Saturday, March 17, 2007
My little brother Eric, an ex-pat in Germany,
has a hot new book out in Berlin; PLANET GERMANY with incredible reviews, including a rave from Der Speigel. It's his second (the first: Driving Through The Dark Ages, also in German). Here's the Der Spiegel review (in German):
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,464663,00.html
Click the title of this post - it's a direct link to his website, a study in nuttiness complete with video interview - or cut and paste:
http://www.ethansen.de/
and here's the publisher's site
http://www.fischerverlage.de/
I can deduce that the book deals, in part, with growing up in Hawaii, and it appears to deal with other nutty things as well. Eric has the Hansen nuttiness gene. Here he is with life partner Astrid on a trip to NYC:
The resemblance to my dad is eerie. Here's a photo of my dad, one of my favorites, taken several years ago at his home and NW Native Plant Nursery in Salem, Oregon - after he taught Heidi and Thekla, daughters, some highly useful skills, like shooting. (And yes, he has a permit and no, he's not a member of the NRA; he's a WW II and Korean War vet).
Ah, family!
I confess I know "ein eye" or something like that in German, meaning, "one egg," which I learned at a train station somewhere in Germany in the 70's when I tried to buy boiled eggs for lunch. The woman wouldn't sell me an egg until I pronounced it correctly.
So this evening, one-legged as I am these days, I will sleuth google, looking for decent English translations of any of Eric's reviews. If not, I'll pour over existing reviews and see if I can find "ein eye."
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,464663,00.html
Click the title of this post - it's a direct link to his website, a study in nuttiness complete with video interview - or cut and paste:
http://www.ethansen.de/
and here's the publisher's site
http://www.fischerverlage.de/
I can deduce that the book deals, in part, with growing up in Hawaii, and it appears to deal with other nutty things as well. Eric has the Hansen nuttiness gene. Here he is with life partner Astrid on a trip to NYC:
The resemblance to my dad is eerie. Here's a photo of my dad, one of my favorites, taken several years ago at his home and NW Native Plant Nursery in Salem, Oregon - after he taught Heidi and Thekla, daughters, some highly useful skills, like shooting. (And yes, he has a permit and no, he's not a member of the NRA; he's a WW II and Korean War vet).
Ah, family!
I confess I know "ein eye" or something like that in German, meaning, "one egg," which I learned at a train station somewhere in Germany in the 70's when I tried to buy boiled eggs for lunch. The woman wouldn't sell me an egg until I pronounced it correctly.
So this evening, one-legged as I am these days, I will sleuth google, looking for decent English translations of any of Eric's reviews. If not, I'll pour over existing reviews and see if I can find "ein eye."
