The Great War casts its shadow. 2014 marks the beginning of the "Great War" or "Great War" as the First World War is elsewhere called the 100th This time every European can even take a picture of how the ancestors with bayonets and poison gas fell upon each other, starting this year an international digitization project. National libraries from eight countries provide material for the Europeana, the common Internet platform of libraries, archives and museums. 5.4 million euros to flow in the digitization of 400,000 documents: letters, soldiers, protect grave newspapers, war cookbooks, children's books with war propaganda, photos and maps of the scenes of carnage. Employees of the Berlin State Library had the idea for the joint European project and fought tenaciously through the complicated application procedure of the European Commission. In the end, the Germans decided the battle for the coveted million EU support for the sovereign. - more columns and reports from the Republic of culture can be found here .
Tell Halaf? The name was fifty years as thoroughly forget that you thought more like a Karnevalsruf as a place of archaeological discoveries. "Tell" means "hill" - and there are many in the Syrian desert. And under the Tell Halaf discovered the self-made scholar Max von Oppenheim in 1899 as pictures gods and animal reliefs, which proved to be milestones in the East archeology. Now the gods from Tell Halaf back - and let a surprised twice. Read the exhibition report by Elke Linda Buchholz in the Stuttgarter Zeitung .
The "Archives of suppressed literature in the GDR" includes about 150 pre-and estates of authors who in GDR prisons scorched to publish or otherwise had no chance. At the Federal Foundation for the Study of the SED dictatorship in Berlin, these products can be viewed. A large part comes from the estate of the Stasi: Mielke people seized in the arrests of unpopular accept manuscripts in order to use them as evidence. The writer and long-time editor Joachim Walther took notice when, after the fall on behalf of the Gauck Authority investigated the involvement of his colleagues in the Stasi files. Together with Ines Geipel, he founded ten years ago the "Archive of suppressed literature." Both are also the editor of the "silent library" copies from the archive. Today they are for their Initiative with the prestigious award for book culture Antiquaria excellent. Michael Bienert has portrayed them. More
The call for a holy war came from Berlin: "El Jihad" emblazoned in large letters on a printed during World War II mag. The magazine should be distributed to Muslim prisoners of war. Behind this was one of the best East expert of his time: Max Freiherr von Oppenheim. Today his devastated in World War II and presented in recent years reassembled excavations at Tell Halaf on Museum Island to the public. Elke Linda has the dazzling Max von Oppenheim portrays the special pages of the DAILY MIRROR. view article
The name Nefertiti means: Beauty has come. Could the bust of Egyptian Queen might disappear again from the New Museum in Berlin? Imagine can and will be no one, not even Hermann Parzinger , president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: "The Nefertiti is and remains the best ambassador of Egypt in Berlin." Elke Linda Buchholz writes today in the Stuttgarter Zeitung about the background of the recent claims for restitution from Egypt. Read more .
growth, growth and more growth, which could not yet go on forever, the Club of Rome warned already in 1972, for the earth and its resources are limited. But today is growth, as measured by the increase in gross domestic product, as the main indicator of economic and political success. Automatically feel happier by the fact that people not know. And even the costs of environmental disasters, the gross domestic product, driving up! The small kingdom of Bhutan has declared foresight thirty years ago rather than growth for the happiness of its people directive of the government action. It makes the satisfaction of its citizens by detailed surveys of accurate statistics. A similar plan is now also the governments in France and England. In the German Bundestag last week, the commission of inquiry "economic prosperity, quality of life" begun its work to define a new indicator of progress. Here, according to appointment decision is "subjectively experienced by the human quality of life and satisfaction," not to miss. At least the happiness research in Germany is facing happy days! more columns from the culture, see Republic here (and every Monday in the Stuttgarter Zeitung). The photo shows the futuristic foyer of the Paul-Loebe-Haus, in the the committees meet.
The new article on Literaturhäuser and are literary archives in Germany for the online editorial staff of the Goethe-Institut real winner. They were not only translated immediately into English or American and on the websites of regional institutions taken over, in the meantime there are versions in Polish , Dutch , Chinese and Indonesian .
is Thus, the nine-page, lavishly illustrated essay about the night life in Berlin in the 20s, which the Fashion Fair Bread & Butter has given us in order. He has appeared in Trade Show Guide and online in German and English read (on page 32 et seq.). Today opens the exhibition its doors last night was in the hangar at Tempelhof Airport yet been built, while next door in Cotton Club the Opening Party raged: with about 2000 visitors, Profiboxkämpfen, roulette and poker and a mayor that the Rummel visibly enjoyed. Klaus Wowereit did not forget to remember in the boxing ring because he had to fight the decision for the settlement of the fashion show at Tempelhof Airport - finally He will soon be re-elected.
How is the art of the electorate? President of the Academy and poster artist Klaus Staeck has for decades its own strategy. He transferred works by artists such as Beuys and Jonathan Meese editions at affordable prices. Also born in 1941 Sigmar Polke is one of his portfolio since he became famous in the sixties with its raster images under the ironic slogan "Capitalist Realism". "He has the printer, the logistics, has the distribution and artists, "Polk said tersely. To date Staeck has order prints by him on sale, on the Internet one click. Not without pride the publisher is now rolling its" balance of an Artist friendship "in an exhibition tribute to the Berlin Academy of Arts on. Every note has lifted the manic collector Staeck. Around royalty statements Polke, the scribbling of the great improviser with a quick pin on proofs of its graphics and drawings and funny comments hastily turned into improvised unique. more you can report this issue on the website of Stuttgarter Zeitung.
"The S-Bahn is one of our intimacy," said Uwe Johnson in 1964 and warned the West Berlin from the devastating effects of the S-Bahn-boycott of the Senate and unions calling for the Wall. The boycott was to meet the German railways and authorities in East Berlin, the sad result was the decline of the once-modern public transport system in the world. After the reunification of Berlin billion in rail network were used to get it back on the pre-war level. This winter, controls the S-Bahn back to the past: the lack of operational vehicles and staff, stretching to the outskirts were completely shut down last week, in downtown Trains are so rare and so crowded that they avoid possible. Berlin without a working S-Bahn, which is like without Stuttgart main station: an attack on a sense of home in the capital. Actually has to be the angry Berlin Stuttgart role model to follow in the government district and demonstrate en masse against those responsible. But the situation is hopeless: How to get there without the S-Bahn at all? - More columns from the culture Republic related here.
on 200 years ago, 8 Died in January 1811, the Berlin Enlightenment, writers and publishers Friedrich Nicolai. Just in time for that date, the Berlin Senate has made clear Nicolai's house in Friars Road 13 and over to the property fund to sell it to private users. The money is already scheduled for the expansion of the City Museum. But one may so deal with Berlin's most important monument of the Berlin Enlightenment? Until the Nazi period there, the Lessing Museum also reminded of the productive friendship with Lessing, Nicolai and Moses Mendelssohn. What merit is Nicolai has acquired Berlin and German literature and why the use of his house, greater care deserves you read today - on a full newspaper page - the printed TAGESSPIEGEL and online .
Why do we celebrate the baptism of Jesus right now ...
It seems somehow strange that the church this Sunday already the feast of the Baptism celebrates the Lord. Christmas ..., to feast of the Sacred ..., Three Kings ... so far is what this circuit is always hard for the child. And now Baptism? After all, was Jesus at his baptism is simply a grown man
The reason for that. It is also in the baptism of Jesus to the the Epiphany, the ancient mystery of Christmas and Epiphany. Jesus is represented in the world. He is revealed to man as Savior and Redeemer. When Jesus was baptized by John, when the heavens opened and the Holy Spirit descended like a dove upon Jesus visibly reduced. This came a voice: "You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." But we must pay attention to it once in the Trinity manuscript of the action. In Jesus' baptism in the Jordan of the Triune God is in His great love for us: Jesus, the Son of God, anointed by the heavenly Father in the Holy Spirit and used ceremonially as the Messiah. In other words
Philliperbrif it then: "Jesus Christ was equal with God, but did not set out to be like God, but emptied himself and became like a slave, and the likeness of men." Jesus is now in the number of people and baptized. God the Father reveals him as his beloved son. Those who know him, recognize him in the glory of the Father.
Do I want to recognize Jesus as the Son of God and my Saviour? This is the crucial question. If I can answer it, I understood what it really is. Not only at Christmas, Epiphany and Baptism of the Lord ...
Beautiful is not the gray granite blocks. And birth date on the grave stone Heinrich von Kleist's wrong. Say at least authoritative Kleist researchers, and the poet himself had his birthday on 10 Celebrated in October. It also kept his admirers turned up to 1876, a church book entry. Thus Kleist came only eight days later in Frankfurt / Oder to the world. Even official documents can be wrong, but in the Nazi era, when the grave stone was replaced, such doubts were not wanted: The 18th October 1777 was set in stone. No evidence of suicide from this point at the Kleiner Wannsee, no shot at the friend Henriette Vogel, Kleist, before himself a pistol in his mouth. "Well, my immortality, you're all mine!" - Borrowed from the Nazis in estimation of the Prince of Homburg was abused as a grave inscription. The stone must go! At least that is the personal opinion of the President of the Kleist-Gesellschaft, the Cologne literature professor and biographer Kleist Günther Blamberger ... - Read more about the dispute over the grave Kleist and the many events Kleist year in the online edition of the Stuttgarter Zeitung today.
I'm impressed. Michael Hesemann the "Magi from the East" on the track. Pretty exciting and guaranteed free of kitsch, which happens quite often when it comes to the three wise men.
"This is a world / they is / disordered / -. / - / So who is willing + / Assigns them? "Scribbles the 30-year-old Bertolt Brecht in his notebook (pictured right). Later he writes "1 choir" about further down on the sheet indicate the letters "RL" indicates that Rosa Luxembourg should respond to the choir. For decades, Brecht was planning a play about the founders of the Communist Party, which was never finished. The notes of 1928 can be read as a possible beginning and end of a Communist teaching piece, on the second sheet outlined Brecht: "2 Choir / So is your decision / fate: you die / will / - / Will you complain if / her up ? / RL / no kill ". In
with the counting of the Brecht Archive's notebook number 24, Brecht himself has only a 1 painted on the intent and later an 8 made of it. Fatzer is high on the first page, as was originally bound in black leatherette booklet for another, later checked project restrictive, and it was filled then with telephone numbers Keunergeschichten, sketches for the 1928 under great pressure to premiere brought "Threepenny Opera" and material for other pieces, poems, projects. more
- Muslims in Holland to protect endangered Copts! Let's hope that the example is followed. One wonders about it before that so few Muslims to stand up and protest loudly against the crimes perpetrated in the name of their religion.
The secret of Frank Sennett Sr. remained largely hidden from their contemporaries. Only after her death, reveals a mystical connection with God and Christ love, as she is the great saints of our own.
The modest nun was Dominican sister of the convent Niederviehbach. Born on 18 July 1928 in Kirchberg in the woods, she joined the Congregation in 1955. Most of her religious life she spent as a teacher in Schwandorf, where her order with a convent school for girls affiliated maintained. Her sisters and the students describe as a deeply religious Sr. M. Frances woman whose heartfelt goodness and kindness was very impressive. A strong influence came from her. For many, it was like an angel. She had an uncomplicated joy and in their letters today, one senses a hearty sense of humor.
From the great mystery, however, experienced even her sisters after the death of Franziska. In their diaries, they found the meticulous presentation of their mystical experiences. Almost every day she learned in the celebration of the Eucharist and in Eucharistic adoration, the real visual, auditory and tangible presence of her Lord. What is happening in secret during his lifetime, to now as a star. Her experiences testify to the world the loving presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Communion. For a world and a time that threatens to raise awareness of the real presence of the Savior to lose in the Eucharist, the message of Sr. M. Frances truly prophetic dimension. Her voice is not silenced with death and its mission does not end ...
If the star rises and we are by this simple sister again be the great biblical revelation of the Incarnation of God remember, you can join us by her secret, the center of our faith, open up new: the incarnation. In Jesus Christ God became flesh. And in the Communion is God meat. Received here and we are living communion with Christ: "Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing."
The Great War casts its shadow. 2014 marks the beginning of the "Great War" or "Great War" as the First World War is elsewhere called the 100th This time every European can even take a picture of how the ancestors with bayonets and poison gas fell upon each other, starting this year an international digitization project. National libraries from eight countries provide material for the Europeana, the common Internet platform of libraries, archives and museums. 5.4 million euros to flow in the digitization of 400,000 documents: letters, soldiers, protect grave newspapers, war cookbooks, children's books with war propaganda, photos and maps of the scenes of carnage. Employees of the Berlin State Library had the idea for the joint European project and fought tenaciously through the complicated application procedure of the European Commission. In the end, the Germans decided the battle for the coveted million EU support for the sovereign. - more columns and reports from the Republic of culture can be found here . 
