Kultur 11 by Josh Crane

Kultur 11 

The first article for Kultur 11 was about the psychological wall that lingers today. There is a significant amount of hate between East and West Berlin residents. In fact, a survey showed that many West and East Germans dislike the united country. Germans play the part of the stuck up, while Easterners are the whiners and hecklers of the bunch. Westerners feel like they lose too much money to the East, while the East feels it is entitled to more. These attitudes will fade as the open minded youth grow up to make up a higher percentage of the population.

Then I learned about the North and South. They do not share much. The North is largely Protestant, while the North is greatly Catholic. The North is always busy, and never resting, industrial and fast. The South is quite the opposite.

Lastly, I found out about Berlin and the Arts. The authoring band moved to Berlin for a short stint because they could meet other bands and musicians, hangout with artists, and live comfortably for quite some time. It was also a great place to live. But nothing gets done, and the band did not make much music, because too many distractions abounded. In fact, some creative folks are being pushed out. So the author returned home and got back to work on his music. The author learned creativity is not found in a place.

AMD 6 by Josh Crane

AMD 6
Josh Crane

Deise Ziet I was to go over some songs, mainly Christmas songs, I knew with German lyrics. From my previous knowledge of these Songs in Englisch, I could piece together the various bits of was ich wusste in Deutsch with neues Vokabular. Tannenbaum, or “O Christmas Tree” in English, describes Fabre of the tree. I recognized the color grünst, the verb conjugated verb lehren (meaning to teach) as well as the second person verb tense, where the singer is addressing the tree. The zwieten song I looked into was Stille Nacht, or “Silent Night.” I did not recognize as much elementary vocabulary, but I did see a few conjugates such as “goldenen” and “Nacht.”

I went to http://silentnight.web.za/translate/deu.htm

And http://german.about.com/library/blotannenb.htm.

Then I watched some clips (with subtitles) from the movie Downfall, which is famous in its own way across youtube. I found some words that I could pick out and understand, and some cognates, auch. For instance, the word music in English sounds just like its German counterpart, Musik. The case is the same with artillery, which is spelled Artillerie in Deutsch.

For this I went to the following links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpyMeBrljfQ, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp1RXmM1-60, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qANdxpwCWWg, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qANdxpwCWWg.

AMD 5 by Josh Crane

AMD 5 by Josh Crane

In die AMD 5, Ich habe Baseball in Deutschland gestudiern. I did not think this was a relavant topic, but I recently recieved a picture when my dad was in Raegensburg. My dad was sitting behind homeplate, watching a game of professional baseball in Germany. So I decided to check it out.

Where we have Major League Baseball, they have the Baseball-Bundesliga. The league has two divisions, and fifeteen in each division. Each team plays four games against each other team. The league started in 1982, being dominateed by the Mannheim Tornados. The sport has evolved since, and over 30,000 players can be found on the diamonds of Germany today.

However, this talent has been known to find its way overseas. Today, 13 Germans are playing in Major League Baseball. Jeff Baker is now with the Texas Rangers, and in his ninth year of playing third base. He is from Bad Kissingen. Edwin Jackson is in his 12^th year as a pitcher, currently with the cubs. He is just 30 years old, with a not-to-shabby ERA of 4.47.

As it turns out, German baseball is a competitive and growing environment.