“cultura” meaning “processing, care, agriculture”
The term culture comes from the Latin "cultura" meaning "processing, care, agriculture" and, in the broadest sense, describes everything that humans create themselves, in contrast to nature that they have not created or changed. Cultural achievements are all formative transformations of a given material, as in technology or the fine arts, but also intellectual structures such as languages, morals, religion, law, economics and science.
Readings and lectures during the Leipzig Book Fair
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Book fairs such as those in Leipzig or Frankfurt, but also increasingly publishers and even smaller bookstores, organize readings primarily for marketing reasons in order to present a newly published book to a broad public and promote it.
A meeting with Ottilie PfefferMinze - Actually!
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Open and curious, the eye wanders from the cover of the book to the original and a certain similarity to the original can hardly be denied: Ottilie PfefferMinze, real name Anne Schwede.
Leipzig Book Fair: “The Noise of Life” – Jörg Hartmann
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Many of us are very familiar with the always grumpy, bad-tempered and always up for subtle attacks, detective chief inspector and chief investigator Peter Faber of the Dortmund crime scene, at least in his role as this, which has been flickering across the screens since 2012.
Leipzig Book Fair 2024 - the exclusive book signings
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The Leipzig Book Fair is the most important spring meeting for the book and media industry and sees itself as a trade fair for readers, authors and publishers.
Robby Clemens – On foot from North Pole towards South Pole
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We got to know Robby during a lecture about his hike, perhaps better his run “On foot from the North Pole towards the South Pole” on the occasion of the Finnelauf 2022 in Billroda,
Reflection: “Media and Freedom” conference in Izmir
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We were only too happy to accept the invitation of the Goethe Institute in Izmir to take part in the conference “Media and Freedom”, which, to get a quick conclusion, was both in terms of timing and due to the current relevance of the Mohammed caricatures and the currently discussed film “Innocence of Muslims” and the content of the selection of speakers from Turkey and Germany could not have been better.
Mausania at Lake Ohrid - Michaela Sybertz on tour
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A wonderful side effect of traveling by caravan or motorhome is known to be the quick contact between campers, which is a crucial reason for us to carry out our project tour "Comprehension and Cultural Trip along Roman Roads" by caravan.
Nevfel Cumart - co-author and reviews
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We, the entire Alaturka editorial team, are very pleased to be able to introduce you, dear readers of the portal, to another co-author, Nevfel Cumart, who will present books, stories or poetry by Turkish or German-Turkish authors in the future.
Max - the blackbird chick - Werner Koschan
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Whit Monday evening around 9:30 p.m., Night is slowly falling. My wife and I retreated to the living room after a wonderful day that we spent almost entirely in the garden. It has become noticeably damp outside.
Misho Yuzmeski - travel guide, writer and photographer
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As already reported, we came across Misho Yuzmeski's office purely by chance during our first city tour of Ohrid.
Cultural illustration - and "Istanbul, with hot sauce?"
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This is what Alexandra Klobouk calls her way of working, which she developed in the course of her first book "Istanbul, with hot sauce?" began to develop.
Crime novels "Russian Girl" and "Phasmida" - Karin Holz
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Karin Holz was born in Regensburg and has deep roots in the old cathedral city. At school I was already a permanent member of the theater and singing group at the age of 10.
The world behind the veil - Saphia Azzedine
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French-Moroccan Saphia Azzeddine presents a disturbing story of emancipation: from country shepherd to whore.
Nevfel Cumart - Cross of Merit on Ribbon from Gauck
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When the phone rang quite early in the morning last Thursday and Nevfel Cumart reported from the ICE to Frankfurt, the surprise was great.
Hatice Akgün - stations with questions about integration
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Hatice Akyün was born on June 15, 1969 in Akpınar Köyü near Kütahya in a small Anatolian village about 100 kilometres southeast of Ankara.
Melanie Heinle: Traveling with kith and kin for a year?
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- And then also a cultural trip? The doctorate in ancient history Melanie Heinle from Munich is doing exactly that at the moment.
Of the Unrighteousness of God - Nevfel Cumart
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Mathias Enard's adventure and bildungsroman takes place around the Mediterranean Sea and addresses the current crises in Islamic societies - A review by Nevfel Cumart
The Frankfurt Book Fair attracts - more attractive!
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We had already planned to visit the Frankfurt Book Fair last year, but as it always happens..... Well, this year it should finally work out.
Tulumba Pastries and The Idecik Saints
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It's Santa Claus. This date is also honoured at home by Filiz Penzkofer - although her Bavarian father knows other traditions than what the Turkish grandmother makes of this Christian festival.
A painful look into the dark past - Zülfü Livaneli
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The Turkish Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk is known to many people in Germany who are interested in literature. No question.