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Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada review – a compelling portrait of postwar Germany

Edit The Guardian 08 Oct 2016
A hallucinatory atmosphere and punchy style sweep the reader into a murky, chaotic world. Hans Fallada’s career was chaotic and disastrous. Posterity is lucky to rescue anything from the long catastrophe ... The circumstances in which Fallada had to write and tried to publish badly affected his novels ... If Rudolf Ditzen – Fallada’s real name – had a career that was murky and problematic, the texts of his novels are just as problematic ... ....

Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada review: adrift in a country out of control

Edit The Irish Times 08 Oct 2016
Although the war has finally ended in the late spring of 1945, its legacy continues to fester throughout the defeated Germany. Ordinary citizens search the ruins for food, or even scraps of clothing, and no one trusts anyone; a neighbour may as well be a stranger. There is no goodwill left ... The peace has not brought happiness ... German writer Rudolf Ditzen, better known as Hans Fallada, was many things ... ... Nicotine review ... ... ... ... ... ....

Observing the Birth of Quasiparticles in Real Time (Universität Innsbruck)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Oct 2016
In Innsbruck, Rudolf Grimm's physics research group, in collaboration with an international team of theoretical physicists, has simulated the formation of polarons in an ultracold quantum gas in real time ... Rudolf Grimm's research group, working at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the ......

Papua cops get 21 days in jail after teen’s death

Edit The Jakarta Post 07 Oct 2016
Papua Police’s ethical court found five policemen who were members of the Mobile Brigade guilty of ethical violation in “misusing firearms” in the death of a teenager in Sugapa, Intan Jaya regency, Papua, in August this year ... First Insp ... Sr. Comr ... Rudolf Patrick Renwarin said the shots were to defend themselves as they were allegedly under the threat of arrows ... ....

"TraviAustria becomes Travelport Austria (Travelport Worldwide Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Oct 2016
(Source. Travelport Worldwide Limited). Travelport (NYSE.TVPT), a leading travel commerce platform, has today announced another important step in the continued integration of its Austrian distribution partner, TraviAustria. Travelport, which acquired the company approximately one year ago, has now renamed it 'Travelport Austria' ... Rudolf Mertl, Country Manager of Travelport Austria ... (noodl. 35720398) ....

Observing the Birth of Quasiparticles (Universität Innsbruck)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Oct 2016
(Source. Universität Innsbruck). Image. Innsbruck researchers have studied quasiparticle dynamics in real time. (Credit. IQOQI/Harald Ritsch) ... 'You could picture it as a skier on a powder day,' says Grimm ... Rudolf Grimm's research group, working at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck, is a leader in this research field....

October 6, 2016 - Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony present two weeks of concerts featuring pianists Rudolf Buchbinder and Yuja Wang, October 27-November 4 (San Francisco Symphony)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Oct 2016
(Source. San Francisco Symphony). October 6, 2016 ... MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS AND THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY PRESENT TWO WEEKS OF CONCERTS FEATURING PIANISTS RUDOLF BUCHBINDER AND YUJA WANG, OCTOBER 27-NOVEMBER 4 AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL ... 20 with Rudolf Buchbinder ... 20 featuring the SFS debut of Rudolf Buchbinder October 27-30; and November 2-4 concerts feature Bruckner's Symphony No....

'Ethics Guy' to speak at Elmhurst College

Edit Daily Herald 06 Oct 2016
Popular Fortune columnist Bruce Weinstein will present Ethical Intelligence. Becoming Stronger Leaders, Citizens and Friends at 7 p.m. Oct, 20 at Elmhurst College as part of the Rudolf G. Schade Lecture Series on history, ethics and law ... ....

Post-Brexit, the British Aren't Buying Big Ticket Art

Edit Bloomberg 06 Oct 2016
As the pound dropped to levels unseen since the mid-1980s, a line of several hundred people snaked out of London’s Frieze Art Fair minutes before the VIP opening on Wednesday. Overheard were French, German, and American speakers, but British accents were few and far between ... “No British so far.” ... Sean Landers, Peanuthead George Washington, 2016. Photographer. Christopher Burke, Courtesy of greengrassi, London ... Photographer ... Fredrik Nilsen ... ....

Hack-a-thon at URI is first such event to tackle health and wellness challenges (University of Rhode Island)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Oct 2016
(Source. University of Rhode Island). KINGSTON, R.I., October 6, 2016 - Students, scientists, entrepreneurs and the public will join together at the University of Rhode Island the weekend of Oct ... 'Each and every team will make something tangible,' he says ... James V ... Wendy Nilsen, program director of the National Science Foundation's Smart and Connected Health Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, will give the keynote address....

'I had no desire to look into their faces': Woman who worked as transcriber at ...

Edit Penn Live 06 Oct 2016
Fran Potter says she never laid eyes on the Nazi war criminals on trial at Nuremberg while she was working there 70 years ago. The words of horror she read in documents while working as a secretary while the likes of Rudolf Hess, Martin Borman and Hermann Goring were on trial from November 1945 through October 1946 was enough, she says. 90-year-old woman recalls duties during Nuremberg war trials ... I can't believe that," she said ... ....

Alone in Berlin fans will be satisfied with a newly translated Hans Fallada

Edit New Statesman 06 Oct 2016
Rawer and more unevenly wrought than Alone in Berlin, Nightmare is the necessary precursor to that great work. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... . to which he had always resorted ever since his earliest childhood at times when he was feeling particularly vulnerable” ... ... ... ... Fallada, whose real name was Rudolf Ditzen, took his pseudonym from two stories by the Brothers Grimm....

The ABA Decision to Control What Lawyers Say: Supporting “Diversity” But Not Diversity of Thought (The Heritage Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Oct 2016
(Source. The Heritage Foundation). October 6, 2016 . Legal Memorandum on Legal Issues. By Ronald D. Rotunda. At its August 2016 annual convention, the American Bar Association approved a significant change in its Rule 8.4(g) that will affect all lawyers ... These changes show that the ABA is very much concerned with what lawyers say and who teaches them ... The ABA's Governmental Power ... v ... v ... Donovan, the lawyer who defended Soviet spy Rudolf Abel ... 2....
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