Category Archives: media

Gounod “Funeral March of a Marionette”

Posted on 08/05/2015 by Marcellina

I haven’t vanished in an alpine crevasse, I’ve simply been busy singing! The business has been part rehearsals, part teaching, and part working on some things for the future. The rehearsals have led me to a small musical discovery, in … Continue reading →

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Innsbruck, Dürer and “Ern Malley”

Posted on 20/01/2014 by Marcellina

Liebe Leserinnen und Leser, hier findet ihr Information über diese Geschichte. This is a postcard that was found in an old book, having been used as a bookmark by a previous reader. It’s Albrecht Dürer’s Hof der Burg zu Innsbruck … 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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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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Bruegel’s “Hunters In The Snow” in the film “Melancholia”

Posted on 21/11/2011 by Marcellina

Much has already been written on the artworks featured in Lars von Trier’s new film “Melancholia”. One of them, in fact the first painting you’ll see in the film’s prologue, has a possible local connection and, if so, an interesting … Continue reading →

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>Fun With The Language

Posted on 21/11/2010 by Marcellina

>New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Rich writes about Sarah Palin this week, and in doing so has coined the perfect word to describe her new reality show, and in turn the perfect word to describe the image she presents … Continue reading →

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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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>"A Massacre… Would Have Been More Humane"

Posted on 10/04/2010 by Marcellina

>ARD, Germany’s “first” national television station, aired an extraordinary documentary last night about the Armenian Genocide. It mixed rare photos and film footage with “clips” of “interviews” — using well-known German actors portraying contemporary witnesses, their lines from those witnesses’ … Continue reading →

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>Erik Schinegger

Posted on 01/02/2010 by Marcellina

> UPDATE 16 June 2011: for info about the new film. When I posted about Gretel Bergmann and Dora Ratjen, I came across another name from closer to home — Erika Schinegger, who was a shining star in the women’s … Continue reading →

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