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2020 tag

I was tagged by the wonderful @hiddenlookingglass! Thank you!

Rules: answer the questions about 2020 and tag some people to pass it on!

Favorite films you watched in 2020? Waves, Phoenix (2014), 1917

Favorite TV shows you watched in 2020? Unorthodox, The Good Place, The Queen’s Gambit, and just finished and loved The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. I also watched Barbarians. The plot is only meh imo but the spoken Latin is excellent!

Favorite songs you listened to in 2020? I don’t really have any because I hardly ever listen to songs, I much prefer soundtracks. I‘ve already mentioned it but this piece from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack has helped me a lot lately. And I really like this remix of the Vikings intro song.

Favorite books you read in 2020?

 -Fiction: Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (really anything by Le Guin is great, Lavinia is one of the best myth retellings I’ve read so far!), Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, Der Tag, an dem mein Großvater ein Held war (The Day my Grandfather was a Hero) by Paulus Hochgatterer

-Non-Fiction: Big Gods by Ara Norenzayan, Ghost on the Throne by James Romm (about the years following Alexander the Great’s death - it reads like a novel!), Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning, Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt

How did you spend your birthday this year? My birthday is in June and since we didn’t have any special restrictions during that time it wasn’t different from any other year, which was nice.

What was your most memorable day this year? One was definitely the day of my oral exam for a class where we translated a song from Homer’s Iliad. I feel really honored by the feedback the professor gave me. They told me that they can’t give me the best grade because I wasn’t as good as the others (most of the other students were from the Classical Philology department, which focuses heavily on Ancient Greek and Latin. I’m from the Ancient History branch which focuses on history and culture and has very few mandatory language classes. I’d love to do both but I just don’t have the time). But they also told me that I was the only non-Classical Philology student that didn’t drop out at some point during the semester (I had no idea because everything was online) and they really appreciated all the honest and hard work I put into my translations.

I just appreciate it so much that this professor gave me honest feedback but at the same time saw my love and ambition. I know it will take me a much longer time than others to be able to reach a really good level of Ancient Greek reading comprehension but I am as determined as ever!

What was the most memorable meal you had this year? Eating pizza on a roof terrace in Naples on a warm summer night.

Did you find any new hobbies or interests in quarantine? I started doing yoga. I took a break later on but a friend of mine is giving online lessons now so I started again.

What was the last big thing you remember doing B. C. (before Covid)? I was at a good friend’s birthday party. A lot of nice people and great food, what more could you want?

Positive things that happened to you/biggest lessons learned in 2020? These are actually two separate questions but I want two answer them as one because I think in my case it makes more sense. It’s also the reason I’m doing this ask meme. I’ve already done quite a few of these and I don’t want my blog to become too monotonous but I think this is an important lesson to learn that I want to share.

This year really sucked. One big setback was that my landlord decided it was a good idea to terminate the lease of my roommate and me during the pandemic (class act). I first wanted to move in with a friend but this didn’t work out so I had to move back in with my parents.

And now I’m just ... so thankful it turned out that way. As I’ve already mentioned, my guinea pig Mia had to be put to sleep on December 25th. The last few years, I always left in the morning of December 24th (after filling the cage with veggies and hay of course) to go to my parents and returned in the evening of December 25th. This year I didn’t and so I immediately noticed in the morning of the 25th that something was wrong with her and took her to the vet. If it had been like the years before, she would have had to suffer a whole day and I would have had a huge shock when coming home and probably wouldn’t have been able to forgive myself. But this way I was able to get help as quick as possible and had someone there to give me a hug.

I still think 2020 sucked. But this way I can make my peace with it a little bit and that is the lesson I take away from it: There are still things to be thankful for even in dark times like these.

What are you most looking forward in 2021? Things returning to (somewhat) normal and me continuing to improve my French skills (I’ve been doing French on Duolingo for a few months now and I hope I’ll stick with it)

[emmabraslavsky]

Anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags der österreichischen Verfassung hat die Globart Academy Wien im vergangenen Jahr gemeinsam mit Designtheoretiker Friedrich von Borries und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Stephan A. Jansen 39 Persönlichkeiten aus diversen Disziplinen gefragt wie eine Verfassung des 21. Jahrhunderts aussehen soll. Eine Auswahl der Beiträge wird Miriam Fussenegger gemeinsam mit ihrem Schauspielkollegen Philipp Hochmair sowie dem ehemaligen Oberrrabbiner Paul Chaim Eisenberg diesen Donnerstag (28.10.21) ab 13 Uhr im Parlament performativ über Okto live verlesen.

Die 36 Gedanken für eine neue Verfassung in Form einer Zeitung als PDF hier herunterladen: http://www.globart.at/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GedankenFürEineNeueVerfassung.pdf

Oder die Printversion telefonisch über das Globart-Büro +43 1 534 62 87 bestellen.

Am Gedankenexperiment haben u.a. teilgenommen:

Armen Avanessian, Dirk Baecker, Emma Braslavsky, Jakob Brossmann, Christoph Bornschein, Sebastian Cleeman (alias Petula), Cecily Corti, Walther Czerny, Jasmin Duregger, Paul Chaim Eisenberg, Michael Fembek, Jesko Fezer,  Bruno Frey, Harald Gründl, Ulrike Haele, Barbara Heitger, Paulus Hochgatterer, Michael Kerbler, Peter Kirchschläger, Kreatives Unternehmertum, Christian Koeberl, Claus Leggewie, Van Bo Le-Mentzel, Julia Lohmann, Matthias Mittelberger, Rubina Moehring, Gudrun Neuper, Margit Osterloh, Birger P. Priddat, Carola Rackete,  Oliver Reese,  Martin Schenk,  Leo Stieger,  Nora Sternfeld, Oliver Marchart, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Ilija Trojanow

[alleineistmanbesserdran]

Das Leben geht immer schlecht aus. Als Psychiater bin ich in Wahrheit mit nichts anderem beschäftigt als damit, den Menschen vorzumachen, dass es nicht so ist. Ich bin ein Gaukler, dachte er. Dass das Leben immer schlecht ausgeht, ist Grund genug, verrückt zu werden oder sich aufzuschneiden oder sich Heroin in die Venen zu hauen, aber das darfst du nicht laut sagen.

Paulus Hochgatterer - Die Süße des Lebens (Buch)

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Translator of the Week | Jamie Bulloch @jamiebulloch

Translator of the Week | Jamie Bulloch @jamiebulloch

Jamie Bulloch is an historian, and has worked as a professional translator from German since 2001. His translations include books by Paulus Hochgatterer, Alissa Walser, Timur Vermes, Friedrich Christian Delius and Linda Stift. Jamie won the 2014 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for Best German Translation for Birgit Vanderbeke’s The Mussel Feast.

Tell us a little bit about yourself. I’m forty-seven, married…