Journalism: The Upper Rhine Valley (Satis Shroff)

Upper Rhine Valley (Satis Shroff)   Mehr als 750 Reiseveranstalter und über 600 Journalisten wurden seit 2010 in den sechs Zielmärkten auf Upper Rhine Valley aufmerksam gemacht; außerdem wurden bislang aus jedem Markt jeweils rund ein Dutzend Reiseveranstalter und Journalisten im Rahmen von Famtrips zu unterschiedlichen Highlights der Region geführt. Mit E-Mail-Newslettern werden monatlich detailliertere [...]

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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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Green City Freiburg Honours Writer Satis Shroff

Courtesy: Badische Zeitung, Freiburg Courtesy: Badische Zeitung, Freiburg Courtesy: Dreisamtaeler, Kirchzarten Green City Freiburg Honours Satis Shroff At an official ceremony in Freiburg’s Exhibition Hall Ulrich von Kirchbach, the mayor in charge of Culture and Integration honoured the life work of Satis Shroff. In his laudatio, von Kirchbach presented an Urkunde from the City 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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Salomon Does it Again in Freiburg, Schwarzwald (Satis Shroff)

Salomon: the Pragmatic Realo (Satis Shroff) Freiburg is a provincial town in the Black Forest and lies in the vicinity of France and Switzerland. We locals call this three country triangle ‘the Regio,’ which is rich in culture and tradition, and there’s a lot of cooperation between the three countries. We have exchange of students [...]

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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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1000 Years of Zähringen (Satis Shroff)

1000 Years of Zähringen (Satis Shroff) The ruin of Zähringen’s castle lies on a hillock overlooking the Vale of Dreisam. And the hamlet of Zähringen is a part of Freiburg. Zähringen is 1000 years old, reason enough to celebrate a festival with the inauguration of the Zähringer fountain, which is a tall monolith with a [...]

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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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