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Tag Archives: Leipzig
Appeasing AfD: precedent for Chemnitz?
About the Nazis though… This week around 6000 far right supporters and neo-Nazis gathered in the small city of Chemnitz in Saxony. They turned out in response to the killing of a 35-year-old Cuban-German man by two refugees. About a … Continue reading
Burger flippin’
You find me at the end of a month in the role of grillmaster at Eusa’s Gilded Garden burger outlet. After an unshaven dressinggowned week or so with a short intermission in Stirling for my brother’s brass band course concert … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience
Tagged burgers, Edinburgh, Eusa, Fringe, German, Gilded Balloon, Leipzig, Literature, Teviot
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Blog zum Semesterende
Do you know when an interior seems to suggest a certain lifestyle? Well here it’s in full effect and by here I mean this interim address post-student halls in Leipzig. I’ve found myself drinking herbal tea, reading niche German books … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience
Tagged German, Germany, Goethe, journal, Leipzig, life, Rousseau, Semesterende, Werther
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MTV Cribs: Goethe
The extent to which I’ve read into Goethe’s oeuvre is really quite limited. I’ve covered about as much as an average German school pupil can be expected to in the course of their education; the early poems – Prometheus, Willkommen … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience
Tagged Burns, Faust, French Revolution, Goethe, Leipzig, MTV Cribs, national poets, Shakespeare, Weimar, Weimar Classicism
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Erfurt excursion – Berlin briefly – Leipzig living
I began writing this in transit on the way to the capital having missed the Flixbus and worked up quite a sweat in the process at the tail end of a week of consistently 20-degree weather. The switch to Deutsche … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience
Tagged Berlin, Deutsche Bahn, Erfurt, Flixbus, Hamburg, journal, Leipzig, life, Thüringen
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German & the Neutral Language?
Since I last committed pen to paper with the intention of publishing a blog nearly a whole month of me living in the city of Leipzig has passed. Tomorrow my first lectures and seminars begin after what I have to … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience
Tagged Buchmesse, English, Europe, German, language, Leipzig, University
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Disgorging suspended cargo
Perhaps it begins rightly on a frozen Tuesday morning. Bikeless, following the previous day’s abandonment to nature of my, on balance, trusty-enough hot pink-saddled steed in central Hamburg after failing to sell it to anybody, I board my usual number … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience
Tagged Copenhagen, Denmark, Erasmus, Germany, Helsingor, journal, Leipzig, life, Malmo, Roskilde
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Auf Wiedersehen, Herr Flett
Ah, Sunday. A fine day for reflection and calm, quiet contemplation. In Germany a brief respite from consumerism (also perhaps an inconvenience). Additionally, and purely coincidentally, you understand, optimal for the garnering of likes as the weekend’s accomplishments tie together … Continue reading
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Tagged British Council, German, Germany, Hamburg, indie, journal, journalism, laundry, Leipzig, life, Literature, news, Sunday, University, work
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Luther, Lyrik, Lieder und Leipzig
Trees increasingly denuded, the mulch on the path starting to settle, I find myself stumbling into the final third of November. Since my impromptu excursion to Manchester at the end of October, Hamburg’s schools have gone back, but of course, … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Life, Music, Personal experience
Tagged 1984, Abitur, BadBadNotGood, Berlin, Bremen, Canadian bands, Ein Sommer in London, electronica, European, folktronica, funk, George Orwell, Girl Ray, Hafenklang, Hamburg, hip-hop, identity, jazz, Leipzig, Mac Demarco, Martin Luther, Mojo, national, papacy, poetry, Poetry slam, protestantism, Public Service Broadcasting, Reformation, regional, Sylvan Esso, Theodor Fontane, UK-German Connection
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Salutations from the Solstice
December. Brown leaves linger – decomposing streaks on recomposing streets whose lights and likenesses change to suit the season. I’m set to return soon, where no such sodden mulch is to be found. Another semester past. Another set of exams … Continue reading
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Tagged Auslandsjahr, December, Edinburgh, English literature, German, Germany, Hemmingway, humanities, leaves, Leipzig, Orkney, science, Solstice, Spain, University, year abroad
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