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Sunday, April 12, 2015
Welche Farbe hat meine Kleidung?
Alles verstanden?
Welche Farbe trägt der Jäger?
Der Reiter?
Der Matrose?
Der Maler?
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Friday, April 10, 2015
Trader Joe Has a Brother. He’s Even Better.
Slate's Culture Blog Dec. 2 2013 12:26 PM
Chances are that you have never set foot inside the best grocery store in America: Aldi. And even if you are lucky enough to be in one of the 32 states where Aldi is, perhaps you were put-off by the cardboard boxes in lieu of shelves, or the row upon row of suspicious-looking off-brands. What
is this place? Why do I have to put down a deposit to check out a cart?
What is the weird giant shelf by the exit? And what do you mean, I have
to pay for a bag?
Calm your hormones, meine Schatzis: Aldi, which is short for Albrecht Discount, is the American incarnation of a German grocery chain that is so ubiquitous in the Vaterland that almost 90 percent of Germans shop there. (Not all German imports are luxury cars, beer, and super-cool glasses.)
The Brüder founded their discount-store empire
together. A disagreement in 1960 over selling cigarettes hastened a
partition, and an epic game of grocery-store Risk: Theo would rename his
business Aldi Nord, and would control territories north of the Rhine, plus a healthy chunk of Europe. Karl would head up Aldi Süd, and get southern Germany, more of Europe, plus the U.K. and Ireland. But both companies operate stores in the United States—Aldi Süd operates as Aldi, and Aldi Nord as the now ubiquitous Trader Joe’s.
But whereas Trader Joe’s employs just one major cost-saving device—private labeling—everything
else about it is Americanized. The place is swarming with upbeat
employees; cashiers stand at the till and bag your products for you; you
just grab a cart willy-nilly and they trust you to put it back. Aldi
also private-labels (those $1.99 “Millville” Rice Squares are Chex, you guys!), but what makes it a more exciting venture—and even cheaper than Trader Joe’s—is that it has imported the entire German grocery experience (aside, alas, from employees yelling at you if you do something wrong).
If you’ve ever visited Germany, you’ve noticed that a
4-ounce glass of juice at a restaurant may run you $10, while
groceries—often of much higher quality than their American
counterparts—will be noticeably less expensive. This is in part because of cost-cutting shopping practices whose arrival stateside I greet with a robust “Wunderbar!”
You can always tell an American in Germany by the way they incredulously don’t get that nobody is going to bag their groceries for them—they’re expected to do so (and schnell!)
while the seated cashier is ringing them up. Shoppers also have the
option of quickly sticking wares back into the cart and schlepping them
over to a special low, wide shelf that’s an official bagging area. As
for the cart: It requires a deposit, and customers must return them to
their rightful place—without the help of an employee—if they want their
money back.
These are standard practices at even upscale German Supermärkte,
so high-end groceries are cheaper relative to other goods than they are
here. This is why I am hoping for Aldi’s rousing success in Amiland:
so that more of our stores, and our culture in general, will
incorporate such Teutonic efficiency. First the cost-savings of bagging
our own groceries—then the ubiquitous bicycle lanes; immaculate, punctual public transportation; and, finally, required paid vacation and parental leave. It would be ausgezeichnet indeed, meine Lieben.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
'Blue-collar aristocrats' thrive in German economy
Roger Heps is in his final year of a three-year apprenticeship at Bayer. The program is part of Germany's vocational-education system.
n a sprawling chemical plant in the town of Leverkusen, in northern Germany, Bayer trains thousands of students every year to become future employees.
Roger Heps, 19, is one of those trainees. He’s learning to run the plant where the primary ingredient in aspirin is manufactured. Heps is in a classic German apprenticeship. It includes on- and off-the-job training, while he studies at a technical college.
Germany’s tracking system divides children up at a young age, placing them on different paths; some students are selected for eight years of university prep school, others for six years leading to an apprenticeship instead of college.
The German apprenticeship system provides for a well-trained workforce, but also gives many young Germans a ticket to the middle class. Youth unemployment in Germany is currently 8 percent, half of what it is in the United States.
The German apprenticeship system provides for a well-trained workforce, but also gives many young Germans a ticket to the middle class. Youth unemployment in Germany is currently 8 percent, half of what it is in the United States.
Students at Bayer get paid for their work, learn trade skills and are very likely to be hired by the company.
Companies and the German state cover the cost of students’ training, but students at Bayer also get paid about $1,200 a month.
Since Bayer hires 90 percent of the people it trains, Heps is optimistic he’ll have a good job at the end of his third and final year of training. When he does, he could be earning a starting salary of more than $60,000.
Blue-collar aristocracy
Freider Wolf teaches political science at the University of Heidelberg, one of Germany's most prestigious institutions. He says the 60 percent of Germans who choose the apprenticeship program over traditional college have become the country’s “blue-collar aristocracy.”
"If you can support yourself on industrial income — buy a house, drive a big car — why do you necessarily have to go to university?" Wolf says. "[These workers] are highly skilled and the education they receive is attuned to the needs of these industries."
Freider Wolf, political science professor at the University of Heidelberg.
Wolf says for the most part these future craftsmen are very well respected.
“For the competitiveness of the German economy, they have much more impact than the political scientists we're training here [at university],” he says. “The problem now is that all ways of education compete for a limited number of young people."
Lessons for America
Comparatively, Nancy Hoffman, vice president of the Boston-based nonprofit Jobs for the Future, says the U.S. doesn’t have a strong history of vocational education.
“We don’t have a tradition of employers thinking long-term about building a pipeline of young professionals,” she says. “We have a screen for employees which is, ‘Do you have a four-year college degree?’”
Since the 1970s, Americans have seemingly stigmatized vocational education. Hoffman says in large part that was because of America’s racial history.
"Vocational education was the place where you dumped all the kids who couldn’t do anything else and unfortunately a lot of those kids turned out to be black and brown kids,” Hoffman says. “So, not only did you have a working class stigma but you had a stigma of, ‘You’re sending all of our minority kids to these schools.'”
Instead, says Hoffman, the U.S. should consider adopting a system similar to the German model, something that allows young people to be in a mix of work and school.
“They may turn out to be philosophers and sociologists, but they may also turn out to love engineering and IT,” Hoffman says. “We provide very few opportunities for young people to have that kind of experience."
But American employers have traditionally been slow to invest in apprenticeship programs. In Leverkusen, Beyer apprentice Heps says he is passionate about what he's learning, and he knew he wanted to work here from an early age.
"It started in seventh or eighth grade, and I noticed it was fun to get to know the chemical elements and see the reactions. That was when I decided to work here," he says.
Inside the Beyer complex in Leverkusen, Germany.
Even though he’s 19, he’s not concerned about changing his mind.
“I'm working at the chemical plant and they are changing the work every week. There's so much going on,” he says.
In the United States, the German model is slowly catching on. Eleven states, including Massachusetts, Virginia and California, are trying to introduce on-the-job training for students in some schools.
This is the third story in a series from WGBH's "On Campus" team, examining higher education in Germany as it compares to the U.S.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 14:07
Reflexivverben mit Herrn Antrim
Siehe auch Reflexive pronouns mit Herrn Schwab
http://deutsch-heute.blogspot.com/2014/09/reflexive-pronouns-in-german-how-are.html
http://deutsch-heute.blogspot.com/2014/09/reflexive-pronouns-in-german-how-are.html
Se Section
2: Herr Antrims Reflexivbeispiele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvp24aOHhrw&list=TLB6GSeiWMD7Km15rFKb7y5B5j_X0_PeM_&index=2
1. Das Mädchen freut
____________________________ auf
das Wochenende.
2. Die Männer rasieren ____________________________ .
3. Freust du
____________________________ auf das Fußballspiel?
4. Hans beeilt
____________________________ , um den Bus zu erreichen.
5. Ich dusche
____________________________
6. Ich sehe
____________________________ ein paar Videos an.
7. Ich wasche
____________________________ die Hände.
8. Julia duscht
____________________________.
9. Kämmst du ____________________________
die Haare?
10. Wie oft putzt ihr
____________________________ die Zähne?
11. Wir setzen
____________________________ gerne hin.
12. Wir treffen ____________________________ hier nach der
Schule.
13. Hast du _________________ die Zähne noch nicht geputzt?
14. Wann in letzter Zeit rasierte ich _________________ die
Beine?
W Wie schreibt
man diese Sätze richtig?
1.
sich beeilen / ich /
schnell . __________________________________________________________
2. sich
duschen / du / morgens / oder / abends ? __________________________________________________
3. sich
freuen auf / der Schüler / die Hausaufgaben .
________________________________________________
4. sich
hinsetzen / ihr / bitte ! _______________________________________________________
5. sich
kämmen / wir / die Haare / zusammen / warum?
_____________________________________________
6. sich
putzen / die Kinder / die Zähne / abends.
__________________________________________________
7. sich
freuen auf/ die Ferien / ____________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
'Woman In Gold' Trailer - NPR: Lost Art Is Reclaimed In
Enjoy the trailer... It's already playing at the Showcase Cinema; will be released nationwide on 4/10.
APRIL 02, 2015 5:03 PM ET Ella Taylor
Robert Viglasky/Weinstein Company
Gustav Klimt's famous painting of a dark-eyed beauty encased in shimmering gold lozenges is often dismissed by art critics as a disappointing excursion into kitsch by the avant-garde Austrian painter. But the portrait, commissioned by a wealthy Jewish family not long before the outbreak of World War II, has brought visceral pleasure to countless owners of postcards, posters and key-rings who have yet to set foot in New York's Neue Galerie, where the original hangs today. How it got there from Vienna makes for a sensational true-life tale, however staidly told in the new film Woman in Gold.
To Maria Altmann, an elderly Los Angeles Jewish dress-shop owner played in the movie by Helen Mirren, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was a precious reminder of her glamorous and beloved Aunt Adele, lost forever in the wake of Nazi art theft. Before her premature death, Bloch-Bauer had bequeathed the painting to Vienna's prestigious Belvedere art gallery. Soon after, the painting, along with many other artifacts owned by her family, was brazenly looted by Austrian Nazis; Maria was one of the few in her family who escaped death and ended up in the Untied States. After the War the painting resurfaced and remained in Vienna's prestigious Belvedere gallery for six decades until Altmann — with the help of a young attorney who happened to be the grandson of émigré composer Arnold Schoenberg, a contemporary of Klimt — returned to try to reclaim her family property.
The epic legal fight that followed is the subject of Woman in Gold, a stolidly sequential drama by British director Simon Curtis (My Week With Marilyn). With a directing style best described as reverently ceremonial, Curtis plods through scenic tours of the baroque architectural grandeur of Vienna today, regularly punctuated with flashbacks to the traumatic wrecking of Maria's gilded youth. Dancing the hora at Maria's wedding comes with a thudding overlay of Nazi jackboots. On the soundtrack, lest you miss the message, is "O Mary, don't you weep."
With star power more in mind than goodness of fit, the movie is hopelessly miscast. Mirren is her usual entertaining blast of acerbic brio, but here she improbably reprises her QEII testiness, accessorized with an Austrian accent. For his part Ryan Reynolds, a terrific physical comedian, is all wrong for the earnestly idealistic Randy Schoenberg, who found a novel way to help Maria sue the Austrian government for recovery of a painting it had now recast as a symbol of the country's national identity.
How they accomplished this is such a great yarn that, for all its broad brush strokes,Woman in Gold can't help but tell a moving populist parable about the will to power of an ordinary woman — one among millions, it turns out as the restitution of wartime cultural theft becomes a very big deal in the art world — taking on powerful institutions to regain a tiny fraction of her family's appalling losses.
To the credit of screenwriter Alexi Kaye Campbell and a nice turn by Daniel Bruhl as an Austrian investigative journalist with a guilty secret he is driven to expunge, Woman in Gold does not shy away from Austria's reluctance to face up to its wartime record. Instead, the film suggests that the affirmation of national pride that moved Austrian officials to fight Maria's claim tooth and nail depended on a sustained denial of its own shameful history.
After a Herculean struggle, in the end an Austrian arbitration committee did right by Altmann, who sold Klimt's Adele to cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder for a fortune and donated most of the proceeds to arts institutions and Holocaust survivors' groups. There it hangs in New York, a refugee like its rightful owner — and an enduring testament to the Austrian back-story that never made it into The Sound of Music.
Movie Synopsis
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting 'The Lady in Gold'. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court, and forces her to confront difficult truths about the past along the way.
Cast:
Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana MaslanyWriter:
Alexi Kaye CampbellDirector:
Simon CurtisGenre:
DramaMPAA Rating:
PG-13Length:
1 hr 50 minReleases:
4/1/15 Limited, 4/10/15 Nationwide
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