Fred Astaire

by | Mar 27, 2016

Frederick Austerlitz (1899-1987) An American with Austrian Roots He was already an American icon when he died in 1987 at the age of 88. Fred Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska on May 10, 1899. There in the midwestern American heartland he and his sister Adele grew up...

The German Way of Death and Funerals

by | Mar 12, 2016

German Funerals • R.I.P. • Death in Deutschland Burial | Cremation | Expat Info “Dealing with death is the root of culture.” – Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss writer “The German way of death is perhaps even more regulated than the German way of...

Advanced German Archive 6

by | Mar 2, 2016

DEUTSCH FÜR FORTGESCHRITTENE A collection of advanced and intermediate German vocabulary with model sentences in German and English – plus audio. These vocabulary archives have been transferred from our former AboutGerman.net site, which is now closed. Over the next...