Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Christmas carousels

Impossible automata for my street organ this holiday season. Featuring Georg Büchner, Ignaz Bruder, German Christmas pyramids, dancing Hasidim, Lieutenant Kijé as you’ve probably never seen it, Le Tigre, and a crustacean.

There’s so much brilliant German shit on YouTube

Was: How pleased I am to find both the Zarah Leander and the Nina Hagen versions of “Ich weiß, es wird einmal ein Wunder gescheh’n” on the line.

Goethe, responsible for Victorian pteridomania?

The disastrous horticultural consequences of fucked literary translation.

Wilhelmus van Nassouwe niet de beste Duitser aller tijden

Zegt al-Jazeera. Oliver Bierhoffs favoriet is Goethe: “Er hat Meisterwerke vollbracht und ist ein großer Name in der Weltliteratur.” Olly leest tegenwoordig Ayn Rands Atlas Shrugged, een verhaal “set in a near-future USA whose economy is collapsing due to the inexplicable disappearance of the country’s leading innovators and industrialists. The question of why these people…