Welcome to Germerica - Where we all come together
Already a Member?
Got a Hot Tip?
Please email us HERE
Search
DER BLOGGER
Are the Boomers Are Heading for the Barn?
When the April figures on unemployment were released May 4, they were more than disappointing. They were deeply disturbing. While the unemployment rate had fallen from 8.2 percent to 8.1 percent, 342,000 workers had stopped looking for work. They had just dropped out of the labor market. Only 63.6 percent of the U.S. working age population is now in thelabor force, the lowest level since December 1981.
WANDERLUST
Eurostar Eyes Frankfurt Link
Eurostar is to extend its high speed rail service to link Frankfurt and Cologne via the Channel Tunnel to London within the next five years, according to a British newspaper report on Monday.
GERMERICANA
Digging into German Culture in Pennsylvania
By Chris Sholley
During the past year, a group of Lebanon Valley College students poured over German documents at the Lebanon County Historical Society of Pennsylvania as part of an advanced course in the language. They made interesting discoveries about the lives of German immigrants.
AKADEMIA
Learning and Teaching German
With the free German courses from Deutsche Welle, you can choose the learning style that suits you best: e-learning at the computer, with short videos, audio courses or podcasts, or with texts and worksheets you can print out. For DW's website, please click HERE
GERMERICA LINKS
RSS FEED
Bockfest Cincinnati 2011
Wed, 02/23/2011 - 23:48 —In the 19th century a canal was built connecting Lake Erie in northern Ohio to the Ohio River in the southern part of the state. The canal went straight south, but then in Cincinnati bent to the east and then again to the south to the river, forming an L-shaped configuration.
In that corner of the canal, Germans first congregated, making for the beginnings of the German district. Bridges were built over the canal leading into the district and it was said that one went “Over-the-Rhine” by going over the bridges.
The area then became known as the Over-the-Rhine district. Due to the largest concentration of breweries there, the northwest corner was named the Over-the-Rhine Brewery District.
Bockfest is held in Over-the-Rhine in honor of its German and brewing heritage. The German-American Citizens League again joins others in co-sponsoring the fest along with the Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. and the Over-the-Rhine Brewery District.
On Wednesday before Bockfest, March 2, Schoenling Bock beer will be tapped at Mecklenburg Gardens, but Hudepohl Festival Bock and Spaten Maibock will also be available.
Founded in 1865, Mecklenburg Gardens is the oldest German restaurant in Cincinnati and features a Biergarten as well as a Fest Hall. The fest itself gets kicked off then on Friday, March 4th with a grand parade through the Over-the-Rhine district, where an official program takes place, including the blessing of the beer.
According to fest organizers: “Throughout the weekend, the hall features live music, bock beer and food.” Also, “ the Hall hosts the Bloatarian Brewing League's bock home brew competition, historic steins and breweriana, authors, exhibitions and is the starting point for the Prohibition Resistance Tours and Church Tours.”
Fest organizers also add: “ In addition to live music, Saturday evening includes the final round of Sausage Queen Competitions and the crowning of Bockfest Royalty 2011.
Continental Sunday is family-friendly entertainment that celebrates Sundays in Over-the-Rhine in the 1800s. The day features a variety of authentic German entertainment provided by participating German-American societies,
German food, and beer specials. Sunday also brings the return of the steins, breweriana, authors, exhibitions, and tours.” For further information, visit:www.bockfest.otrbrewerydistrict.org
WAS IST LOS?
KULTUR
Celebrating Gustav Klimt
Vienna's art trade will be marking the 150th anniversary of Gustav Klimt’s birth in style. A series of special events in 2012 will pay tribute to the artist, who was a leading light in the Vienna Secession movement and a pioneer of modernism.
DAS KINO
Portrait of Wally - The Movie
A documentary about Austrian painter Egon Schiele's famous portrait of his mistress "Wally" opens Friday, in New York's Quad Cinema III. It traces the legal and emotional drama surrounding the oil painting. The following review is by Chuck Bowen of Slant.
DER STAMMTISCH
Gertrude Stein's Strange Views
By Mark Weber
Scholars of the life of Gertrude Stein were recently startled to learn that in 1938 the prominent American writer Gertrude Stein had spearheaded a campaign urging the Nobel committee to award its Peace Prize to Adolf Hitler.
FUSSBALL
