If you spend a lot of time texting or IM’ing, you may find this website useful. One of our readers, Christa Garcia, sent in this link to a site that lists a hefty amount of German abbreviations that can be used to save time when sending out a quick message.
It’s not only DANK that is focusing on making a difference. German TV station ZDF and newspaper Bild held an extremely successful TV telethon to raise money for Haiti last night. At the end of the evening, Germans raised 17.8 million euros ($25 million) and Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that the German government would throw in an additional 2.5 million euros ($3.5 million)!
“The White Ribbon” Trailer The German film, “The White Ribbon” or “Das weiße Band” took home the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film on Sunday. It is a story that focuses on the children in a village in northern Germany just before World War I. According to the films directory, Michael Haneke, the Read more »
I’m back! It’s been so long since I have written for the blog. It’s been so busy for me in the last 6 months both with my job and with DANK. In November I was re-elected to the position of DANK National President for 2 more years, so there will Read more »
‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through the DANK Haus, not a creature was stirring, they’re were all passed out from dues processing…even the mouse. The cards were all hung by the Epson with care, in hopes that more presents for the office soon would be there.
The Special 50th Anniversary Edition of the German-American Journal is now posted online for you to download. This paper is DANK’s largest to date and is full of great articles.
Bumm-Bumm-Danz 2009 Time for a new Video of the Week! We’ve been busy around here and haven’t been able to post for a while, but we should be getting more consistent again. This weeks video comes from a post on our forum submitted by voitlin. The song in the video Read more »
Thousands of Austrians have joined an online campaign against Santa Claus.
More than 70 fan groups have been set up by anti-Santa Facebook users backing the “Pro-Christkind” initiative which wants a ban on the American figure of Santa Claus in favour of the “Christkind”.