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RIP Marcel Reich-Ranicki

September 18, 2013 GW Administrator 0

German literary critic, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, known as “Literaturpapst – Pope of literature” has died. Read the New York Times obituary. His speech refusing to accept the ZDF-TV award

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NBC’s Sound of Music

August 23, 2013 GW Administrator 0

Carrie Underwood will play opposite True Blood’s Stephen Moyer in NBC’s The Sound of Music December 5th live holiday production. Anna Paquin’s husband will play Capt. Georg von Trapp, the decorated WWI veteran and single […]

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Elvis in Germany

August 16, 2013 GW Administrator 0

Elvis Presley died on this day in 1977: 1. Muß i’ denn, muß i’ denn Zum Städtele hinaus, Städtele hinaus Und du mein Schatz bleibst hier Wenn i’ komm’, wenn i’ komm’, Wenn i’ wiederum, […]

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Assumption of Mary

August 15, 2013 GW Administrator 0

On August 15th we celebrate the Assumption of the virgin Mary into heaven after she has completed the course of her earthly life. In Latin: Assumptio Beatae Mariae Virginis In German: Mariä Himmelfahrt or Vollendung […]

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Google Doodle honors Erwin Schrödinger

August 12, 2013 GW Administrator 0

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger born in Vienna 12 August 1887 was an Austrian physicist whose research is an essential part of quantum physics. Most famously in pop-culture likely his cat-thought-experiment. The Nobel Prize winning […]