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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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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GAINEY: A Himalayan Minstrel’s Songs of Love & Sorrow (Satis Shroff)

(c) Art & Nepali poem by satisshroff The way was long, the wind cold The minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek and tresses grey Seemed to have known a better day (Sir Walter Scott in ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’) Gainey: A Minstrel’s Songs of Love and Sorrow (Satis Shroff) Go away, [...]

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