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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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German-Americans Preparing for the Big Day
Fri, 09/02/2011 - 18:37 —
The Councilman called the parade a “great celebration of German-American culture in this city.” Approximately 200 people attended, including many members of the German-American Steuben Parade Committee. Photo: Steuben Parate Chairman Lars Halter, center. Tio his right is Miss German-America 2012, Denise Manukian.
Also present was the 2010 German-American Steuben Parade Grand Marshal, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and Barbara L. Mayer, the gold-medal winner in the 25m air pistol at the World Police and Fire Games, currently being held in the city.
Food was donated by four local German restaurants in New York: Zum Stammtisch of Ridgewood Queens, Hofbrau Bierhaus of Manhattan, Nürnberger Bierhaus of Staten Island, and Loreley Restaurant of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
“German-American Friendship Month” features a series of cultural events held in the area to publicize the annual German-American Steuben Parade, and pay tribute the many contributions made by German-Americans to this country and to the rest of the world!,
“It is important to acknowledge the many contributions of the largest ethnic group in America, the German-Americans,” says Halter, himself an immigrant from Germany. “To have the mayor acknowledge these contributions is very important to the overall community!”
Names like Roebling (Brooklyn Bridge), Steinway (concert pianos), Ruth and Gehrig (sports), Earhart and Lindbergh (aviation), Eisenhower and Kissinger (world politics and peace) are all part of the makeup of what is present-day New York and present-day America.
This year’s German-American Steuben Parade will be held on Saturday, September 17, 2011 on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, starting at 11:30 am. For the first time in just over twenty years, the Parade will be broadcast live on PBS WNET Thirteen and on WLIW 21, starting at 12 noon.
The Parade will feature over 200 groups from the U.S. and 25 more groups from Germany and Austria. There will be 27 floats marking the many accomplishments of Americans of German ancestry, and four Grand Marshals.
They are Samantha Brown, the popular host of Travel Channel´s "Passport to Europe," Ilse Aigner, German Secretary of Food, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection, Erik Bettermann, Director of Deutsche Welle, and the newly installed German Ambassador to the United States, Peter Ammon.
For more information on the 54th annual German-American Steuben Parade, and a full schedule of events for German-American Friendship Month, log onto www.germanparadenyc.org.
Back in May, Denise Manukian was crowned Miss German-America 2011. The crowning took place during the "Maifest on the Hudson" co-sponsored by World Yacht Cruises on Pier 81, and the German-American Steuben Parade Committee.
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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.
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