Monday 2 July 2012

Germany and Hamburg

My 21st century America-Germany novel for young adults is ready. Unlike the many negative books and movies about what Germans did in the mid 20th century, my novel is positive.  It's written also for the 90 million German speaking people in Europe and the 50 million German-Americans. It's the story of 17 yrs old Petra, who moved with her parents from Germany to New York City. Willkommen (welcome) to Germany:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T48UedD2eA

They came to NYC on a flight with Lufthansa Airlines.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMt5sYQT4Pc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pV3oHAETW8

Petra was born in Hamburg in Northern Germany. Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany, after Berlin, and is viewed as one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNyWf1ilu6I&feature=related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hamburg

Petra and her mother, who works at Goethe Institute in NYC,  enjoy singing the song by Maria from Hamburg, reminding them about home.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=--4CzYbMjaQ

Their favourite song, singing together, is from Austria. Mom likes the singer so much that she named her daugther after her.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlrLqiiFKqo

Petra and her father, who moved from Bonn to the German Consulate in NYC,  are fans of Hamburger SV, their hometown's football team. She plays soccer in her NYC High School, inspired by Birgit Prinz, Germany's famous female football player. 
She started playing soccer as a little girl.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfey6NIOfPY

11 comments:

  1. Well there's a departure from one side of the world. ;D Good luck with it!

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  2. Thank for visiting, Victoria. Two third of the novel is in New York City (which I know very well) and the rest in ten places in Germany and one place in England. Hopefully it will do well.

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  3. Sounds like another awesome story Giora :) That's the first time I've listened to German music that wasn't by Rammstein :D haha pleasantly surprised. The places in Germany look lovely.

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  4. Thanks for visiting, Bonnee. A future post will be about german songs listed in my novel.

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  5. Very interesting. We just got back from Germany. We were more on the southwest side of the country. We fly into Stuggart and then went to Munich.

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  6. Thanks, Christina. I saw on your blog the beautiful pictures from Innsbrock in Austria, and Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany. My novel travels to Munich and Vienna in Austria.

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  7. Good luck with it, Giora! I got to see some of Austria (Salzburg) and Bavaria in general and spent a day in Munich and Heidelberg because my father spent time there after the war. Beautiful country. Never got to Hamburg, though.

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  8. Hey Giora, you received an award over on my blog :) http://thebloggingofanaspiringwriter.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/writers-update-and-liebster-blog-award.html

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  9. Hamburg isn't beautiful -- it's confusing. Yes, there are some old, beautiful and interesting areas, but the city in total is as ugly as can be. Only some parts of the city are really beautiful (like Blankenese), other parts (like the bit where they built the aircraft construction center) are even uglier than ugly.

    I wonder why so many Americans visit the south of Germany when there are so many beautiful and interesting things in the north too.

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  10. Thanks, Cat, for visiting. You know Hamburg well, so your views about the city are valuable. Many places online describe Hamburg as a beautiful city, so I just followed them. The storyline of my novel is in a few cities in northern and central Germany like Bonn, Berlin, Jena and Dresden.

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  11. I do agre that some parts of Hamburg are very beautiful (usually those are the parts favored by the tourists). But other areas, especially those with socially or financially challenged people are far less beautiful. If they're clean it's much.

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