Immanuel van Driem´s Blog

 Freiburg i.B., 14.06.2024 Die "Drucker-Odyssee"                                                            Ein Drucker-Erfahrungsbericht Ungefähr 3 Jahre hatte ich einen Drucker der Marke Canon, das Modell TS3451. Canon bietet die günstigsten „Qualitätsdrucker“ auf dem Markt an- ich zahlte damals ungefähr € 90 für meinen Internetkauf (Preis heute, Mitte Juni 2024: € 61,99). Der Drucker machte durchgehend immer wieder „Papierstau“ und oft musste ich ein eingeklemmtes Blatt von vorne (was man nicht machen soll) oder hinten nach Öffnung der Klappe rauslösen. Das Ende des Druckers segnete auch solch eine Papierstau-Meldung: „Papierstau Fehler 1303“. Es half nichts: kein Klopfen/Schlagen, Schütteln, Kontak...

latest version: August 3rd 2024   About me My name is Immanuel van Driem, born in 1988, from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. My father is American (from Los Angeles) and my mother is Dutch (from Amsterdam). As I taught myself Arabic in the last years of high school and knew some Hebrew I studied Islamic Studies and Judaism at the University of Freiburg in Germany (the latter being my hometown, where I also live.) Another occupation of mine has always been music- since childhood I play piano; I also sang but that I would only start again with 19, when it was discovered that I had a very nice baritone voice, which became a tenor voice. I also composed and do so again today. At the end of my university years I became very sportive, as I have always been. I played soccer in various teams of my town and am a fast runner. This period lasted around 4 years and ended in a triathlon, after which my knee hurt. Seven years later I could run again, after a friend´s hint that it could be meniscu...

My new song "love song": Love Song on Youtube

                                                  (May 2024/Mai 2024)                                               Poem for World Peace - Gedicht für Weltfrieden                                                               The central conflicts: Russia attacks Ukraine since more than 2 years.  Israel is being attacked by enemies and itself makes "counterattacks"... I have written this poem approx. 14 years ago that I would like to present in this world state:   Die zentralen Konflikte: Russland attackiert die Ukraine seit mehr als 2 Jahren.  Israel wird attackiert von Feinden und re...