http://en.redtram.com/ anglofritz.com Copyright (c) 2008 RedTram. All rights reserved. webmaster@redtram.com (RedTram) en Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:04:58 GMT 300 100 50 http://en.redtram.com/ http://img.en.redtram.com/rsslogo.gif 235141 | Scramble to Avoid Kaputt http://en.redtram.com/go/161450684/top100/ 161450684 U.S. heads of finance spent early September solving the mystery of the magical vanishing money and -- after mistakenly allowing the Lehmann Brothers collapse and handling the ensuing firestorm -- spent late September injecting as much Federal money they could Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:14:42 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/161450684/top100/ 235142 | Zeitgeist Muesli - Inglorious Bowl http://en.redtram.com/go/158976801/top100/ 158976801 Tarantino is set to shot his new film Inglorious Bastards in Babelsberg along with actors Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger and Mike Myers. It's yet another Hollywood flick about WW II and se Nazis. Cruise's Valkyrie is still under review and Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:53:46 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/158976801/top100/ 235142 | Ostalgie and the Internet http://en.redtram.com/go/152397878/top100/ 152397878 Interflug was the only East German airline seen here with a TU 134 Germans call it 'Ostalgie', an irrational love of the workers' cacotopia that was Honecker's East Germany. East Berlin stank of Russian petrol and had cardboard Czech shoes Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:25:26 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/152397878/top100/ 235142 | Jack Dee on Unreliable German Cars http://en.redtram.com/go/151855551/top100/ 151855551 If the British are known for great food, then the Germans for their unreliable cars. Jack Dee, aka Jack Spleen on the show Lead Ballon, takes on the subject. I remember living in high school in the States when Jewish Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:47:13 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/151855551/top100/ 235142 | Zeitgeist Muesli - Go Brandenburg http://en.redtram.com/go/150129872/top100/ 150129872 Usually the Muesli is a weekly mashup of anglofritzian news, since I haven't posted weekly, we'll have to make an exception this time and do it monthly.Holy Schnitzel, se Germans are so eco-friendly! William Powers discovers in a travel piece Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:30:08 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/150129872/top100/ 235141 | The Barackstar is Welcomed http://en.redtram.com/go/138170804/top100/ 138170804 photo by Yuhang YuanIt wasn't the Love Parade, but with all the love in the air, sometimes it felt like it. Barack Obama's speech in Berlin yesterday attracted throngs of eager onlookers---German and American flags a'plenty---up to a quarter million Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:57:20 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/138170804/top100/ 235141 | Obama in Berlin (Don't Mention the Backdrop) http://en.redtram.com/go/134993114/top100/ 134993114 It was supposed to be so grand. U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama -- who next Thursday in Berlin kicks off a foreign policy-boosting tour of Europe and the Middle East with a major speech on trans-Atlantic relations -- ran into Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:19:30 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/134993114/top100/ 235141 | American-German Lovefest at the Embassy http://en.redtram.com/go/129555655/top100/ 129555655 On a rain-soaked evening in Berlin — the 4th of July marking the occassion of the U.S. Embassy re-opening near Brandenburg Gate — the mutal appreciation machine was in high gear. Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit, in his opening words, said Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:30:25 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/129555655/top100/ 235142 | Cold War Turning Point Celebrated in Berlin http://en.redtram.com/go/127746510/top100/ 127746510 Sixty years ago to the month Stalin's Russia began blocking all incoming traffic to West Berlin, choking the city's supplies of fuel and food. The act was an attempt to squeeze the Allied powers out of otherwise Soviet-controlled territory, an Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:11:31 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/127746510/top100/ 235134 | George's European Vacation http://en.redtram.com/go/120932286/top100/ 120932286 Your eminence, you're looking good." photo by NAVROC CommandWith a departing flight from Belfast back to Washington DC this morning George W. Bush ended his weeklong jaunt through Europe, beginning with Slovenia last Monday and ending in Ireland today. Journalists Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:06:59 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/120932286/top100/ 235142 | Department of Potentially Bad Ideas http://en.redtram.com/go/116583718/top100/ 116583718 Werner Herzog has cajones. He'll do anything he wants and he don't give a damn what you think. He's like your uncle who shows up falling down drunk at your family reunion -- and still commands respect from your older Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:06:33 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/116583718/top100/ 235141 | Stars and Stripes at Brandenburg Gate http://en.redtram.com/go/115412700/top100/ 115412700 courtesy of flickr user UmschauenAfter 70-some years of displacement, the American Embassy has returned to its historical location at Pariser Platz 2, a prime piece of real estate nestled immediately next to Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate. Dimplomats are as jubilant Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:01:33 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/115412700/top100/ 235142 | Momus: Europe Deserves Obama More http://en.redtram.com/go/113009155/top100/ 113009155 courtesy of tehelka @ flickrProminent Berlin-based Scottish expat, culturist and opinionator Nick Currie, better known as the musician Momus, elects Barack Obama today as the next President of Europe. The position just opened up, Momus says, after French President Nicolas Thu, 29 May 2008 17:42:26 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/113009155/top100/ 235142 | Germany vs USA @webinale http://en.redtram.com/go/112199850/top100/ 112199850 Bosselmann from Driftlab and Gahlert from Neue Digitale, two creative agencies are discussing the differences of digital work in both countries at the webinale conference. It starts with a movie about the web becoming the number one destination for consumers. Tue, 27 May 2008 12:46:06 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/112199850/top100/ 235142 | Riding the Peace Train http://en.redtram.com/go/110333600/top100/ 110333600 Last year an Australian businessman with the bellicose-sounding name Steve Killelea launched a nation-by-nation ranking of peacefullness with the Economist Intelligence Unit called the Global Peace Index. Looking at this year's rankings, handily arranged with 2007 vs. 2008 in compare Thu, 22 May 2008 13:07:52 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/110333600/top100/ 235142 | Lucky Corey http://en.redtram.com/go/108784859/top100/ 108784859 Feldman tattoos with earlier self assessment. Photo courtesy of dailypoetics As if the US film industry hasn't gotten enough. Corey Feldman, best known from "Stand by me," started shooting in Berlin this past Wednesday for his new flick "Lucky Fritz" Sun, 18 May 2008 08:02:16 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/108784859/top100/ 235136 | Thuringia and the Telectroscope http://en.redtram.com/go/108258270/top100/ 108258270 Photo courtesy of medemaatjesJohann August Röbling, a German immigrant from Thuringia, a middle-of-nowhere state equipped with a new state anthem by Rainald Grebe, escaped building permit bureaucracy to find his opportunity in New York suggested to build a bridge that Sat, 17 May 2008 01:25:52 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/108258270/top100/