Waldeinsamkeit: Germany's cherished forest tradition Stephan Zirwes/Getty Images During Covid, the country's forests and woodlands have been busier than ever Loosely translated as "solitude of the forest", waldeinsamkeit is seeing a post-pandemic renaissance in Germany. Instead, it's an exploration of the country's little-known love affair with something else entirely: waldeinsamkeit, an archaic German term for the feeling of "forest loneliness". …
He died in a catastrophe which destroyed the loveliest region of the earth, a fate shared by whole cities and their people, and one so memorable that it is likely to make his name live forever.” The ancient Roman writer, Pliny the Younger, begins his description of his uncle’s death by conjuring up an event which had already become legend …
There are two places in which we have a record of the historical Jesus. The idea of the Germans as being tribes of uncivilised but fiercely independent, masculine and freedom-loving people comes from a Tacitus work called Germania. Tacitus writes: “Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class …
