Kassel

I was going to take an empty rucksack in the bag so that we could divide the weight afterwards as we intended to walk the last 40 kilometres.

We knew we could catch a 2.13 a.m. train at Goslar, a small town about 15 kilometres due north of Plosthal, and after that we had to trust to luck to find trains to take us via Kassel to Rottweil, a village near the Swiss frontier.

The one difficulty remaining was a suit of civilian clothes for me.

There was an English flying officer in the camp whose uniform had been badly spoiled when he had been brought down.

So for listeners meeting you for the first time, tell us a bit about yourself, your design agency in Frankfurt, and how PEZ entered your world.

Yes, I grew up in Kassel.

Kassel is a city.

It's not far away from Frankfurt.

And Kassel is famous for the documenta.

It's a famous art show.

I don't know if you know it, but it's a great art show.

And this means graphic design and photography.

During the years of his Weimar residence, Bach made three journeys which are conspicuous among the brief ones that punctuated his life.

One was to Kassel toward the end of 1714, presumably to examine a new organ.

Possibly, too, he accompanied his ducal master on a ceremonial visit.

Like Weimar, Kassel had a reputation for culture, and evidently the Duke would have been pleased to exhibit the prowess of his own court organist.

A reference to Bach's incredible virtuosity on this visit has come down to us.

Quote "His feet flying over the pedals as though they were winged," wrote an observer, "made the notes reverberate like thunder in a storm till the prince, confounded with admiration, pulled a ring from his finger and presented it to the player.

Friedrich's early life was a mobile one.

His father was promoted to become chief treasurer of the provincial government of Hesse-Nassau in the course of the 1890s, and the family moved to the city of Kassel.

Later, they moved to Marburg.

It was a comfortably middle-class upbringing by the standards of the time.

Much of Friedrich's education was completed at the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Kassel, a school founded in 1886, which would end up being used over half a century later to detain Soviet prisoners of war in a strange link between Paulus's early and later life.

When he completed his final exams there in 1909, his final report from the institution stated that he wished to join the navy.

It was not into the German Imperial Navy he headed, though, instead remaining on land to train as a cadet officer attached to the 111th Infantry Regiment from early 1910 onwards after the navy rejected his application.

This was a decision that took him away from London and out from under his father's thumb.

First, he took up a professorship in the city of Kassel in Germany.

He enters into marriage and family life, and almost a decade after the heroic return of the Resolution, George finds himself employed as a professor of natural history at the University of Vilnius in Lithuania.

By seventeen eighty-eight, he has obtained an official post back in Germany again as librarian to the Elector of Mainz.

In later life, the two were to labour together in many pieces.

but even at this time schumann's interest in her work was great and in one of his early compositions impromptu opus number five we find him using a theme of hers as the basis of his own piece the eleven-year-old girl was now started upon a series of tours by her father who wished to give her some idea of the world and to let the world gain some knowledge of her attainments from dresden he writes home joyfully to his wife it is impossible to describe the sensation that your two little monkeys from the leipzig menagerie have made here but the fatherly care and wisdom were not lacking for he continues i am anxious lest the honours and distinctions should have a bad influence upon clara if i notice anything of the sort then i shall travel further at once for i am too proud of her modesty and would not exchange it for any decoration in the world In the next year, the triumphs were continued at Weimar, Kassel, and Frankfurt.

After winning the approval of Spohr and other competent judges, who were above all envy, she proceeded to Paris, where her father had the proud privilege of exhibiting her talents to Chopin.

In Weimar, Goethe took a deep interest in the wonderful child and sent his picture to the richly endowed Kunstreichen Clara Wieck as a token of the pleasure her playing had given him.