東西德冷戰插曲：遲到45年的獎

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BBC Chinese, Jan 17, 2014
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/trad/worl ... prize_45years.shtml
("一名東德人45年前參加了西德一家電台 [Europawelle Saar] 的音樂競猜比賽，45年後最終拿到獎項。去年9月，澤特爾 [Guenter Zettl] 在前東德國家安全局 [Stasi] 有關他自己檔案中看他參賽文件，才記起了45年前的那次音樂競猜")

, which is translated from

German's Prize 45 Years Late Thanks to Secret Police. BBC, Jan 16, 2014.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25742917

Note:
(a) The German surname (Gunt(h)er, Günt(h)er) and English surname (Gunt(h)er) are "from the Germanic personal name Gunter (Old French Gontier), composed of the elements gund ‘battle’ + hari, heri ‘army.’"
Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press.

(b)
(i) Stasi
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
(abbreviation German: STAatsSIcherheit, literally State Security),
(ii) Staatssicherheit (noun feminine; Staat [noun masculine; from Latin "status"] “state” +‎ sicherheit “security”)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Staatssicherheit
(iii) German English dictionary:
* sicherheit (noun feminine; sicher +‎ -heit)
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sicherheit
* -heit (suffix): "converts an adjective into a noun * * * "
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-heit
* sicher (adj) "safe, secure, certain"
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sicher

(c) For Europawelle Saar, see SR1 (disambiguation)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR1_(disambiguation)
(SR1 may refer to "SR1 Europawelle ('Europe Wave), radio programming by Saarländischer Rundfunk (Saarland Broadcasting)")

German English dictionary:
* Europa (proper noun; gender depends on meaning: neuter as the planet, feminine as a Phoenician princess in Greek mythology)
* europäisch (adj; the first letter in lower case): "European"
* welle (noun feminine): "wave"
* rundfunk (noun masculine): "broadcast"

(d) Saarland
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saarland

Quote:

"In terms of both area and population size – apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg – it is Germany's smallest federal state. The wealth of its coal deposits and their large-scale industrial exploitation, coupled with its location on the border between France and Germany, have given the Saarland a unique history in modern times.

"Prior to its creation as the Territory of the Saar Basin [a region of Germany occupied and governed by the United Kingdom and France from 1920 to 1935 under a League of Nations mandate] by the League of Nations after World War I [through the treaty of Versailles and created in 1919], the Saarland (or simply "the Saar", as is frequently referred to) did not exist as a unified entity. Until then, some parts of it had been Prussian while others belonged to Bavaria. The inhabitants voted to rejoin Germany in a plebiscite held in 1935.

* Saar (river)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar_(river)
(French: Sarre; a river in northeastern France and western Germany, and a right tributary of the Moselle)

For the map of Saar river emptying into Mosell River, emptying into Rhine river, enlarge (twice) and view the top map in
Rhine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine

(e) Painter Man
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painter_Man
("a [1966] song by the music group, The Creation [an English rock band; 1966-1968]. The song was the group's second, and most successful, single")