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Celebrating the Night of Atlantis in Handewitt
Sunset in Handewitt; photo taken in April 2011 There are many places in the world where different landscapes meet in one spot, and one can take advantage of what it has to offer. Flensburg and the...
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And the Legend Plays On: A Tribute to R.E.M.
1987 at a restaurant in Jackson, Minnesota (USA): I was having pizza with my family at a family restaurant in the town’s small business district. Families of kids my age were playing arcade and...
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The Flensburg Files‘ Tribute to Loriot
There are some textbook stereotypes that many people from different cultures have learned when it comes to the Germans. The most common stereotypes that I have heard regarding Germans include the...
View ArticleFlensburg Files‘ Tribute to Steven Jobs, Apple founder, thinker, innovator,...
An Apple a Day helps keep the doctor away- this was an old saying that was used by many to encourage people to eat healthy everyday and avoid seeing the doctor for any illnesses that may come about. My...
View ArticleFlensburg Files News Flyer: 12 October 2011
While away at the German Horticulture Show BUGA in Koblenz this past weekend, we have some dedications to mention from both sides of the Atlantic and a mind-boggling story which might keep Germans from...
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The Fall from Greatness
I would like to start with a proverb that I learned from playing chess with my father when I was a teenager and listening to him talk about all his chess greats he grew up with (from Bobby Fischer to...
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The Light Shines On Forever: A Tribute to Thomas Kinkade
It’s the light, Thom, that’s what lasts. The leaves are transient. They grow, turn green, turn red and die, but behind them the light lasts forever.- Peter O’Toole (from the film The Christmas...
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A Loss of a True American: A Tribute to Andy Griffith
What is a true American? It is a question that many of us are trying to answer, especially since the End of the Cold War. There we used to be portrayed as a GI Joe figure winning the heart of a young...
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A Small Step into a Giant World: A Tribute to Neil Armstrong
“That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.” Those few words created waves that would shap the way we think of exploration. From the moment Earth was created, man wanted to explore new...
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Are you aware…….
Are you aware of what you are doing? When you talk about somebody behind his/her back, you degrade that person and his/her self-esteem. When you yell insults to someone, you scare them away. When you...
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A Tribute to Nelson Mandela
Years of segregation. Years of apartheid. Years where we had just black and white. Years where neither side spoke to each other nor recognized the other race. Years where...
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Tribute to Robin Williams
Somewhere on the beaches of Travemünde (in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein), where kite-flying is one of the most popular sports to find along the Baltic Sea, traces of Robin Williams will be...
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Tribute to Friedrich Streich, creator of the Orange Mouse
Statue of the Maus (right) and the Elephant at Anger, Erfurt’s city center. Photo taken in 2011 In the US we had our forefathers who created Bugs Bunny and all of his friends as part of the Looney...
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A Tribute to Günter Grass
This week’s Genre of the Week, presented by the Files that is in connection with English and life in Germany, had to take a moment of pause- and for a good reason. Germany lost a literary great...
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Tribute to John Nash and the Game Theory
This genre of the week starts off with a quote: Sometimes the brightest minds happen to be the craziest, and even the craziest people are the ones that make the difference in our society. The genre...
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For Kurt Masur
Link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Kurt_masur.jpg ….with many thanks for what you have done. There’s one less light in the city of Leipzig tonight but one more light in the...
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A Tribute to Peter Lustig
If there was a question I would have had to ask my high school German teacher had the chance been there, it would have been this: Frau Schorr, instead of showing us that teenage soap opera TV series...
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A Tribute To Roger Cicero
BERLIN- The music world lost a soul much too soon. Roger Cicero, son of famous Romanian pianist Eugene Cicero has died as a result of a massive stroke. His passing occurred on Gründonnerstag, the...
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A Tribute To Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali in 1966. Source: Dutch National Archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali#/media/File:Muhammad_Ali_1966.jpg The world has been mourning the greatest boxer in the world,...
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Genre Of The Week: For What It’s Worth
This week’s genre of the week is a rather somber one, if one has been paying attention to the latest reports on the worst massacre in United States history since Wounded Knee in 1890. It happened in...
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