Petra moves with her family to Bonn, where Beethoven was born.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pTqMClPF3w
Beethoven's Ode to Joy is the anthem of the European Union
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrexhus-8kw
David Garrett from Germany performing Beethoven
www.youtube.com/watch?v=96NPEKnByCo
and Bushido who was born in Bonn.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJOIR0slR_c
You have a little of Bonn in your city: The Gummi bears candies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummi_bear
One of novel's main characters is Helga who lives in Jena.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jena
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihFrLlvY5No
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT9nzYa8dAM
www.jena.de/en/97320
She was born in the former East Germany and after the reunification feels nostalgic to the past. Ostalgie is the German term.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostalgie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbbWIRhJbgc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxsrx9jBj_M
She met her boyfriend as a student at one of the oldest universities in Germany, University Jena
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0cUVYf34js
The philosophers Hegel and Schlling were teaching at this university and Karl Marx earned his doctorate from the University of Jena.
And she used to work here as a gardener.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBMIpwl77UU
She eats the food from her state of Thuringia, like Thuringer Klosse (potato dumplings)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFZ4LSk8ZHc
and Thuringen Rostbratwurst (grilled sausage with herbs).
And drinks her favourite Cola made in her state.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FqjXREB8FA
And she loves her Trabi car
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGHQMEo2KDM
And to listen to songs by Silly and their former singer Tamara Danz who was also born in Thuringia.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Czk8lYmDRQ
And the composer Johann Sebastian Bach was also born in Thuringia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=on1DDSLdDOo
Petra listens to many songs, including Schlager music, popular in Germany and Central and Northern Europe. The songs are sweet ballads with catchy light pop melodies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9IihYDPjqw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qnXTjnE0p0
