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Uwe Johnson Preis 2026 Credit phb The Province as Archive: Reading Ingo Schulze after the Uwe-Johnson-Preis A review occasioned by the announcement that Ingo Schulze has been awarded the Uwe-Johnson-Preis 2026 Ingo Schulze has spent three decades doing something quietly radical in German letters: refusing to let the East vanish into either nostalgia or indictment. Born in Dresden in 1962 and trained in classical philology at Jena, he came to fiction sideways, via a stint as dramaturge at the State Theatre in Altenburg and a formative half-year in early-1990s St Petersburg, the material that became his debut, 33 Augenblicke des Glücks a kaleidoscopic panorama of the Russian metropolis set against the backdrop of the 1989 political changes. That book already announced the method he has never really abandoned: the epoch glimpsed through fragments too small and too local to be propaganda, for or against anything. The breakthrough came with Simple Storys (1998), twenty-seven interlinked narratives set in Altenburg, the Thuringian town Schulze knew from his theatre years. The novel focused on the consequences of German reunification on its characters' lives, portrayed without any post-reunification sentimentality, in a style critics called ruthless and precise, a tone the author himself later described simply as the short-story register that made things easier. Günter Grass, no small judge of provincial German storytelling, singled Schulze out among the great chroniclers of the new federal states. What…

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If you could erase one trend from history, what would it be? Trend would be Fascism in Germany, Italy, England. In Europe and around the globe. Why? The Mother of all questions for sure. Because it is built on arrogance and ignorance. And this mixture is very very dangerous. With the Rise of right wing movements around the world, I have started to question our school systems around the globe. Why do young people follow right wing or extremists who preach Hate? Power Games? Why do we have to change the way we try to teach? These are some of the questions I am following having retired from the active school service in Lower Saxony in North Germany. Peter H Bloecker Gold Coast Sunday Sat 19 Jul 2026. Fifa 2026 Teams stripping down to black and white kits as a visual statement. It started making headlines around 2004, when several national sides wore black and white in a show of support for the fight against racism. The Dutch and Portuguese swapped their usual colours that night, and the Italians wore “United against racism” t-shirts before kickoff. The idea carried into UEFA EURO 2008, where FARE (Football Against Racism in Europe) ran it as an organised campaign with pitch-side boards, captain’s armbands, and a branded TV spot — headlined “Unite Against Racism”, developed with UEFA and FIFPro’s backing. The semiotics are worth…

If you had to be an animal for a week, which one would you be and why? A female elephant in my first and a bull in my third life. Why? Because of their care and weight and herd instinct and age and their teeth. From A to C is my arc. Why is B. Language and Grammar and Math and Code. #signals #signs #chomsky #language #coins

Which book have you read more than any other? The author Johann Wolfgang Goethe read Shakespeare in English and asked his Jena friends to translate his texts into German. He read Marlowe Dr Faustus. Credit phb TITLE: The Aussie Bond That Never Was: Sam Neill and the Road Not TakenSLUG: aussie-bond-sam-neill-road-not-takenEXCERPT: Sam Neill screen-tested for James Bond in 1986 but lost This essay asks what a life gains by staying, deliberately, unfamous.CATEGORY: Philosophie & GesellschaftTAGS: sam neill, james bond, jurassic park, new zealand cinema, antipodean cinema, stardom, obituary, bond university, Gold Coast, Robina LANGUAGE: EN Call him the Aussie Bond and you would already be wrong twice over Sam Neill was never Australian, and he was never Bond. He was born in Omagh, raised in Christchurch, and forged, in the late 1970s, on the same New Wave that gave the world Peter Weir and Gillian Armstrong,  a wave that ran through both New Zealand and Australia so freely that audiences abroad, then and now, rarely bothered to distinguish the two. The only Bond with a genuine claim on this coastline, one might note in passing, sits twenty minutes inland at Robina, chartered on reinvention and polish of its own, though it asks for tuition rather than a Walther PPK. That confusion is, in its own way, the story. The Screen Test In 1986, with Roger Moore gone and the franchise anxious,…

What’s one habit that has improved your life the most? I start working when other people still sleep. I eat only when hungry. I do not go shopping when hungry. I am walking (nordic) without snow. I stopped talking. These are some of the few habits (atomic) that saved me time. And last one for the day (Quote): I do not have time for you now, sorry  ... I might have time for year later like next year. If you like this, let me know. Am busy enjoying my last few years. Kindly from OZ The Wizard. ---I. The RiverNick Adams goes back to the river alone. Not to fish, not really — the trout are almost an alibi — but because something in him needs the discipline of a task performed exactly, in order, without hurry: pitch the tent square to the ground, drive the pegs true, boil the coffee the way his father once did, or did not, we are never quite told which. Hemingway never says why the boy has come back changed from the war he never names in *Big Two-Hearted River*. He shows us the burned-over land instead, the grasshoppers blackened by fire, the trout holding themselves motionless against the current in the one pool of clear water. The wound is never mentioned. It sits below the surface of the prose the way the trout sit…

How do you handle fear and self-doubt? Nothing to fear, as I have lived happily 76 full years, so ready to go any time. I am busy and have retired🙏 I do not get bored. I am reading all the books I bought and have not read. I am blogging on Higher Education and Life Skills. I have a good camera. I have a most beautiful wife from Brazil. We have 4 daughters here in Australia and 8 grandchildren. I do not doubt myself at all. I studied 2 full years school psychology and became a counsellor in different High Schools in North Germany and in Namibia. I followed a Goethe and his works and went to Weimar to visit the Bauhaus and the Goethe and the Schiller House. Become who you are was Goethe's Life Motto👌 His Star was Jupiter. His birthday was 28 Aug 1749. My birthday was 28 Aug 1949. WW2 was lost by the Nazis, when Hitler shot himself! Since I learnt to read and write, I have never been bored. Self - doubt is something I have not even thought about, why should I? There are good therapists at the Gold Coast. If I had any self doubts, I would consult a very experienced woman to help me. Beach walking whenever I feel angry or tired or exhausted. Weekly 50 km since I retired in 2015.…

What topics do you like to discuss? There are no topics, I would not discuss. My only problem is a time issue: I spend 8 hours resting per day, 8 hours working, id est reading and writing or cleaning my home or garden or caravan or car or boat or my pool. 8 hours with my beautiful wife and our large family here in Australia, including eight grandchildren. Another large family with two sisters and a mother approaching 100, as born 17 Sep 1926. 100 guests I would guess in the middle of Holstein in Germany, where I was born in 1949. Means I will be 77 in Aug 2026. Counting the years, my dear old mother plus myself, 177 years … Time flies too fast. So no topics I find boring, no time for small talk. Only a few minutes per day. Curious? Good | Different Linked