hoping to jump off real soon
but not too far, please!
High School Class of '99 in Siegen:
World Wide Open
Florian Gelling
on a turntable
hoping to jump off real soon
but not too far, please!
First Day
Karina Lückoff & Tine Brenner
|
Standing in the corridor, |
|
Student Musings I + II
Simon Leitner
You are really free
at the University
You are a student
Wonder why I'm here
This can't be my destiny
Am I a student?
Ralf Siewer and other class members:
Student Musings III + IV
Do they just pretend
to know or have they really
found their way through it all?
some kind of status
from outside but from inside
merely a stranger
Student Musings V + VI
Knowing all the rules
will never get the job done
Combine brain with hand
University
lights the way to darkness
of our ignorance.
Semester Ticket: Line 33
Daniela Rasch and Dennis Röder
Bus full of people
Heat, smells, voices, wasted time
Summer in the city
Uni Colors
Alexandra
dark grey sky above
new blue-in-blue hued Uni
sending light at least
The A-Tower
Anon.
Raindrops keep falling
Brain gets no satisfaction
Climb up A - be free
Workshop Blues
Alexandra
A beautiful day
to stay out in the sun
No time to enjoy
She wants us to work
find some beautiful poems
My brain is empty
Sunny Siegen
Katharina Funke, Verena Gudelius,
Elena Komleva
Not much life inside
Where have all the students gone?
The sun is shining
Latin Complaint
K.F., V.G., E.K.
Roman Empire
Why do I have to learn it,
that ancient language ?
Linguistics Book
Dennis Röder
No bedside reading
"A flea and a fly in a flue"
Time to have a nap!
"Mensa"
K.F., V.G., E.K.
hungry crowded mass
meeting at the centerpoint
middle of the day
Michael Prinz:
Dyed Hair
Did you see that girl?
Her hair is orange, and yet
It's quite usual
Annoying People
Your cell phone's ringing
Thank God, everybody knows
that you're important
After Classes
Why don't you go home?
Do you like it here or is
your life so empty?
What Looks Can Tell
Why d'you look at me?
Your stares tell you've got problems
with leading your life
Suppressed Bistro Thoughts I + II
Lots of time to kill
But it's not spent sensibly
Hanging 'round in there
Lend me some money -
By the time we're finished here
I'll owe you thousands
Nadine Buderath & Angela Holzhauer:
Pinboard
cars, flats, lifts, books, jobs
thousand students scream on sheets
Whose voice do you hear?
Photocopying Machine
Feed me with your copy card
I'm warm, be patient, honey!
Love all, serve all, dear
Daniel Scheuermann:
Student Tensions
Thinking better of
you than of me; I ask why
wrong philosophy?
Productive Peril
Creativity
is in me, floating, spreading,
endangering me.
The University at Night
Alexandra
Darkness falls down on the hills
Everything is quiet
And loneliness penetrates the gloomy sky
Nobody's there but the night regretting the day
Nothing to be frightened of
But the shining lights of abandoned and empty walls
Shining bright but ghostly
And fearsome in the thickening dusk
Everyday Experience
Dietrich Menn
Every night I go to sleep. Nearly every morning I wake up. Still paralysed by sleep or the lack of it I try to make my way to university. First I have to struggle through the torture of getting dressed. The ceremony of putting on my shoes particularly annoys me and generally ends in an agonized state of mind which could be described as gazing holes in my bedroom wall. Somebody should invent a pair of shoes which have a normal outward appearance but which fit themselves automatically onto your feet.
After finishing my breakfast, which shouldn´t take place before eleven o´clock, I enter my car, try to awaken the old battered engine and start heading towards the University. I must admit that this is the most pleasant stage of my routine mornings because I really enjoy driving my car. It is so pleasant in comparison to my daily fight with knowledge that I don´t want it to end at the moment of stopping the car on the university park deck. So every single day there is this strange experience at the crossroads of the highway where I have to turn left to climb the hill of wisdom. At this special point I always think about not turning left but going straight on because there the road leads on into the golden mountains of the East and North. I love those mountains because one can really feel free there, even in your car.
But every day I turn left, press the accelerator with my carefully put-on shoe and climb the hill of wisdom - and every day I´m late for class.
Ode to the University of Siegen
Vanessa Gerhards and Ulrike Friedrich
You wanna be glad?
You wanna have fun?
You don't like the sun?
Then come to us, my lad!
We read poems, novels and dramas
Discuss Shakespeare, Dickens and Poe,
Never sleep during the lectures, oh no!
And are wiser than all the Dalai Lamas.
You wanna feel alone
in big rooms and small classes?
You don't wanna drown in huge masses?
We are number 1 so don't stay at home!
Don't be afraid, don't make too much sound.
We really want you!
And your friends, too.
'Cause Siegen makes the world go round!
The Sermon on the Mount
Ulrike Friedrich
Hello all you uneducated people out there in the real world! I don't want to sound impolite but I think you really have a reason to be dissatisfied. Have a look at us, the talented and educated. "Hard work is the burden of our intelligence, and ambition our fate." To be honest, anything is better than leading a boring life like yours. Okay, you might be funny, dutiful and active, but never forget you are stupid as well. I know that among some excellent minds there are some which are unteachable, but please stop being proud of that. Look at your ridiculous existence and have a laugh; most probably it will be the last, then you will get depressed. I don't have to mention that you will need the help of one of us academics who has become a competent psychiatrist. We students have everything required to lead a successful life. We are witty. We are wise. We are dignified. We are qualified. We are untiring. We are unrivalled, perfect and modest.
A Creature Called "University of Siegen"
Vanessa Gerhards
Today we are going to observe a remarkable and amazing creature on our planet: the University of Siegen. Luckily we could place it upon our specimen-slide and afterwards we will put it back into nature again. So let us take a look through the microscope.
First you see two big complexes. We call them the "Hölderlin" and "Adolf Reichwein" complexes. Rather on the margin of the slide you see the so called "Emmy-Noether-Campus". Those are the main spots of higher education, where enormous amounts of knowledge are being disseminated and absorbed. When examining the AR-complex, you can discover that it has several different sections, each of which has a different colour. Amazing! Within this microcosm we find two species. The smaller group we call "professors" and the larger group "students". What an extraordinary feature! Another interesting facet of this organism is the circumstances under which it exists. Usually creatures live in the sun, but the University of Siegen can only exist in the rain and with low outside temperatures. The further nourishment of the "students" and "professors" consists of three places at the centre of the AR-complex. We have labelled them "cafeteria", "bistro" and "cantine". The latter one is the biggest source of food, but it is the part of the organism with the lowest concentration of vitamins and minerals. It definitely is the area where most of the "students" group together. Remarkably the highest concentration of "students" is reached at noon. What a remarkable creature! But apart from that we could discover that the so called "students" and the "professors" meet regularly in different sections of the organism. Throughout those 'meetings' a part of the "student" group can be seen aimlessly strolling all over the organism.
Furthermore it has become obvious during our observations that the "student" group renews itself after a certain period of time whereas the "professor" group stays almost the same for a much longer period. The relationship between those two groups is not clear to us yet. Some are of the opinion that there is a kind of hierarchy; others are more convinced by the concept of prisoner and warden. Thus there is no concrete explanation for their behaviour.
All in all this astonishing micro-organism is a whole world in its own right and
certainly merits further study.
Paradise on the Hill
Julia Albrecht
According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English "paradise" means:
a) Heaven thought of as the place where God lives and where there is no illness, death, or evil
b) the garden where Adam and Eve lived (the first humans according to the Bible)
c) a place or situation that is extremely pleasant, beautiful, or enjoyable
d) a place that has everything you need for doing a particular activity
In April the SPIEGEL, a very famous German magazine, called the University of Siegen a "paradise on the hill" in the recent ranking of German universities (where the Anglistics Department was in FIRST PLACE). But what does that mean?
Considering the fact that I have a cold, the SPIEGEL journalists are obviously not talking about Siegen as a place where there is no illness, death or evil. And the garden where Adam and Eve lived must be located somewhere in the Middle East and not in Siegen - in spite of all the trees in this area.
But what about the other definitions? Is Siegen University an extremely pleasant, beautiful or enjoyable place? Ummm, ... on some days when it is nice and warm and you can sit outside and look at the green trees and the blue sky, it is beautiful. But approximately 95% of the days are grey and cold. Extremely pleasant? No way!
So it must be the fourth definition: a place that has everything you need for doing a particular activity. And the University of Siegen does have everything you need for studying Anglistics: not too many students, professors who know your name, interesting classes which are fun, native speakers as teachers, the "Fremdsprachenwerkstatt", the language lab, the video library with English videos and much more!
Heaven on earth? Well, you still have to study and there are library papers and exams. Siegen University is not a place without any evil. But it is a place of fun with the English language!
Siegen Poems
Castles
Elena Komleva
visitors galore
luxury of a duke's life
mystery of walls
Siegen's Secret Advantage
Julia Albrecht
Siegen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Siegen has a 2000-year-old tradition of iron-industry.
Siegen has 110,000 inhabitants.
And apart from that?
Our Neuschwanstein? - The upper castle.
Our Mount Fuji? - The industrial waste mountain called Monte Schlacko.
Our Fifth Avenue? - The new shopping mall City Galerie.
Our St Peter's Cathedral? - The Nikolaikirche with the golden crown on top.
Our ManU? - The soccer team Sportfreunde Siegen.
Our Great Wall of China? - The urban freeway winding through the city.
Our Louvre? - The Lÿz with the exhibition McCartney paintings.
I admit it's not a megalopolis; but did you know that the German word siegen means to win?