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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
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Actress Kirsten Dunst Adds German Passport
Sat, 10/01/2011 - 10:22 —
The actress Kirsten Dunst has added a German passport to her American one, according to an interview she gave with a Berlin newspaper.
Movie star Kirsten Dunst has German roots and now she's got the passport to prove it.
Dunst told the German newspaper the BZ that recently became a German citizen. "Now I'm a real international lady," the newspaper quoted her as saying, "who can do films in Europe without any trouble at all."
Dunst's father is German and her mother is Swedish, according to BZ.
Dunst was speaking to journalists in London for the premier of her new film Melancholia. After filming the Lars von Trier movie, she said she traveled around Germany.
She said she visits relatives in Hamburg often, but is especially fond of Berlin. "I'd rather buy an apartment in Berlin," she said. "It's just a younger city and right now so much is going on in Berlin."
Dunst can speak German, but only "kid's German," she said. She hopes that will change, however. "It would be greatest thing to be able to be able to act in a German film."
Sadra Bullock is another famous Hollywood star who said recently she and her sister intended to apply for a German passport. The 47-year old Oscar winner is the daughter of Helga D. Meyer, a German opera singer who taught voice at Mary Washington College for many years. She died of cancer in 2000 aged 58. Her father is American.
At the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010, Bullock won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in The Blind Side, where she thanked her as "Helga B."
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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
