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Im Gespräch: Der Schriftsteller Erich Kästner & der Komponist Mark Lothar (1956)

German  
English (US)
06 min 35 sec
Do you know who Erich Kästner is? Erich Kästner is a German writer. In this "from back in the day" video, Kästner guides us through his apartment and tells us how he gets ideas for his poems, books, and scripts. If you are a Beginner in German, then this video lesson is for you. You will learn more about the present tense, as well as the regular and irregular verbs in the present tense, and when to use them. Are you familiar with Erich Kästner's work? Did you read any of his books while growing up? If not, maybe reading one of his books in German would be a good start. Don't forget to show this video to your friends so you can practice together by discussing it. Stay learning!

103 Unique Words   (148 total)

ichI pronoun
undand coordinating conjunction
inin adposition
diethe pronoun
hierhere adverb
dasthat pronoun
denthe determiner
zuto particle
derof the pronoun
istis verb
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So this is where I live.
 
If you, or one or the other of you, are interested in how I work, I didn't have my ideas here, but armed with a piece of paper and a pencil on the way, in the evenings and at night in pubs.
 
This is where the ingredients are collected and the cooking is done at home.
 
So there I am, sitting at the wide window and typing on the typewriter with the notes.
 
We live here for the third year, and for the first time, I live in an apartment from which you can go into the garden, into the meadow, from which you have a view of nature.
 
This is something completely new for me because when I was young I lived without a balcony.
 
This is the youngest of our four cats, the most photogenic and relatively patient as you can tell.
 
But keeping a patient cat is even harder than writing the script.
 
Hier wohne ich also.
 
Falls es Sie interessieren sollte, oder den Einen oder Anderen unter Ihnen, wie ich arbeite, meine Einfälle habe ich nicht hier, sondern unterwegs mit einem Stück Papier und einem Bleistift bewaffnet, abends und nachts in Lokalen.
 
Hier werden die ingredients gesammelt und zu Hause wird gekocht.
 
Da sitz' ich dann also, am wide Fenster und der Schreibmaschine mit den Notizen tippe.
 
Wir wohnen das dritte Jahr hier, und ich lebe zum ersten Male in einer Wohnung, von der aus man in den Garten, in die Wiese gehen kann, von der aus man ein Blick in die Natur hat.
 
Das ist etwas ganz neues für mich, denn in meiner Jugend wohnte ich ohne Balkon.
 
Das ist die jüngste unserer vier Katzen, die fotogenste und die relativ geduldigste, wie sie merken.
 
Aber es ist noch schwerer, eine geduldige Katze zu halten, als das Drehbuch zu schreiben.
 
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