闲话德国: 张丹红

choi

My comment: You may still recall 张丹红. See 德国之声
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/德国之声
(section 6.1 张丹红事件: 2008年8月4日，北京奥运会开幕前四天，时任德国之声中文部副主任的张丹红)


(1) 张丹红, 闲话德国：我的融合史. 德国之声, May 27, 2016.
www.dw.com/zh/闲话德国我的融合史/a-19282872

Note:
(a) "在科隆大学，我继续攻读日耳曼文学 * * * 我突然想了解一下德国的时政。于是我在报亭买了一份法兰克福汇报 - 这是我在中国唯一读过的德文报纸。"
(i) 法兰克福汇报  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurter_Allgemeine_Zeitung
(1949- )
(ii) Frankfurt is the largest city (but not the capital of German state of Hesse, which is on the southeastern border of North Rhine-Westphalia (whose the largest city is Cologne).

(b) "第一个狂欢节 [German: Karnival] 让我惊讶不止：在科隆老城一个人头攥动的酒馆里"
(i) Carnival
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival
(ii) Lent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent
(begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later, before Easter Sunday; section 1 Etymology)

(c) "后来我的德国同学请我和他们一起去蒸混合桑拿。这可不行！自我战胜的过程整整花了七年的时间。今天，我不放过任何一个蒸桑拿的机会。"

sauna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauna
(section 8.4.3 German-speaking countries)

(d) "我个人最爱的是圣马丁节: 超级哲理的歌词 ('我举灯笼走，灯笼随我行。天上星光闪烁，地上灯笼照明')，手工艺术（灯笼是父母与孩子艺术的结晶），森林行军，旺盛的篝火，还有一个无神论者也能认同的感人故事。"
(i) St Martin's Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Martin%27s_Day
(Feast of Saint Martin of Tours; Nov 11; This holiday originated in France, then spread; The goose became a symbol of St Martin of Tours because of a legend that when trying to avoid being ordained bishop he [Martin] had hidden in a goose pen, where he was betrayed by the cackling of the geese; section 2.8 Germany: bonfires, procession, lanterns, songs, St Martin's goose)
(ii) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tours
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Tours

is part of the pinkish mass in the center of the France map.

choi

(2) 张丹红, 闲话德国：离别之痛. 德国之声, Oct 16, 2016 (in the section 非常德国).
http://www.dw.com/zh/%E9%97%B2%E ... E7%97%9B/a-18786261
("专栏作者张丹红的大女儿今年高中毕业 * * * 女儿要去上大学了")

Note:
(a) "那是今年春天一个同样阳光明媚的周日，一支来自拉美的歌队将弗莱堡市中心的一座广场变成了大舞池 - 这哪是我印象中矜持的巴登人。
(i) Freiburg im Breisgau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiburg_im_Breisgau
(a city in [Breisgau region of the state of] Baden-Württemberg[, whose capital is Stuttgart]; section 1 History: name meaning)
(ii) German English dictionary:
* Allgemein (adj): "general (common, basic, usual)"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/allgemein
* im (contraction of in dem): "in the"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/im

In German, the gender of "geographic place names (towns, countries, continents)" is usually neuter.

(b) "我很庆幸女儿最终选择了北威州的一个城市 - 不远又不近。"
(i) North Rhine-Westphalia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia
(capital is Düsseldorf; the biggest city is Cologne [where the author lives]; formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia)
(ii) For name origin of Westphalia, see Eastphalia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastphalia
(a historical region; section 1 Etymology)