Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jurij Striedter, cast as the growling Big Julie. Striedter, one of the highlights of the show, swaggers across the stage with a huge cigar in his clenched teeth, roaring the occasional, "I came here to shoot crap. Let's shoot crap," in a New York accent that sound curiously German...
Through May 7. "Emil Nolde: The Painter's Prints." Nolde, Known for his vibrantly colored oil paintings and water-color, will be the focus of the first major U.S. exhibition of one of the greatest modern German artists...
...German short, "Passage," (the above, of course, being an American creation) moves poetically through an alternately icy, snowy and watery landscape. Two black figures wordlessly negotiate the terrian with inky fluidity and cryptic relatedness. Their quest, timeless in its way as the dirdy birdy's endless mooning, communicates itself perfectly through the spare ink and paper rendtion...
...WITHOUT MUSIC, LIFE would be an error," Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote. The influential German philosopher (1844-1900) had an abiding, often passionate interest in music and wrote celebrated treatises both for and against the work of Wagner. Yet only a few specialists know that Nietzsche composed music himself...
DIED. GUNTER GUILLAUME, 68, East German spy whose embarrassing infiltration of Willy Brandt's office forced the West German Chancellor's resignation in 1974; of a stroke; in Eggersdorf, Germany. Working his way up through the ranks of the Social Democratic Party, Guillaume became a personal aide to Brandt after he was elected in 1969; Guillaume's close relationship with Brandt allowed him unfettered access to secrets, a breach he exploited fully...