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The Moscow theater hostage crisis was the seizure of a crowded Moscow theatre on October 23, 2002 by about 40 armed Chechen Special Purpose Islamic Regiment (SPIR) militants who claimed allegiance to the separatist movement in Chechnya. They took 850 hostages and demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya and an end to the Second Chechen War.

After a two-and-a-half day siege, Russian OSNAZ forces pumped unknown gas into the building's ventilation system and raided it. Officially, 39 of the terrorists were killed by Russian forces, along with at least 129 of the hostages (nine of them foreigners). Some estimates have put the civilian death toll at more than 200,[1] with 204 names on one list.[2]

A similar hostage-taking by Chechen extremists occurred in September 2004, during the Beslan school hostage crisis, resulting in the death of more than 300 people.



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Leninskij prospekt, 95a * 119313 Moskau * Tel. +7 (495) 936 24 57-60 * Fax 936 22 32

e-mail: info@moskau.goethe.org   web: www.goethe.de/moskau

 

THOMAS MEINECKE

Im Club Ikra und

auf dem 2. Internationalen Buchfestival in Moskau

Thomas Meinecke

Schriftsteller, Musiker und Radio-DJ. Er war Mitherausgeber der Avantgarde-Zeitschrift „Mode & Verzweiflung“, schrieb Kolumnen für die renommierte deutsche Wochenzeitung „Die Zeit“. Seit 1986 veröffentlicht er diverse Prosatexte, u. a. Romane „The Church of John F. Kennedy“ (1996), „Tomboy“ (1998), „Musik“ (2004), „Plattenspieler“ (2004), „Feldforschung“ (2006).





7. Juni 23.00 Uhr, im orangefarbenen Saal des Clubs „Ikra“ wird Thomas Meinecke im Rahmen der Party-Reihe „RadioIkra“ über Musik sprechen und auflegen. Thomas Meinecke weiß alles über Pop-Musik in Europa und in den USA. Am Mischpult des Moskauer Clubs wird er das Interessanteste und Spannendste aus seiner Sammlung zu Gehör bringen.

Auf dem 2. Moskauer Internationalen Buchfestival wird Thomas Meinecke auch andere Aspekte seines Schaffens präsentieren.

9. Juni, 19.00 Uhr, Zelt „Jalta“ Als Musiker und DJ wird er einen Vortrag mit dem Titel „From Disco to Disco“ über die deutsche Popmusik der vergangenen drei Jahrzehnte halten und dazu Schallplatten auflegen.

10. Juni, 17.00 Uhr, Zelt „Jalta“ Literarische Lesung aus dem aktuellen Erzählband „Feldforschung“ und Gespräch über die neuesten Tendenzen der Popliteratur in Deutschland.

Alle Veranstaltungen finden in der deutschen Sprache mit Übersetzung statt. Eintritt frei.

 

Orte:

Buchfestival: Zentrales Haus des Künstlers | Krymskij Wal, 10 | Oktjabrskaja, Park Kultury

Radio Ikra: Club Ikra | Tel.: 505 53 51 | ul. Kasakowa, 8 | Kurskaja

Veranstalter:

Goethe-Institut Moskau www.goethe.de/moskau

2. Moskauer Internationales offenes Buchfestival www.moscowbookfest.ru

Club „Ikra“ www.nobullshit.ru

Presse-Kontakt: wostrezowa@moskau.goethe.org; Tel.: 936 24 57…60

La Vasca



The Bathtub



I want to stay all day in the bathtub

With the hot water cuddling my head...

Voglio restare tutto il giorno in una vasca I want to stay all day in the bathtub
con l’acqua calda che mi coccola la testa With the hot water cuddling my head
un piede fuori che s’infreddolisce appena One foot out, just barely getting cold
uscire solo quando è pronta già la cena Come out only when dinner is ready.
mangiare e bere sempre e solo a dismisura Eat and drink always and only too much
senza dover cambiare buco alla cintura Without having to change the hole on my belt
e poi domani non andrò neanche al lavoro And then tomorrow I won't even go to work
neanche avvertirò perché il silenzio è d’oro And I won't even warn them because "silence is golden"
tornerò con gli amici davanti scuola I'll go with my friends back in front of [our old] school
ma senza entrare, solo fuori a far la ola But without going in - [we'll] just stay out and do the hula
non ci saranno ripetenti punto e basta No one will have to repeat [school years], period.( Read more... )

Pentecost: God’s Great and Glorious Day

   A birth day is a great and glorious day. Something new comes into being that has never existed before. On Pentecost that new creation was the Christian church. The disciples of Jesus received the power of the Holy Spirit and began to proclaim the good news of what God had done. Those who received the message were baptized and the church began to grow.

 
Eternal God of Fire and Wind,

We come to you in prayer filled with awe at the way you move in our lives. No tongue of fire is too small to spread your goodness, no breath too insignificant to speak your truth. Each day contains its holy moments, a constant reminder of your Spirit's presence.

On this day we celebrate the birthday of all churches and ponder what it means to be your church. In a world filled with differences help us to recognize our common source in you, Creator of all. When we would shutter ourselves against your energy, blow through us and change us as you blew through the crowd in Jerusalem, opening our minds and hearts.

With eyes and ears trained and tuned to you, may we work together to share your love, both in our churches and in the world. May walls and structures never become more important to us than your call to feed the hungry, to house the homeless and to care for the sick and imprisoned. May old ways of being and tired modes of thinking be released into your wind as it blows this day.

We ask these things in the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen.

 

I've been living with a shadow overhead
I've been sleeping with a cloud above my bed
I've been lonely for so long
Trapped in the past, I just can't seem to move on

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REBECCA MARIA SALENTIN  liest im Literaturklub

„HINTERGRUNDWISSEN EINES KLAVIERSTIMMERS“

 

 

 

Rebecca Maria Salentin, geboren 1979, aufgewachsen in der Eifel. Sie lebt mit ihrer Familie in Leipzig. Im kommenden Herbst ist Rebecca Maria Salentin Stipendiatin des Literarischen Colloquiums Berlin. HINTERGRUNDWISSEN EINES KLAVIERSTIMMERS ist ihre erste Buchveröffentlichung.

www.rebecca-salentin.de

Krakau, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts: Hier beginnt die ereignisreiche Geschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Familie, im Mittelpunkt zwei Schwestern, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Ihr Vater hat die Familie längst verlassen und beschlossen, den Rest seines Lebens schweigend zu verbringen; die schläfrige Mutter und der tropensüchtige Großvater verlieren sich in ihren eigenen Sehnsüchten.

Verlass ist nur auf einen: den Klavierstimmer, der lautlos im Haus ein und aus geht und dabei die ungeheuerlichsten Dinge erfährt. Schließlich, in einem heißen Sommer, eskalieren die Ereignisse.

 Ein farbenprächtiger Familienroman um Liebe, Musik und um zwei Frauen, die beschließen, ihr Leben selbst in die Hand zu nehmen.

Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007, 19.00 

Goethe-Institut Moskau

Seminarraum

Leninskij Prospekt 95a

Metro: Prospekt Wernadskogo oder Novyje Tscheremuschki;

Marschrutka oder Bus 616 bis „Leninskij prospekt“

Satisfaction! Landing in Heathrow





Dearest darling Britain!!!
How’re u? How’s the weather? Hope all is well! I’m just brewing a pot of earl grey as I write! My, how the aroma takes me back! If I close my eyes, I’m almost transported through Sloane str-t and park lane up old bond Street.
Dear! Truly u’re the only country who has made tea such an art form!
U’re exclusive so many ways! How to forget the lights lightening every evenings on the River Thames! hey? who else wears bowler hats? Has red phones on the streets? plays crocket? U make me laugh, make me smile ( and yes, we have had some crazy nights together, haven’t we?)
Dear old Britain! U’re teaching me Shakespeare and swear words courage and culture. U’re my first luv’!
But after this week I’m intrested in your stories..
I love your cosmopolitan attitude, ur extrenctic, ur good- manners. And when u’re good and even when u’re bad- tempered.
And the most love is Russian orthodox cath.,the angl.church on Holland road, the Corner of hyde- park, St. martins college, museum of dangeon,the shop” formula1” on Carnaby st-t, musik-shop on Oxford st-t.,..
I love u, Britain! Thnx for Robbie Williams, brother Gallacher, Vivienne Westwood, Burberry.
And forgive u for madam T.
Miss ur dirty air.. Thnx for the pies, love always!
Thanx for some of the hottest plays in the world: magdalen college & the lake in Oxford, the trinity church and the lake with ducklings in Stratford- upon- avon!extra big kisss for Crage in the musicboutique on Oxford Str.!
I like the country Side, “fresh air”, people, relaxing, jam on the toasts..
What do I love about Britain? The weather!no not really! But creativity and self- espession whice is encouraged and respected like now here else in the world.
Dear Britain,
Only when I am away I appreciate what u actually are!
As u know, I like having good journeys..
U’re special, style, and full of great history.
None is the same place on the earth and my heart is always hear.
With love..

Sincerely yours, DARIA 2005

Let me know if you want to read the continue of this story! (I've written this text 3 years ago!)

 

We flew in London in the end of March to find that the cold, cloudy weather we anticipated hadn’t disappointed us! I felt if I were in London when our Tourist bus passed the Heathrow terminal and was happy to see it in all its behemoth glory! My brother Max (my brother) took out our camera (canon303) and began “to make stop-moment”J

Five minutes later we saw our first red bus! I was really happy! Our guide explained that we were staying in traffic- jam and she could  nothing do! Humph, but she came from Moscow and there’s no traffic-jam with 6 cars…oh, ENGLAND!

  30 minutes  later we had come in our room in Alexandra hotel, near Paddington! We choose “Alexandra” for a variety reasons. Alexandra Hotel is situated in one of  London's most desirable locations and is ideal for a holiday.
It  was only a minute walk  distance from Hyde Park, Oxford Street and Marble Arch, as well as Paddington, Lancaster Gate and Edgeware Road Stations with a great number of bus routes easily reached. Less than 2 Kilometers from Kensington gardens& Moscow road or two stops on the Piccadilly line and less than two Kilometers from Piccadilly. It’s a lively area with plenty of restaurants, cafes, pubs. We lived only five blocks from Edgeware Road, called “Arabic ghetto”. It’s a district  with several Oriental shops, streets full of black people (color people).  I was lucky enough to visit such exotic place, but Max didn’t agree with me. The Alexandra is a 2 stars hotel and is not especially expensive. We lived in a little room on the 3^rd floor of a three- storied hotel! The average room (~10m²) with a window (the English frame   open  as always up) looks  backwards. There is a TV set, a telephone, a dryer, an adapter and a safe at reception). Ifound the sweet balcony near the staircase (evacuation exit)! While I was already in Moscow, our fashion show- men on TVs and radio DJ Anton Komolov (radio Europe plus) had visited London with” Star Travel” and stayed in our room №301 with his wife! Ce la vie..

In fact it was a typical tourist- hotel in the typical tourist street and the room with too small a bathroom. These room was made exactly not for fatty ..not very slim Americans ( hey!!! I’m sorry!)! 50 steps upstairs are like a loft! There lived 30 Swedes, our group and strange family couples in this hotel. Swedes students were as usual too noisy. Half of a night they were gathering to the night club. I can remember only one Darrel (His name sounds like mine and he was sitting always by himself with lap-top near the reception desk. I agree those two white sofas were the most comfortable places in the hotel.

Firstly there were no people near our “loft” but in three days an another group of students arrived !

 

We met our pretty- looking guide Irina and she  told us about the program for the next days.

 Eventually, we left our hotel and walked through  Edgware Road to Oxford Street. It was wonderful! I saw all the dream shops! Nike show- room for ex.! The full day we had nothing to eat! Thanks to my mummy, she had given us two sandwiches and two apples in Moscow! London is too expensive city! We walked to the point of Oxford Circus Tube and got really tiredL! We couldn’t find the right way, were in Soho..  it’s really a fantastic place but only for a girl with a male-companion. We were sprinkled by a bottle of champagne thereJ when came close to the group of teenagers. So I never forget Soho with its teenagers, cinemas, shops, crowds of peoples..  One of the best ways to explore Soho is on foot and without a map. The streets seem to wind to wind in circles sometimes, but you never get the feeling that you’re irretrievably lost- just misplaced. Soho has always and still does display some of funkier aspects of life in London, from nude dancing emporiums to small fringe threaters to bootleg record shops. (I mean records, too- those old, round vinyl things; remember those?) The Berwick St- t Market is located in Soho, well as most known wn Carnaby Street, the place to be for Mods in the 1960s and punks in the 1980s, but now little more than an open, Americanized mall. But I was lucky when found one shop called “FORMULA1”!!! We were there only 20 minutes, because all of the shops must be closed at 7p.mL! So I’ve bought a baseball cap “Michael Schumacher” for my friend Andre (but it was wrong, I need it more than he. He never wanted swearing through the Moscow streets on his “Nissan Sunny” like his famous “colleague”J!  Now I’m lucky enough, because I get the another cap from him (With first letters his important work of a secret agentJ)

 

So, we couldn’t find the right way…

One black woman was running for the bus and we had stopped her to ask how to get for Piccadilly Circus. She explained and had done it very clearly! You see that the story about intelligence of the Londoners is a real  thing!

The main peculiarity of many bus- stop stations is that the people, whom are sitting on these glazed stations, are sitting back to the street. It will be really comfortable for Russia, where the muddy puddles and stupid drivers are.

 Piccadilly is a really disgusting place! A lot of junk and no cleaners! It depends on community. People who work  there makes litter for every morning clearing it upJ!

))) Oh, firstly I saw there Lamborghini, Ferrari (not like in Moscow, but more expensive and fashionable!) People who drive into the centre of London have to pay J5 (pounds)! But I think that it’s good for every (more place for parking) but the best is  for London only. To think of it! humphhh! London needs urgently not double deckers buses, but three and more decks for all people from London and suburbsJ

How did we reached the hotel? With adventures! We got tired and Max suggested me to take a cab! But I was so clever that he refused! To sit in a cab only for 1minute costs J1 (pounds)! We got to our room at midnight  but with money! )))

Papst Benedikt XVI. und Patriarch Bartholomaios I. haben am Donnerstag, 30. November 2006, in Istanbul eine gemeinsame Erklärung zur Ökumene, zu den christlichen Werten Europas und zu Terrorismus und Unfrieden in der Welt verabschiedet. - Hier die vom Ökumenischen Patriarchat veröffentlichte deutsche Übersetzung des französischen Originals, von der Presseagentur Kipa leicht überarbeitet: Gemeinsame Erklärung von Papst Benedikt XVI. und Patriarch Bartholomaios I. "Das ist der Tag, den der Herr gemacht hat; lasst uns frohlocken und seiner uns freuen!" (Psalm 118,24) Die brüderliche Begegnung zwischen uns, dem Papst von Rom Benedikt XVI. und dem Ökumenischen Patriarchen Bartholomaios I., ist ein Werk Gottes und in einem gewissen Sinn ein Geschenk, das er uns gemacht hat. Wir danken dem Spender alles Guten, der uns erneut gewährt hat, im Gebet und in Erwiderung seiner Güte unsere Freude über das Empfinden unserer brüderlichen Verbundenheit und die Erneuerung unserer Verpflichtung in der Perspektive vollendeter Gemeinschaft untereinander zum Ausdruck bringen zu können. Diese Verpflichtung ergibt sich aus dem Willen unseres Herrn und aus unserer Verantwortung als Hirten in der Kirche Christi. Möge diese Begegnung ein Zeichen und eine Ermutigung für uns sein, dieselben Empfindungen und dieselben Ideen der Brüderlichkeit, der Zusammenarbeit und der Gemeinschaft untereinander in Liebe und Wahrheit miteinander zu teilen. Der Heilige Geist wird uns helfen, den grossen Tag der Wiederherstellung der vollkommenen Einheit vorzubereiten, wenn und wie Gott es will. Dann werden wir im Stande sein, uns wahrhaft zu freuen und zu frohlocken. ( Read more... )

"MINI JUMPING" with Renetto in LONDON...





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Der Werther-Effekt




Als Werther-Effekt wird in der Medienwirkungsforschung das durch wissenschaftliche Studien belegte Phänomen bezeichnet, dass Suizide, über die in den Medien ausführlich berichtet wird, eine signifikante Zahl von Nachahmungstaten auslösen.Goethes “Die Leiden des jungen Werthers” wurde 1775 in Leipzig durch den Stadtrat verboten, weil sich einige Menschen nach Erscheinen des Buches im Werther-Kostüm verkleidet (blauer Anzug, gelbe Weste und Hose) oder mit dem Buch selbst das Leben nahmen.Der Begriff Werther-Effekt wurde 1974 von dem amerikanischen Soziologen David Philipps eingeführt, der als erster Wissenschaftler einen Zusammenhang zwischen der Berichterstattung über Selbstmorde prominenter Personen und der Selbstmordrate der Bevölkerung nachweisen konnte.

Der größte Anstieg an Suiziden in New York konnte nach der Berichterstattung über Marilyn Monroe’s Tod fest gestellt werden.

Im Zuge des Werther-Effektes hat sich unter Journalisten ein Pressekodex etabliert, nicht über Schienensuizide zu berichten.

Auch der Schweizer Presserat hat eine entsprechende Leitlinie: “Wegen der Gefahr der Nachahmung sind detaillierte Berichte über Suizide und Suizidversuche zu vermeiden. Dies gilt nicht nur für reale Fälle, sondern auch für fiktive in Kriminalfilmen, Beziehungsgeschichten, Milieufilmen usw. Die Frage der Medienwirkung ist bei Entscheid über die Publikation oder die Ausstrahlung eines Berichtes über einen Suizidfall mit zu berücksichtigen.

Perhaps it is not too much to say that "Auld Lang Syne" is the best known and most widely diffused song in the civilised world.The earliest germ of the song "Auld Lang Syne" is found in an anonymous poem of the 15th century, which someone George Bannatyne inserted in 1568 into his manuscript of Scottish poetry, now in the Advocates’ Library.

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This autumm I finally got around to seeing Green Street Hooligans, a movie that I had been wanting to see for over a year ( after the review in UK press) . It wasn't the best film I ever saw, but it was still a very powerful. In a nutshell, it was a movie about a wrongly expelled Harvard student who gets caught up in the violent world of football (or soccer, however you want to call it) hooliganism, causing a ruckus all over the place with a firm named the Green Street Elite.
The first thought that came to my mind when I found out about this movie was: Is Elijah Wood really going to be a hooligan? I thought he would be the least likely actor in the world to play a role like that, but that was one of the key things about the movie. Even a seemingly nice, harmless, almost boyish-looking dude like Frodo... I mean, Elijah, could be drawn into the world of violence. He held his own during the fight scenes, which was really surprising (more on that later).

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The man who fumbled his way into and out of power as Russia tried to get to her feet, Boris Yeltsin has died of heart failure at the age of 76.

This is your chance to say your final goodbyes to the first Russian president.