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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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Missouri's German Heritage
Thu, 06/23/2011 - 06:02 —Such a settlement would become a German colony or state in the U.S.A.The response to their book was overwhelming, causing a second edition to be published and thousands of copies printed.
Altogether, five hundred signed up and in 1834 made the journey to the U.S. Although plans for a German state failed, many of the members of the Giessen Emigration Society landed in Missouri and settled there.
These settlers and the publicity surrounding the Giessen Emigration Society no doubt contributed to the emigration of others to Missouri.
The interest of Muench and Follenius in Missouri emanated from the glowing report about the area published in 1829 by Gottfried Duden's Bericht über eine Reise nach den westlichen Staaten Nordamerika's, now also available in translation as: Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America.
Duden’s Report
For those interested in the area, the Missouri German Consortium has just announced Utopia Revisited which consists of a tour of German heritage sites relating to Duden, Muench, Follenius and the German emigrants that came to Missouri.
According to the Missouri German Heritage Consortium “On Saturday, September 24th, 2011 at 1p.m. the buses will depart Washington, Missouri and tour participants will have a rare opportunity to become a member of the Giessen Emigration Society, and experience their departure from Germany, voyage to the U.S., travel the frontier and settle in the Lake Creek valley.
“Tickets are $25 per person and available by PayPal or by mail. The tour is being sponsored by the Missouri German Heritage Consortium and members of the Sommer-Republik from Bremen, Germany.
For more information, e-mail history@mogermans.org or call 636.221.1524.”
For those who can’t make the tour, there is a new DVD available Utopia Revisited.
For further information, visit the site of the Missouri German Consortium: http://mo-germans.com/
Don Heinrich Tolzmann is Associate Publisher and Columnist for Germerica.net. For information on his recent book, German-Americana: Selected Essays, please click http://donheinrichtolzmann.net/
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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
