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Here, finally, is the slide show I have been yacking about for days: Start show The handsome fellow accompanying me is one of my brothers, D...

The Viennese poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) is perhaps best known outside the German-speaking countries as the librettist of many St...

When my (American) wife learned German, I understood for the first time the difficulties posed for English speakers by the gender of German ...

Since I'm spending much time again on reconfiguring parts of our Hexenhaus and have less time for this blog, I may as well make a threa...

Nachdichtung combines the preposition nach ("after", "according to") with Dichtung ("poetry"). The word den...

This could have been a word of the month, but since a reader has brought it up, let's look at it now.

Kostümschinken means literally "costume ham", but no, it does not refer to an actor prone to over-act, but to a historical movie ...