Latest Blog Posts for Kat's world - Thoughts and Impressions

• Cannstatt vineyard in spring
  on Apr 17, 2010 in Stuttgart
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• Kurpark Bad Cannstatt - Writer memorials
  on Apr 16, 2010 in Stuttgart
  The Kurpark in Bad Cannstatt is one of the nicest parks in Stuttgart. The park still creates the atmosphere of the former health resort Bad Cannstatt with its wealthy visitors. The picture to the left shows the Freiligrath bench. Freiligrath spend h...
• More Wikipedia articles
  on Mar 26, 2010 in Writing
  I am slowly continuing to add articles about Westafrican writers to the German wikipedia: Gabriel Okara   Sefi Atta...
• Spring is here
  on Mar 20, 2010 in Pictures
  Finally. It appears that winter is over. I almost thought it would never end. I don't like the cold and grey, and this is the view I had looking out of the window for the major part of the past three months. With the spring I am back to blogging.
• Reading Chukwuemeka Ike's To My Husband From Iowa
  on Dec 11, 2009 in Reading
  Chukwuemeka Ike is certainly one of Nigerias best known novelists. After I had read Sunset at Dawn, his novel about the Biafra war, and The Chicken Chasers a while ago, I decided on reading To My Husband From Iowa now. The book is written from the p...
• Academic texts published by GRIN
  on Dec 10, 2009
  Some time last month I discovered GRIN Publishing when I was looking for academic works on Alfred Doeblin. GRIN Publishing allows students to upload texts they author as termpapers, theses, etc. at university for publishing, either as free contributi...
• Reading Maria Barbal's Pedra de tartera
  on Dec 3, 2009 in Reading
  Maria Barbal is a Catalan writer. After reading Jaume Cabré's Les veus del Panamo I was looking for additional Catalan literature available in German or English translation and came across Maria Barbal.Like Les veus del Panamo Pedra de tartera deals...
• Ernst Konarek - Die Judenbank
  on Nov 26, 2009 in Stuttgart
  Yesterday evening we saw Ernst Konarek in the theater play Die Judenbank in the Theaterhaus. Die Judenbank is a play by Reinhold Massag that was first performed in 1995. The play is performed by only one actor who focuses on the role of Dominikus Sch...
• Name Day
  on Nov 25, 2009
  I have just been reminded that today is my name day. The 25th of November is the day of remembrance of Catherine of Alexandria who is commemorated by the Roman Catholic and other Christian churches. In medieval times, Catherine was considered one of...
• Pirates off Nigeria
  on Nov 25, 2009
  While many international initiatives are going on to stop piracy at the Somalian coastline, news agencies report today that a crew member has been killed during a pirate attack off the coast of the West African state of Benin. German reports even cla...

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