment. A legacy of the Black Forest Nevertheless, she remained Soft and tender, submissive and sincere. Not demanding and aggressive Ever alert and considerate.   Murmurs and sighs filled the air. Love became stormy and frantic. Sweat a...