A bit late this link, but this week the Guardian has started examining some European countries, starting with Germany – see neweurope. More detail here.
There seem to be more articles every day. I noted in particular some articles on German literature, with more suggestions in the comments (Join the new World literature tour to Germany). Then one on the life of a German family:
Back home, Gerrit opens some lovely Hassaröder Pils beer, while Katleen, in a rare lapse of taste, drinks Beck’s. They put on a CD by a German R&B singer called Joy Denalane. To my ears, it sounds as authentically uninteresting as its English-language counterpartsz. “For me, one of the great things about the past year is that German-language music is becoming popular,” says Gerrit. Fair enough, but the current German top 10 is all in English, even when the songs are sung by Germans.
On the kitchen shelves, there’s a nostalgic East German cookbook, teeming with pictures of men in feather cuts at the wheels of Trabants, and recipes so stolid that subsisting on them would make you look more like Helmut Kohl than a member of the DDR’s gymnastic team.
There’s a hisory of German cinema in clips (including a very long clip, nearly two hours long, from Leni Riefenstahl’s ‘Olympia’ – presumably the whole film – Jesse Owens in first heat at just after 38 mins.), on the war against anglicisms
, on the piecing together of shredded Stasi documents in Zirndorf, and an at-a-glance guide to Germany. And a lot more.
Coming soon, for one week each: France, Spain and Poland.
I guess he means Hasseroeder not Hassaroeder. This is the same newspaper which has used the word Doeppelganger. Sorry, I can’t do Umlauts at this keyboard.
The architects for this house were Fowles & Lumley of 50 Hamlet Court Road, Westcliff on Sea, Essex. The plans were received by the Surveyors department at Romford Council on 7th December 1933 although completion of the house for a Mr & Mrs John Anderson was not completed until 1936
Thanks very much.
Probably no relation to David Anderson who was my first informant!