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Hi, I’m Pete …My Aussie mates have changed my name Peter meaning the Rock!

• In Cold Blood
  When studying in Berlin around 1974, I bought the Penguin Classic I found now in a Camp Kitchen along my Camping Trip Northern Rivers area in New South Wales in Australia before Xmas 2025. One of the best US books ever written, for sure. True Crime Genre and Podcasts were not even at the Horizon. […]
• Deutsche Welle
  This site is known to Learners of German around the world … Linked More than The Language only: Culture and Landeskunde Menschen in Deutschland News and Background Infos.
• Dangar Falls
  There are places and there are really good places: One of the best for us is this one here with real Camping like 50 years ago named Lodge. But it is in fact an old Dairy Farm, the second wave of taking the land after logging … Very cool up here at 900 m above […]
• Fig Trees
  Is this a Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla), which is native to eastern Australia and commonly found along the Queensland coast? The distinctive features that identify it as a fig tree include: Moreton Bay Figs are magnificent trees that can grow enormous in favorable conditions, and they’re particularly common in parks and coastal areas around […]
• Beach Walking
  What are your favorite physical activities or exercises? I loved to cycle a lot, when living in the country in North Germany. Since I have retired in 2015, my favourite activity is Beach walking in the mornings. Before the sun gets too hot. Amazing how many people here at the Gold Coast love their morning […]
• Jena
  Between 1794 and 1803, a remarkable concentration of intellectual genius assembled in the small university town of Jena in Thuringia. This wasn’t merely an academic conference or literary salon—it was a revolutionary gathering that would fundamentally reshape German culture, philosophy, and education. At the center of this ferment stood a woman whose brilliance and audacity […]

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 …

More promotion will come here soon, once my free Podcast has hit the target line at Spotify and some other channels.

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