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Table of Contents
April / May 2004
Features
- The Fränkische Freilandmuseum Bad Windsheim
by Robert A. Selig
It was a life less complicated but far from simple. Visit a living
history museum that captures six centuries of life in Germany’s farming villages.
- Gallery: The Daetz Center – Home of Masterpieces in Wood
by Jessica Sankey
The Daetz Foundation, founded in 1998 by Marlene and
Peter Daetz, was established to help promote culture, tourism, and education in the free state of Saxony.
- Profile: Heidi Klum
by Vickie J. Rubinson
One of Germany’s most popular exports, über model Heidi Klum has often been described as
being DNA blessed.
- Germany’s Cowboy – Karl May
by Phyllis Meras
Although he never actually visited the American West, the writings of Karl May captured
the spirit of the region and fueled the imagination of countless Germans.
- Lüneburg – From the Salt of the Earth
by Leah Larkin
Feast upon the unspoiled architecture of this medieval city made prosperous by its rich reserves of salt.
- At Home: Seeing Red: Germany's "Other" Cabbage
by Sharon Hudgins
Red cabbage is a popular food in Central and Northern Europe, where it is eaten raw, cooked, and pickled.
- Taking the Cure in Badenweiler
by Walt Hubis
In a culture of wine and “taking the cure,” Badenweiler holds to its traditional Roman
spa roots while preparing for an inevitable societal change.
- Switzerland’s Painted Ladies
by Lori Hein
If a picture is worth a thousand words, these Swiss building façades are encyclopedic.
- Bye-Bye Bavaria – Hello America!
by Sue Grant
A new German exhibition documents the trials, tribulations, hopes and dreams of the
millions who emigrated from Germany to a new life in the United States.
- The Young Empress Sisi
by Sue Grant
It was the stuff of fairy tales – swept off her feet and married by age sixteen, a
controlled life of expectation and a sad demise. Remembering the most beautiful woman of her time on the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of her nuptials.
- Freiburg im Breisgau
by Phillip R. Callaway
Mistakenly riddled with bombs during World War II, this town, bordering France
and Switzerland, has rebounded and offers vacationers something out of the ordinary.
- Family Research: Baptismal Frakturs Oft Hold the Key
by James M. Beidler
When the German tradition of meticulous record-keeping
collided with the artistic talents of the teachers in eighteenth century Pennsylvania German parochial schools, a new form of folk art was created that has blossomed into an extremely helpful group of documents
for genealogists.
- Language: Eine Sprache mit Zukunft
Von Gert Niers
- A Language With a Future
by Gert Niers
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