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Au pairs rules relax for non-German families
Berlin :: Germany | 2 days ago
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46 CET Until now non-EU au pairs could only be employed by families in which at least one adult was a German or EU citizen, and where German was spoken as a mother tongue...The Sddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said on Friday the new rules which will come
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The BBC discovers the Texas Germans — and a dying dialect
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
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The BBC discovers the Texas Germans and a dying dialect My great-grandmother, Hedwig Nietzsche Koerth, never spoke English. My Grandpa Gustav didn't learn the language until he entered first grade. But, by the time I was in grade school and was going
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This One's a Kippah: New York's Idiosyncratic Jewish Renewal
New York City :: NY :: USA | 5 days ago
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The Mishneh Torah There is a Jewish renewal in our lives, and two idiosyncratic instances occurred right here in this city in recent days. The first was a Sotheby's auction of the 386-item Judaica collection painstakingly assembled over the years by
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VIDEO: Why Texas German is a dying dialect
New Braunfels :: TX :: USA | 5 days ago
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German was the main language used in schools, churches and businesses around the hill country between Austin and San Antonio. But two world wars and the resulting drop in the standing of German meant that the fifth and sixth generation of immigrants
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VIDEO: Nazi-themed Wagner 'shocks audience'
Düsseldorf :: Germany | 10 days ago
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Nazi-themed Wagner opera cancelled in Dusseldorf 9 May 2013 Last updated at 12:22 ET A controversial production of a Wagner opera at one of the major German opera houses has been cancelled because of harrowing scenes involving Nazis. The Rheinoper,
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Nazi-themed opera creates scandal in Germany
Berlin :: Germany | 12 days ago
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A modern production of Richard Wagner's opera "Tannhauser" has caused a stir in Germany because of Nazi-themed scenes showing people dying in gas chambers and a family having their heads shaved and executed. A spokeswoman for the Dusseldorf opera
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Go beyond the beer garden in Cologne
Cologne :: Germany | 23 days ago
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It is impossible not to be impressed by Cologne in northern Germany, also known by its German name of Koln. Whether arriving by car, train or a Rhine river cruise ship, the dominant cathedral serves up a brooding Gothic welcome, while the pedestrian-
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German star makes her iron curtain call
Berlin :: Germany | 1 month ago
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An acclaimed new film set in the era of the Berlin Wall stars Nina Hoss as a doctor who is exiled to the Baltic coast after trying get a transfer to the West. She talks to Helen Barlow Tall, blonde and striking, Nina Hoss could have rested on her
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'Paradise' Trilogy Director Ulrich Seidl 'Proud' of Austrian Films' 'Harsh' Worldview (Q&A)
Cannes :: France | 1 month ago
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PDT 3/28/2013 by Clarence Tsui The controversial Vienna-based auteur talks about why he wants to show the world as hell. Having premiered individual installments of his Paradise trilogy at Cannes, Venice and then Berlin, Ulrich Seidl has been
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Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 months ago
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She's particularly bitter; in a disciplinary action, she's been transferred from a prestigious hospital in East Berlin to a small rural clinic...Yet she is caring with the patients, particularly Stella, a troubled teen-age girl, injured while
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