by HF | May 3, 2017 | Daily life, Expat issues, German language, History and culture
Billy Wilder (1906-2002), the noted Austrian-American film director (Double Indemnity, Stalag 17, Some Like It Hot), as famous as he was, used to complain about how he was frequently misidentified as German. Americans often get Austria and Germany mixed up. Sometimes...
by HF | Dec 28, 2016 | Daily life, Expat issues, German language, German vocabulary, learning German
These days, many Hollywood movies screened in Germany keep their original English title. But it was not always that way. In the past, especially from the 1940s to the 1980s, there was almost always a special German title created for German audiences. Often the German...
by HF | Jun 13, 2016 | Daily life, Expat issues, German vocabulary, History and culture, Work and employment matters
Kings and governments may err, but never Mr. Baedeker. – A.P. Herbert, in his 1929 English libretto for J. Offenbach’s operetta La Vie Parisienne[1] In both German and English, the term “Baedeker” (BAY-day-ker) is synonymous with “travel...
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