Next evening I attend another Mannheim University chamber concert; this time it’s Kammermusik fur Stimme und Instrumente (Chamber Music for Voice and Instruments) at the Alte Aula in the old University of Heidelberg building. I love this old room and the professor of voice introduces the program and says that the spirits in this room always inspire her! The students put on an interesting program: voice with Waldhorn (English horn) and piano, voice with piano and viola, and voice with flute. During the first half all the singers are women and have wonderful clear, ringing voices. I leave at intermission; the hall is very hot and I need a ‘Campari Orange’!
Next day at class I bring in photos from California and explain them to Manuela. We again talk about finding an apartment for next year. In the evening I decide against two chamber music concerts at Stadthalle and at Palais Prinz Carl.
On Wednesday morning while at the little newspaper store on Rohrbacherstrasse I talk to the newsagent and his wife a dental surgeon; they both favor McCain because, they think he will keep US troops in Germany and Obama will bring them home. She thinks that without the troops Russia will take over Germany! I discussed this later with an American studying in Heidelberg and he thought it was Quatsch! (garbage) I had planned on going to a concert by the Monet Quartet at the Stadthalle; however, it started raining so I stayed home for a quiet dinner.
Many of today’s papers have stories and pictures about the high-speed train wreck that happened 10 years ago in Eschede, in north central Germany in the vicinity of Hamburg and Hannover; 101 people died in the derailment caused by a faulty wheel. The worst train accident in Germany since the War.
On Thursday after class I visit the Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma, a Yad Vashem (the Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem) for the Nazi persecution of the gypsies of Europe. Gypsy, Zigeuner in German, are now considered discriminatory terms. Roma originated in Romani the language of this minority living in Germany, while Sinti refers to those living in other southern European countries. The Nazis persecuted this minority to the same degree as they persecuted the Jews; their identification papers were stamped with a red Z for Zigeuner. Most of them were sent to Auschwitz and other camps and 500,000 were murdered. This permanent exhibition shows and explains their lives previous to the Nazi era and their persecution and extermination. The exhibition is very moving with an excellent commentary in English. On a Wall of Remembrance I find several entries for Samujlowicz and almost a dozen for Sakozyi!
Photos:
Old University of Heidelberg building 4#052
Heidelberg 4#053
Heidelberg 5#029
Next day at class I bring in photos from California and explain them to Manuela. We again talk about finding an apartment for next year. In the evening I decide against two chamber music concerts at Stadthalle and at Palais Prinz Carl.
On Wednesday morning while at the little newspaper store on Rohrbacherstrasse I talk to the newsagent and his wife a dental surgeon; they both favor McCain because, they think he will keep US troops in Germany and Obama will bring them home. She thinks that without the troops Russia will take over Germany! I discussed this later with an American studying in Heidelberg and he thought it was Quatsch! (garbage) I had planned on going to a concert by the Monet Quartet at the Stadthalle; however, it started raining so I stayed home for a quiet dinner.
Many of today’s papers have stories and pictures about the high-speed train wreck that happened 10 years ago in Eschede, in north central Germany in the vicinity of Hamburg and Hannover; 101 people died in the derailment caused by a faulty wheel. The worst train accident in Germany since the War.
On Thursday after class I visit the Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma, a Yad Vashem (the Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem) for the Nazi persecution of the gypsies of Europe. Gypsy, Zigeuner in German, are now considered discriminatory terms. Roma originated in Romani the language of this minority living in Germany, while Sinti refers to those living in other southern European countries. The Nazis persecuted this minority to the same degree as they persecuted the Jews; their identification papers were stamped with a red Z for Zigeuner. Most of them were sent to Auschwitz and other camps and 500,000 were murdered. This permanent exhibition shows and explains their lives previous to the Nazi era and their persecution and extermination. The exhibition is very moving with an excellent commentary in English. On a Wall of Remembrance I find several entries for Samujlowicz and almost a dozen for Sakozyi!
Photos:
Old University of Heidelberg building 4#052
Heidelberg 4#053
Heidelberg 5#029
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