Thursday, 28 January 2010

  • Wuppertal ÔnStress

    Wuppertal   is typical what?

    First: It 's a German town and belongs to the Rheinland (The Land along the Northern part of the river Rhine).The town is famous for its suspending trains, tracking along the small river Wupper. 

    Second: This rather big town is tightly surrounded by other big cities in this densely populated part of Germany. It has a tremendous industrial tradition comparable with Manchester in England, standing for textiles and colors furthermore.

    Third: Wuppertal is a town on stress. At least in the satirically written E-book  of Dschauli,  published by BOOKRIX, the new and rather successful E-Book-Foundation of German and European relevance. The book is just about different kinds of stress. It's  German written,  but has an English title and is by its design rather illustrative.So the title of the book is named:


    "Wuppertal ÔnStress"



Friday, 22 January 2010

Monday, 19 October 2009

  • Poem: Tourists know Bavaria

     

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    Tourists know Bavaria

    as a groovy area:

    When the tourists enter here,

    they start asking for the beer.

    This beer has tremendous fame,

    can be stated without shame.

    Once you meet the people here,

    you will find they like their beer.

    And they drink it without hype,

    just for fun, due to their type.

    It’s not only beer they like,

    furthermore they tend to hike.

    Such hikes do not stress on distance,

    But exist on a persistance:

    Entering the „StayCafay",

    which is closest to their way.

    There the hike will find its end

    in drinking coffee while you stand.

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    The word „staycafay" is an unusual English expression. But it sounds similar to the German word „Stehcafé". It means a location where you drink coffee and which doesn’t offer seats but bistrotlike tables. So you will have a rather cheap cup of coffee there. Very often you find such a location existing in a bakershop.

    In former times a bakershop offered mainly bread and perhaps a small variety of cookies. Of such scarcity were the times immediately after the war, when Germany was occupied by the U. S. Army.

    The following link will lead you to another poem of Dschauli. It is dedicated to a ficitve U.S. Soldier who belonged to a mini-station in Vogtareuth. He had to deal with the way of life in this small Bavarian village. And there he made acquaintance with a German car named DKW (daykaway) as well as with the fiction of the „staycafay".

    So, here is the link to the guestbook of Vogtareuth-Online and to Dschauli`s poem written in his very special „Bavarian English":

    http://www.vogtareuth-online.de/html/oldguest.html

    　

Tuesday, 06 October 2009

  • More about Erika

    About women called Erika in Germany:

    Meanwhile ERIKA is a rare name in Germany. The fashion of names is changing permanently. In Germany too! The most fashionable aspect of Erika is that this name is ending on  the letter "A". 

     

    When a girl is born in Germany today it is very likely that it will be baptized on a name ending on "A". A few years ago a name like SABRINA was very popular in Germany! And today?  SARAH is still in fashion though ending on an "H". But this "H" does not really trouble the predecessing letter "A" in that name.   

    But back to the ERIKAS:

    Once a girl was born at those times in Germany when this name had happened to become popular, the parents (or better say the father) might have expected a son to be born. And the male name Erich was already in their mind. But then DER STORCH (the stork) brought a girl. So she got the name "ERIKA" , eventually due to a slight deception of the father. The name had to substitute the expected boy.

     

    ERIKA is a name that was popular at pre-war-times in Germany. And the past century led Germans as well as Americans in two big wars. 

     

    One of my aunts was born a few years after the First Worldwar and she had been named on ERIKA. She was fuzzy about any kind of dirt. When her husband stepped into a dog's excrement, that made her almost vomit. Furthermore she used to wash the keys of her appartment-doors.   "Reinlich" (clean) and "gründlich" (efficient) she was. Such qualities belong to a certain German tradition, which might have faded today. 

    Berlin might be an actual example for this fading tradition. In the past trains arrived in time and streets were wept and kept in comparatively acceptable conditions. Nowadays Berlin is lacking on that - mainly due to certain people managing this big German city and even more to some "piggies" who feel not at all enabled to regard their streets as their living rooms.  Instead of that they prefer throwing bottles and if not themselves they permit their dogs to shit at what corner so ever.

    What a big luck for my aunt ERIKA not to live in a such displeasing city like Berlin, but now hopefully in that kind of  Heaven she was longing for.

    (to be continued)

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  • German Girl named Erika * * * * * doesn't know America

     

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    German Girls like ERIKA

    liked to see America.

    Which part of America?

     

    Find it out with 

    ERIKA!

    Dschauli greeting from Germany

     

     

     

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