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From: piij@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mr ID Jennings)
Subject: teaching english in germany?
Summary: help wanted for english-teaching job in germany
Keywords: teach,english,germany
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:01:50 GMT

I am a South African graduate with a bachelor's degree in English and an
MA in philosophy who would be interested in teaching in Germany during
1993.  I have a TEFL (teaching English as a foreign-language) diploma as
well as experience in teaching English to second-language speakers in
South Africa and ideally this is the kind of teaching I would like to
do.

I would be very grateful if anyone on the net could let me know about
opportunities for doing so in Germany (particularly in the old East
Germany) - or how I could go about trying to arrange such a job, whether
before I leave South Africa or on arrival in Germany.

I would prefer it if people would reply to my personal e-mail account at
piij@hippo.ru.ac.za

Thanks very much.
-- 
Ian Jennings
Philosophy Department
Rhodes University
Grahamstown 6140
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: shun@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (shun.cheung)
Subject: Re: Deutsch Comics ? (Commic book)
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 11:37:46 GMT

I recently bought a book called "German a la Cartoon." It contains
about 100 German cartoons with the words in both German and its
English translation as well as a "key word" list in both languages.
I find it a good way to improve one's German for English speakers.
This book is edited by Albert Small and published by Passport Books.
ISBN: 0-8442-2180-5.

-- 
-- Shun Cheung,    electronic: shun.cheung@att.com    voice: (908) 615-5135
     HR 1A-304, AT&T Bell Labs, 480 Red Hill Road, Middletown, NJ, 07748 USA
From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
Subject: Erste Moschee Deutschlands (was: verschiedenes)
Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:05:23 GMT

In article <psima01.717671686@convex>, psima01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (M. Maisack) writes:
>In Pforzheim wurde die erste Moschee Deutschlands (so richtig mit
>huebschem Minarett) eroeffnet.

Was?  Wenn ich mich nicht arg taeusche, habe ich vor mehreren Jahren in
Hamburg schon eine Moschee gesehen...

-- 

thomas kettenring, 2 dan, kaiserslautern, germany
Science is like democracy - it's not perfect, but it's the best thing available.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: taube@isa.de (Christian Taube)
Subject: Re: Deutsch Comics ? (Commic book)
Organization: ISA GmbH, W-7000 Stuttgart 1, Germany
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 13:49:53 GMT
X-Copyright: Nachdruck, auch auszugsweise, ohne schriftliche Einwilligung des Autors verboten.

ju8025@fasolt.albany.edu (Johannes Ullrich) writes:
>how about Petzi? Is this german or just translated?

Petzi is a Danish invention.

Christian
-- 
Christian Taube (taube@isa.de), ISA GmbH, 7000 Stuttgart 1, Germany
Any opinions expressed are mine, and mine only! Thought for today:
These are the scientists of the impulse engine "Enterprise."  Her 5-year
mission - to logically go where no shuttle has gone before.
From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: Small job of German->English translation.
Date: 6 Oct 1992 15:22:35 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: dimebox.cs.utexas.edu

 smn@netcom.com (Subodh Nijsure) writes:

> I need to get a technical document translated from German to English. This
> document is about 40-50 pages long. This would perhaps be a ideal job for 
> student over a weekend.  You would have to use your own computer (most 
> probably). If anybody is interested please e-mail me at smn@netcom.com. 

	a technical document of 40-50 PAGES a small job ?!?

	sounds more like the first sentence explaining the "small pay"
	to me ...

	this is definitely NOT a small job easily done by the inexperienced
	over a weekend... (in particular not without special technical
	dictionaries, or deep personal knowledge of the vocabulary of
	the, specialty in both English and German)

-- 
  werner@cs.utexas.edu |  ..!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!werner | werner@UTXVM.bitnet

              "Free Advice and Opinions -- Refunds Available"
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: hosp@uni-paderborn.de (Holger Spangardt)
Subject: Re: Die Prinzen
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:07:45 GMT

lieser@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Ed Lieser) writes:

>Auf dem Schreibtisch ist es dann passiert
>Da haben wir uns von oben bis unten <???>
>                                      ^--what is this word???
                                     <beruehrt> (beruehren = to touch)

>If anyone is interested, the music reminds me of the Beach Boys a little,
>and the lyrics are often quite funny.

I like that album,cause they are great singers. They all have a classic
musiceducation in different choirs in the old GDR like the Thomaner Chor
in Dresden bzw Leipzig usw. The Drummachine is sometimes a little stupid.

>Ed Lieser	Allen-Bradley Co., Cleveland, Ohio

German songs and especially those with german texts in USA heard?
This is the first time I've heard about that.:-)

Have fun,
	Holger
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: weberwu@inf.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff)
Subject: Violence update 2.10.92
Reply-To: dww@inf.fu-berlin.de
Organization: Free University of Berlin
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 09:23:43 GMT

[Not much news this morning. I called the tagespiegel to try and find
out why, but they're all on vacation today - there's no newspaper
tomorrow because of the "holiday". -- dww]

Berlin: Members of the Bundesgrenzschutz, the border police, distributed
roses to foreigners arriving at Tegel yesterday. They were shocked when
a foreign colleague from the Frankfurt/Main Airport security refused to
attend a meeting in Berlin out of fear of being attacked.

Muenchen: The folks down at the Oktoberfest have put on pouts. Seems the
foreigners are staying away. Sales are down 8% compared to last year,
and they had hoped to expand the amount of beer sold.

Hannover: Around 600 of the 900 refugee seekers quartered in a tent
city here have "disappeared". The Romanian refugees were to be
distributed to eastern states. The camp leaders were "surprised", they
didn't even notice that the people had left.

Cottbus: The sentences in the trial of the youths for burning down the
shelter in Schwarze Pumpe are between 9 and 22 months on parole, plus 60-
100 hours social work. Only two of the defendants admitted that they
were sorry for what they had done.

Berlin: Pupils from 4 schools in northern Berlin organized a trip to
Sachsenhausen on Wednesday (it can be reached by S-Bahn and a walk).
They put down flowers at the burned barracks. They are organizing
an action day for the end of the month.
And a strange story from Jork near Hamburg in the taz:
Store owners are fastening switch brooms over their doors to "ward off
gypsies". The town of 10.000 inhabitants has about 15 Roma that live
there. The Germans believe that "Gypsy brooms" will keep gypsies from
entering their stores, because gypsies believe that evil spirits live
in houses with switches over them [they have a point there -- dww].
A spokeswoman for the Roma and Sinti Union in Hamburg just laughed at
the suggestion, they have no superstition involving switches. A member
of the SPD recalls that part of the "Blood and Land" ideology of the 
Nazis included putting such a broom in the Giebel [the pointy bit
under a house roof] of a new house to ward off evil spirits. The store
owners say that they have been "stolen blind" by the gypsies, although 
none have reported any theft to the police. The police in Jork say
that they have no problems with the Roma, but that the Roma can now
tell where they are welcome because of the brooms. 
-- 
Debora Weber-Wulff                       dww@inf.fu-berlin.de
Institut fuer Informatik                 +49 30 89691 124
Nestorstr. 8-9                           (INCLUDE "standard.disclaimer")
D-W-1000 Berlin 31                       (PRINTN (WITTY-MESSAGE TODAY))
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Deutsche Newsgroups in USA?
From: rleberle@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:57:29 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City


Hat hier USA schon jemand seinen newsadmin ueberredet deutsche
Newsgroups zu holen. (.z.B. sub.* de.*)
Wieviel traffic ist da zur Zeit? Woher kriegt Ihr sie?

danke
---
Rainer Leberle			rleberle@sparc2.cstp.umkc.edu
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 07:00:55 EDT
From: Dan the Man <DED110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Hallo! 8-)

     Meine Name ist Dan D'Ambrosio.  Ich bin Student auf dem Penn State
Universitaet.  Ich studiere an der "Behrend" schweigstelle in Erie.  Ich
studiere Wissenschft, namlich Chemie und Computern.  Ich suche einen
deutschschreibended Brieffreund.  Ich lerne Deutsch dieses semester und
ich moechte Deutscheschreiben uben.
     Ich arbeite mit dem Penn State mainframe computer.  Meine Addresse ist
DED110@PSUVM (.BITNET) oder DED110@psuvm.psu.edu (Internet).  Bitte,
schreiben mir per E-mail zurueck!


Dan D'Ambrosio, President J.R.C.      Avaliable only at
Box 722 Behrend College          DED110@PSUVM  or
Erie, PA  16563                  DED110@psuvm.psu.edu and fine stores....
Home: (814) 898-6721
J.R.C. Office: (814) 898-6297  (Call collect, Penn State's paying!)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: serb@polisci.umn.edu (Scott Erb)
Subject: Re: Violence update 30.09.92
Organization: Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:59:03 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.162108.12302@javelin.sim.es.com> biesel@javelin.sim.es.com (Heiner Biesel) writes:

>weberwu@inf.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff) writes:

>...[ ]...

>>In other news, the official party for the V2 rocket has been cancelled.
>>But there will be an "inoffical" party, including talks by important
>>people and "a talk on the tragic uses of the first V2's". Complain
>>to your governmental officers! Other countries *must* protest this
>>completely insensitive behavior of the German government!

>Why?

>It is commonplace in other countries to celebrate the Nth anniversary
>of some significant weapon system, never mind the fact that it killed
>many people. How, for example, can the US protest "...this completely
>insensitive behavior..." when it went ot some trouble to find and employ
>the technical people responsible for the V-2? The A-bomb explosion at
>Alamagordo rates an anniversary, and a plaque, why not the V-2?

>Regards,
>       H. Biesel
It is indeed commonplace to celebrate such things, but as my mom taught me 
long ago, two wrongs don't make a right.  I think it would be easier to try 
to stop things such as the celebration of Bomber Harris or celebrations of 
atomic weapons tests after a precedent has been made that such activities 
are inappropriate.  While I understand some German reactions which decry the 
inequality of how German 'achievements' are treated in comparison to other 
countries, Germany's past can be seen as giving Germans the opportunity to 
take the lead in questioning the propriety of monuments to war and 
celebrations of weapon systems.  I just read an interesting piece in a book 
called Lernen aus dem Krieg about how post-war monuments and memorials tell 
alot about how a country deals with its past.  ("Heldenkult oder 
Friedensmahnung?" von Sabine Behrenbeck, Lernen aus Dem Krieg, 1992).  I 
think that argument also applies to how countries 'celebrate' such things as 
weapons development.  I do think rocket research can be celebrated, but a 
peaceful development focusing on exploration rather than destruction would 
be more appropriate.   Gruss, Scott
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: taube@isa.de (Christian Taube)
Subject: Re: German students in the USA?
Organization: ISA GmbH, W-7000 Stuttgart 1, Germany
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 13:49:01 GMT

kim@i5160e.nrl.navy.mil (Ellis Kim) writes:
>I was wondering if there are any german students in the USA or if there
>is someone who knows of any german students here in the states who might
>be willing to answer a question.

I don't know the exact number, but there are several thousand German
students in the US each year.  For that matter, did you know that
altogether there were about 400,000 foreign students in the US during
the academic year 91/92?

>For example: Do you first apply to a university and then apply for the 
>student visa?  Or is it the other way around?  How long does it take to
>obtain a student visa?  If he wants to start in January, is he cutting
>it a little close timewise?  Is he permitted to work while here (i cannot
>afford to pay tuition and support him at the same time)?

Apply at the school first, then get the visa.  The school usually will
issue an endorsement or some such thing for his visa application.
Depending on his status, he will be allowed to work, if he can find
himself a job.  That means: I don't know whether he'll be allowed to
work; tell him to be very specific about that aspect when he applies
for a visa and doesn't have a scholarship to support him.

Since your brother is German, I would advise him to apply for a
scholarship or fellowship at some German institution.  The most
well-known organization is the German Academic Exchange Service.  They
will probably be able to answer tons of questions.  They have
scholarships for all sorts of subjects, however, they have none for
people who are just out of high school.  Address in Germany:

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Kennedyallee 50
W-5300 Bonn 2
Germany

Their US outpost:

German Academic Exchange Service
950 3rd Ave, 19th floor
New York, NY 10022
phone    (212) 758-3223
fax      (212) 755-5780
Bitnet   daadny@nyuacf			  I don't know how often they
Internet daadny@acfcluster.nyu.edu	  check this account . . . I
					  know the guy who usually
					  does it :-)

I would say that January 93 as starting date is impossible now.  Even
to get a place for 93/94, he should act ASAP.  Application deadlines
for scholarships in Germany are end of October (or so they were last
year).  If he applies directly at a university, I think most deadlines
are somewhere in January or so.

If there are more questions, ask them.

Christian

Somebody :-) should turn all this studying stuff into a FAQ some time.

-- 
Christian Taube (taube@isa.de), ISA GmbH, 7000 Stuttgart 1, Germany
Any opinions expressed are mine, and mine only! Thought for today:
These are the scientists of the impulse engine "Enterprise."  Her 5-year
mission - to logically go where no shuttle has gone before.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett")
Subject: Re: RAID 7 Systemen Installiert in Berlin und Dresden Oder Nicht?
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 06 Oct 92 15:13:08 EST

Guten Tag.  Hinsichtlich Fragen ueber RAID 7 installationen in Berlin und
in Dresden, fragen Sie bitte die Geschaeftsleitung in Frankfurt ueber dies,
nicht mich.  Ich habe leider keine zusatzliche Auskunft bekommen.
Ihre Fernsprecher: 06917-2145.  Tschuss!

-----------------------Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com----------------------

Regarding John Scoggin's request for information on RAID systems for
VINES, Storage Computer of Nashua, N.H. is currently showing its new high
performance RAID 7 disk array platforms at the September International VINES
User Meeting.  SCSI-based, they work equally well with NetWare, workstations,
IBM systems, VAXes, etc.  I found out that Storage Computer has just opened
up its new European headquarters in Frankfurt.  The telephone there is
(49) 6917-2145.  The FAX is (49) 6917-2149.  (Der Geschaeftsfuehrer is
Deutsche, wie die VBs.)

Standards-based, RAID 7 is designed for enterprise-wide computing and
overcomes performance limitations of earlier RAID architectures, providing
a  "real world sustained application performance improvement of 200% to
400%" and dropping the cost of storage to 16 cents/MB.  Their brochures
say they can "mix and match" up to 48 SCSI commodity (3.5 or 5.25 inch)
drives, up to 150 GB.  The RAID 7 disk array platforms come with an embedded
operating system and up to 12 SCSI-2 based host interfaces.  Besides servers,
Storage Computer's RAID 7 disk array platforms can connect to workstations
and midrange systems in addition to IBM's.  Multiple CPUs can be attached to
same disk array platform.

The RAID 7 platforms come with up to 256 MB of cache, eliminating any
reason for using performance-damaging CPU main memory disk RAM.

The drives are "hot plugable" for uninterrupted, transparent operation,
with a hot standby drive automatically replacing a failed drive.

There was a lot of activity this week at the Storage Computer RAID 7 booth
at the Boston Banyan show as I walked by.  They were demoing what happens if
a drive goes down, showing the backup drive taking over.

For further information on Storage Computer's RAID 7 for any system, their
key US contact is indicated to be John O'Brien, Director of Technical
Services at Tel. 603-880-3005 or FAX 603-889-7232.  (Aber die Leute hier
haben gesagt es wuerde besser fuer Europaeishe Firmen Frankfurt am erst
anzurufen.  Sie sind sehr beschaeftigt hier nur mit US Auftraege im
Augenblick.)

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: petsch@sylt.informatik.uni-kl.de (Petsch Wolfram - PA Meybrink)
Subject: Re: Germany to commemorate launch of first Nazi rocket despite protests
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, W-Germany
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 10:50:41 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.120149.38814@news.th-darmstadt.de> schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod) writes:
>In article <1992Sep28.070606.7492@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, lbs@tkmhp2.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Lech Borkowski) writes:
>> In article <0105013A.enngk8@aeglos.hanse.de> osg@aeglos.hanse.de (Oliver Giessler) writes:
>> >
>> >They want to celebrate
>> >the first start of an modern kind rocket. Wich represents the
>> >roots of the american and russian rocket programm (btw build up
>> >mainly by german scientist)
>> >
>> 
>>  Touchy point of national pride? :-)
>> How about celebrating the anniversary of Tsiolkovsky's
>> birth instead?
>
>Perhaps only a hint, how both the US and the USSR government did not
>bother about the (Nazi) background of the scientists they used to
>push their space programs?
>    After all, for them there was probably no difference in working
>for the Nazi military, or for the US resp. USSR military. Which tells
>something about the moral of scientists. Dr. Faust is still alive...
>
>--
>Joachim
The US and USSR tried to get every scientist. Not only for the
spaceprogram. Some scientists made test with humans in the KZ: at what
level of air-pressure dies a man. (highest - lowest) and so on. The
resuslts were very useful for the spaceprograms. Some volks believe
that the intelligent services protected tortur-specialist for their
own "education".  It ist hard to prove but I always wonder why zso
many Nazis could escape to south amerika. Maybe they sold their
"science" for a ticket.


-- 
petsch@sylt.informatik.uni-kl.de (Wolfram Petsch)
From: kai@depeche.toppoint.de (Kai Voigt)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Fussball-Bundesliga, 8.Spieltag
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 17:59:24 +0100
Distribution: world               
Organization: World Violation, Inc.

*****************************************************

***   *  * *  * ****  **** ****      *    * **** ****
*  *  *  * ** * *   * *    *         *    * *    *  *
****  *  * * ** *   * ***  **** **** *    * * ** ****
*   * *  * *  * *   * *       *      *    * *  * *  *
****  **** *  * ****  **** ****      **** * **** *  *

*****************************************************

8. Spieltag

1.FC Saarbruecken   - Dynamo Dresden      1-1 (0-1)
Borussia Dortmund   - Bayern Muenchen     1-2 (0-1)
VfB Stuttgart       - 1.FC K'Lautern      3-1 (1-0)
Borussia M'Gladbach - 1.FC Koeln          1-2 (1-1)
Wattenscheid 09     - Hamburger SV        2-2 (1-0)
Karlsruher SC       - VfL Bochum          1-0 (1-0)
Bayer Leverkusen    - Schalke 04          6-1 (2-0)
1.FC Nuernberg      - Bayer Uerdingen     2-0 (0-0)
Werder Bremen       - Eintracht Frankfurt 0-0


Tabelle

Platz  Mannschaft           Spiele  Tore  Punkte

 1.    Bayern Muenchen        7      17-4  13-1
 2.    Bayer Leverkusen       8      20-6  12-4
 3.    VfB Stuttgart          8      13-10 11-5
 4.    Eintracht Frankfurt    7      12-7  10-4
 5.    Borussia Dortmund      8      11-10  9-7
 6.    Karlsruher SC          8      15-15  9-7
 7.    Dynamo Dresden         8      10-10  9-7
 8.    1.FC Nuernberg         8       6-6   9-7
 9.    Werder Bremen          8       9-11  8-8
10.    1.FC Saarbruecken      8       9-11  8-8
11.    1.FC K'Lautern         8       9-9   7-9
12.    Wattenscheid 09        8      15-17  7-9
13.    VfL Bochum             8      11-11  6-10
14.    Schalke 04             8      10-14  6-10
15.    Bayer Uerdingen        8      10-14  5-11
16.    Hamburger SV           8       7-13  5-11
17.    Borussia M'Gladbach    8       9-16  5-11
18.    1.FC Koeln             8       7-16  3-13


----
Kai Voigt, Werftstrasse 2, 2300 Kiel 14, Germany, +49 431 7297514
            "No keyboard, press F1 to continue"

Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: pol30546@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Peder Larsen)
Subject: Re: culture shock????
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:07:32 GMT

taube@isa.de (Christian Taube) writes:

(Stuff about water polo team changing on deck deleted)

>That's not really a custom, you know.  Not that I know of.  But water
>polo teams are a wee bit weird anyway :-).

I know, I was just giving an example of how nudity isn't as big a deal in
Germany as it is here.  You should have seen my face though when I realized
what they were doing.  The next day several of the American (female) students
that I traveled along with came with me to practice.  I wonder why?  :-)
								Peder

Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: biesel@javelin.sim.es.com (Heiner Biesel)
Subject: Re: Violence update 30.09.92
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:21:08 GMT

weberwu@inf.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff) writes:

...[ ]...

>In other news, the official party for the V2 rocket has been cancelled.
>But there will be an "inoffical" party, including talks by important
>people and "a talk on the tragic uses of the first V2's". Complain
>to your governmental officers! Other countries *must* protest this
>completely insensitive behavior of the German government!

Why?

It is commonplace in other countries to celebrate the Nth anniversary
of some significant weapon system, never mind the fact that it killed
many people. How, for example, can the US protest "...this completely
insensitive behavior..." when it went ot some trouble to find and employ
the technical people responsible for the V-2? The A-bomb explosion at
Alamagordo rates an anniversary, and a plaque, why not the V-2?

Regards,
       H. Biesel
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german