Daily Archives: February 23, 2011

A Rememberance of German Crime Drama

German TV producer Helmut Ringelmann has died at age 84. Ringelmann created several long running crime dramas such as Derrick, Der Alte and Der Kommissar in the 1960s and 1970s. Ringelmann’s crime dramas were a fixture of Friday nights when … Continue reading

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Awards, writing links and yet more plagiarism in politics and nihilism in fantasy

I’m busy with school prep work and a big translation project, one of those 100 plus page operation manuals, that just came in. So here is a link round-up: Today, my local paper published an insightful interview with Andreas Fischer-Lescarno, … Continue reading

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