when he neglects his duties as knight to spend all his time with his bride. InIweina great knight falls from grace by disregarding a seemingly trivial deadline. Denounced before King Arthur’s court by his wife, Iwein loses his mind and is reduced to living naked and wild in the forest....
walk through the romantic Black Forest and climb Germany's highest peak, the Zugspitze. Visit Heidelberg, see the "Pied Piper" of Hamlin and take a stroll through the gorgeous gardens on the island of Mainau. Feel the desolation when driving along the former "border" with gutted watch towers...
Waldeinsamkeit[vahlyd-ahyn-zahm-kahyt ] combinesWald(“wood”) andEinsamkeit(“loneliness”). Together,Waldeinsamkeitliterally translates to “solitude in the forest,” but that literal translation loses much of the word’s poetry. The origins ofWaldeinsamkeitclueus intoits lyrical meaning. The word...
Incidentally, another word for card in Spanish istarjeta[taɾˈxeta], as intarjeta de crédito(credit card). It is a diminutive oftarja[ˈtaɾxa] (tally [stick], plaque, plate, shield), which comes from Frenchtarge[taʁʒ] (targe [a small shield], buckler [a kind of shield...
“The Forest Maiden” (Show more) Show More Carl Maria von Weber (born Nov. 18, 1786, Eutin, Holstein [Germany]—died June 5, 1826, London, Eng.) was a German composer and opera director during the transition from Classical to Romantic music, noted especially for his operas Der Freis...
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How Arminius led a Germanic defeat of RomeLearn about the Germanic leader Arminius and the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.(more) See all videos for this article Solid historical information begins about 50bcewhenJulius Caesar’sGallic Warsbrought the Romans into contact with Germanic as well as...
Walter Gropius and his young rival, Albert Speer, struggle for the attention of the German government, intent on majestic monuments in memory of the Weltkrieg. Arno Breker's statues, first conceived as a celebration of the German man, were censored due to their nudity and judged indecent by ...
a fictional character based on a real baron and his exploits in the 17thcentury. In“Münchhausens Abenteuer,”which is available in level A1/A2, Münchhausen kills a lion by forcing a crocodile to eat it, hires a man who pulls down an entire forest with a rope and then travels the whol...
Tiere im Wald(Forest Animals)A short, printable book about forest animals in German - for early readers. The book has pages for the student to cut out, read, and color, with animal names to write. The pages are: Bär/bear, Hirsch/deer, Waschbär/raccoon, Eichhörnchen/squirrel, ...