Genitive in the water because it is dative

Uwe Hansmann reads texts from the two books: “Understand the Germans” and “Stroll through Europe”

There are more than 140 years between the two, but both are united by the seemingly unwinnable battle over the German language, with all its rules and even more exceptions to the rules.

The “Terrible German Language” or “The Horrors of the German Language” is a short humorous-satirical essay by the American writer Mark Twain from 1880.

Taqi Akhlaqi is a writer, traveler and Nietzsche fan. With a very special idea of ​​Germany and a work scholarship, his path led him to the Düren district. Before this trip he had only seen Europe in the mirror of its literature and art, and only knew it through its writers and philosophers. However, the Germany that then revealed itself to Taqi Akhlaqi is wondrous and full of surprises. This also applies to his never-ending confrontation with the new language.