Frühling - Spring

Es ist Frühling geworden auf meiner "Rund ums Jahr"-Website :)

Spring has sprung on my "Around the Year" website :)

Etwas Fernseh-Nostalgie - A Little TV Nostalgia

Lassie, Flipper und Daktari waren drei der Fernsehserien, die ich als Kind gesehen habe. Die Sendungen waren so spannend, dass meine Brüder und ich uns oft hinter dem Sofa oder anderen Möbeln verkrochen haben, weil es uns zu aufregend wurde. Aber natürlich haben wir die nächste Folge dann jeweils wieder angesehen ;)

Lassie, Flipper and Daktari were three of the TV series which I used to watch as a child. The episodes were so exciting that my brothers and I often hid behind the sofa or other furniture, because we couldn’t stand it any more. But of course that didn’t stop us from watching the following episodes ;)

Pride and Prejudice

Die Adaption von 2005 mit Keira Knightley und Matthew Macfadyen gefällt mir sehr. Die BBC-Version von 1995 mit Jennifer Ehle und Colin Firth ist als Serie natürlich detaillierter und eigentlich fast perfekt :)

I like the adaptation of 2005 with Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen very much. Being a series, the BBC version of 1995 with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth is, of course, more detailed and really almost perfect :)

Sense and Sensibility

Ich mag beide Filme. Die Adaption von 2007 ist allerdings detaillierter und hält sich mehr an das Buch.

I like both movies. However, the adaptation of 2007 is more detailed and closer to the book.

Persuasion

Die beiden Adaptionen sind alleine schon durch die sehr unterschiedlichen Darstellungen der jeweiligen Charaktere nur schwer vergleichbar. Gefallen haben mir beide.

The two adaptations can hardly be compared, mainly due to the very different interpretations of the respective characters. I liked them both.

Jane Austen - The World of Her Novels

I have recently finished reading this book and would like to recommend it to all Jane Austen fans! Here is a description from the Amazon website:

With a wealth of fascinating details about Jane Austen's life and times, this book brings to life the world of her novels which have given rise to a spate of films and television dramas: the film,Sense and Sensibility, was a major Oscar winner in 1998; Emma, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, was a huge box office success in 1996; most recently Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightley was released.

Austen scholar Deirdre Le Faye first gives a meticulously researched overview of the period, from foreign affairs to social ranks, from fashion to sanitation. She goes on to consider each novel individually, explaining in detail its action, its setting, the reaction of public and critics and Jane's own feeling about it. The lavish illustrations, many never seen before, allow the reader to visualize the places and people of the novels. This book is essential reading for students of literature and of social history, and for all Jane Austen enthusiasts who want to gain a new insight into her work.

Northanger Abbey

Nach der BBC-Adaption mit Katharine Schlesinger war jetzt die mit Felicity Jones an der Reihe. Beide Versionen sind gut gemacht und haben mir gefallen.

After the BBC adaption with Katharine Schlesinger I now watched the one with Felicity Jones. Both versions have been done well and I liked them.