Category Archives: current events

The MS Utting

Posted on 30/04/2017 by kcosumano

The Ammersee in southern Bavaria has summer passenger boat service provided by two paddle steamers, the Dießen and the Herrsching, the smaller motor-powered MS Augsburg and, until recently, the MS Utting. Because we have connections to Utting, I was always … Continue reading →

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Rooftop Blogging: Final Edition

Posted on 29/06/2015 by Marcellina

When I began the blog nearly 8 years ago, I wanted to do some kind of photoblogging that could be done on a regular, perhaps weekly basis with ease. A lot of people were doing “Saturday cat blogging”, which I … Continue reading →

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Note to self: find more cheerful subjects for blog…

Posted on 10/04/2015 by Marcellina

Over two weeks have passed since that Germanwings pilot deliberately crashed Flight 9525 into the French Alps, taking 149 passengers and crew with him. The news cycle is mostly done with the speculation over the pilot’s illness, motives, personality disorder, … Continue reading →

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A Chapel in Axams

Posted on 28/09/2014 by Marcellina

A free Sunday afternoon and it happens to be Tag des Denkmals in Austria. This is a day for  cultural and historical monuments across the country, and often there is the chance to see something not normally open to the … Continue reading →

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Remembering the Pogrom 1938

Posted on 09/11/2013 by Marcellina

Deutschsprachige Leser kann mehr hier lesen. In light of reports like here and here, one might start to think that Europe is going under any day. Reading beyond the headlines, one learns [t]he trend in Europe does not signal the … Continue reading →

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Kulturblogging: Die Hofkirche

Posted on 09/06/2013 by Marcellina

One of Innsbruck’s main attractions for the historically-minded is the Hofkirche, or Imperial Church (but no one calls it that, it’s just always the Hofkirche). As a tourist sight, the plain white exterior is deceiving (I heard it once remarked … Continue reading →

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Maybe We Can Translate It As “Kakastrophe”

Posted on 23/04/2013 by Marcellina

One sees/hears a lot of English words which have been absorbed into the German language. Sometimes, like HD vs Blue Ray, you’ll hear competing German and English terms for certain things (“Computer” seems to have won out over “Rechner”, for … Continue reading →

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“Witch Burning”

Posted on 15/02/2013 by Marcellina

My local newspaper reports (g) on an upcoming event called the Hexenverbrennung, or Witch Burning, an old traditional custom in the somewhat remote region of Tirol called Ausserfern. I translate directly from the article, somewhat loosely for comprehension: On the … Continue reading →

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Hell Under Glass

Posted on 24/01/2013 by Marcellina

While we are discussing concentration camps, here is a clip of Jake and Dinos Chapman discussing their work, “The End Of Fun”, which just finished showing at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. The camera zooms in quite a … Continue reading →

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KZ Reichenau Revisited

Posted on 22/01/2013 by Marcellina

The event began with an audio recording of of a man named Klaus W., from Hippach (deep in the Ziller Valley), recounting the day the recruiters came to family’s home in the 1940s and said, “one (of you) must go” … Continue reading →

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