18 Jan 1970, Modern Greek lesson, taught by a Cypriot fellow student
27 Jan 1970, Film: 7 Days to remember (CSSR Invasion)
28 Jan 1970, Film: One fourth of humanity (Red China)
4 Feb 1970, Lickey Hills
18 Feb 1970, Selly-Oak-Hospital: Geriatrics
18 Feb 1970, 7-15 p.m.: Union, Birmingham University: “Birmingham University Guild Opera Group in association with Festival presents Der Freischütz (The devil’s bullets) – A romantic opera by Weber, performed in English. Booklet: “A romantic, spectacular,and supernatural melodrama”
19 Feb 1970, 8 p.m.: University House, Samual Beckett: (i) Endgame [with Hamm, Clov, Nagg, and Nell]; (ii) Krapp’s Last Tape
1 Mar 1970, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (since 1885); Departments:
Art (incl. Claude L.)
Archaeology
Natural History
in a separate building, in Newhall St.: Museum of Science & Industry, incl. an orchestrion organ, built in 1879, >300 pipes, ~40 punched paper rolls containing programs
11 Mar 1970; Metchley Roman Fort („nicht viel übrig“); Konzert in der “Great Hall”, Birmingham University: Mozart und Bruckner
17 Mar 1970, Cathedral; Art Gallery
21 Mar 1970, “Spring Term” endet
25 Mar 1970, Rückreise via London und Harwich
1970_03_25 Harwich (UK)
1970_03_25 Harwich (UK) – Bremerhaven
26 Mar 1970, Bremerhaven
Zweiter Bericht an die Studienstiftung, „5/7/70“: „[…] After finishing the Introductory Clinical Course, most time was spent on hospital wards in taking medical histories, examining patients, attending ward rounds and clinical meetings. Many [of my] hours of studies and much effort were devoted to Electronic Data Processing applications to medicine. The hospital computer provided a unique facility for practising. I wrote another series of FORTRAN programs, the last of which dealt with what is called “automatic” or “computer-aided” diagnosis: the “Bayesian theoreme” allows to make a probability statement of a particular patient’s diagnosis provided that the presence or absence of symptoms and signs and of the frequency of symptoms in special diseases and of the incidence of diseases in the population are known […] it would take a very long time to collect valid data […] I hope to deal with this fascinating topic “computers in medicine” in some way or other in the future. After complaining of Birmingham’s cultural poverty in my first report, I soon realized that I had not been right altogether, and I shall not easily forget the numerous pleasant hours I spent in the Municipal Art Gallery, the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, the Museum of Science and Industry, Aston Hall etc. […] nor the public and university theatre performances and concerts […] hard for me to turn my back to the country where I had spent the most interesting and stimulating terms of my studies so far.”
22 Dez 1969, Busfahrt nach Windermere (12.5 Stunden).
Windermere Parish Church: “The parish church of Windermere, dedicated to St. Martin, is an ancient foundation, and there was a church on the same site as far back as 1203, but the present building dates substantially from 1483. It was rather drastically restored and enlarged in 1870-1873, and again repaired and re-decorated in 1959-1961.” Source: Thompsen BL (1966 / 1969): The parish church of St. Martin, Windermere. A history and guide. Parochial Church Council.
23 Dez 1969, Busfahrt nach Keswick
1969_12_24ca Lake Windermere (UK)
1969_12_26ca Lake Windermere (UK)
1969_12_24ca Lake Windermere (UK)
24 Dec 1969, Fähre über Lake Windermere; Kirche in Kendal
York: The City Walls. “York is one of the few places where the medieval walls can be seen almost intact, and almost in their original state, except for alterations caused by repairs and traffic problems. Since the time of the Romans, who chose it as their Northern fortress because of its strategic position, York has been a walled city. The Multangular Tower […], which was probably built at the end of the 3rd or the beginning of the 4th century, and is situated in the Museum Gardens, shows us the durability of the Roman work. The present walls were built of stone brought from Tadcasterin the l3th century. Previously a wooden palisading had topped the earthen ramparts. Any enemy wishing to enter York in the Middle Ages found a formidable barrier before him. The walls were surrounded by a moat, which could be crossed only at the gateways by a drawbridge. Archers could be massed on the walls ready to shoot their arrows down on anyone daring to cross the moat or scale the steep earthen mound.” Source: Evans HJ (1970): City and county of the city of York. Official guide. Published by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of York.
1969_10 Victoria Embankment & RRS “Discovery”, London (UK)
1969_10 Sphinx near Cleopatra’s Needle, London (UK)
17-19 Oct 1969
University of London; Waterloo Bridge; Themse-Bootsfahrt ab Charing Cross pier bis Tower of London, und zurück; Victoria Embankment; RRS Discovery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRS_Discovery); Westminster Bridge / Hall / Abbey; Victoria Street; Buckingham Gate; Grosvenor Place; Hyde Park Corner; Hyde Park; Constitution Hill; The Mall; Trafalgar Square; Haymarket; Piccadilly; Shaftesbury Avenue; Kingsway; Aldwych; Victoria Embankment; New Bridge street; Ludgate Hill; Tower (closed); Cheapside; Holborn; Victoria station; Soho. Ausflug: Hampton Court
Unterkunft: 14, Veronica Rd., London S.W.17
13-21 Dez 1969
13 Dez 1969, London: Y.W.C.A. Youth Hotel; Mme. Tussaud’s (incl. Grand Hall, The Tableaux, Heroes, Hall of Kings, Battle of Trafalgar, Chamber of horrors); Planetarium; Carnaby St.; Trafalgar Square; Film: “Oh, what a lovely war” (Director: Richard Attenborough, Actors incl. Michael and Vanessa Redgrave)
14 Dec 1969, British Museum, e.g. Egyptian Sculpture Gallery (incl. Rosetta Stone), Kings Library (incl. Alice’s adventures; Gutenberg bible)
15 Dec 1969, Post-Office-Tower; Aldwych; Fleet Street; Mansion House; Guildhall; Bank of England; Tower; Tower Bridge; Piccadilly; Soho
15 Dec 1969, St. Paul’s Cathedral (mit Krypten, Flüstergalerie)
15 Dec 1969, St Paul’s Cathedral: “Bombs have showered down on it, leaving its precincts desolate waste-land – fires have raged all around it – and graceless modern buildings have sprung up on its very doorstep: yet the essential majesty of Sir Christopher Wren’s great building is unimpaired: the great dome still dominates the skyline of the City of London as an eternal symbol of Man’s faith in the Love of God. Sir Christopher Wren, when he excavated for the foundations of the present Cathedral, found evidence that led him to believe that this site, on the crest of Ludgate Hill, was once occupied by an important Romano-British Christian church…” Source: Ewin ETF (1968): St Paul’s Cathedral. Jarrold Colour Publications, Norwich
1969_10 St. Paul’s Cathedral, London (UK)
1969_12 St.Paul’s Cathedral, London (UK)
1969_10 From Post Office tower, London (UK)
1969_10 From Post Office tower, London (UK)
16 Dec 1969, Roman Bath (schwierig zu finden); Cleopatra’s Needle; Whitehall; National Gallery; Buckingham Palace, mit Sonderausstellung: Kartonzeichnungen von Leonardo da Vinci; Tate Gallery: The Elizabethan image; Chelsea (mit Antiquitätenhändlern)
17 Dec 1969, Imperial War Museum; Dulwich College Gallery; Museum of British Transport
17 Dec 1969, Science Museum; Lit.: Riemsdijk JT van (1965): Science Museum – 50 things to see. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London. Selected items: 1 Newcomen Type Atmospheric Engine 1791; 2 Boulton and Watt Rotative Beam Engine 1788, 5 Elizabethan Standard Weights 1588, 8 The Coal Mine, 9 Model of an Engineering Workshop 19th Century, 23 “Puffing Billy” 1813 (“oldest railway locomotive in existence”), 14 The “Rocket” 1829 (“famous locomotive … the first in which all the cardinal features of the modern locomotive were united…”), 16 Benz Motor Car 1888, 17 Rolls-Royce Car 1904, 21 Herschel’s Seven-Foot Telescope, 22 Wells Cathedral Clock 1392, 26 bessemer Converter 1864, 27 The Periodic Table, 29 Brownian Motion Demonstration, 32 Aston’s Mass Spectrograph, 34 Babbage’s Calculating Machines, 40 Reproduction of Wright Flyer 1903, 42 Television Camera 1936, 45 Bell’s Early Telephone 1876, 47 Replica of von Guericke’s Vacuum Pump, ca. 1662, 49 Hooke Compund Microscope.
18 Dec 1969, Monument (311 Stufen); Stock Exchange mit Visitors’ Gallery; Dickens House (48 Doughty St.); Courtauld Art Gallery; Wellcome Medical Museum
18 Dec 1969, Royal Shakespeare Theatre / Royal Shakespeare Company, William Shakespeare: “Much Ado about Nothing”
19 Dec 1969, Tate Gallery; Westminster Abbey; Geological Museum
19 Dec 1969, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, SW7. “The Museum is the principal centre in the British commonwealth for the general study of natural history. It contains in its five departments of Zoology, Entomology, Palaeontology, Mineralogy, and Botany one of the most extensive collections in the world of recent and fossil animals and plants and of minerals and rocks and meteorites. The scope of the Museum’s collections and the contacts with other scientific research centres and museums are world-wide.” Source: Geographers’ Famous Guide to London and around London. Geographers’ Map Co. Ltd., London
20 Dec 1969, Hampton Court; Rugby in Twickenham: Springboks vs. englische Nationalmannschaft; Portobello Road
21 Dec 1969, Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington, S.W.7. “he Victoria and Albert Museum is a Museum of Fine and Applied Art of all countries, styles and periods. It includes Architectural Details, Arms and Armour, the Art of the Book, Bronzes, Carpets, Clocks, Costume, Cutlery, Drawings, Embroideries, Enamels, Engravings, Fabrics, Furniture, Glass, Gold- and Silversmiths’ work, Ironwork, Ivories, Jewellery, Lace, Lacquer, Leatherwork, Lithographs, Manuscripts, Miniatures, Musical Instruments, Oil Paintings, Ornament, Pewter, Posters, Pottery and Porcelain, Prints, Sculpture, Stained Glass, Tapestries,Theatre Art, Vestments, Watches, Water-colours and Woodwork.The Museum includes the National Art Library, the National Collections of Post-Classical Sculpture (excluding modern), of
British Miniatures, of Water-colours and of English Silversmith’s work.” Source: Guide to London museums and galleries (1968). Her Majesty’s Stationery office, London; p.36
1969_10 Inside the Tower of London (UK)
1969_10 Westminster Hall (from S), London (UK)
1969_10 Piccadilly Circus, London (UK)
1969_10 St.James’s Park, London (UK)
1969_10 Nelson’s Column, London (UK)
Literature:
Ewin ETF (1968): St Paul’s Cathedral. Jarrold Colour Publications, Norwich
Geographers’ Famous Guide to London and around London. Geographers’ Map Co. Ltd., London
Guide to London museums and galleries (1968). Her Majesty’s Stationery office, London
Hedley O (1969): The City of London. ‘The one square mile.’ Pitkin Pictorials Ltd., London. p.5: “The Great Plague, 1665. London’s Dreadful Visitation: Or, A Collection of All the Bills of Mortality ‘Beginning the 27th of December 1664 and ending the 19th of December following’. This record presents a week-by-week summary of deaths. The number of plague victims in the week 15th to 22nd August is given as 3,880 but contemporary accounts indicate it was much higher” (London Museum)
Mawson JA (ed.) (1969): London. A picture-book to remember her by. The British Travel Association, London
Riemsdijk JT van (1965): Science Museum – 50 things to see. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London.
4 Oct 1969, (A) A transect across the original site of Birmingham and part of the inner ring
Theme and purpose: To illustrate and examine some characteristics and problems of the innermost districts of a large city.
Route: Bull Ring – Digbeth – Floodgate St. – Fazeley St. – Heath Mill Lane – Hich Street Deritend – High Street – Bordesley – Camp Hill.
… River Rea … “The Crown Inn” … This fine half-timbered building is the only remaining example in the whole inner district which gives an indication of the Mediaeval character of Birmingham… (c. 1386) …
1969_10 Bull Ring Centre, Birmingham (UK)
1969_10 Birmingham (UK)
1969_10 Stratford Rd, Birmingham (UK)
8 Oct 1969, (B) The Cole Valley. A study of settlement and use
The River Cole “provided power for 13 watermills, and its tributaries served 8 or 9 more”.
1969_10_08 Ford near Trittiford Mill Pool, Birmingham (UK)
15 Oct 1969, (G) The Nechells Green Comprehensive Development Area (C.D.A.), Birmingham
Theme: The character of the Nechells Green C.D.A., and the concepts behind its structure.
Purpose: To investigate the problems facing high-density developments in the inner districts of industrial cities.
Lit.: The Birmingham Branch Geographical Association (1968): Selected geographical excursions and fieldwork projects in the West Midlands. Series: Field studies in the West Midlands, vol. 1
Die mein Medizin-Studium fördernde Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (www.studienstiftung.de) erwartete von ihren Stipendiaten eine internationale Mobilität. Ich bewarb ich mich um einen Studienplatz in Edinburgh (alternativ in London oder Aberdeen). Diese Bewerbungen waren nicht erfolgreich. Mit einem Schreiben des „Educational Interchange Council (Incorporated)” vom 23.4.69 (“Dear Herr Fehr, …”) wurde mir ein Studienplatz in Birmingham angeboten, den ich dann annahm. Am 15.-16.9.69 reiste ich mit der Fähre von Bremerhaven nach Harwich und via London nach Birmingham. Ankunft in der Universität (www.birmingham.ac.uk/index.aspx), Vorläufige Unterkunft im Manor House.
1969_09 Manor House, U’ Birmingham (UK)
1969_09 Mason Hall, U Birmingham (UK)
1969_09 Calthorpe Hall, U Birmingham (UK)
1969_10 From Mason Hall NL6 34, U Birmingham (UK)
17-25 Sep 1969, Introductory Course for Overseas Students
Ein Handout “General information for students from overseas” behandelte folgende Themen: “Living in England”, “English customs”, “Personal matters”, “Communications”, “Money matters” und “Travelling in England”
18 Sep 1969, English language test; “Morris Dancing and Music by the Faithful City Morris Men of Worcester” (Folklore)
19 Sep 1969, Lecture on politics; visit to Cadbury’s. “Cadbury, formerly Cadbury’s and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company … Cadbury was established in Birmingham, England in 1824, by John Cadbury who sold tea, coffee and drinking chocolate…, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury
20 Sep 1969, “Legal rights of overseas studens”; Filmabend: “British travel films”
21 Sep 1969, Lecture “Religion and social customs in Britain”
25-28 Sep 1969, Twenty-second Annual Freshmen’s Conference, held at The University and the Guild of Undergraduates’ Union
25 Sep 1969, Einzug in Mason Hall, Adresse: The Vale, Edgbaston Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 15 (Heute: www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/accommodation/UG-accommodation/vale/mason.aspx). “Mason Hall was named after Sir Josiah Mason who founded Mason’s Science College which gave rise to the University of Birmingham” (Mason Hall Handbook 1969/1970, p. 2)
1969_12 U Birmingham (UK)
1969_12ca Library, U Birmingham (UK)
1970_03ca U Birmingham (UK)
1969_12ca Medical School, U Birmingham (UK)
29 Sep 1969, Das “Autumn Term” beginnt. „Opening address“ im “Clinical lecture theatre”
29 Sep – 13 Dec 1969, Introductory Clinical Course; on Friday mornings: Epidemiology (in Anatomy Tutorial Rooms)
Birmingham book chapters: 1. A Village Worth Twenty Shillings, 2. The Smiths who Built a Town, 3. Civil War in Birmingham, 4. Thieves and Forgers, 5. Buttons and Buckles, Trinkets and Toys, 6. Boulton and Watt of Soho, 7. The Lunar Society, 8. Birmingham Runs Riot, 9. Years of Hardship, 10. The Struggle for Reform, 11. A Century of Expansion, 12. Workshop of the World. – p.95: “the members of the Lunar Society were the top manufacturers, scientists and professional men of that age of change, and their discussions, plans and projects pioneered the great achievements which inexorably were making the Midlands and the North the industrial backbone of England…” p.103: “1780, when John Priestley decided to move to Birmingham … p.104: “Turning to chemistry, he had discovered hydrochloric acid and nitrous oxide and it was his suggestion for saturating water with carbon dioxide which led to the rise of a new industry in the manufacture of mineral waters. Two years later he had discovered, although not named, oxygen – one of the most important events in the history of chemistry – nitrogen, nitrogen peroxide, sulphur dioxide, ammonia, silicon tetrafluoride and sulphuretted hydrogen gases.” Source: Sanders 1969.
25 Oct 1969, Squash; mit dem International Student Centre: Tour nach Coventry
5 Nov 1969, Guy Fawkes Night. “Guy Fawkes Night originates from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a failed conspiracy by a group of provincial English Catholics to assassinate the Protestant King James I of England and replace him with a Catholic head of state. In the immediate aftermath of the 5 November arrest of Guy Fawkes, caught guarding a cache of explosives placed beneath the House of Lords, James’s Council allowed the public to celebrate the king’s survival with bonfires …”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night
13 Nov 1969, Ausflug mit der Medical Society zum Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon. Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Thoma Middleton: „Women beware women“
19 Nov 1969, In Arthur Thompsen Hall: Beziehung zur Medical School in Salisbury, Rhodesia.
19 Nov 1969, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, Evening concerts: If Music be the Food of Love – Music of the English Stage before 1700. The Early Music Consort, directed by David Munrow:
Restoration Theatre (by Henry Purcell), incl. If Music be the Food of Love (first setting, 1692); ‘Come all ye songsters of the sky’ from The Fairy Queen (adapted from Shakespeare by E. Settle, 1692)
The Court Masque, incl. The Satyr’s Masque (from Jonson’s Oberon, 1611 – Robert Johnson)
Mysteries and Miracles (all the music is anonymus), incl. Carol: ‘Sing we now to this merry company’ (15th century); ‘Lux hodie; Orientis partibus’ (13th century)
Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatre, incl. ‘Greensleves’ (mentioned in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, c. 1597 – Divisions on the tune for recorder and continuo, Anon., 17th century); Two of Ariel’s songs from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, 1611
Pageant and Disguisings, incl. ‘Gentil duc de Lorraine’ (by Henry VIII).
28 Nov 1969, Ausstellung “Baroque in Bohemia”; Ausstellung “So what?” (3. Welt, Ressourcenschonung)
5 Dez 1969, Film: “Battle of Britain”. “It was a battle fit for heroes to fight in – the Battle of
Britain. The first and last complete war in the air. It lasted for 16 weeks in the summer of 1940 when Britain, after the defeat at Dunkirk in May, 1940, waited for Operation Sealion – the moment when Hitler would Iaunch his promised invasion of Britain. Hitler had tried, through von Richter, to negotiate for peace with the British Minister in Switzerland, but had been rejected…” – “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”, Winston C. Churchill. Source: Movie booklet, edited by Peter Tipthorp. Sackville Publishing Ltd.
1 Jan 1970, Erster Bericht an die Studienstiftung: „After my first term in B’ham it seems to me to be safe to say that for German medical students a temporary attendance of the clinical training at the B’ham Teaching Hospitals is very useful. The teaching in small tutorial groups was of particular value to me, in both scientific and personal respect: it is a more efficient and agreeable way of learning […], and it made me feel at home in a community of a limited number of members very quickly. […] A course in Epidemiology showed me many interesting problems in Social Medicine – a subject widely neglected in our medical education. I made myself familiar with the content of the first (numerical) course of that Department; and got some experience in FORTRAN IV programming. […] The B’ham Medical School possesses a remarkably active Medical Society […] The B’ham University organises an “Introductory Course for Overseas Students”, the attendance of which should be strongly recommended […] I am glad to live in one of the university’s halls of residence, where […] many facilities are provided [… The] “international atmosphere” which I found at so many various occasions and places is perhaps what impressed me most up to now here in Britain […] As far as B’ham itself is concerned, everybody whose main interests differ from big shopping centres, modern buildings and multi-lane ring roads will be somewhat disappointed. But I was lucky enough to come across a small publication of the Geographical Society, concerning B’ham and the West Midlands and containing detailed description of geographical field excursions some of which I did during 1969’s beautiful autumn days. So I got to know not only the old B’ham of the Industrial Revolution but also the results of the slum-clearance scheme, the residential suburbs, the smokeless zones – a good lesson in town-planning and what happens if it is not cared about […] I was very glad to be able to spend nine days in London […] the Welcome Historical Medical Museum […] Summarizing […] reason enough to be very content with the first term […]”
Obviously, the educative potential of such experience is considerable. As a fellow student from the USA observed: “The British are funny: They call Americans foreigners!”
Lektürenauswahl 1969-1970
Anscombe EM (1959 / 1967): An introduction to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. Hutchinson University Library, London
British Council (1952 / 1968): How to live in Britain. A handbook for students from overseas.Longmans, Green & Co, London. Contents: “Before leaving home”, “Arrival in Britain”, “The first month” (incl. “British attitudes to strangers”), “The married student” (incl. “How can my wife occupy her time?”); Appendices incl. Clothing list (Men), Clothing list (Women)
Carroll L (1865): Alice’s adventures in wonderland.
City of Birmingham Information Department (o.J.): A guide to Birmingham. Publication No. 149. Content: How Birmingham began. Birmingham today. Living in Birmingham. Filling leisure hours. Workshop of the world. The surrounding countryside.
Eysenck HJ (1953): Uses and abuses of psychology
Sanders J (1969): Birmingham. Longmans Young Books, London.
Webb CJ (1915 / 1964): A history of philosophy. The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge, vol. 102. Oxford University Press, London.
Wittgenstein L (1921): Tractatus logico-philosophicus. The German text of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung with a new translation by D.F. Pears & B.F. McGuiness and with the introduction by Bertrand Russell. International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London. [First German edition in Annalen der Naturphilosophie, 1921]
Human ecology and health 