English 03.01.12

British Christmas

Text: Veronika Schubert

One Winter in Manchester - Part II
Veronika Schubert spends three months in Manchester, where she collects stories about language, people and everyday life to be told in backview. Staying with a lovely host family, she experienced her very first British Christmas.


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English 29.12.11

"Where a man settles his own problems"

Text: Carolin Schmitt

John Ford's "The man who shot Liberty Valance"
Inspired by Thomas Wartenberg's (South Hadley, MA) lecture: Narrating History in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, a BA student decided, that movies are more than mere entertainment. Closely interwoven with the American history and identity, they represent a society, popular ideas and historical interpretations that might first be hard to see but eventually lead to a better understanding of American culture. This 1962 western classic is no exclusion. It is the first of a series of movie interpretations based roughly around a current lecture series organized by the excellence cluster "normative orders" at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.

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English 17.12.11

Carry how much you can

Text: Christina Hubmann

Just another example of a changed view onto Christmas
New York is an amazing city and there might be no other city in the world to compare with. However, it is also an example of extreme shopping consumption. People can turn into shopping addicts, especially in the time when it gets colder and Christmas is coming closer. You don't need this stuff? Come on, it's 50 % off - of course, you need it.

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English 10.12.11

"Making music is like being natural high"

Text: Christina Hubmann

A personal profile about the musician Taylor Carson
There are good musicians all over the world. Sometimes it's worth it, to leave the well-known place behind to explore some new music and some new stories. Taylor Carson, the 29 years old singer and songwriter from Washington D.C. is one of these guys who might not be famous all over the world, but who is living a life for music and who has so much to tell.

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