Monday, December 25, 2017

rent apartment wroclaw


what separates us from yesterday is not a rift but a changed position. hang on. did he separate the daughterfrom the mother? did he separate the motherfrom the daughter? did he not set free a prisoner?untie a prisoner? did he not showthe incarcerated the light? did he say of a prisoner, "catch him"? yesterday girl

"anita g., born april 2, 1937,unemployed, no fixed abode, single, with no prior convictions,appears before the braunschweig court as she is duly suspected of having had the intention to takeand carry away movable property, when she took a cardiganbelonging to angelika hus with everything in it from her locker. a crime punishable under sect. 242 ofthe penal code." signed by the judge. you are anita g., aged 22?- yes. you have come over from east germany?

you are originally from the leipzigarea? - my parents live there. you haven't got a leipzig accent. when did you come over?- 1957. according to the record you claim yourgrandparents suffered damages in 1938. so you are jewish?- indeed. are you saying, something you couldn'thave been aware of until 1943-44 has anything to dowith your present situation? - no. then let's leave it. it's in the past. what about your parents?

they went back in 1945. the factoriesthey'd owned were returned to them. is that true?- i said so, didn't i? what did you do?- i went to school. before 1945 you were partly expelled?- yes, but now i went until 1952. did you get your a-levels?- no. - so what did you do? i worked as a telephone operator inzerbst. i wanted to study something. why did you give all that up?- i got scared and moved to the west. because of certain incidents?- because of prior incidents. you mean those from 1943-44?i don't believe that.

in my experience, they don't affectyoung people. - i felt unsafe. didn't you just thinkyou'd improve your chances here? yes, i did. then you got a job in braunschweig?- i became a nurse in braunschweig. there you committed said offence.right. please, approach the bench. just place your hands on the desk and relax. you said you were confused.what did you mean by that? you must have known it'd come out.

only you could've takenthis cardigan or jacket. were you cold?- yes. but it was summer.- i'm cold even in the summer. in my experience,that's unusual. you must have realisedyou couldn't keep this cardigan. i read here, when the item was found,it wasn't hidden. why didn't you hide it?didn't you think it necessary? didn't you feel guilty of havingtaken a jacket from your colleague? didn't you have any scruples about it?

it just came over me. yes well, that can't beconclusively established. in taking the cardigan to the flat,did she abandon safekeeping or not? the injured party, i mean. safekeeping by a second party:a second party need not be the owner. safekeeping is the rule over an itemwhich cannot be disputed by anyone. this must be assessed accordingto daily life, not the civil code, as this knows ownership without rule. a possessor's agent, e.g. a servant,has safekeeping, no ownership,

an heir ownership, no safekeeping.if an item is taken by a second party, it is fraud, never theft. constructiveowners have no safekeeping, especially not when deliveringnegotiable instruments. daily life will establish whetherrule over an item is applicable. a mammoth in the ice walter discovered it awoke on finding itself uncoveredand merrily cried out without a falter: good morning, my dear walter! eduard with his fiddle came that wayand a waltz he began to play the mammoth danced one, two, threeand walter kept it company

gaily they danced all nightuntil the mammoth cried we are tired, this will sufficewe'll all have vanilla ice and giant primeval sponge cakethat in the ice-age i did bake the court may release a prisoneron probation with his consent. the probation is not to be lessthan the remaining sentence. here judges usually give 2 years'probation for 6 months remaining. convicts with no fixed abode willbe taken up into the community by us. unfortunately this doesn't happeneverywhere. it requires idealism. good day, anita.

i see you are well. i'm glad to find you so happy. i talked to your superior. you may thank god we've managedto find you such a pleasant job. do you feel you deserve it? do you still prayas often as you did with me in prison? i only want to do good.my heart rejoices when i do good. let us be thankful we found you a job,and a pretty good one at that. what would you call a threat?- being caught. - by whom?

the police.- tell me what for. - stealing. another word.- dispossession. - like in the gdr? thieves will be dispossessed. - youknow that's not true. another word. probation.- what does it mean to you? to better yourself.- you see? that's good. another word. do good. - what does that mean to you?- do a good deed. what is "good"? - whatever feels good.- that's not quite right. won't you come downand have tea with us? if you make it through this, thenthat's that. it'll all be behind you.

"we'll make it here. let's face the futurefull of confidence. let's be full of confidence!" dear child, just have yourselfa wonderful evening. let's make ourselves comfortable. what do you want freedom for? it's nouse to anyone. - peace and quiet... you've stolen and therefore...- not the freedom we mean in the west. tell me, the freedom that i mean... is the pronoun for "man" he or it?

and for "disgust"?- nothing! look at us sitting here, talking andtalking! it reminds me of the phrase: "you be quiet!" ...the harbourof love for those full of remorse... if you'd listen, you wouldn't need tointerrupt. is this at all christian, for god's sake? ...to become calm and gentle. what is a "schcher"?i used to think it meant "czech". but "schcher" in the true senseof the word means something else. you see nowadays when someoneis pious, everyone thinks he's cuckoo.

but do visit us. at the vicarageyou can play tennis, read a book, play chess and watch tv. you belong to me, only you, the angels call out to you. never leave me alone again! it's about gramophone records. what's on them? foreign languages.- that's a good thing. certainly.it's a good thing for people.

have them sign here.it's a bit complicated. there? - no, down there. fill it induring the interview. - right. you get a commission of 25 per cent.- and they pay in instalments? i would say, "spread over36 instalments, it won't hurt you." that's the way to say it! let themlearn. - and if they don't pay? they'll get a default summons. we marketconvenient boxed sets of 36 records for learning foreign languages. we don't usually employ women,but respectable salesmen.

our best salesmandrives an american car. we target workers between 20 and 30. "lmprove your chances! it costs now, but it'll pay off later,"you tell them. what we're dealing with here is... what's your occupation?- i'm a trainee in the shipping trade. this would improve your chances. so are you interested?- not in the english course, no. we've also got spanish,french, japanese and russian.

so will we send the first record alongwith the form? - no, no, not yet! any place where workers pass by. it's often good to post yourselfnear restaurants and night-clubs. you must ask for identification,if you suspect someone to be underage, which means under 21.- right. otherwise you're good. here are some brochures and leafletsabout the advantages of the records. shy people can be addressedwith the sentence: "this will give you a fresh start."

housewives:"for your children and grandchildren." we've also engaged an educationalist,a student, to see if the courseis manageable for ordinary people. this address doesn't exist. i don't understand. you mustn't fill in the form yourself. i'd like a fur. the white onein the window. - one moment, please. hand me that coat, please. thank you.

you do realise it's an opera-cloak? would you like to smoke? here's a wonderful,youthful persian-lamb coat. lovely. it's made of blond persian lambskin.like the grey and brown natural skins, it took years of breeding.it's a youthful coat. definitelymore suitable to your needs. this is a fine wrapmade from siberian crown-sable. here are some individual skins.a very fine blue.

that makes a very lovely jacket. nutria, beaver, otter.all finest quality. there's virginian otter,south-american otter and these arianas,the most expensive ones. "my boss will vouch for the rest,"anita said. yes.- she doesn't need to know. no. - i'll see to that. no problem.so, will you come with me tomorrow? it's not just that.- but we wanted to... well, we still can.- later perhaps?

who's the redhead? no one special. dearest? yes? do you love me? of course. really? to prove to his wifethat nothing had happened, he said, "just so you'll believe me,i'll report her."

she wants to better herself then the bathroom, the floor...just keep the whole room clean. chambermaids, housekeepers, porters, receptionists,bellboys, telephone operators... i've been in the trade for 16 years. i've been to australia,switzerland, france, belgium... i started outtraining to become an engineer. but at some point i switched to this, the hotel trade.

we were freed by the russians...am i boring you? - not at all! they came tothe concentration camp at reichenbach. the german guards had changed theirss uniforms into wehrmacht uniforms. the wehrmacht was treated differently. at 9 a.m. they fled from the camp.at 3 a.m. the russians came. meanwhile they'd already caught some of theguards and took them back to the camp. there were 1,500 of us. they asked us,"you know them?" "yes, he was a guard. he was a sergeant." then he gave us a gun and said,"blow him away!"

one of us said to the other:"no, let someone else shoot him." among the 1,500 prisonersthey couldn't find a single one brave enough to take the gun fromthe russians and shoot one of them. one day, in the manager's absence, anita is fired find someone elseto do your crappy job! i've been doing the rooms all morning.it really wasn't me! okay, i've taken stuff before,but not here! where's my suitcase? you've taken it.what were you thinking?

you just walk into my room andtake my suitcase. you can't do that! one can, if... - you think you can!sitting here like a broody hen! first, come back in again and knock!- when people take my suitcase, i don't go knocking politely, saying,"how nice." what were you thinking? i was hoping to get my back rent!- back rent? you've got to be kidding. i said i 'd pay you in the 3rd month,when i get my cheque. - dream on! undersecretary dr. wolfgang joenicke centenary hall in wroclaw a day of repentance

frederick the great,as one of the hohenzollern family. his father, his grandfather...both german emperors named william. then we're backat the thirty years' war. isn't that the same thing?- ever heard of kapp putsch? - what? never heard of it?- no. really, i haven't. when they all came backfrom world war i, there was a sortof revolution in germany. and all the freemasons came down from kã¶nigsberg to berlin.

and then in munich and everywhererevolutionary troops sprung up. that's all i know about it. maybe they overlooked them. or they did dig them all up, and restored them after 1945. i don't think so. they'd neverhave got the stones back up again. in the eveningthe weather gets nice again. i want to learn. but it's impossibleto learn not to learn. but you can simply not learn.

then i could still learn, you see? no one can learn not to learn. are you still at school? - yes.- do they teach you this? - no. she wants to start a new life rector's office your magnificence, honoured guests, ladies and gentlemen. shame and norm controlare two phenomena of life in society

whose interactionis taken for granted by everyone... ...polos tries to get out of it by making a distinctionbetween 'aischrã³n' and 'kakã³n'. he says, if you look at 'aischron', you mustadmit that it's worse to do wrong, then to suffer from it. with 'aischrã³n' in the realm of validityand moral concepts, he's worse off. but in terms of true validity,or egoism, it's the other way round. there the 'adikeistai',the being wronged, is much worse. that's the distinctionthat's being made here.

so now callicles denies polos thisdistinction and says it's not valid, he can't use double standards,there's only one standard: physis! next time we'll hear othertestimonies. especially important here is this most valuable discoveryof a work by antiphon, an actual pieceof theoretical prose by a sophist. it will confirmthe image we got from hippias. it will show us that callicles shouldactually not be seen as a sophist as far as the question of moralsis concerned. thank you. ...the difference betweennatural law and positive law

and the limitationof state authority to positive law. we'll go into public-opinion research, with mr schmidtchen and mrs neumann. and we'll reflect on it ourselves.do you have any special interests? - i'm interestedin sociological problems. sociology's a wide field. i supposein connection with this we could... yes, what could we do that would be ofinterest to you? we could always do max weber's teachings on domination in connection with the problemof sovereignty of the people.

are domination and sovereigntyof the people dichotomically opposed, or is this sovereignty of the peopleitself a kind of weberian domination, namely legal domination, legitimisedby the sovereignty of the people? but this subjecttouches on the theory of science. you'll have to familiarise yourself with the problems of the theory ofscience, especially objectivity. you live in frankfurt?do you know me from somewhere? - no. what did you study in berlin? sociology. but only for a short while.

did you get to knowany of my colleagues? what lectures did you attend? did you ever deal with the problem ofthe sovereignty of the people before? whom have you heard speak? mr frnkel? mr von der gablenz?- it's so long ago. mr friedeburg? so the sovereignty of the peopleit is! have you studied it before? not really, no. - so you'll need somebackground reading. why this subject? it's interesting.- well, next semester

we'll be discussing the sovereignty ofthe people and basic liberal rights, from an historic point of view, but also from a politicaland sociological viewpoint. first we discuss the historical, andthen the historico-political aspect. maybe you'd better write that down,and read up on the literature. naturally i'll expect youto know the literature on rousseau. do you speak french? no... - pity. then what was it thatmade you study political science? your bill, madam.- right. i'll take it with me.

university secretariat - open: 9-12 can i matriculate here? - all we needis your a-level certificate. the 3rd week, the 4th, the restaurantbills, somehow we have to... you can't get blood from a stone.- but you should start paying. i'm getting a cheque next week, youcan bank on it. make an exception. we don't make exceptions and i've beenhearing about this cheque for 4 weeks. you talk about being sensible, well,vacate your room and leave the hotel. and go where? - miss grã¼n,we don't allocate living quarters, we attend to guests.- you try finding a flat!

we must have our money, that'swhat we should be talking about. how can you be so mean, and notgrant me a week, if i promise you... nice here. professor, listen, i need your advice. i want to do good by you.i want to educate you. a friend from the east's been stealinghere. she's wanted by the police. you should read.reading trains the mind. like a current going through filings.the mind like a well-raked garden. i need your advice.what should my acquaintance do?

you say scared, i'd call it fear.knowing what to fear and what to love, that's what counts. that'sthe formula. you're a good listener. what should she do? what?- advice! well, that depends. sometimesno advice is better than bad advice. good advice is always better,but you can't generalise. should she eat it, take it in? that's an offence. taking inis the most intense form of taking! what was her name?- also anita.

for your own goodi advise you to tell me, angelotti, where is he? good day, dear lady.- to get to the point... - dear lady. you may decide which of your2 children is to be lobotomised. decide freely.- we won't interfere. but think well,a mistake is made all too easily. this regime is incomparable to any ofits predecessors. that's why it's new. a fly lays millions of eggs. they allwither, but the flies are still there. yes, i understand that.

yes, we all have to diegrandma went before you will inherit heavenjust knock and she'll open the door will yesterday come tomorrow? "truth, when serious, is killed." to be friends again after a quarrel. not to resentthe rotten eggs thrown at you. even faced with a shaggy housewifeor a stone-deaf old guy to honour the dignity of man. pichota, a civil servant,

is waiting for his colleagues what is it you want?- some information. - what about? i've been looking for the canteen, then the exit... why do they buildthese things like labyrinths? lts purposeisn't that of a labyrinth. let me have some.- i couldn't offer you this drool. any idea where we could go? we can't possibly go to my place. i don't like it in a hotel.

i'm at home here.- it's not good for us. manfred pichota - assistant secretary haven't you got a steady job?- how do you mean? - ajob! as spokesman of theministry of culture, sports section, i thank you for inviting me. i ask youto pay no attention to my presence and to carry on with your event as ifi weren't here. thank you, gentlemen. assistant secretary,we're glad you were able to come. we'll give you an overview of our workwith dogs and welcome you to our show. i hope your interest in our work willbe backed up by financial support.

may i thank you in advance. all dog-handlers onto the field! now, please! the show you will see todayis a cross-section of the workwe usually do with the dogs, to make them controllable in traffic.- i just can't stand bloodhounds. you're thinking of rottweilers.here you can see 10 different breeds. seven of them are working-dog breeds.but it would be desirable if all dogs were taken to our club,so people could be taught

how to train them,so the dogs would have more freedom. having no freedom is bad for a dog.as a dog-owner i have to learn how to give a dog as much freedomas possible. he'll thank me for it. the young lady goes for a walk.a young man comes and attacks her, robs her and ties her to a tree. then he walks away thinking,with the girl tied up, he won't be followed.but he forgets her dog's still around. let me go! the dog frees his master.

and together with the dogthe girl starts in pursuit. will you givethose dog people something? that's not up to me. it is sport. he called me mrs pichota. that was going rather far. they took you for my wife. what if it gets out? lt'd be awkward.

but i would do anything for you. i'd go with you to africa. or alaska. anywhere. start a new life. go on then. i can't proclaim all-out marriage.- what do you mean? if he finds out i know, he'll go mad. he goes mad whether i say somethingor not, so i don't say anything.

he can't take her anywhere. after a while the undersecretary willask: "where's your wife, mr pichota? we never see her any more.is she away on a trip?" and then i will automaticallyre-appear on the scene. i should learn a trade. do you think it's too late for that?- for what? - learning a trade. you know the line: "ernest, really,the things you teach me!" can i stay here for a bit when you go? i'd rather you didn't. it's risky.

what's up? why the fancy dress? they've found an unknown notebookfrom 1788 that belonged to goethe. nobody knows what's in it.it'll be presented to the minister. why do you have to be present?- orders. the whole ministry is going. the press and tvwill be there. the first surprise will bethe presentation of the notebook. then comes some bird musicby messiaen. exotic birds. that'll work. that was difficult.

so can i stay a while?or come with you? leave me be. "i admit to being guilty... of having swindled mrs wernet." "my current address is... mainz-bischofsh..." - i saw you inwiesbaden! pay up, or i'll report you! in a newspaper articleshe reads about dr bauer.

the district judgewas sitting there on his fat behind. the woman, 6, 7 years older than me,was standing up straight before him awaiting his questions. he asked her what she'd done, but itwas clear she wasn't about to confess. slowly he lifted his weight offthe chair, said, "dear colleague, be so kindas to continue the interrogation." he took his coat and left. i sat down, she was still standing.she stood there, while i sat down. i wrote down what she said for 45minutes. she stood there all the time.

then we were finished, and she left. when i went home, i felt ashamed.i'd felt ashamed before that, too. i asked myself: is it rightfor the court to sit there, while the poor accused have to stand? in the morning. it took heruntil 11 to find the court-house. prosecutor general - reception unannounced and notpersuasive enough at the reception, she is turned away.

a university professor dealing withamnesty matters knew the case anita g. he'd planned to talk to the prosecutorgeneral but had to leave for chicago. two members of the socialist students'association wanted to inform dr bauer, but they were soon to besitting for their examinations. there is room for 16 accusedand 8 defence lawyers. the prosecutors and expertswill be sitting here on the right. the president's chair, as you know. as you can see we've mounteda... canopy, i'd call it. it improves the court's acoustics,

but it also allows us to optimisethe lighting for the president's table. tell me, could you imagineus all having a "round table" one day? the prosecution, the defence,the accused and the court all sitting down at this round table to fight togetherfor truth and what we call justice? you can't keep moving like a gypsy. i told you, i've just bought a flatin a building under construction. all i can do is pay my building-costcontribution and await construction. where did you get the money?- that's irrelevant.

how much was it? - doesn't matter.- it does. where did you get it? i haven't got it yet. not a word of it is true.- we could drive out there. we could have saved us the bother. not a word of it was true. you could have said, "i have to pay a building-costcontribution. can you lend it to me?" can you lend me 100 marks? - not rightnow. my wife checks all the transfers. what does that mean?- there's a phone on the carriage.

and that?- k. "no operation betweendecember 25th and january 1st..." if pichota can't help her, he at least wants to educate her phone on the carriage. - on the train!- a phone on the train. and that? "limited capacity during peak hour offoreign workers commuting." - meaning? "limited capacity during peak hourof foreign workers commuting." in german: no operationbetween december 24th and 31st? "mr k was asked, 'what do you dowhen you love someone? ' mr k said,

'i make a draft of him, and make surehe fits it.' 'the draft him? ' 'no, he must fit the draft."'- make the person fit the draft? yes, do you see? sure. it's very simple.you've got an image and a person. you make an image, a draft,of this person. - who must fit what? you want the draft to resemblethe person. - the draft? the draft will resemble the person.- the man must resemble the draft! you make a draftof the person you've seen. and you see to it that the draftresembles this person. - no!

that the person resembles the draft!not the other way round. read it again. - "'i make a draftof him and make sure he fits it.' 'the draft him? ' 'he must fit it."'- have the person fit the draft. that's what i said! have the person fit the draft. she never loved me no, her heart remained cold you know... picture the scene like this...

here's philipp, shocked by his wife's unfaithfulness. he can't sleep. the convent of el escorial.dawn... two candlesticks. heavy ones. burnt down. philipp, pale and haggard, sits at his desk.

his thoughts... moments laterthe grand inquisitor enters... i can see her now when she arrived here from france how sadly her eyeslooked upon my grey hair no... never did she love me where am i? i won't find any sleep

before all days are past when they will carry the body... slowly....to its final resting place sleep... i've noticed how restless she is. she lied. that was too bad. can't i do anything else for you? i'd advise youto go to north rhine-westphalia. here are 100 marks.

let's get it over with. how does one get it over with? i know one day a miracle will happen police you'll be registered here.all the particulars must be true, as it is an official document. misrepresentationis punishable by law, right? when were you born?- april 2nd, 1937. where?- in leipzig.

leipzig, right. your religion? right. you can put your suitcaseand your bag down here. here you'll find some washing things. right. now wash your clothesand give yourself a really good scrub. right. please go in there and take offall your clothes. first the coat... give the coat to me.try these for size. nothing in your hair either?no. good. you may keep the cigarettes. one handbag, black.

one mirror. you can keep the pen. a passport. have you got a passport? three... four keys. one sanitary napkin. an empty jar. right. one brassiere, black.one pair of knickers, black. one slip, black. one suspender belt,black. a pair of stockings. two cardigans. or is this a jumper?- would you like to keep a cardigan?

yes? one cardigan. there you are. a pair of ankle socks. a pair of ankle socks, white. press hard. put your back into it,that makes it much easier. and if it hasn't started yet,we'll go for a walk again. let's have a look how we're doing.just lie down... and we'll have a look. right, let's have a look.

press hard when you feelthe contractions starting. keep your hands by your legsand press hard! yes, press hard!now slowly, slowly... right. when you feel another contraction,press hard, it's coming. press hard! one last time, press hard! press! see, that's all there's to it. calm down. anita helps gathering evidencefor her sentence. may i ask you where you grew up?

in leipzig.- leipzig... in leipzig and then in braunschweig. so you've always livedin larger cities? - yes. you went to elementary school?- yes, and to secondary school. did you finish secondary school?you've got a-levels? - yes. did you learn a trade?- yes. i'm a trained shorthand typist, nurseand telephone operator. - wonderful. you'll havegreat opportunities afterwards. i wasn't able to study.my certificate wasn't valid.

you'll be in here a while. did you get any ideaduring the trial how long... how high your sentence will be? i'd think 4 or 5 years.- 4 or 5 years? yes. when you've got overthis, for you, bad experience, and certain questions arise, i would urge you to put them to us. there's no need for youto commit yourself to one person. there's a psychologist in our team,whom you could go and see,

if you think it could be of advantage,in your profession... we are all to blame for everything, but if everyone knew it we would have paradise on earth

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