New German elections / Neuwahl in Deutschland
am 25.05.2005 von Transblawgperlentaucher.de verlinkt internationale Kommentare zu den Neuwahlen. perlentaucher.de (in German) gives a number of links to international coverage (some of it in English) on the German elections called …
German politics in English
Transblawg / Wortfeld, usually a German-language blog, has an entry in English describing the background to Schröder’s announcement of autumn elections. There are a large number of links. As Alexander rightly says, the coverage of German matters in the…
Perlentaucher.de goes English
Transblawg / Signandsight, Perlentaucher’s English site went online on March 1. It is subtitled ‘Arts, Essays, Ideas from Germany’. Perlentaucher.de is a site that collects, summarizes and links to German-language books and reviews. The English …
Perlentaucher / FAZ
Transblawg / In der Frankfurter Rundschau fasst Thierry Chevel (einer der Perlentaucher-Erfinder) die Perlentaucher-Feindlichkeit der FAZ zusammen: Fünf Artikel, zwei Prozesse (über Handakte WebLAWg) Siehe auch Die FAZ hasst den Perlentaucher, in Das L…
German elections / Wahlplakate
Transblawg / More posters and other pictures of the German election campaign here - and more to come during the week....…
German Federal Constitutional Court Allows Elections on 18 September
Law & Justice / The German federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) allows that the elections for a new Bundestag can be held at 18th September. Two MPs, Werner Schulz (Die Grünen) and Jelena Hoffmann (SPD, same party as the head of government, Chan…
German Elections, Democracy, Economic Challenges, Welfare State
Law & Justice / Robert Menasse has written an essay in Die Zeit about the forthcoming elections in Germany, European harmonisation and democracy. According to Menasse, the elections are not about electing a democratic majority but about democracy itself. What power …
Elections Just Like That
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. After an electoral loss of his party in the state of North-Rhine-Westphalia, Chancellor Schröder would like to disband the federal diet in Berlin and hold federal elections in the fall. In the regular cycle, such election…
German statutes in English online
Transblawg / There are two good sites to find links to online English translations of German statutes. One is the German Law Archive, run by Gerhard Dannemann, and the other is Carob, Robin Stocks’ weblog (click at the top right). However, if...…
Italian / German / English weblog on books, vocabuary
Transblawg / Liseuse has a second weblog, Il quaderno dei vocabuli. Mainly in Italian, with some English and German. The sidebar has links to a large number of glossaries. Good stuff.…
German literary translators in the press/Die SZ und die Literaturübersetzer
Transblawg / An article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on 2 February 2007 by Thomas Steinfeld, the editor of the arts pages, is no longer available except for subscribers: Ein Haus für Rechthaber. It's described in an article by Burkhard Kroeber on per…
Purity of German beer/Reinheitsgebot in Deutschland
Transblawg / Bundesverwaltungsgerichtentscheidung zu Schwarzbier (Az. BVerwG 3 C 5.04). The German Federal Administrative Court today decided that a German beer to which sugar was added can be called beer nonetheless. It overruled a decision of the Frankfurt an…
Perlentaucher in englisch
Handakte WebLAWg / Perlentaucher feiert am 15.3.2005 seinen fünften Geburtstag und hat zu diesem Anlass eine englischsprachige Version seines Angebots online gestellt (Danke, Sonja).…
Wikipedia on German law
Transblawg / The English Wikipedia deals with German law among other topics, and how it’s put into English might be of interest. In mid-December, the daily article featured was on Paragraph/Section 175 of the German Criminal Code, which made homosexual acts…
Use of English in German enterprises
Transblawg / The Financial Times (English edition) of 12 April 2005 has two articles on the use of English in German businesses: English is not always music to the ears, and The new lingua germanica. They will be free online for a...…
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