Hildesheimer Musiktage: Tango in the air

July 16, 2010

This year we have the 10th Hildesheimer Marktplatz Musiktage (music days in the market place of Hildesheim). As every year they take place from June to August. This year it was the first time for me going there. The first event I wanted to go to I missed because they wanted to evacuate the city center to defuse a bomb from WW II (but they found only scrap metal ;) ). They wanted to move it to the fair ground (Volksfestplatz) but when I went there I couldn’t find anybody. :( After canceling the action disarming the bomb they probably had the concert of the Brazilian music in the market place…

Today I went there to see the band Faux Pas playing and singing Tango Argentino. I took a seat at a table in front of the Knochenhaueramtshaus (Butchers’ Guild Hall) and had some drinks. They started at 7pm and ended at 10pm. It was a smooth evening but of course not the same as in San Telmo! ;) I guess the real Tango dancers were not present. Unfortunately the sound was too low. It made it difficult to understand the lyrics. And there was not enough passion and feeling spreading to the audience. I mean, it is quite difficult when the singer has to read the lyrics. You have to completely understand the words and feel (with) them, dive into them, identify yourself with them, “sing” them! At least he had some Argentenean pronunciation… It is always nice to listen to the meaningful words of the Tango. :)

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Hildesheimer Verkehrsbund - Missstimmung unter den Bürgern

June 20, 2010

Jetzt muss es mal raus! Die Blase ist schließlich geplatzt!

 

Der Hildesheimer Verkehrsbund leistet sich ja einiges. Unterstützt wird dies noch von einigen planerischen Entscheidungen  bei gewissen Veranstaltungen, was das Blut jedes einzelnen Öffis-Nutzers zum brodeln bringt.

 

Erst einmal hat der Verkehrsbund sich seit Jahren dazu entschieden, den Fahrplan der Busse so aufzustellen, dass die Busse am Hauptbahnhof grundsätzlich eine Minute nach Einfahrt der Züge (aus Hannover) abfahren. Das allein ist schon eine neue Art von Service, wie man ihn noch nie gesehen hat. Man hat mit vielen Leuten in Bussen und an Haltestellen heftig diskutiert, wie man sich so eine Dreistigkeit  aneignen kann, seine Kundschaft so zu piesacken, ja, gar zu “verarschen”. Ich weiß nicht, ob sie Stress mit der DB haben, aber das wälzt man auf keinen Fall auf die Kunden ab. Wir können uns beim besten Willen nicht vorstellen, dass die Geschäfte, im Gegensatz zu den Kunden der DB an einen bestimmten Zeitplan gebunden sind! Und der Verkehrsverbund weiß ganz genau, dass der Großteil der Stundenten und ein Teil der Schüler aus Richtung Hannover kommen. Hinzu kommt, dass der Großteil der Studenten (ich Schätze 5.000) jedes Wochenende nach hause zur Familie fährt; und “alle” müssen sie nach Hannover. Sie müssen immer bis zu 20 Minuten vor Unterrichtsende die Uni verlassen, um nicht ein bis zwei Stunden am Hauptbahnhof auf den nächsten Zug warten. Dies hat sich Dank der Einführung der S-Bahn durch die DB ein wenig verbessert. Das gleiche Problem haben wir, wenn wir sonntags nach Hildesheim zurückkehren. Dann fährt uns der Bus wieder vor der Nase weg, sodass wir mit all unserem Gepäck heute nur noch 30 Minuten, damals aber mindestens 60 Minuten, am Hbf warten müssen. Die Wissen ganz genau, dass wir immer sonntags in unsere Studentenbude zurückkehren wollen.

 

Ärgerlich waren auch die Situation beim letzten Nazi-Aufmarsch und dessen damit verbundene Gegendemo. Der Verkehrsbund meinte, er müsse dann den halben Tag den gesamten Service einstellen. Oder der Schützenmarsch in diesem Jahr bzw. die Anfänge der Fußball-WM. Man kann, wenn man wirklich will, das ganze so organisieren, dass die wichtigste Straße, die Schuhstraße (Knotenpunkt im Zentrum), frei bleibt.

 

Eine weitere große Unerhörtheit ist der Fahrplan zu den Sommerferien der Schüler. Als wenn in der Stadt NUR Schüler wohnen würden! Da nimmt man uns Studenten und Mitbewohner einfach ein paar Busse aus dem Fahrplan, sodass wir jetzt noch schlechter von und zu der Uni bzw. unseren Terminen und Einkäufen kommen. Es reicht dicke, wenn der Verkehrsbund nur die Schulbusse pausiert. Stattdessen während des Schulzeit morgens und mittags/nachmittags einfach mal mehr Schulbusse einsetzen, dass die normalen Gäste nicht an den Haltestellen stehen und zugucken müssen, wie die überfüllten Busse einfach an ihren Nasen vorbeifahren.

 

Zudem sollte man abends einfach mal die alten kurzen Busse einsetzen und nicht die rieseigen Gelenkbusse. Klar, dass das so uneffektiv ist. Mit den kurzen Bussen könnte man dann abends länger bzw. regelmäßiger fahren!

 

Oft ist es so, dass ich 50 Minuten quer durch die Stadt laufe, da ich dann immer noch schneller bin, als auf den nächsten Bus zu warten. Das kann es echt nicht sein; erst recht nicht bei schlechtem Wetter oder viel Gepäck.

Die Missstimmung bei den Bürgern steigt stetig, zumindest kann ich das auf der Straße beobachten, und zwar in allen Schichten und Altersgruppen!

Der Hildesheimer Öffis-Service ist der schlechteste, mit dem ich es je zu tun hatte.

Er ist nicht nur in Hildesheim bekannt. Wenn man Hildesheim erwähnt, kommt aus einigen Mündern gleich: „Ach, das ist doch da, wo das Bussystem so schlecht ist?!“

 

Glückwunsch! Ihr habt euch bisher einen guten Ruf erarbeitet! Nur weiter so!!!

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Whitsuntide 2010 - Work, Music, Dance & Joy

May 24, 2010

This year’s Whitsuntide was all about working but…

I had to catch up some work. Therefore I worked three to four times as much a day as usual.

Yet there should be some time for music and dance! ;)

On Friday I went with my friends from the university’s dance course to one of our dancing schools, Tanzhaus Buresch, near the main station. We danced Latin and Standard, some Salsa and I tried to teach some Tango Argentino in ten minutes. ;) At the end, we were three left of all guests. We are always the last leaving! :D It was already around 2am.

This week there was also the yearly Jazztime festival. We decided at the dance to go there on Saturday.  It was a very sunny day and an awesome atmosphere. There were around 11,000 people sitting and standing on the plaza and the green areas in front of the theater TfN of Hildesheim. The local hero B. B. & The Blues Shacks were celebrated and they had to give a lot encore at the end. It was a perfect evening!

The Sundays are our “Salsa Nights”. After more than a year I finally made it to the Napo’s Bar again. It was quite difficult to get into Salsa again but it was good to be back. :)

So, this weekend was all about music and dance - all about good times!!! :)

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New semester (SS 2010)

March 22, 2010

Now, being back in good (c)old Germany, I’m trying to fall back into the old everyday life. But it is definitely not as easy as you always imagine. Culture shock does not happen when you go TO a “foreign” country but when you come back FROM it, into your home country believed to be familiar!

 

The time flying back seemed to me like passing in a flash. I usually traveled twenty hours in bus the last three months. Therefore the thirteen hours by plane were like peanuts.
Of course Tina and I had problems with baggage over weight.  We had the chance to weight our baggage in front of the airport and could rearrange all stuff. I had about ten kilos too much. At the end I had two cases, my backpack, my laptop bag, and a huge plastic bag with my carnival mask and other stuff I needed on the air plane. But I didn’t have to pay any fee.

 

Leaving Buenos Aires we had 36°C. Arriving in Hanover I was freezing at 0°C - a shock! The first week at home I had to experience snow after all. I froze my balls off! At least I could enjoy a last Feuerzangenbowle (”Flaming Fire Tongs Bowl“, a hot red wine punch with a sugar cone soaked in rum lit above it) for this winter! :)

 

The abrupt change from the Argentinian everyday life to the German way is more difficult as I thought:
First of all, the Argentinian day has 25 hours and you can definitely feel it. There you go out for dinner at
10pm at the earliest, and here in Germany your day “ends” already at 8pm when you have to meet your friends or family yet. In my town there are no buses bringing you home after 11.30pm while in Buenos Aires they circulate all day and night through. And although Argentina is a threshold country you can use WiFi in every café for free - and there are cafés every 50m. In Germany I still have to pull myself together when it comes to traffic. I hate wasting my precious time of life waiting for green - even though there is not a living soul as far as the eye can see! I guess I have to be patient?!

 

I stayed at my parent’s house for one month till I found a new place to live in my university city. I now got my own nice floor with living, kitchen, bath, sleeping, office, and corridor. :)

Semester is quite stressful cause I can work twice as much in my old job. I started with the course Portuguese 2 (Portuguese 1 was only offered last semester) but I don’t have any difficulties to keep up in this course.

 

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Update (middle of May):

I’m still fighting against some of the culture shock - especially the weather! :( I fear, this is the punishment for trying to “skip” German winter… I want to go back to South America!!! :)

 

 

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Countdown

March 2, 2010

There have been only nine more days left till today when I have to fly back to Germany… :(

For the last week, after the trip to the waterfalls of Iguazú and to Brazil, I theoretically planned to go to Salta in the north of Argentina but there were neither time nor money left. Therefore I used these last days to walk the city to try capturing every corner I haven’t seen or hasn’t been on a photo yet:

I participated at a guided tour through the Casa Rosada waving from the balcony to the people of Argentina, visiting an art exhibition in the Biblioteca Nacional also trying to take a picture from the city, looking in on the university for the last time, visiting the Tango museum seeing some original object from famous tango celebrities as Troilo and Gardel and enjoying the art sculptures of tango couples, taking tango lessons at the DNI Tango school every day and eating as much beef as possible closing our semester abroad with some international friend in the parilla restaurant La Cabrera having a Vulcano de Chocolate, an unforgettable dream! :)

At the end, time was to short so that I could see everything. :( Therefore I definitely have to come back to Buenos Aires one day!!! :)

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We had the time of our live over there as we have a lots of friends over there and now we were able to meet
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ingo:

Pics are coming later ‘cos I need to find/buy some new webspace :-/ I’m now (29.01.-18.02.2010) at the waterfalls of Iguazú and Brazil. Therefore the next reports on Uruguay and Brazil are hopefully coming when I’m back again. Sorry!

ingo:

Weather here in Bs.As. is just too hot! It’s 2am and we still have 28°C. There will be 36°C tomorrow. Good that I’ll go to the Jungle where it’ll be 3°C less - but 90% of humidity :-S

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20.01.2010 concert of Joaquin Sabina in Estadio Boca Juniors, Buenos Aires :)

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next small trip to Uruguay (Montevideo & Punta del Este) probably this week (8th, 2010) :)

ingo:

report & pics of my last trip to Mendoza, Santiago de Chile & Valparaiso (New Year’s Eve), Córdoba are coming soon

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Due to full webspace on my blog, photos & videos will be on Flickr from now on :-|
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"The Past is history, the Future is mystery and the NOW is a gift. That's why it's called Present."

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"Wenn wir den Mund aufmachen, reden immer zehntausend Tote mit."
(Eugen Guglia)

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"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."
(George Szell)

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"Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to
guess what a man is going to do before he does it."
(Christopher Morley)

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"A free spin is like taking a woman to the mall and giving her a credit card, she'll come back when she is ready."
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"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
(George Bernard Shaw)

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"Dancing is silent poetry."
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"The forms of tango are like stages of a marriage:
The American tango is like the beginning of a love affair, when you're both very romantic and on your best behavior.
The Argentine tango is when you're in the heat of things and all kinds of emotions are flying: passion, anger, humor.
The International tango is like the end of the marriage, when you're staying together for the sake of the children."
(Barbara Garvey?, 1993)

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Tango de aquel Maldonado
con menos agua que barro,
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desde el pescante del carro.
..."
(Jorge Luis Borges: "Alguien le dice al tango")

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