Posted in Alps, Black Forest, Freiburg, Germans, Heimat in head, Himalayas, Katmandu, Living together, Maoists, Miteinander, Nepalese, Religion, Vosges, cosmopolitan, cosmos, culture, despite differences, diaspora, home, neos, social behaviour, togetherness on October 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Katmandu, Katmandu
von Satis Shroff
Satis Shroff’s anthology is about a poet caught between upheavals in two countries, Nepal and Germany, where maoists and skin-heads are trying to undermine democratic values, religious and cultural life. Satis Shroff writes political poetry, in German and English, about the war in Nepal (My Nepal, Quo vadis?), the sad fate [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Dear Blog-readers,
I received this information per e-mail and thought there might be Blogging journalists out there in the wide world who’d be interested in a Fellowship to finance a project. The Fellowship is open to any projects about South Asia or the diaspora. You don’t have to be South Asian to participate!
If you have any questions [...]
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Posted in Airbus 340-600, Airbus 380, Boeing's Dreamliner, Eschbach, German precision, Germany, Not good for Europe, aeronautics, aerospace, fair basis, landing-engines, what's good for USA on October 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Aerospace:
CROSSING THE SKY TO THE FUTURE (Satis Shroff, Freiburg)
If Boeing wants to establish itself and sell more jets in Europe and sell more of their products, it would be advised to use ecological compatible ideas in the manufacture of aerospace technology. It is a fact that the Airbus industry buys a lot of landing-gears, engines, [...]
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Posted in 24 years, Devil breaks Faust's neck, Devil's Pact, Doctor Faustus, Faust's University of Wittenberg, Freiburg im Breisgau, German Volksbuch, Goethe, Johann Spieß, Marlowe, Mephistopheles, Spieß'sches Faustbuch, Staufen, Zimmerschen Chronik, farmer and son, foot-print of Devil, legend or myth? on October 5, 2007 | No Comments »
On Doctor Faustus and Mephistopheles (Satis Shroff)
Dr. Johann Faust, the man who sold his soul to the Devil. A mythical figure? Certainly not. I went to the pretty town of Staufen via Bad Krözingen from Freiburg. From the distance you can see the ruins of a castle looming above the vineyards on a hill. In [...]
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