Das Wahre und das Echte
Zwischen Glück und Unglück liegt ein Dazwischenfeld: Das Feld B ...Peter H Bloecker, Director Wo das wirkliche Leben stattfindet ……
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Das Wahre und das Echte
Zwischen Glück und Unglück liegt ein Dazwischenfeld: Das Feld B ...Peter H Bloecker, Director Wo das wirkliche Leben stattfindet … Social Media and young folks in Darling Harbour in Sydney | Credit phb Themen wie Vertrauen, Geborgenheit, Stadt und Land, Demut und Sinn und einiges mehr. Eine essayistische Erkundung des Raumes, in dem das Leben wirklich stattfindet. P.H. Bloecker Burleigh Waters, Gold Coast, Tue 21 April 2026. Watch the English version on my Youtube Channel as a short summary. Einleitung: Die Frage, die sich nicht abschütteln lässt Es gibt eine Frage, die im Hintergrund fast jedes ernsthaften Gesprächs wartet, eher unausgesprochen, manchmal unbewusst, aber immer da. Sie lautet nicht: Was hast du erreicht? Sie lautet nicht: Was fehlt dir noch? Sie lautet in aller Regel: Warum? Warum das alles. Warum das jetzt. Warum immer ich, warum hier und jetzt, warum so und nicht anders? Es gibt immer einen Weg aus dem Elend, aus dem Frust, aus der Sackgasse. Diese Frage ist mein Einstieg in das, was ich das dynamische Feld B nenne, jenen Bereich zwischen den Polen des Lebens, der sich weder durch Statistiken erfassen noch durch politische Programme verordnen lässt, und der dennoch das Eigentliche ist in einem Leben. Das, worum es eigentlich immer und immer wieder wirklich geht. Der World Happiness Report, jährlich erscheinend, von den Vereinten Nationen beauftragt, von Ökonomen und Psychologen zusammengestellt, misst, wie zufrieden Menschen mit…
Love
Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow. I fell in love in Australia with Maria Ines born in Rio, Brazil. She had four beautiful daughters. As my contract in QLD in Brisbane was terminated, I asked her to come with me to North Germany for a few years until I would retire as a High School Teacher. She had not doubts at all. She gave up everything in QLD at the Gold Coast and went with me to North Germany to start our new life as a couple. We married later in Germany and have since then been a married couple living now at the Gold Coast again. Her four daughters with partners and children and the two of us have now formed a large Australian and German and Brasilian Family of 17 very happy human beings aged 18 to 76 years of age. In Aug 2026 I will be 77. Published by Peter H Bloecker Retired Director of Studies (Germany). Linked Credit phb
Gesine Cresspahl
If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why? Because she is a woman working for the UN in New York. As I am a man (Your Man in Cohen's brilliant song), I would learn a lot how women are wired and why they like shopping centres. I only like Baumarkt like Bunnings. Kindly P H Bloecker from the Gold Coast, where the early morning light is golden. Friend of Goethe F Schiller on Democracy | Credit phb
Music is the Language
What job would you do for free? No would here: Since I retired in 2015, my work on Grammar and Linguistics is free to access via my WordPress Blogs on Higher Education. The Grammar Beneath the Grammar — P.H. Blöcker bloeckerblog.com · Language & CultureP.H. Blöcker Linguistics · Anthropology · Culture The Grammar Beneath the Grammar If Chomsky is right that language is hardwired into the human brain, then music may be the evidence he never quite got around to citing — the universal deep structure that was there before the first word. P.H. BlöckerApril 2026bloeckerblog.com In 1957, Noam Chomsky published Syntactic Structures and quietly detonated a bomb beneath behaviourist linguistics. His claim was simple and radical in equal measure: human beings are not born as blank slates onto which language is written by experience. They are born with a language acquisition device already installed — a Universal Grammar, a set of deep structural principles shared by every language on earth, regardless of how different those languages appear on the surface. A child in Tokyo and a child in Nairobi and a child in rural Queensland are all running the same underlying programme. The surface outputs differ enormously. The deep grammar is the same. It was a liberating idea, and also, in retrospect, an incomplete one. Because if Chomsky was right — if human beings carry an innate grammatical structure that…
Community
How would you improve your community? Knock at the doors of me new neighbours, one by one. Then see who slams the door and who wants a 10 min chat. Then trying to get to know my neighbours, one by one. Then an X - mas street party though summer at the Gold Coast. A wine fest in winter. Kids most welcome for sure. No kids, no fun. Grandchildren? Yes, why not? Age means getting tired early. No brainer? Too true, blue! Aussies are not Ossies. Good, indeed! Happy Easter from Gold Coast OZ Jena | Best friends Schiller & Goethe discussing Democracy The Wizard What is a Knight Bus? Kindly yours Peter H Bloecker
Elon mit Trump
Fabuliert und fabelhaft #fabulous Moos l phb Zwei Affen liessen sich ins Weltall schiessen, wollten mal hinter den Mond schauen, ob der Mann noch im Mond war, den sie in ihren Kindertagen voll cool gefunden hatten. Besorgt schlug ein Affe immer noch im POTUS Amt vor, jetzt bloss nicht an einen Planeten anecken! Sonst heisst es im Shitstorm wieder, wir beide waren es! Frei nach Wolf Dietrich Schnurre Published by Peter H Bloecker, Director Living at the Gold Coast in QLD Australia. Frohe Ostern 2026. Schiller total | Credit phb Wage | Wiegen | Gewicht | Gewichten Eine Lizenz einzufueheren kostet fast nichts. Einleitend denke ich die Gewichtung sollte den Schulnoten weltweit etwa entsprechen: 1 2 3 4 5 6 A B C D E F F = Failed weil Zero % 6 = ungenuegend | Stimme wird folglich nicht gezaehlt wie absichtlicher Protest, in der Regel X Open for discussion #Democracy #Voting #Counting
A tour of Government House and a ferry to Cockatoo Island, Sydney
New South Wales Government House, Sydney Government House was built in 1845 and resembles a small castle and is the official home of the Governor of the State of New South Wales, Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, 39th Governor of New South Wales and Mr Dennis Wilson. Her Excellency is the 28th Governor […] A tour of Government House and a ferry to Cockatoo Island, Sydney
Bloecker
If you could have something named after you, what would it be? The Wood Workers in Holstein in North Germany were the Blockers, blocking wood. Ein Holzblock. Die Holzbloecke. Auch gut als Unterlage, einem Gefangen den Kopf abzuschlagen. Mit einem Schwert. Was als ehrenvoll galt bei public Executions. Die Kriminellen wurden in der Regel aufgehaengt, wobei die Raben dann die Toten frassen, bzw deren Leichnam. Die Seele war ja in der Hoelle, so die Kirche. The forests all over the globe have been cut down either to harvest the timber or wood, or burning to cook and heat the homes or more. Logging was the word to ship the red cedar trees in Australia along the rivers by steam boats and then via larger Steamers across the ocean to Sydney and Melbourne. One tree was enough wood to build one house. Red Gold - Red Cedar Trees. Nothing left, indeed, but a few National Parks. Look at the USA, look at the Forests in South America. Humboldt went there and was blown away. His brother in Berlin was a linguist like Chomsky. Credit phb | Red Cedar Tree
LOTE
Languages Other Than English Here is the English translation of the statement: Is learning a foreign languages superfluous thanks to good translation tools and AI? No! 30 March 2026 Dear colleagues, Recently I have been receiving press enquiries with increasing frequency suggesting that technological advances have made learning foreign languages unnecessary. The question posed is to what extent pupils' motivation to learn a foreign language is diminished by ever-improving translation tools — or whether, on the other hand, these tools might actually be what sparks interest in foreign languages in the first place. My usual response is that this topic matters deeply to us as a philologists' association, because it ultimately touches on our fundamental humanistic understanding of education. For Wilhelm von Humboldt, for example, learning foreign languages was vitally important because he saw it as a way of getting to know other cultures, and thereby advancing the individual's formative engagement with both themselves and the world. Through language learning — in his day, especially the classical languages — he wanted to enable the individual to "connect as much of the world as possible as closely as possible to themselves." A beautiful idea, and one that captures the humanistic approach to language learning. Foreign language learning is therefore about far more than translation. That is precisely why it remains irreplaceable as part of school education, regardless of how excellent translation tools…
Apples
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 orchardists The 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 Wikipedia — renamed Stanthorpe that year Wikipedia Queensland Places by Surveyor General Augustus Charles Gregory, from the Latin stannum (tin) and Middle English thorpe (village). Wikipedia +4 Cobb & Co coaches ran twice daily from Warwick. slq 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…
Ein Nachruf
Tagesspiegel Plus als Quelle (gekuerzt): Im Netzwerk der Zeiten, Menschen und Fiktionen Erzähler, Enzyklopädist, Aufklärer: Ein Nachruf auf den großen Schriftsteller und Filmemacher Alexander Kluge. Von Gerrit Bartels Stand: 26.03.2026, 16:13 Uhr Es gibt Todesnachrichten, die mag man erst mal gar nicht glauben, selbst wenn der gerade Verstorbene lange das Alter erreicht hat, das gern als gesegnet bezeichnet wird. Alexander Kluge ist 94 Jahre alt geworden, und man ist überrascht: Kluge, tot? Führte er nicht gerade noch durch eine Ausstellung, war er nicht dauerpräsent bei Instagram, hatte er nicht vor ein paar Tagen erst zum Tod seines intellektuellen Weggefährten Jürgen Habermas ein erhellendes Interview gegeben? Und gab es im vergangenen Sommer nicht noch ein ganz neues Buch von ihm, „Sand und Zeit“, ein Bildatlas zwar, aber einer, der mit viel Text versehen war? Und sowieso: War Kluge, wenn man ihm begegnete, nicht immer quicklebendig, quasi unsterblich?