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historyMy great passion. Well, one of them. I grew up in a town which wasn't just over a millennium old but also had avoided being bombed during WWII, which means an incredible amount of history in ( Read more... )

The Book Fair ended, as it always does, with a last highlight, the awarding of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in the Paulskirche, i.e. the church where we had that brief, aborted experiment with democracy in 1848, the year of failed hopes and failed revolutions in which a first parliamentary German constitution was drafted and promptly ( Read more... )

Okay, one of my christmas presents was a Schiller biography. And being utterly corrupted by fandom, I found myself thinking that if German universities were more like lj world, Goethe/Schiller would so be the OTP of all OTPs ( Read more... )