Rainer Maria Rilke (full name René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke) was born on the 4th December 1875 in Prague, Bohemia, at the time part of the Austrian Empire. He was a poet and novelist who wrote in German and also French and whose literature has been translated into several languages. He died on … Read more
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to attend a German church service? I found a website where you can do just that, without having to leave your house. The service is not from the church in the picture, that is the St. Steven’s Cathedral in Passau, but from a small church in … Read more
Could you imagine that somebody would patent the word ‘hello’ and you couldn’t sell T-Shirts with it? This is currently happening in Austria with the words ‘griaß di’. Griaß di is a greeting similar to hello or hi. It is used in parts of Bavaria are and also in Austria. Now there were two … Read more
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