Dornroeschen
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Translator/Interpreter, teacher of translation |
| Introduction | We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words |
| Interests | Jane Austen, Anne Bronte, The Brontes, art, literature, foreign languages, children, children's literature, Impressionism, Claude Monet, English, German, Lucy Maud Montgomery, books about girls, eras gone by, moomintrolls, gardens, drawing, crafts, education and upbringing, creative writing, making up stories, cooking something unusual, Chopin, jewellery, China, Austria, travelling, translation and interpreting, literary translation, linguistics, modality, Silver Age, tea, dandelions, Berthe Maurisot, Sisi, Pre-Raphaelites, wild roses, book illustrations, Dornroeschen/Sleeping Beauty, fairy-tales, Astrid Lindgren, Marina Tsvetayeva, Mary Poppins, photography, Maya Hakvoort, Vienna musicals etc. etc. etc. (see favourite books, films and music!) |
| Favorite Movies | Jane Austen adaptations, Serendipity, Bridget Jones's Diary, Chocolat, Finding Neverland, Wives and Daughters, North and South, bbc miniseries, Bend it like Beckham, Durch Liebe erloest, Notting Hill, Mrs Dalloway, The Forsyte Saga (recent version), Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Buccaneers, Trotzkopf, Dornroeschen with Gedeon Burkhard (sp?) as prince, Miss Potter, period movies (costume dramas) in general |
| Favorite Music | MAYA HAKVOORT!!!, Maya Hakvoort, Chopin, Chopin's nocturnes, Chopin's waltzes, classical music, Mozart, some Chinese music, The Phantom of the Opera Soundtrack, Nena, Christina Stuermer, Rosenstolz, Wir sind Helden, Herbert Groenemeyer, Die Aerzte, Sarah Brightman, soundtracks in general (Chocolat, The Piano, Love Actually, Jane Austen adaptations etc.), songs from "Anne and Gilbert" the musical, Vienna musicals: "Elisabeth" (all-time favourite), "Mozart!", "Rebecca", "Romeo und Julia" - the Austrian version of the French "Romeo & Juliet" |
| Favorite Books | Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Agnes Grey, The Secret Garden, Spring Torrents, Emily Dickinson, Mrs Dalloway, The Tennant of Wildfell Hall, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Rebecca, The Great Gatsby, A Little Princess, North and South, Possession, anything by Astrid Lindgren, The Blind Assassin, tales by Donald Bissett, Moomintroll stories, Дома на зеленом лугу, Mary Poppins, Marina Tsvetayeva, fairytales, О гномах и сиротке Марысе, encyclopeedias, memoirs, non-fiction, Momo, Otfried Preussler, Antonias Wille, The Blue Caste, A Story Girl, The Golden Road, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the Shopaholic books by Sophie Kinsella and The Guy Next Door by Meg Cabot(for a lighter read), Trotzkopf, Pat of Silver Bush, Mistress Pat, Prinzessin Rosenbluehte - wach gekuesst!, Zottelkralle, The Time Traveller's Wife, Das Jagdhaus |