No matter what you call it – Christ Child or Santa Claus – how did they manage to supply millions of children in one night? And why does Santa Claus fit through every chimney? How does the Christ Child get into every locked room? A British physicist has taken a […]
How the theory of relativity helps Santa Claus bring gifts. Weiterlesen »
On 20 August 1980, Reinhold Messner single-handedly reached the 8848-metre-high summit of Mount Everest, having conquered it two years earlier with the Tyrolean Peter Habeler without additional oxygen. Doctors had previously warned that a person could not survive at this altitude without additional oxygen, and even fellow climbers gave the
Messner: 40 years ago on Everest alone Weiterlesen »
For ancient China, the order of the universe was the model of order on earth and among people. The man was virtuous who thought in accordance with nature and acted accordingly. The harmony in the Chinese arts, in buildings, bridges, landscape paintings and gardens was an expression of cosmic reconnection.
When the scent of jasmine delights the senses…. Weiterlesen »
When Fred Flintstone surfed through a wave tunnel on his Stone Age surfboard for the first time, he pushed out his “Yabbbadabbadoo” with joy. That was exactly 60 years ago this year, when the series “The Flintstones” was first broadcast on television in America. Since then it has been installed
60 years of Yabbadabbadoo! Weiterlesen »
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Jimi Hendrix, ZDF broadcast a report on the life of the guitarist and songwriter under the title quoted above. “Short and intoxicating was the life of Jimi Hendrix. He is regarded as the greatest rock guitarist of the 20th
On the guitar a god, failed in life… Weiterlesen »
In August we have again digitalised several CDs and the recordings are now available on our web radio. For € 5,95 we sell these sound carriers now. Among them are very interesting recordings such as “The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World” by the Johan Willem Friso Military Band and
Archive store: CD sales August Weiterlesen »
40 years have passed since Lech Walesa and his henchmen forced the communist government to legalise the Solidarność movement through the strikes and occupation of the Gdansk shipyard. In 1978 Lech Walesa, together with Andrzej Gwiazda and Aleksander Hall, organised the illegal underground association “Free Trade Unions of Pomerania”. In
The beginning of the end of the communist government in Poland Weiterlesen »
The Rocky Show pays homage to its glorious and terrifying predecessors of the 1950s film world with the opening song: “Science Fiction Double Feature” is both an ode to and a parody of the cheapest science fiction flicks, in whose tradition the film henceforth wallows with pleasure – including the
45 years “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” – the film. Weiterlesen »
In all the works, the roots are unmistakably in his motherland and express in a different way the “moods of his Bohemian heart”. It is no coincidence that the special nature and sensitivity of his many compositions has led to him winning composition competitions in Germany. This “Bohemian heart” has
A Bohemian heart turned 85! Weiterlesen »
Cats have inspired many composers to write works. Besides Andrew Lloyd Webber with his “Cats”, Rossini also dealt with the purring creatures, but John Philipp Sousa also dedicated a work to the wild cats. Jacques Offenbach’s operetta “The Metamorphosed Cat” (Le chatte métamorphosée en femme), which was first performed on
When cats turn into girls… Weiterlesen »
