HIER EINEN LINK
Kölsch = the dialect in Köln (featured strongly during Karneval)
MEDLEY (forwarded by Julia Knipp...)
-- Man musste noch zwanzig sein...
Eine Super geile Zeit (ein Lieblingslied...:D)
Zu lang wir noch am Leben sind... (noch ein Oldie...)
Staunst du? Die Zuschauer kennen sehr viele von den Texten!
(Does it surprise you that the audience seems to know many of the lyrics by heart?)
Monday, February 4, 2013
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Das Fußballjahr 2012
Soccer Podcast 2012/08 Transcript www.goethe.de/stepintogerman
Für die deutschen Fußballfans war 2012 ein Jahr mit vielen Höhepunkten, aber auch mit vielen bitteren Enttäuschungen (bitter disappointments).
Die deutsche Nationalmannschaft war im Sommer einer der Top-Favoriten der Europameisterschaft. Der Start bei der EURO in Polen und der Ukraine war vielversprechend. Es gab Siege (victories) gegen die Niederlande, Dänemark und Portugal -- mit dem Superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.
Aber am Ende war die Enttäuschung groß: Deutschland verlor im Halbfinale mit 1:2 gegen den Angstgegner Italien. Somit konnte das Team von Jogi Löw wieder keinen Titel bei einer wichtigen Meisterschaft gewinnen.
Große Pläne hatte auch der FC Bayern München:
Für Borussia Dortmund:
Was bringt das Jahr 2013?
Druck bitte die Ergebnisse aus --- a Screen Print, perhaps? !
Für die deutschen Fußballfans war 2012 ein Jahr mit vielen Höhepunkten, aber auch mit vielen bitteren Enttäuschungen (bitter disappointments).
Die deutsche Nationalmannschaft war im Sommer einer der Top-Favoriten der Europameisterschaft. Der Start bei der EURO in Polen und der Ukraine war vielversprechend. Es gab Siege (victories) gegen die Niederlande, Dänemark und Portugal -- mit dem Superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.
Aber am Ende war die Enttäuschung groß: Deutschland verlor im Halbfinale mit 1:2 gegen den Angstgegner Italien. Somit konnte das Team von Jogi Löw wieder keinen Titel bei einer wichtigen Meisterschaft gewinnen.
Große Pläne hatte auch der FC Bayern München:
- Man wollte zum fünften Mal den Titel in der Champions League gewinnen.
- Und die Bayern waren zu Beginn nicht zu stoppen.
- Es gab Siege gegen Manchester City, Olympique Marseille und Real Madrid.
- Man war sich in München sicher: „Jetzt gewinnen wir auch das Finale im eigenen Stadion, der Münchener Allianz-Arena.”
- Doch nicht Bayern München, sondern der FC Chelsea ging nach 120 hart umkämpften Minuten als Gewinner vom Platz.
Für Borussia Dortmund:
- begann das Jahr mit negativen Schlagzeilen,
- am Ende aber gab es eine große Party.
- In der Champions League kam schon in der Vorrunde das Aus für den Traditionsverein aus Westfalen.
- In der Bundesliga aber konnte die Borussia den Titel des deutschen Meisters erfolgreich verteidigen.
- Es gelang sogar der Gewinn des Doubles: Der BVB gewann nämlich den DFB-Pokal im Berliner Olympiastadion mit einem souveränen 5-2 Sieg gegen Bayern München...
- und in der Bundesliga distanzierte Borussia alle anderen Teams.
- So wurde Bayern abgeschlagen mit 8 Punkten Rückstand nur Zweiter hinter dem Meister aus Dortmund.
Was bringt das Jahr 2013?
- Schafft Deutschland die Qualifikation zur WM 2014 in Brasilien?
- Wie spielen die deutschen Top-Vereine in der Champions League?
- Kann Bayern München den Bundesligatitel zum 22-mal gewinnen
Druck bitte die Ergebnisse aus --- a Screen Print, perhaps? !
Udo Lindenberg is 66
HÖR ZU, ALS DU HIER DIESEN TEXT DABEI LIEST!
Wer von der deutschen Musikszene spricht, ganz besonders von der deutschsprachigen, denkt automatisch an Udo Lindenberg. Lindenberg hat Generationen von deutschen Musikern und Musikfans begeistert und fasziniert.
Als fast alle Bands in Deutschland auf Englisch sangen, war Udo da und sang auf Deutsch, von Vampiren, Bodo Ballermann und den wilden Tagen auf Hamburgs Reeperbahn (er war "einer der ersten Beatles fans").
Udo Lindenberg begann 1970 seine Karriere als Schlagzeuger und spielte unter anderem für den Jazzsaxofonisten Klaus Doldinger. Seine größten Erfolge aber hatte er mit dem Panikorchester — hier konnte er cool und locker sein, wie Johnny Controletti. Mit seiner nuscheligen (slurry) Stimme, seinem großen Hut und seinem schwingenden Gang (gait..step) wurde Lindenberg zu einem der populärsten deutschen Rockstars.
Lindenberg realisierte immer wieder neue musikalische Ideen. Auf seinen Tourneen mit dem Panikorchester hatte er oft Gastmusiker dabei. (He frequently invited guest musicians to join him on tour.) Vielen von ihnen verhalf Lindenberg zum internationalen Durchbruch (breakthrough) , wie der Italienerin Gianna Nanini oder der Amerikanerin Helen Schneider.
Udo Lindenberg war immer politisch. Eins seiner bedeutendsten Alben war „Udopia”, das zur Hochzeit des Kalten Krieges herauskam. Für viele Deutschrockfans ist diese Platte ein Meilenstein der deutschen Musikgeschichte. Hier singt Udo gegen die Stationierung von NATO Raketen in Deutschland und gegen die Umweltzerstörung (destruction / devastation of the environment).
Udo Lindenberg engagierte sich zu dieser Zeit besonders für die friedliche Koexistenz (peaceful coexistence) mit dem kommunistischen Ostteil Deutschlands, der DDR. „Mädchen aus Ostberlin” war eine Ballade über die Berliner Mauer hinweg.
Und dann kam der „Sonderzug nach Pankow”. Mit diesem fetzigen (hip...groovy) Hit wollte Lindenberg den DDR Staatsratschef Erich Honecker davon überzeugen (to convince), ihn in die DDR zu einem Konzert einzuladen. Leider ohne Erfolg (unfortunately without success). Bei Honeckers Besuch 1987 in der Bundesrepublik schenkte Lindenberg ihm eine Lederjacke und eine Gitarre mit der Aufschrift: Gitarren statt Knarren ("Guitars instead of Creaks").
Der heute 66jährige wohnt schon seit Jahren im eleganten „Hotel Atlantic” in Hamburg. Er macht weiter Musik, hat aber auch andere Interessen. So ist er Schriftsteller (author) und Maler und hat unter anderem Briefmarken für die deutsche Post designed.
Lindenberg ist immer noch politisch und sozial aktiv. Für viele in der deutschen Musikszene ist er der „Vater des Deutschrock”. Für sein Lebenswerk wurde er mehrfach ausgezeichnet (frequently commemorated / given awards), z.B. mit dem Bundesverdienstkreuz und dem deutschen Radiopreis.
Was wäre Deutschland ohne Udo Lindenberg, was wäre die deutsche Musik ohne Rudi Ratlos und Elli Pyrelli?
Prüfung: HIER IST EINE PRÜFUNG VOM STEPINTOGERMAN: (Es gibt nur eine richtige Antwort)
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
URI Music presents lecture about singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Feb. 5
Media Contact: Music Department, 401-874-2431
KINGSTON,
R.I. – January 25, 2013 – The University of Rhode Island Department of
Music invites the public to a free lecture offered as part of the
University Artist Series, "Remembering Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau", on
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 12:30-2 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Music Rehearsal
Hall, Room C100, 105 Upper College Rd., Kingston.The presentation will be an audiovisual retrospective on the renowned German baritone (1925-2012), one of the finest 'Lieder' (art song) interpreters of his generation and a giant among post-war singers, considered by many to be the singer of the 20th century.
His body of work, hundreds of recordings of song, opera and oratorio, has stood as a cornerstone of vocal music for more than 60 years.
His name will forever be linked with Franz Schubert's 'Winterreise' cycle, which he recorded eight times.
He won two Grammy Awards, in 1971 and 1973. When he died last May, the New York Times called him “by virtual acclamation one of the world’s great singers.”
The speaker will be Erika Reitshamer, New England Opera Club board member and former vice president of the Boston Wagner Society. She is a noted lecturer on operatic subjects in the greater Boston area and a frequent traveler to the opera capitals of the world.
The URI Music Department is handicap-accessible, and parking is available in the lot behind the Fine Arts Center, off Bills Road. Lecture is free to the public.
For more information, please contact the URI Department of Music, 874-2431, or check the website: www.uri.edu/music.
How Knowing a Foreign Language Can Improve Your Decisions
Thinking in another language changes how people weigh their options
Which way is better?
Image: iStock/Jošt Gantar
Researchers have sought to understand the range and limits of these emotional language effects. Lower proficiency and/or late acquisition of the foreign language seems to be a crucial constraint. For people who grew up bilingual, skin conductance responses and self-reports were similar when listening to emotional phrases in either language. One method for finding new types of emotional-language effects is to examine areas where cognitive neuroscience reports that people can switch between analytical processing and emotional processing. Gut, automatic or instinctive reasoning is grounded in an emotional good-bad response. Alternatively, reasoning can be the result of a deliberative process that involves careful, logical analysis. Would bilinguals be more analytical and less emotional when making decisions in a foreign language?
Boaz Keysar, Sayuri Hayakawa, and Sun Gyu An of University of Chicago asked this question in a paper recently published in Psychological Science. They studied framing effects, a phenonmenon investigated by Daniel Kahneman and others. When a decision is verbally framed as involving a gain, humans prefer a sure outcome over a probabilistic outcome. When the same situation is framed as involving losses, people sometimes prefer to gamble. For example, given a scenario involving 600 sick individuals and two types of medicines to administer, research participants prefer the medicine which will save 200 people for sure, rather than the medicine which has a 1/3 chance of saving all 600 sick people and a 2/3 chance of saving no one. If the formally identical illness scenario is provided, but framed in terms of how many people will die, then research participants are more likely to choose the probabilistic option. Framing effects are one of the classic examples of how humans deviate from logical reasoning, and indeed, individuals with a propensity for logical reasoning, such as those with Asperger Syndrome, are less influenced by the verbal frame when making these types of decisions.
The Chicago researchers randomly assigned bilinguals to read and respond to decision-making scenarios using either their native or foreign language. Similar versions of the study were conducted in the U. S, France and Korea. This was important because a foreign language may feel more emotional when it is the language of daily life, as happens when studying at a foreign university. English was the first language for the U. S. participants and the foreign language for Korean participants. In France, English was the native language and the French was the foreign language but also language of immersion. Data from all three locations were consistent: the standard framing effects were found for the native language and were absent in the foreign language. The implication is that people were less influenced by emotional aspects of the scenarios when reading scenarios in their foreign language. This is an impressive finding since one might have supposed that the stress of using a less proficient language would diminish the cognitive resources needed for deliberative reasoning, thus pushing people to make gut, instinctive or emotional responses.
The authors ran additional experiments using a paradigm called loss
aversion, another case where emotion can influence decision making.
People are reluctant to accept bets that involve a chance of losing
money, even if the odds are in the favor of winning, such as a 50
percent chance of winning $12 vs. losing $10. Keysar and colleagues
found that, regardless of whether the bilinguals played with
hypothetical money or real cash that could be kept after the experiment
ended, bilinguals accepted the positive bets more often when they played
using their foreign language and more often resisted betting when using
their native language. This confirmed the finding of being reasoning
more logically when using a foreign language.
Language has been traditionally viewed as a vehicle for communicating information (indeed, Chomsky famously characterized language as a mental algebra). Researchers have assumed that, as along as people are proficient enough, then how they respond will not be affected by the language they are using. It is now becoming better appreciated that people answer surveys differently depending on the language. For example, Chinese international students studying in North America agreed with traditional Chinese values more when answering a survey in Chinese; they had higher self-esteem scores when completing a self-esteem questionnaire in English. The full extent of these effects of languages on responses are still being investigated.
Like the other emotional-language effects discussed above, Keysar's study on how language influences decision making are laboratory effects. Is this what happens outside the lab? Psychologists are increasingly advising foreigners in the US to seek psychotherapy with a bilingual counselor, and, to minimize missing nuances or emotional implications, to avoid conducting life-or-death conversations in a foreign language, such as a serious talk with a doctor, taking a polygraph test, or undergoing police interrogation. But in the decision making case studied by the Chicago team, use of a foreign language led to more logical and better decisions.
Does this imply that bilinguals should routinely seek to use their foreign languages when making decisions? Should they buy a house or plan their retirement using a foreign language? An ethnographic approach could analyze cases where individuals end up using their native or a foreign language to conduct business. A wide range of laboratory and/or field experiments should be conducted in order to determine if the elimination of framing effects is a cute laboratory finding or something that may influence real life.
Language has been traditionally viewed as a vehicle for communicating information (indeed, Chomsky famously characterized language as a mental algebra). Researchers have assumed that, as along as people are proficient enough, then how they respond will not be affected by the language they are using. It is now becoming better appreciated that people answer surveys differently depending on the language. For example, Chinese international students studying in North America agreed with traditional Chinese values more when answering a survey in Chinese; they had higher self-esteem scores when completing a self-esteem questionnaire in English. The full extent of these effects of languages on responses are still being investigated.
Like the other emotional-language effects discussed above, Keysar's study on how language influences decision making are laboratory effects. Is this what happens outside the lab? Psychologists are increasingly advising foreigners in the US to seek psychotherapy with a bilingual counselor, and, to minimize missing nuances or emotional implications, to avoid conducting life-or-death conversations in a foreign language, such as a serious talk with a doctor, taking a polygraph test, or undergoing police interrogation. But in the decision making case studied by the Chicago team, use of a foreign language led to more logical and better decisions.
Does this imply that bilinguals should routinely seek to use their foreign languages when making decisions? Should they buy a house or plan their retirement using a foreign language? An ethnographic approach could analyze cases where individuals end up using their native or a foreign language to conduct business. A wide range of laboratory and/or field experiments should be conducted in order to determine if the elimination of framing effects is a cute laboratory finding or something that may influence real life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Catherine Caldwell-Harris, Associate Professor of Psychology at Boston University, received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Psychology from the University of California, San Diego. Trained in psycholinguistics and cognitive science, she has conducted research on a wide variety of topics, including language processing, cross-cultural psychology and individual differences in cognitive styles.
Im Februar denken wir an die Tulpen
SCHAUT EUCH ETWAS NÄHER AN!
(Look close-up!)
Photos courtesy of Designboom
Und hier ein Foto aus der Universität in Münster
(Look close-up!)
Photos courtesy of Designboom
Und hier ein Foto aus der Universität in Münster
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