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• George Orwell
  Why Animal Farm matters more than ever George Orwell’s slender novella turns 80 this year, yet Animal Farm has never felt more urgently relevant. Sales surged 300% in 2024 following the U.S. presidential election—the same pattern that occurred in 2017 when “alternative facts” sent Orwell’s works to the top of bestseller lists. This isn’t nostalgia […]
• Jahrestage
  Warum Uwe Johnsons “Jahrestage” unverzichtbar für das Studium der deutschen Sprache, Literatur und Landeskunde (BRD/DDR) sind. Ein Essay für Studierende und Lehrende der Germanistik Einleitung: Das Monument der deutsch-deutschen Literatur Uwe Johnsons vierbändiges Romanwerk “Jahrestage. Aus dem Leben von Gesine Cresspahl” (1970-1983) gilt als eines der bedeutendsten literarischen Zeugnisse der deutschen Teilungsgeschichte. Für Studierende und […]
• Kleist
  Abstract: This post is about significant texts young students and teachers of the German Language and Culture should know about: Heinrich von Kleist – Ein Meister des Wortes. Heinrich von Kleist: Ausgewählte Schriften – Meisterwerke der deutschen Romantik für den akademischen Diskurs Einleitung: Kleist im universitären Kontext Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) gehört zu den bedeutendsten […]
• The Black Rider
  Be aware pls: This Post is about Death: Following the Grimm Brothers on Gevatter Tod. The latest Bob Dylan concert in Hamburg – according to some reviews I read in German media, showed an artist and song writer awarded with a Nobel Prize in Literature because of his lyrics: Haunted by the Black Rider. A […]
• Storms and Brain
  This post is about Early Childhood Education and Cognitive Development. How do children learn and access their own limited world? About me The Author is a retired Ex High School Teacher born in S-H Germany in a tiny village near RD between the Horizons, and now living at the Gold Coast in QLD Australia since […]
• Noise & Higher Education
  This post is about Communication in the Field of Higher Education. Students (Apprentices) and Teachers (Masters of Education) live in two different worlds. Are students today ready to go to our Universities? Why do they stay away from classes as much as possible? This essay was inspired by some recent Media articles I read about […]

About my background as a High School Teacher in Germany, Namibia and Australia.

My name is Peter H Bloecker, StD i.R.

I am hosting the Business German Podcast, which focuses on teaching authentic German for professional settings. My aim is to help learners navigate the German language and culture from an intercultural perspective with a FOCUS on

The Intercultural Gaps.

From 1998 to 2005, I worked and served as the German language adviser at the Goethe-Institut Australia, contributing to the promotion of German language and culture in Queensland and in Australia.

My office was at the LOTE Centre, Westend, in those days next to the School of Distance Education, now sold and demolished.

Now fully retired, I live with my wife Maria Ines at the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

A tree is a tree and has a soul …

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