The presence of many foreign players at the highest level of football in the British Isles has helped raise awareness among locals that not all names can be pronounced as if they are English. The advent of UEFA EURO 2020 means that English speakers around the world now have to …
Read More »World War II victim’s 1938 novel about Crystal Night brings the English language to life
In Kristallnacht’s wake, a German Jewish merchant named Otto Silbermann sees his seemingly secure life crumble. As the Nazis ransack Jewish homes and arrest Jewish citizens, Silbermann is forced to live on the run. His daily life turns into a series of train journeys through the Third Reich as he …
Read More »‘Undine’ star Paula Beer on her new movie and more
Photo: JJens Kalaene / picture alliance via Getty Images At the Venice Film Festival five years ago, German actress Paula Beer, then 21 with a handful of film roles under her belt, was propelled into international spotlight. The catapult was Frantz by the prolific French author François Ozon, who, judging …
Read More »The Conjuring Sequel beats A Quiet Place 2 for $ 69 million at the box office
“Conjuring” and “Cruella” prove that same-day doorstep availability isn’t the end of the world for theaters. âThe Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It,â which opened in theaters with HBO Max, broke the second weekend of the theatrical exclusive âA Quiet Place Part IIâ. There are positive signs in the …
Read More »Why Germany’s genocide deal irritates the Herero and Nama peoples of Namibia
Through Shannon Ebrahim 1h ago Share this article: ShareTweeterShareShareShareE-mailShare I walked the halls of the Auschwitz museum where mountains of human hair and tiny children’s clothes and shoes make grown men cry. Nothing compares to this horror of the Holocaust of European Jewry. I visited the memorials of the genocide …
Read More »Learn British Sign Language as a Linguist – Palatinate
By Emily Ball In the summer of 2020, I landed a job in retail to try and keep myself busy following the cancellation of A-Levels during lockdown. The work I did was relatively uninspiring, although surprisingly it led me to come to college with a new passion, unrelated to stacking …
Read More »“Impasse”: a German cardinal proposes to resign for abuse at the church | New
BERLIN (AP) – A prominent German cardinal and confidant of Pope Francis, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, offered to resign on Friday over the Catholic Church’s “catastrophic” mismanagement of cases of clergy sexual abuse, saying in a gesture extraordinary that the scandals had brought the Church to “a dead end.” The Archdiocese …
Read More »Hoogervorst reflects on growth of IFRS as IASB end of mandate nears
International Accounting Standards Board Chairman Hans Hoogervorst reflects on the growth of International Financial Reporting Standards as his decade at the helm of the IASB is expected to end this month. Hoogervorst, a former finance minister of the Netherlands, will step down on June 30 and will be replaced on …
Read More »One year on hiatus | Stanford Daily
Last year, many students decided to take a break from their educational journey. 378 Stanford admits – about 20% of students admitted to the 2024 class – have chosen to defer enrollment. As someone who decided to enroll this year in freshman, I was curious as to why other students …
Read More »Migration and Innovation – Oliver Koppel and Enno Kohlisch
The bad news for Germany’s sophisticated economy is that the innovation of native Germans is in decline. The good news is that migrants are more than compensatory. Oliver koppel In March, UÄur Åahin and Ãzlem Türeci of BioNTech were awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of Germany for their patent-protected …
Read More »Claudia Müller prepares Elfriede Jelinek – Language Unleashed
PRODUCTION / FINANCING Germany / Austria through Ioana Florescu 05/31/2021 – The documentary will discuss the artistic approach of the winner of the Nobel Prize for language Filmmaker Christine A Maier and director Claudia Müller on the set of Elfriede Jelinek – Tongue Unleashed (© Claudia Müller) Documentary filmmaker Claudia …
Read More »“ The Lives of Others ”: Late Praise
Citizens of East and West Germany celebrate by climbing the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate after the announcement of the opening of the East German border in Berlin on November 9, 1989. (Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters) Continuing in the spirit of weighing things late, I would like to join …
Read More »Germany, Russia, China catalyzing behavior change in the United States, France, the United Kingdom?
Former German Chancellor Willy Brandt falls to his knees at Warsaw Ghetto Memorial; current German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden. May 2021 is a month of dramatic changes in the actions of world powers. Could competition from China, Germany …
Read More »Survival of the German Catholic Church may depend on facing Rome
On a sunny Sunday evening in May, 80 people gathered at a church in Berlin for a quiet Catholic revolution. At 6 p.m., the 11-meter-high wooden doors of the Modernist Church of St Canisius were opened for an inclusive blessing mass. Spread in pairs around the airy church, there were …
Read More »Remembering the Jewish commandos who helped win WWII
Formation of the X troops on the Idwal slabs. () NEW YORK (Tribune News Service) – Life as they knew it was taken away. The Nazis took everything: their families, their homes and their countries. In the end, all they had left was their names. Then they gave up their …
Read More »Global Language Learning Applications Market 2021 By
Dallas, May 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Learning a language other than the native language has become increasingly important in today’s interconnected and interdependent world. Learning languages ââis essential for exploring many opportunities and engaging with other nations and cultures around the world. Learning makes it easier to connect to …
Read More »Our synodal journey will not be like that of Germany
Rome Newsroom, May 28, 2021 / 3:20 a.m. An Italian cardinal told reporters on Thursday that his country’s “synodal journey” will not focus on highly controversial issues like the “synodal path” unfolding in Germany. âOurs is not a synod, it is a synodal journey that starts from conditions very different …
Read More »Germany recognizes massacres in colonial Namibia as genocide
BERLIN – Germany officially recognizes as genocide the murder of tens of thousands of people from two ethnic groups in present-day Namibia at the start of the 20th century, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday, a major acknowledgment of the crimes of the time colonial. Germany asks forgiveness and creates …
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