Monsieur Claudes Dilemma

Monsieur Claude is a real picture-book Frenchman, like he can be found in any language teaching book. Monsieur Claude is corpulent, owns a a cottage, has a career, a presentable wife and four daughters. Monsieur Claude can be seen in cinemas in the movie “Monsieur Claude and his four daughters. The film can be described as THE classic French (Multikulti-)Comedy

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„The atomic bomb is supposingly safer in Iranian than in Pakistani hands“

„The atomic bomb is supposingly safer in Iranian than in Pakistani hands“

The 16th Herrenhäuser Gespräche, initiated by the VolkswagenStiftung and the radio station NDR Kultur, picked out ‚Islam today – a religion in transition‘ as a central theme. The small-sized studio of the NDR broadcasting centre located at the Rudolf-von-Benningsen-Ufer is packed. Presumably, a factor not only due to the Finger-Food-Buffet in connection with the discussion. It becomes obvious real soon

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Back then it was Friedrich…

Back then it was the Jews. Today it is the Blacks there, here the students. Maybe tomorrow it will be the Whites, the Christians or the civil servants. I can remember that reading the book “Back then it was Friedrich” in school touched me deeply. It was for the first time that I consciously realized how quickly a single person

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The muezzin always calls five times a day…

Concession or commerce? RTL of all private TV stations in Germany, a station that’s not really known for its intellectual TV programme adapted intercultural dialogue for itself? Or is it simply about decreasing ad spendings which suffer from online and mobile rivalry, looking for new target groups? It is Ramadan. That month of fasting of the Islamic lunar calender known

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