German on Campus

Also for the conversation class at 1:00 pm, since it's the last one, how about all of you just bring whatever you need help with and we'll go through it? :) See you!

Attention! Tomorrow's advanced conversation class at 12:00 is canceled :( so, no conversation class from 12 to 1. If you have time to come to the second class at 1:00 pm you're welcome to do so! I would like to say goodbye to you and give you Austrian candy ;)

Hi everyone! The next movie night will be this Tuesday, 5-7 pm at Quadrangle Latin S225! There will be some snacks, too. And we're going to watch "Solino" (drama/comedy).

Solino (2002) Directed by Fatih Akin. With Christian Tasche, Barnaby Metschurat, Tiziana Lodato, Moritz Bleibtreu. In the sixties Romano Amato, his wife Rosa and their two sons Giancarlo and Gigi emigrate from Solino in Italy to Duisburg in the Ruhr area and establish the first Pizza restaurant in town. Their bus...

Interesting fact of today #6:

Did you know that the world's tallest church tower is located in Germany? It belongs to the church "Ulm Minster" in Ulm, is 161.5 meters tall and contains 768 steps. Despite its size Ulm Minster is a church, not a cathedral, since it has never been the seat of a bishop.
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Wusstet ihr, dass der höchste Kirchturm der Welt in Deutschland ist? Er gehört zur Kirche "Ulmer Münster" in Ulm, ist 161,5 Meter hoch und hat 768 Stufen. Trotz seiner Größe ist das Ulmer Münster eine Kirche, keine Kathedrale, weil es nie Sitz eines Bischofs war.

Tonight's movie will be "Was tun, wenn's brennt?" feat. Til Schweiger, Doris Schretzmayer and others.

What to Do in Case of Fire (2001) Directed by Gregor Schnitzler. With Til Schweiger, Martin Feifel, Sebastian Blomberg, Klaus Löwitsch. What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an isla...

If you need help with a text, please remember to come to tomorrow's reading class, 12-1 pm, at Brennan MacCallum meeting room 524.

Interesting fact of today #5:

Did you know that the famous Helvetica font was created by the Swiss typographer and graphic designer Max Miedinger? The font's name literally means 'Swiss' and derives from the word 'helvetia', which is the Latin name for Switzerland.
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Wusstet ihr, dass die berühmte Schriftart Helvetica von dem Schweizer Typografen und Grafiker Max Miedinger erfunden wurde? Ihr Name bedeutet wörtlich 'schweizerisch' und kommt von dem Wort 'helvetia', was der lateinische Name für die Schweiz ist.

Interesting fact of today #4:

Did you know that the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna (Austria) is the oldest zoo in the world? It was founded in 1752 as an imperial menagerie and many of its baroque buildings still exist to this day, giving the zoo a very special atmosphere. [Picture taken by me :)]
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Wusstet ihr, dass der Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Wien (Österreich) der älteste Zoo der Welt ist? Er wurde 1752 als kaiserliche Menagerie gegründet und viele seiner barocken Gebäude existieren heute noch; sie geben dem Zoo ein ganz spezielles Flair. [Foto von mir gemacht :)]

The next movie evening is in two weeks, on April 30th (Tuesday) at Quadrangle Latin S225, 5-7 pm. However, since the people who voted for the selected movies so far didn't even show up at the actual screening (which is a little unfair to those who didn't want to see the movie that won), I will only let you vote on genres from now on and then select a movie of that genre myself :)