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Wow, such democracy. Much freedom of movement.
#germany #eu

"The German town that prints its own money to cut emissions"
#Germany #Money #Emissions

German town prints its own cash to cut CO2 emissions
It started as a school project to promote local businesses in a remote Bavarian region. Now, the "Chiemgauer" currency helps to cut emissions.

"Germany’s heat pump public discourse is positive but volatile"
#Germany #HeatPumps #Energy

Germany’s heat pump public discourse is positive but volatile
Research from Germany analyzed sentiment in online news coverage to explore how heat pumps are portrayed in German public discourse. It found that while public perception is generally positive, it is neither uniform nor stable, and dipped significantly during debates around Germany’s heating law in 2023.

Ist jemand von euch heute und morgen bei #GermanCreativeEconomySummit in #hamburg? Mini-TröötUp?
(Sind wahrscheinlich alle nur bei Insta …*heul*)

German Creative Economy Summit
Der Branchentreff der Kreativwirtschaft auf dem die Themen der Zukunft mit der Politik, Wissenschaft und Verwaltung verhandelt werden.

Currently wearing Birkenstocks and drinking a beer while practicing German in the garden. My grandmother (from Magdeburg) would have been so proud. #german #language #beer

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Camille Saint‐Saëns, Lynn Harrell, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Riccardo Chailly:
🎵 Cello Concerto no.2 in D minor Op.119 (2nd mvt)
#CamilleSaintSaëns #LynnHarrell #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #RiccardoChailly

"German mayors call for night-time ban on robot lawnmowers to protect hedgehogs"
#Germany #Hedgehogs #Animals

meine #Ai kennt mich einfach zu gut 😂 #german

I've finished reading Simon Winder's "#Germania" a while ago, but I've been slacking with the review. This is a book about the history of #Germany, in the wide meaning of word. However, it's not your boring detailed history book. The author takes us on a deeply personal journey across German landscape, across tiny towns and great forests, Schlosses, churches and monuments, and uses that as a context to bring the country's surprisingly interesting history to light. And honestly, it works — it is deeply enjoyable, to the point of making me wonder if one day I should actually move to Germany, get a Bahncard 100 and start exploring myself.
I didn't quote the book here, but if I were to choose one quote that really resonated with me, it would be:
"""
Solitary tourism is something that everybody should indulge in. Of course it is a fraudulent solitude because its enjoyment comes from its limited duration and having a cheerful, only very temporarily abandoned main base area. […] And then, suddenly, I am in Vienna, standing in the shadow of a monstrous, derelict flak tower, and completely alone. The virtue of solitary tourism is its infinite ability to absorb boredom. I often find myself almost crippled with anxiety that the companion or companions on a journey might be finding everything wholly without interest, would rather be eating somewhere else, are secretly angry that we have wound up walking down this street rather than that, are contemptuous of my own interests. Solitary tourism cauterizes all this: if a museum is boring beyond all measure there is no pressure to feign interest, you just leave. I am perfectly happy, in a zoned-out way, to crisscross a town, walking for hours, just for the off-chance something curious might be round the next corner – indeed in the confidence that there will always be something curious (there always is). But for each street, each bar, each folklore museum to be converted into an inter-human negotiation creates an entirely different dynamic.
[…]
Quite possibly the pleasure of this way of life would be much reduced in some other countries, particularly more insistently gregarious places such as Italy. German culture puts a high value on temporary solitude of a stagey kind. Perhaps this is its great gift. In some moods I think there is no need to do anything other than read German writers from the first half of the nineteenth century – a sort of inexhaustible storehouse of attitudes flattering to those who just like sometimes to be left alone. Everyone must have at least a part of them that wants to live in a stairless, doorless tower as a sort of intellectual Rapunzel, setting aside, at least in part, the complicated sexual frisson laid out by such an idea. Germany really is thick with ivy-covered turrets and the promise of solitude (Kepler staring at the planets above Prague, Faust conjuring demons) – the great majority presumably built in the nineteenth century in response to the whole literature devoted to the subject. There is one turret in Lübeck, built onto a city guard tower of just outrageous fakeness, which would do me for life.
"""
(Simon Winder, Germania)
And if you follow me, you have evidence that the part about crisscrossing towns is so true: the best things I've posted here I found by complete accident, especially the murals.
#books #bookstodon

Run. The waves are after you. 🌊 ⚠️
#sign #danger #waves #German #Deutsch #Austria

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Ludovico Einaudi, Daniel Hope, Jacques Ammon & German Chamber Orchestra, Berlin:
🎵 I giorni
#LudovicoEinaudi #DanielHope #JacquesAmmon #GermanChamberOrchestra #Berlin

Wie überzeugt man konservative Menschen von Solarstrom? #meme #solar #german #satire

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Ludwig van Beethoven, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Maxim Emelyanychev:
🎵 Leonore Overture no 3, Op 72b
#LudwigvanBeethoven #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ReETqI1gIAjakMwWMnJGB

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Emilie Mayer, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Maxim Emelyanychev:
🎵 Overture to Faust, Op 46
#EmilieMayer #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #MaximEmelyanychev

German bakeries do know how to make and present bread. 🥖
(shot today)
#photography #amateur #food #bread #bakery #Germany #Deutschland

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Hannah Eisendle, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Manfred Honeck:
🎵 heliosis
#HannahEisendle #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #ManfredHoneck
https://open.spotify.com/track/5HYbG5HzxmKlvIaGYTjoqe

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Dmitry Shostakovich, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Manfred Honeck:
🎵 Symphony no 5 in D minor, Op 47
#DmitryShostakovich #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #ManfredHoneck

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Ludwig van Beethoven, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Maxim Emelyanychev:
🎵 Symphony no 2 in D major, Op 36
#LudwigvanBeethoven #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #MaximEmelyanychev

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Beatrice Rana, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Manfred Honeck:
🎵 Piano Concerto no 1 in B flat minor, Op 23
#PyotrTchaikovsky #BeatriceRana #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #ManfredHoneck

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Ludwig van Beethoven, Fabian Müller, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Maxim Emelyanychev:
🎵 Piano Concerto no 3 in C minor, Op 37
#LudwigvanBeethoven #FabianMüller #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #MaximEmelyanychev

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Richard Strauss, German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern & Josep Pons:
🎵 Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Op 60 - Suite after Molière
#RichardStrauss #GermanRadioPhilharmonicOrchestra #JosepPons

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Peter Ruzicka, Jakub Sawicki, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Kent Nagano:
🎵 Requiem
#PeterRuzicka #JakubSawicki #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #KentNagano

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Gustav Mahler, Anna Lucia Richter, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Kent Nagano:
🎵 Kindertotenlieder
#GustavMahler #AnnaLuciaRichter #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #KentNagano

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Gustav Mahler, Katharina Konradi, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Kent Nagano:
🎵 Symphony no 4 in G major
#GustavMahler #KatharinaKonradi #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #KentNagano

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Gabriella Smith, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Ryan Bancroft:
🎵 Tumblebird Contrails
#GabriellaSmith #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #RyanBancroft
https://open.spotify.com/track/39eHTCVZ3loNgVCx08HET8

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Dmitry Shostakovich, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Ryan Bancroft:
🎵 Symphony no 6 in B minor, Op 54
#DmitryShostakovich #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #RyanBancroft

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Antonín Dvořšk, Tanja Tetzlaff, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Paavo Järvi:
🎵 Waldesruhe (Silent woods)
#AntonínDvořák #TanjaTetzlaff #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #PaavoJärvi

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Samuel Barber, Randall Goosby, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Ryan Bancroft:
🎵 Violin Concerto, Op 14
#SamuelBarber #RandallGoosby #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #RyanBancroft

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Marie Jaëll, Raphaela Gromes, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Anna Rakitina:
🎵 Cello Concerto in F Major
#MarieJaëll #RaphaelaGromes #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #AnnaRakitina

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Domenico Carlo Maria Dragonetti, Gary Karr, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin & Uroš Lajovic:
🎵 Double Bass Concerto in A major (2nd mvt)
#DomenicoCarloMariaDragonetti #GaryKarr #GermanSymphonyOrchestraBerlin #UrošLajovic