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  »blümerant« press comments

  Nowadays advocates of linguistic purity like to make fun of the aberrations of "Denglisch" in the German we use every day. [...] French played a comparable role in the 18th and 19th century: it was the language generally used at courts across Europe. From 5th May to 17th June, Berlin-based artists’ group msk7 record the French influence on the Berlin dialect in a work entitled blümerant (=bleu mourant, fading blue, pale blue as a euphemism for “feeling queasy”).

  (Kunstforum International, Volume 184, Jürgen Raap)

  Mitte turns “faint-blue” with blümerant. Next Saturday the Gendarmenmarkt will be transformed into an oversize crossword.

  (Welt am Sonntag, 29.04.2007, Julia Heilmann)

  Picture of the Day: Scrabble on Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt

  

  (Kölnische Rundschau, 17.05.2007)

  for further press comments have a look at the German site pressestimmen (in German and French)

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