Auf den Spuren von Goethe

31. May 2010 - 10:00 - 0 Comments by Ignacio Garcia Lascurain Bernstorff

Sehr verehrte Leserinnen und Leser, Liebe Constipendiaten, Iin Deutschland kann man ab und zu Goethe-Tourismus machen. Sei es in dem Geburtshaus des Schriftellers, in der Wohung des angeblichen Werthers oder etwa in dem Weinkeller des Faust in Leipzig bzw. in dem Zimmer des wahren, also des realen Doctor Faustus in Staufen in Breisgau. Ich nenne [...]

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Brewing in Hamburg

28. May 2010 - 08:28 - 0 Comments by Ram Shankar

Last week my colleagues were in Hamburg to take part in – The first international brewing contest organized by the TU-Hamburg Harburg.. Our team (and our beer too) is called “Erwin’s beste Flasche”, named after our Department Head. Unfortunately, I couldn’t go along with them and missed out on a lot of fun. But here´s [...]

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Hakim and Ron, Part I

27. May 2010 - 08:15 - 0 Comments by Ron Segal

The following short story, or should I say report, was recently published in the latest issue of the DAAD Letter magazine which was sent to you. For those of you who missed it, here it is again, decorated with the beautiful drawings of Lihie Aimée Jacob, and broken into several fragments cuz the damn thing’s [...]

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Bullets and ideas

26. May 2010 - 08:23 - 2 Comments by Alexander Araya

Let’s talk about hard topics. Two years ago, I almost got killed. It was not a case of robbery. It was a curious misunderstanding. I was walking in the street to go to my radio show in Costa Rica. Two undercover policemen were looking for a suspect and I was dressing similar clothes. Suddenly, I [...]

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Karlsruhe Stipendiatentreffen

25. May 2010 - 14:17 - 0 Comments by Nashwa Abou Seada

Hallo ihr alle, also das Stipendiatentreffen war richtig super. ich habe es mir nicht so schön vorgestellt es war wirklich super orgnaisiert und sehr toll. Wir sind von Stuttgart abgefahren die Fahrt war nicht sehr lang und sind dann gegen Mittags angekommen. Schon im Bus habe ich Ägypter getroffen von denen ich gar nicht wusste, [...]

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Eine Woche in St. Petersburg

25. May 2010 - 07:50 - 0 Comments by Ignacio Garcia Lascurain Bernstorff

Sehr verehrte Leserinnen und Leser, Liebe Constipendiaten, An diesem wiederum frühlingsmäßigen Mainachmittag darf ich Euch wieder begrüßen. Die Omission des fehlenden Freitags lag daran, dass ich mich in St. Petersburg befand und, im Gegensatz zu den Reisen nach Frankfurt, es unmöglich war, von dort einen Blogbeitrag zu schicken. Unter dem Zeichen des Malteserkreuzes—in hoc signo [...]

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Israel 1980, 6:55am

20. May 2010 - 07:57 - 1 Comment by Ron Segal

I was born in Rechovot on the 24th of April 1980. When my mother arrived at the hospital her chart read: arrived at 7:00am, born at 6:55am. I was in a hurry – had to see the world. That concludes my being ahead of time. I took my time taking my first steps (at the [...]

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Exploring Kafka

19. May 2010 - 13:00 - 0 Comments by Alexander Araya

The rain was falling. The tourists were walking around the city with their colored umbrellas and their waterproof clothes. The old architecture decorates the landscape. It is cold, but everyone is in the street, discovering the place. In the middle of one street, a beggar is on his knees and his head is down almost [...]

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Die richtige Begrüßung

19. May 2010 - 08:54 - 0 Comments by Hery Randriamaro

Heute werde ich über meine Erfahrung zum Thema „Begrüßung“ schreiben. In Antananarivo ist es mir üblich, dass man sich begrüßt, wenn man sich irgendwo begegnet. Auf diese Begrüßung kann einerseits ein Gespräch folgen. Andererseits begrüßt man sich auch einfach als Respektzeichen oder als Freundschaftszeichen und macht weiter, was man dabei war. Das war, was ich [...]

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Disappointment

17. May 2010 - 08:11 - 0 Comments by Ron Segal

Disappointment is the hiatus between what you had hoped or wished for and what you actually got. It’s not what you got itself that upsets you but rather the absence of what you have perceived in your mind’s eye. If feelings were math then disappointment would be the delta of H(ope) minus X, not the [...]

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