Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany
After Lena's son Till finds Lilly and brings her up to the apartment, she quickly realizes that things will not be nearly as simple as she had imagined.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany
Lilly realizes that she has made things very complicated for Lena and her family. Lena's husband Rolf asks an old friend for a favor.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany
Rolf and Lena discuss how Lilly could possibly stay in the GDR. In the morning, Lena tries to break the tension that has settled in their household.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany
Lilly learns that it is because of her mother's escape to West Germany that Lena had to stop teaching school. Katrin, certain that Lilly will be send back to the West, continues to be mean to her.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany
Kathrin continues to reject Lilly's presence in their home, while Lilly learns that her Uncle Rolf has taken trips to the West without ever contacting her.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany
To her great disappointment, Lilly only gets a visitor's pass rather than a visa. She remains optimistic about life in the GDR even as she learns more about the reality of living there.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany
Lilly finally makes Katrin talk to her, and Lena tells them about Lilly's mother's escape to the West.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany
More about the family's history is revealed, and Lilly prepares to go back to the West. When she boards the train, Till gives her a 1989 calendar, which means it won't be long before Lilly can live with them.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany
Some of Germany's favorite musicians attended the Live Entertainment Awards in Frankfurt. However, this time they were celebrating the importance of the people working behind the scenes to ensure fantastic live performances.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Germany
The employees of car manufacturer Opel have been suffering uncertainty about the future of their jobs ever since General Motors decided they may be selling Opel. To motivate the discouraged Opel staff, rock singer Liza adapted her song “Gebt nicht auf” (“Don’t Give Up”).
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany South German
The artists Sylvia and Hendrik van de Pol fulfilled their dreams by building their very own studio in Karlsruhe.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany South German
In the second part we hear more about Sylvia’s art classes and we get a first impression of Hendrik’s photography.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Germany South German
Get to know more about Hendrik van de Pol’s work as a photography artist and why he especially likes to take photos of musicians in the third part of the interview.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Germany South German
Learning how to fly a glider plane with pilot Herbert.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Germany South German
This is the second part of the interview with Herbert, the glider plane pilot at the glider area close to the German town Landau-Ebenberg.
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