The Woman Who Understood Dostoyevsky (Satis Shroff)

(The author in Berlin’s War Memorials..)   SVETLANA GEIER: The Woman Who Understood Dostoyevsky (Satis Shroff)   Svetlana Michailowna Iwanowa was born in 1923 in Kiew. She came to Germany in 1943 with her mother and was awarded an Alexander von Humbolt scholarship. She did German studies and Comparative Language Sciences at the University of [...]

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Lindenberg in the Schwarzwald (Satis Shroff)

LINDENBERG (Satis Shroff)   Lindenberg is a serene and tranquil 700m hilltop nestled between the Black Forest and the Rhine Valley. From the hilltop you can overlook the Rhine Valley, the Kaiserstuhl and even the Vosges Mountains in Alsace (France). It got its name from a big birch tree which grew on the hill (‘linde’ [...]

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Kappel Chronicle: Whisper Words of Hope (Satis Shroff, Freiburg-Kappel))

The Männergesangsverein Kappel with their standard THE KAPPEL CHRONICLE (Satis Shroff, Kappel-Schwarzwald) Lambert Weis: Whisper Words of Hope It was a bright sunny day on the 6th of July 2010 and you could hear the birds chirping merrily in the adjacent birch and oak trees. We, the men of the Männergesangsverein were attending the funeral [...]

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German Cuisine: Black Forest Torte, Speck & Sausages (Satis Shroff)

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 [...]

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Through Nepalese Eyes (Satis Shroff)

‘Through Nepalese Eyes’ is about the journey of a young Nepalese woman to Germany to meet her brother, who lives with his German wife and daughter in an allemanic town named Freiburg. It is a travelogue written by a sensitive, modern British public-school educated man. He describes the two worlds: Asia and Europe and the [...]

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