ossiwessiami
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | German Teacher |
| Location | Portland, Oregon, United States |
| Introduction | Immigrant from Germany, in USA since 1985, born and raised in East Germany, came to Frankfurt/Main in 1960. Went to the Gymanasium (highschool). Then was an apprentice in the booktrade for 3 years, traveled to Asia for 1 year in 1970/71, studied education, psychology, sociology in Frankfurt. Found no fulltime work after Masters'Degree in Edu., did art,handpuppets and taught at Volkshochschule. Met my future American husband, married in Ffm. in '85 and moved to USA. Lived in California for 1 year. In Portland since '86, taught puppetmaking in TAG programs and "Artist in Residence" and German, later as private teacher. Miss the "oldness" of Europe, German language, friends, homesick in Winter, but like Portlands Spring, "wide open spaces" east of Cascades, wildflowers, birding, Powell's Books, Farmers Market at PSU, good organic food in Pdx. Don't like rain day after day, week after week. Like biking and walking, but can only do this for a short time because of a foot problem. Struggle with getting older,turned 60 in 07, seems or is a big thing. Strong Interest now in writing down my memories about my childhood years in Eisenach, East Germany, have even started it. |
| Interests | Literature, films, nature, birding, bicycling, art, architecture, classical music, history (especially GDR history) |
| Favorite Movies | Charlie Chaplin's movies, espec. "The Kid", "Goldrush", "Modern Times", "The Muppets", then: Casablanca, Ingrid Bergman Movies, esp. "Notorious", "Autumnsonata", "Gaslight", films with Dustin Hoffman ("Rainman", Midnight Cowboy", "The Graduate"), John Nicholson ("Something's got to gove", "About Schmidt", "Chinatown") "Goodbye Lenin", "The lives of others", "The third man", "Buena Vista Social Club", "Howard's End", "Remains of the day" |
| Favorite Music | J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Organ music in old churches, piano, opera, some folk, some Blues, the Beatles, Afghan music. |
| Favorite Books | Thomas Mann: Buddenbrooks, Magic Mountain, Lotte in Weimar, also Sinclair Lewis: Main Street, J. Smiley: Liddy Newton, A 1000 Acres and other books of her, E. Hilsenrath: Der Nazi und der Friseur, Pascal Mercier: Nachtzug nach Lissabon (now also in English) Dickens, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist, Franz Kafka's books, Roddy Doyle: the van, Annie Proulx' books, Paul Theroux's travel books, especially "The Iron Rooster", his train trip through China. J. Carol Oats, her fiction |