Word: tz
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...soprano Heather Buck, in the archetypal sassy-best-friend-to-the-leading-lady role, fared much better as Ännchen.The vague and muted acting of most of the ensemble went hand in hand with the production’s unfathomable setting. With “Der Freischütz,” director Sam Helfrich presents a world that, like the acting, is never really sure what it’s supposed to be. He puts Agathe in a traditional German dirndl while Ännchen, in the same scene, wears a form-fitting black blazer and a pair...
...pushing toward greater reliance on Russian sources. Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has taken a job as head of the supervisory board of a joint venture between Gazprom and two German firms that is building an underwater gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany. Roland Götz, head of the Russia department at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, says German dependence on Russian energy supplies will increase, in part because of a growing belief that Russia "is the best alternative to the Middle East. If something happens in Saudi Arabia we are powerless...
...night of German music sung by one of Harvard’s Holden Chapel Choirs, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, conducted by Kevin Leong. This mixed choir is joined by the Brattle Street Chamber Players, a thirteen person string orchestra. They will play selected works by Bach, Schütz, Rheinberger, and Herzongenberg. Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. Tickets $18/14 general; $9/7 students/seniors. 8 p.m. Sanders Theater...
...says Guido Westerwelle, leader of the Free Democratic Party. "Instead of taking care of domestic security by hiring more policemen, we wasted the work of 200 civil servants to look after this reform." The issue has even divided Schröder's Social Democratic Party (spd). Dieter Wiefelspütz, an spd parliamentarian, says that despite Schröder's support, "it's just a couple of bureaucrats who demand the changes and I will not let them determine how I write the German language." While the spelling revolt played out on the front pages of the nation's newspapers...
Among the posters of stylish models on the walls of Michaela Pütz's Bonn hairdressing salon hangs her Meisterbrief - the master craftsman's diploma that all German artisans must acquire before they set up their own businesses. The 40-year-old Pütz got hers 12 years ago, by attending six months of all-day classes on business management and crafts law at a cost of more than €12,000. Pütz's 21-year-old apprentice Susan, however, may not need to cram for a master's exam; the qualification, which dates back...