Category Archives: assimilation

May 5th, 1988

Posted on 04/05/2018 by kcosumano

The postcard arrived in his mailbox on the 4th. This was it. It was now happening. The last few years might have been like a dream, but the months leading up to this moment had been like the day of … Continue reading →

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Circumitus: Batavis, Boiodurum

Posted on 10/06/2016 by kcosumano

(The name actually refers to the bicycle route and is not, apparently, what the Romans called it.) This posting hails from the other side of Bavaria, a “detour” onto the Roman road which follows the Danube and also the boundary … Continue reading →

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A Love Story Told In Books

Posted on 14/09/2015 by Marcellina

There may be eight million stories in the naked city; there are at least that many in the antiquarian business, especially if your business involves buying up collections from private estate sales. Through the transactions, through remarks, through the books … Continue reading →

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In Memory Of A Girl

Posted on 28/02/2015 by Marcellina

In memory of Ilse Brüll Born 28 April 1925 Died 3(?) September 1942 and in memory of all those children of Innsbruck who were victims of this time Ilse Brüll, a Jewish girl, attended school here in Wilten from September … Continue reading →

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Teriolis ≠ Tirol

Posted on 23/01/2015 by Marcellina

Continuing in the looking-up-one-thing-and-finding-the-tip-of-the-iceberg vein, I recently began looking into an assumption I had made a while back — that the name Tirol was derived from the Roman fortress Teriolis (from which the village of Zirl takes its name). It … Continue reading →

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A Grave of an Amerikanerin

Posted on 20/10/2013 by Marcellina

Hier ruht Marie Zöhrlaut aus Milwaukee, Amerika *20. Nov. 1831 †20.Apr. 1893 (Just in case you need to find out what happened to your great-great-great Aunt Marie, who left the country and was never heard from again…)

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Kulturblogging: Hildegard Knef

Posted on 30/05/2013 by Marcellina

When you spend more than a couple of years in another country, you may begin to realize how much the people around you, while possibly being very much like you, grew up on different pop culture. The American entertainment industry … Continue reading →

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>Western Civilization Owes Its Existence To Middle-Eastern Migrants

Posted on 16/10/2010 by Marcellina

>And it all started with a genenetic mutation in humans, allowing for lactose tolerance. It’s a pretty interesting article, here’s the English version. http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,723310,00.html

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>Prussian

Posted on 08/09/2010 by Marcellina

>Do you know that the name Prussia goes much further back than the northern German kingdom with which we mostly associate the name? Prussia was a group of tribes in the Baltics, and the Prussian language (now dead) was related … Continue reading →

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>Have You Heard Of Herta Müller?

Posted on 12/10/2009 by Marcellina

>Neither had I. She has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. More significantly, neither had the beau, who is knows a lot about European literature. Wikipedia, in its entry on Müller, says that prior to the award, Müller … Continue reading →

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