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What’s Good on TV in Germany? Posted by mickeymickey on Dec 11, 2013
What better way to start this post than with a show-stopping musical number? That, my friends, was the first five minutes of the first episode of the new German TV show Neo Magazin mit Jan Böhmermann. Don’t feel bad if you didn’t get all the jokes. Even a fluent German speaker would have to already be…
Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself Posted by mickeymickey on Dec 6, 2013
Hi! I’m Mickey Mangan, and I’m new to the Transparent German blogging team. If my name rings a bell, it’s probably because you read the guest post I wrote for the site back in July. I’m best known among the German learning community as the guy who made The Lernen to Talk Show. Seit knapp drei…
Four important facts about the federal election in Germany Posted by Sandra Rösner on Sep 22, 2013
Polling locations were open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Today the citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany elected the 18th Bundestag, Germany’s parliament. About 60 million Germans were entitled to vote. 1. Who has the right to vote? Every German citizen who has turned 18 is allowed to vote. But also Germans…
Flutkatastrophe in Deutschland – Flood disaster in Germany Posted by Sandra Rösner on Jun 12, 2013
Schweiß tropft von meiner Stirn während ich den sandigen Feldweg entlang laufe. (Sweat is dripping off my forehead as I’m running along the sandy farm lane.) An jeder Stelle des Weges, die ich mit meinen Schuhen treffe, hinterlasse ich eine Staubwolke. (I leave a dust cloud at each patch where my shoe hits the ground.)…
Land unter! (Land submerged) Posted by jan on Jun 5, 2013
Hi everyone, yesterday was the first day since weeks that I saw the sun (honestly!). What a strange but totally liberating feeling. Though it is June, the last weeks have been affected by dark grey, cold temperatures and heavy rain. Already in May I wondered if the gulf stream ran dry… Well, it finally seems…
German newspaper causes laughter: “Pope eats Argentines”!?. Posted by Sandra Rösner on Mar 18, 2013
Is the new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a cannibal who favors his Argentinian fellow-countrymen as a delicious meal, just like the headline in a German newspaper suggested? Admittedly, I have no idea what kind of diet Francis, the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church prefers but I’m pretty sure that he is not after…
Was passiert in Deutschland? – What’s up in Germany? Posted by jan on Feb 13, 2013
Although there is no top news from Germany these days, I want to give you an overview of what is happening over here and what people have to deal with. Mixed with a little vocabulary training, this should help you to be up to date considering German affairs. Benedikt XVI. tritt zurück (resigns). Although this…