DW's Wort der Woche: Kulturbeutel

handbag with necessary utilities, Kulturbeutel, toilet bag, washbag Svenska: Genomskinlig necessär med typiska tillbehör. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

KULTURBEUTEL 02 (Photo credit: VisualOrgasm)

http://www.dw.de/kulturbeutel/a-16986465

So we have the word "culture" and one of the German words for "bag/sack/contain where things are often plopped inside" -- What could they mean together?  Click to find out!  (Ignore all the images around you in case I am tricking you!!...)

Kulturbeutel für den Nerd (Photo credit: Senfwurst)

Kulturbeutel (Photo credit: MarcusinAustralien)

Head of ThyssenKrupp passes

Krupp Würfel - Essen City (Photo credit: Andy_BB)

Berthold Beitz Boulevard (Photo credit: danielehlert)

English: ThyssenKrupp Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

There were many scoundrels and cowards leading Big Industry when the Nazis were in power, but there were also brave men and woman whose moral compass did not fail them.  One of those men was Berthold Beitz, head of German industrial giant ThyssenKrupp.   He passed away this week.  Read about his story in one of the articles below.

http://www.dw.de/berthold-beitz-thyssenkrupp-patriarch-who-saved-wartime-jews-dies-aged-99/a-16990234

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English: Castle Neuschwanstein Deutsch: Schloss Neuschwanstein Tiếng Việt: Lâu đài Neuschwanstein (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ludwig II with Richard Wagner, the composer of Lohengrin and many other romantic operas, at the piano (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Do you remember all the murals and paintings in Neuschwanstein? They were all from Wagner's opera's (and in turn almost all from medieval sagas, mostly Germanic ones and many Arthurian ones). Dear Ludwig loved his operas because they evoked the majesty and nobility of times past (just like he was doing in the construction of his castles) -- 

I'm not sure if Ludwig expressed thoughts on Judaism -- but dear Rick Wagner certainly did -- Wagner was decidedly an anti-semite. The question remains: to what extent, and how did this play out in his works?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/The-Brilliant-Troubled-Legacy-of-Richard-Wagner-216638401.html#Richard-Wagner-troubled-legacy-statue-631.jpg

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