“I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.” WellsLittlesWarCountryWantedPiecesPeriodsPostsGermanyLittle TimePost War Author:Stephen Daldry
“Just imagine going to war over Danzig - such a world catastrophe, just to prevent Germany from getting a piece of territory that belonged to her; because Britain was afraid of Germany getting too strong.” WorldWarStrongPiecesImagineGermanyBritainTerritoryCatastropheGoing To War Author:Joachim von Ribbentrop
“To this day I am not convinced of having brought together with me in Germany the technically best players that could have been. But I was firmly convinced I called the ones that could create a team, and they could play with one another to the best of their possibility. In this day and age you win if you become a team. It doesn't necessarily mean that you've got to have the best football players in the country. It's possible that the best, all together, don't become a team. It's like a mosaic, you have to put all the pieces together.” IfsMeanHas BeensCountryPlayAgeTogetherWinningPiecesPlayerTeamPossibilityFootballConvincedGermanyThis DayCould Have BeenBest PlayersBest FootballFootball PlayerMosaics Author:Marcello Lippi
“I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of time and the changes in literary taste. The other poets mentioned are my poetic cohort from the U.K. I wrote the piece in situ, as it were, while making a television documentary about World War I in Germany.” WorldWarPiecesMeditationTelevisionPoetTasteRewardsFinancialPassingPassingsWar Of The WorldsGermanyPoeticIronicWorld War IDocumentariesLament Author:Simon Armitage
“The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in France. You say, "Do you want a piece of this movie?" And he's got to sell this movie to get his money back. That's the brains of it; that's the genius of this financing. "You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you've got Germany."” WayWantGivingGuyBrainMillionsPiecesGeniusIndependentSellsDollarsFranceGermanyDistributionMillion DollarsFinancing Author:Bill Murray
“Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played a German piece of music and a woman in the audience exclaimed: "How wonderful! It sounds so German!" Einstein responded: "Madam, people are all the same."” PeopleWorldTwoWarSoundAudiencePiecesWonderfulWar Of The WorldsGermanySecond World WarAttendingViolinistSalons Author:Albert Einstein
“I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing machine from Germany that my dad gave me, and then something else that I got from a friend in India, and a piece of flooring from one of my shows.” ShowsPiecesDadPicksMachinesIndiaMy DadStudiosGermanySewing Author:Jason Wu