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The Present – An Animated Short Film About Happiness and little Failures!

The Present is an award-winning short film, based on a little comic strip by Fabio Coala. It was produced by Jacob Frey as his graduation short at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. It run on over 180 film festivals and won more than 50 awards! I strongly recommend you to take the time and […]

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Those Books I’ve Read: Ein Araber und ein Deutscher müssen reden // An Arab and a German have to speak by Hamed Abdel-Samad and Hans Rath!

Pic by Franzi. Ein Araber und ein Deutscher müssen reden is the current book we are reading in my literature club. The last book we were reading was about Muslims in Germany. This was extremely intresting but also not always easy to follow. That’s why we decided to read more about the topic Arabs/Muslims/Christians/Germany. Ein

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The Books I’ve Read: Cézanne gesucht! // Chasing Cézanne by Peter Mayle!

Pic by Franzi. I found the book Cézanne gesucht! (Chasing Cézanne) by Peter Mayle on the street – near my favorite ice-cream shop here in Hamburg. So, the book found me in this case :). Because of its sunny Provence cover I decided to take it with me on my summer vacations. It was one

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The Books I’ve Read: Sehnsucht ist ein Notfall // Desire is an Emergency by Sabine Heinrich!

Pic by Franzi. Sehnsucht ist ein Notfall (Desire is an Emergency) by Sabine Heinrich is one of the many books I read during my summer vacations. It’s the story of a young women between two guys – with one she has a several year-long relationship, that feels comfy but not very wild. The other guy

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Freedom Cove – A Couple Built a Floating Island in Canada!

Canadian artists Catherine King and Wayne Adams  would never have been able to afford real estate, so they decided to start building a floating island on a lake, called Freedom Cove. The whole complex is built without power tools – Adam says he knows every board and nail by name. It incorporates four greenhouses, a

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The Books I’ve Read: >>The No.1 Ladies‘ Detective Agency<< Novels by Alexander McCall Smith!

Pic by Franzi. During our summer vacations I read a lot of books – since my stack of unread books is steadily growing, I chose some books that were waiting there forever. The  Botswana-based crime novels about the ‚No. 1 Ladies‘ Detective Agency‚ owner Mma Ramotswe by author Alexander McCall Smith were among them. I

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Guest Post: Summer Holidays are Reading Time – Zwei Herren am Strand (Two Gentlemen at the Beach) by Michael Köhlmeier!

Pic by Franzi. Hello again, it’s Stephan. After talking about drinking last week, an even more important summer holidays activity for me is… reading! Travelling and holiday afternoons are the perfect reading time for me and I want to present the best of several books I read this summer holidays. ***Zwei Herren am Strand (Two

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Papermeals!

The culinary animation series PAPERMEALS by the Australian production studio yelldesign presents in short clips the preparation of a dish like Ramen or penne with meatballs… and now comes the fun part: everything is made out of paper!! The meatballs, their ingredients, everything. Worth watching – and there are also more papermeals available at vimeo :).

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The Books I’ve Read: Unter dem Moskitonetz // Under the Mosquito Net by Elizabeth Dunkel!

Pic by Franzi. Since Elizabeth Dunkel’s 1980s novel Every Women Loves a Russian Poet is one of my favorite books, I had to read her second novel Under the Mosquito Net as well. Again, the story is about a single woman: Maia Rose is a successful beauty editor living in New York. She seems to

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