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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MGV-Kappel: Weihnachtskonzert in Kappel (Satis Shroff)

A song that conjoured up images of South Africa was ‘Aya Ngena’ sung in Swaheli by the Männergesangverein, and promises of peace in the Middle East with ‘Hora Jerusalem.’ The Hebrew accents that we’d learned all these weeks and the fast tempi of the song got the audience raving…

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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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Zeitgeist Themes (Satis Shroff)

Männergesangsverein Freiburg-Kappel Tenor: Wolfgang Busse, Adolf Fressle, Heinz Hamburger, Rainer Keller Tenor: Walter Fuß, Richard Linder, Satis Shroff, Klaus Sütterle, Herbert Tombreul Bass: Frank Keller, Franz Lachmann, Andreas Schiessle, Franz Wißler, Ulrich Mauer Bass: Werner Heise, Wolfgang Keller, Dirk Schneider, Michael Stotz. * * * Charmant bleib immer, so wie du bist, ganz gleich, wie [...]

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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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