Happy New Year!

May the best in 2023 be the worst in 2024.
After all, it's okay to wish, eh?

Same procedure as every year

If I've counted correctly, Germans can/could watch Dinner for One (The 90th Birthday) 14 times today on different TV channels, between 9:40 and 23:40, and also nine times in different German dialects, including Schwiizerdütsch.
And this year there is a big show on two channels, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dinner for One.
Very strange folks, the Germans. Well, judge for yourself.

Tiny tip-off: Be absolutely determined not to laugh.

Dinner for One

Saturday Night Music – Brahms' Symphony No. 2

Kurt Masur (18 July 1927 – 19 December 2019)

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897)

Symphony No. 2

Beers & Books CCCXLVIII – The Nazi & the Barber

The Nazi & the Barber
also published as The Nazi Who Lived AS a Jew

Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018)

Beers & Books CCCXLVII – Erna, the tree is needling

Erna, the tree is needling

Robert Gernhardt (13 December 1937 – 30 June 2006)

Merry Christmas

. . . and Peace on Earth.

Beers & Books CCCXLVI – Dickens' Christmas tales

A Christmas Carol,
The Chimes,
The Cricket on the Hearth,
The Battle of Life,
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain,

Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)

Saturday Night Music – Pictures at an Exhibition

Pictures at an Exhibition


Modest Mussorgsky (21 March 1839 – 28 March 1881)

Pictures at an Exhibition

Kurt Masur (18 July 1927 – 19 December 2019)

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Beers & Books CCCXLV – Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)

Beers & Books CCCXLIV – Emma

Emma

Jane Austen (16 December 1776 – 18 July 1817)

Laughing Lhursday*

I hear that 90000 (in words: ninety thousand) earth-dwellers  – LGBTQIA plus  all those genders still to discover, and, believe it or not, even a few women and men) – from this and that continent and many an island swam and walked in a climate-neutral way to Dubai to act as world saviours.
And that's exactly what they did for 14 days in air-conditioned rooms and on full board. Acting.

So let's enjoy a climate of peace on earth, now and forever.

 

* [For first time visitors]:

Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Heine's Doctrine

Doctrine

Beat the drum and don't be afraid,
And kiss the sutler!
That is the whole science,
That is the deepest meaning of books.

Drum the people out of their sleep,
Drum Reveille with the vigour of youth,
Always march ahead drumming,
That is the whole of science.

That is Hegel's philosophy,
That is the deepest meaning of books!
I have grasped it because I am clever,
And because I am a good drummer. 

Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856)

Beers & Books CCCXLIII – Jiří Mahen: The Moon

The Moon

Jiří Mahen (12 December 1882 – 22 May 1939)