Bibi (Tatort)
Bibi Blocksberg Hex Hex Hex Tatort Wien ARD Warum der Tatort ein TV Dauerbrenner ist und ARD statt SED Sound:…
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Bibi (Tatort)
Bibi Blocksberg Hex Hex Hex Tatort Wien ARD Warum der Tatort ein TV Dauerbrenner ist und ARD statt SED Sound: Adele war ein schönes Kind, schönes Kind, schönes Kind … (Music is the Language) Passion Fruit | Credit phb Berufung oder pflanzlich auch Passion Fruit Ein selten gutes und gelungenes Porträt von Adele und ihrem Mann Soltan in der Bahnhofsmission DB (gemietet) und Julian, dem Sohn. Der dann ne Jazz Band gründet. Was gelungen ist …. Sprache - langsam - Tempo Leben in Abschnitten Junge Adele wird Frau und Mutter und Oma #Liebe #Zuneigung #Tod Life is too short not to enjoy it Home is not the wine Home is where I can be myself To be or not to be #Hamlet #Shakespeare #Goethe #Mephisto ##Diabolo #Jena #Faust #Tatort
Propaganda
Credit phb Just listen very carefully and word by word: This is just one example of Media and how Propaganda is designed: https://youtu.be/Mo9UFUpVvkQ?si=dRivoU-jQBk7B-Sr Greetings from George Orwell and the Animal Farm Soma in Huxley's New World. Stupidity and the melting down of Liberals or FDP in Germany and the so called Middle of Grand Coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD in Germany (Australian Labour Party in OZ with Albo). The man is trying as good as he can ...however .... Pauline Hanson gained 20% The Farage Kasper or better Clown in Britain is called a Reformer He was with Boris Johnson one of the Masters of Brexit. Masters of War like Trump or former US Presidents have been characterized well enough by Bob Dylan. One of the reasons for his Nobel Prize, there are many more reasons for sure.
Business German Podcast
You may eat or order your Dessert First! Hi, I’m Pete …My Aussie mates have changed my name Peter meaning the Rock! About my background as a High School Teacher in Germany, Namibia and Australia. My name is Peter H Bloecker, StD i.R. I am hosting the Business German Podcast, which focuses on teaching authentic […]Business German Podcast
Edle Federn
Credit phb Edle Federn — Der Literaturpodcast von und mit Juli Zeh Ein Werkstattgespräch, das es kostenlos gibt. Und das man sich nicht entgehen lassen sollte. Das Konzept ist denkbar einfach: Jeden Monat, am letzten Sonntag um 10 Uhr, interviewt die Schriftstellerin Juli Zeh einen Gast aus der Welt der Literatur — über Geschichten und Sprache, über das Schreiben und Erzählen. Spotify Ein Gast. Eine Stunde. Ein Werk. Und das Beste daran: Die Vollversion aller Folgen findet sich auf The Pioneer.de TuneIn — die kostenlose Version ist jedoch über alle gängigen Podcast-Apps zugänglich: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Acast, TuneIn. Wer also wissen möchte, wie deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur wirklich entsteht — ohne Feuilleton-Lack und Verlagsformulierungen — der ist hier richtig. Juli Zeh als Gastgeberin: Juristin, Richterin, Schriftstellerin Juli Zeh, 1974 in Bonn geboren, ist promovierte Juristin, Verfassungsrichterin in Brandenburg und preisgekrönte Schriftstellerin. Ihre Romane sind in 35 Sprachen übersetzt; für ihr Werk wurde sie u.a. mit dem Thomas-Mann-Preis und dem Heinrich-Böll-Preis ausgezeichnet, 2018 erhielt sie das Bundesverdienstkreuz. PIPER Ihr Roman Über Menschen war das meistverkaufte belletristische Hardcover des Jahres 2021. Penguin Was Zeh als Interviewerin von anderen unterscheidet: Sie fragt nicht als Journalistin, sondern als Kollegin. Die Fragen kommen von innen — aus dem eigenen Schreiben heraus. Das ist der entscheidende Unterschied zu einem Literaturgespräch im Fernsehsessel. Hier sitzt keine Moderatorin. Hier sitzt jemand, der selbst weiß, wie es sich anfühlt, vor einem leeren…
Wildflower
What was the best compliment you've received? Thank you for the flowers ... I am an absolute lover of Wildflowers. When travelling around the globe, I stop in front of gardens and fences again and again. And I imagine what animal I would like to be when born again. My daughter Lisa A. F. is obviously a dolphin. We went to Moreton Island from Brisbane by boat, only for one day. When seeking shade under a tree on Moreton, she rather spent the hours before departure of the ferry in the water. And I had to come again and again, and she climbed onto my shoulders trying to jump when standing on me. Freedom's just another word, for nothing left to lose became the song of my life in 1999. We walked along the Brisbane River on the last eve of 1998. Lisa A. F. said during our longer conversation: The best decision of your life was taking us out of school for six full months and travelling to New Zealand before we started the school year in SEP 1994. Coming back to Germany from Namibia and hiking in New Zealand, we understood what rain forest means and saw the shades of green. We only knew the shades of brown in the semi desert landscape of Namibia. She was only 8 years old when she came to the DHPS in WHK…
Siegfried Lenz: Deutschstunde
This post written in German is about the Author Siegfried Lenz and his masterpiece Deutschstunde - Background is about Nazis in the country and setting of the novel is the North Sea around Husum. Flower in my QLD backyard | Credit phb Diese Seite ist gewidmet dem grossartigen Autor Siegfried Lenz, zu dessen Lesung ich einst ging im Schloss Bleckede an der Elbe. Es waren einige Avid Readers gekommen, und nach der Lesung blieb der Autor noch etwas laenger bei einem Glas Rotwein (oder kaltem Bier) und ging in einen Plauderton ueber. Auf die gute Frage, was waere aus Ihnen geworden, wenn sie als Autor keine Leser gefunden haetten, antwortete der weltberuehmte Autor mit bescheidener Gelassenheit: Ich waere Deutschlehrer in einem kleinen Gymnasium auf dem Lande geworden, um den Kindern dort lesen und schreiben und Grammatik nahezubringen. Ich war so beeindruckt von dieser Antwort, dass ich spaeter keine Hemmungen hatte, im Fritz Reuter Gymnsaium in Dannenberg an der Elbe meinen Dienst anzutreten, als ich von der DHPS in Windhoek wieder in Deutschland ankam mit meiner damaligen Famile: Wir hatten eine laengere Aus - Zeit genommen nach den ereignisreichen Jahren in Namibia (1988 - 1994), und waren 6 Monate mit Flieger und Zelt und Rucksack in Neuseelannd (North plus South Island) wandern gewesen. In Californien hatten wir dann 6 Wochen, um mit einem Alamo Rental Car die National Parks Bryce und Grand…
AI Dreams
This post is about visiting MCA Data Dreams: Art and AI Location MCA Sydney Harbour at the Rocks Note to the reader I have published here asking Claude AI about MCA and my own photos. So the replies of Claude AI were carefully read and re-edited to publish this blog. Credit MCA | phb Anatomy of an AI System (2018) — Crawford & Joler at Data Dreams, MCA Sydney What the installation actually is The work consists of a large-scale map — a visual essay requiring minimum print dimensions of 220×360 cm — that uncovers the invisible matrix of human labour, energy consumption, and resource extraction hidden behind digital networks and AI. It maps the full chain of manufacture behind the Amazon Echo, from geological extraction through data exploitation and energy consumption during AI training, to the device’s death and disposal. At the MCA, the installation went beyond the map. Situated next to the diagram is a cabinet containing samples of the rare minerals required to produce the Echo, each accompanied by a label noting its industrial application, the site of its extraction, its level of toxicity, and the illnesses associated with exposure. And of course the dissected Echo device itself lies there — opened, gutted, made literally transparent. The core argument — your cui bono lens applies directly: Who pays here what exactly? Who profits most? Crawford and Joler’s research…
Christopher Hitchens
With many thanks to Will, for a birthday present well chosen a few years ago here at the Gold Coast. A Book That Matters Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian — and some advice from 43 years of teaching P.H. Bloecker | bloeckerblog.com | March 2026 I am holding a slim volume in my hands — 141 pages, a red cover, a burnt-out cigarette stub on the front. A gift from William. The book is called Letters to a Young Contrarian. Its author is Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011), one of the most brilliant, most combative, and most polarising public intellectuals the English-speaking world has produced. It was published in November 2001, weeks after the 11th of September — a moment when the world believed it had no use for contrarians, only for unity. Hitchens responded with a book that treats unity itself as a danger. The Book and Its Form Hitchens writes letters. Not to any particular person, but to a composite figure he assembled from his students — young people he taught at the New School in New York, who asked him: how do you bear being the one who stands alone? How do you go on thinking when everyone around you has stopped? The form is deliberate. It is modelled on Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet — one of the most beautiful books about the inner formation…
Nordsee: Husum
Schimmelreiter Theodor Storm This post written in German is about The Northsea - Der Blanke Hans - Theodor Storm Theodor Storm: Der SchimmelreiterHauke Haien, der Blanke Hans und die Wildgaense in der NachtMenschen an der Nordsee: Eine Bestandsaufnahme - Kapitel IIP.H. Bloecker - Burleigh Waters, Gold Coast - Maerz 2026Am grauen Strand, am grauen MeerUnd seitab liegt die Stadt;Der Nebel drueckt die Daecher schwer,Und durch die Stille braust das MeerEintoening um die Stadt.Es rauscht kein Wald, es schlaegt im MaiKein Vogel ohn Unterlass;Die Wandergans mit hartem SchreiNur fliegt in Herbstesnacht vorbei,Am Strande weht das Gras.Doch haengt mein ganzes Herz an dir,Du graue Stadt am Meer;Der Jugend Zauber fuer und fuerRuht laechelnd doch auf dir, auf dir,Du graue Stadt am Meer.Theodor Storm, Die Stadt, 1852I. Die graue Stadt - und was sie verschweigtEs gibt Gedichte, die man kennt, ohne je nachgedacht zu haben, was sie wirklich sagen. Storms Gedicht Die Stadt ist eines davon. Schueler lernen es auswendig, Husum druckt es auf Prospekte, Touristen fotografieren die Tafel am Hafen. Und dabei uebersieht man leicht die zweite Strophe.Nicht der Nebel. Nicht das Meer. Die Wandergans.Die Wandergans mit hartem Schrei / Nur fliegt in Herbstesnacht vorbei - das ist die einzige Bewegung im ganzen Gedicht. Alles andere steht still: die Stadt, das Gras, der Nebel, das eintoenigem Meer. Nur die Gans fliegt. Nur die Gans macht einen Laut. Und der ist hart. Nicht schoen,…
Lying
This Essay is about White Lies and The Truth I read Sam Harris Lying and the Interview with his teacher. This Book and the Interview is about the Master and the Disciple and how they may interact. I understand Harris published this essay plus interview and what he learnt from his University Teacher Ron Howard as a kind chapeau id est simply Thank You. Education can succeed, but it needs two to tango. Passion Flower or teaching with passion l Credit phb First the English Version LyingSam Harris, Ronald Howard and the Art of Telling the TruthP.H. Bloecker · bloecker.wordpress.com · 2026 I. A Thin Book with Considerable WeightSam Harris’ essay Lying is not a long book. Barely a hundred pages, no academic apparatus, no mountain of footnotes. Those who pick it up because it is short will quickly discover: it is short the way a scalpel is short. It cuts deeply nonetheless.The argument is simply stated, and therefore provocative: lying is always wrong. Not almost always. Not in most cases. Always. Even the white lie. Even the protective lie. Even the polite silence that deliberately misleads. Harris acknowledges edge cases — the Nazis are at the door, Anne Frank is hiding in the attic — but he refuses to let the exception become the rule. Whoever makes habits out of exceptions has already dismantled their ethical architecture before realising they…
Apple Country QLD
# The Granite Belt: apple country at the edge of the subtropics**The Granite Belt is Queensland's only four-season landscape — an 800-to-1,000-metre plateau of ancient granite, apple orchards, and Italian-German settler memory, three hours west of the Gold Coast yet climatically closer to Normandy than to Brisbane.** For a fictional East German woman arriving by motorcycle from the subtropical coast, the region offers an uncanny mirror: Gravenstein apples descended from Danish-German stock, a town whose apple-growing heartland was once named Roessler after a German family (renamed in 1915 amid wartime hostility), and a landscape of frost-bitten orchards and balancing granite boulders that feels nothing like Australia and everything like involuntary memory. What follows is a comprehensive research dossier organized to support authentic Sebaldian scene-writing.---## The tin miners who became orchardistsThe Granite Belt's agricultural story begins not with apples but with tin. In 1872, the Pioneer Tin Mining Company triggered a rush to what was then called Quart Pot Creek [amiens-qld-history](https://www.amiensqldhistory.com/tin-mining) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanthorpe,_Queensland) — renamed Stanthorpe that year [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanthorpe,_Queensland) [Queensland Places](https://queenslandplaces.com.au/stanthorpe) by Surveyor General Augustus Charles Gregory, from the Latin *stannum* (tin) and Middle English *thorpe* (village). [Wikipedia +4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanthorpe,_Queensland) Cobb & Co coaches ran twice daily from Warwick. [slq](https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/great-tin-rush-stanthorpe) Thirty hotels did roaring trade. Chinese miners arrived via ship and rail in such numbers that by 1877 the local press reported "two hundred Chinamen going up the line." Tin valued at **£2.5 million**…
Elephants
Which animal would you compare yourself to and why? Why is the mother of all questions: Not because of the ivory, though ... When observing elephants in Namibia and Zimbabwe at the Chobe National Park for weeks, I came to the conclusion, I wished I was a mighty Elephant Bull in my next live. Not a monkey.