tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4455772810710685999.post3656089444223596169..comments2023-04-16T15:41:55.135+02:00Comments on Monasterio-Chap: Max RaabeGrausig Grantiger Gemahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15977050255342412455noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4455772810710685999.post-68786831137055838532012-01-15T01:32:21.032+01:002012-01-15T01:32:21.032+01:00@LBF What you first mentioned is also how I think ...@LBF What you first mentioned is also how I think and act. We'll have to maintain. A friend of mine thinks and acts the same so from time to time we sit together just talking and sipping a beer but dressed as if were gone to the opera. In todays times people look at you funny if you dress well and correct to each occasion, back in the days you were looked at respectlessly if you were not dressed to the occasion and also everybody was dressed slightly identical and there was more of a togetherness in the class system. Miss it. <br /><br />@VB Great story. I bet you miss her. I think its great yu went there with her. I wouldve done the same but I was just to young when my grandparents passed away. The stories and values live on in us which we can be proud of. I am impressed though she really said he was so authentic. In our age one has to guess how close he got, bht now we know for sure:)<br />The german attributes you named are getting rare. The both adjectives are so well chosen. Especially stoicism, I would have had to google it how you write "stoisch" in english;)Grausig Grantiger Gemahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15977050255342412455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4455772810710685999.post-15548874652168274552011-11-28T01:02:25.219+01:002011-11-28T01:02:25.219+01:00I agree with you wholeheartedly! And so did my gra...I agree with you wholeheartedly! And so did my grandmother by the way (Gott hab' sie seelig!). More than 10 years ago I went with her to one of Max Raabe's concerts in the Konzerthaus here in Vienna. Her comment was: 'he looks very well put together but he can't sing as well as the performers at the time' (by which she meant the 20s/30s [she was born in 1916, still at the time of the Monarchy- exactly 14 days before the old Emperor passed away] ).<br /><br />de Winter is maybe more authentic but Raabe also has many good qualities- he for example very well epitomizes the stiff German stoicism and correctness that has undeservedly gone out of fashion after the war due to American imperialism. Being Austrian I of course could learn a lot from it too...v. Braun.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10230338701698210232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4455772810710685999.post-60935146051638583182011-11-26T15:29:42.504+01:002011-11-26T15:29:42.504+01:00Excellent. I tend to sit in my seat the same way, ...Excellent. I tend to sit in my seat the same way, as if it's a personal challenge, partly to keep myself from falling to asleep due to the boredom around me.<br /><br />Max Raabe will be in Los Angeles in February 2012. I would like to attend. I'm not a fan of the Weimar era or its songs, many of which were written by You Know Who, but more interested in the pleasing spectacle of Herr Raabe himself.Laguna Beach Fogeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08027025872132699493noreply@blogger.com