User:Gerda Arendt/Reformation

Hammer. Nail. Door.

	Wikipedia Reformation
	Glad to know you. Alarbus (talk) 12:59, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. It is good to know you too, and good to have my allusions recognized!--Wehwalt (talk) 13:04, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome. NB: many miss allusions; pictures help them tag along. Alarbus (talk) 13:08, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for "amore e studio elucidandae", compare "beginning enlightenment" on my user page", --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:38, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Nice! Well, you have to start somewhere.--Wehwalt (talk) 20:48, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I just added on top. And brought "He was despised" back a few days ago, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:05, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

That is really nice. And you saw what Alarbus and I are discussing ... I've been meaning to renovate my user page for some time, it's much too boasty right now.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:11, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

My personal Liberty Bell (see below): top of my talk :) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:18, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

More Luther: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:06, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

How well deserved: your latest FA star for a murdered one! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:46, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes, he was murdered just like a Shakespearean character ... and by an assassin. I like your Liberty Bell.--Wehwalt (talk) 12:02, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

My latest Man of Sorrows, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:17, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Man of Constant Sorrow -- Dianna (talk) 15:35, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

For anyone not getting that, they are playing off what my name means in the original German. Perhaps so, but there are joys now and then.--Wehwalt (talk) 20:03, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Actually, I was referring not to your name but first to the sorrows of others, our sorrows being only the consequence. He was despised, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:05, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

I changed the dedication to the second to last Man of Sorrows, appr for Good Friday (he doesn't like the colours of the other, not good for the blind, I keep working on it, see Passion on my talk), --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:04, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

I worked on it: it's now a decent black and white. Dona nobis pacem. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:43, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, also for the Good Words. I will look at it tonight or tomorrow.--Wehwalt (talk) 10:52, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

• Nailin' stuff to doors, are we? So, how many theses are we nailing to the Castle Church door this time? - Neutralhomer • Talk • 11:41, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

As many as it takes.--Wehwalt (talk) 11:45, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Well, Luther got excommunicated (as well as all the Lutherans...and the Catholics still won't talk to us today over it) when he nailed his 95 Theses to the Castle Church door in 1517, but meh, why not? :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 12:20, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Luther got banned, that means he could be killed with no punishment for the killer. In Germany, the Catholics talk about it, we call it Ökumene, (see witch hunt, see pic of choir with a singer dressed in pumpkin colour, the Catholic choir sang in the Protestant church Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist in Luther's words, Did you know ... that the first stanza of the hymn Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist, asking the Holy Spirit for the right faith most of all, is documented in German in the 13th century, and the later three relate to faith, love and hope?), --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:31, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Lutherans and Catholics have tried many times to get along, even as recently as September 2011, but there are differences that just never seem to get fixed and screw everything up. Some of the US Lutheran denominations are trying on their own to talk to the Vatican and kinda come together and let bygones be bygones. But some think that will never happen, because of those same differences. Oh well. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 12:44, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

That should not stop us from acting on "faith, love and hope" (a little older than denominations), - as said above, you have to start somewhere, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:40, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

You did it! To quote you: "Just tellin' it like it is. :)" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:40, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Seriously so: Vier ernste Gesänge, did you know ... that Johannes Brahms composed two major works about death inspired by the Luther Bible, his Requiem as a young man, and those, when close to his own death? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:41, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Did you know that the writing on faith, love and hope is the text of #4, the culmination? Did you know that the article on the songs says "more" about Kathleen Ferrier than the Main page on her day (22 April)? Compare, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:00, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

I did review the article as it came through and I regret it did not run with a better blurb.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:29, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

So did I. The "blurb" was announced about an hour before it appeared, when the author was probably asleep, and I didn't feel knowledgeable enough to ask for a change. I think such articles should be announced at least two weeks before to the project involved (not just one expert), in this case Classical music, to get the article polished, red links filled, and the blurb written as a decent summary, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:38, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes, and that time also allows editors to veto their article's main page appearance, rather than scrambling at the last moment, as TTT had to.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:02, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

"Ist nicht des Herrn Wort ... wie ein Hammer?", we heard this and your comment in a staged version in the theater pictured on my user, staged by Jens-Daniel Herzog: when the fire fell, all PC screens went black ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:24, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Choir pictured, and more, perhaps I should add to the article, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:17, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Seems very worthwhile.--Wehwalt (talk) 10:19, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

I added a bit, not knowing how to phrase the interaction between the "Masse" (crowd?) and the single man whom they cheer (there actually were cheerleaders! presidential campaign came to mind) but who in the end feels severely misunderstood and leaves the podium, - they keep cheering, not really missing him, - chilling scene. The music was presented intact, complete, and well performed, - I sang it three times, once here, once as a summer sing in English opposite Carnegie Hall, once here, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:00, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Ah, I did not know you had attained such heights. Certainly, the story says something about Wikipedia, where we seem to cast out those who do the most, and keep the do-nothings.--Wehwalt (talk) 12:05, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Heights in choir, of course. - The story also says "Wer bis an das Ende beharrt, der wird selig" (Matthew 10:22), and I remember the first conductor having us sing the "beharrt" (more active than "endure") section very insisting and heavy on the repeated notes, the upward melody of the other with almost immaterial sound, blessed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:34, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Thought about the opening line, "vor dem ich stehe", wondering if it translates more or less to "what I stand for"? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:15, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Did you know there's a musical connection to "your" president? - Will reform refs, then nominate ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:58, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Sounds like a plan!--Wehwalt (talk) 22:01, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Half-way with the refs, nominated, alternative with Mr. President ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:01, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Good to go, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Good--Wehwalt (talk) 08:03, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

New perspective --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:38, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Nice to see another quality article of yours, United States Senate elections in Ohio, 1898,, no, I did not know, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:37, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

I'm glad you like it. It was what I could write in the time I had at home before leaving.--Wehwalt (talk) 10:19, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

One more step towards independence with Vice President Garret Hobart making history! Fireworks! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:19, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

I grew up in New Jersey, where Hobart lived, and it was a pleasure dropping New Jersey place names into FAC. I doubt half the reviewers knew how to pronounce "Passaic"!--Wehwalt (talk) 16:32, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) "Puh-Say-Ick". At least that's how the natives pronounce it ;> Doc talk 08:22, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Yup, though I'm a Bergen County boy myself. My brother lived in Hawthorne for a few years, though.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:28, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Nice to see this with increased value ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:01, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Siegmund

I thought of the name change from Wehwalt to Siegmund when I nominated this (on the Main page now) and added it to my personal memories, remembering Die Walküre, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:55, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

That is where my name comes from, specifically from Hunding's call "Wehwalt! Wehwalt!" near the end of Act II. When I took a tour of the Festspielhaus 20 years ago, I sang it quietly to myself from the stage. And I saw it live in Bayreuth in 1990 and 1996 (when I went in 2005, it was a year without a Ring).--Wehwalt (talk) 14:42, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

A Ring here, a gem there: are you watching a precious article, seeing the latest dramatic news? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:27, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

I saw, thanks to you. How terrible.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:31, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

For an uplift look at this gallery: Düsseldorf school of painting including a familiar one, artist on the Main page, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:07, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

How dismal. :)--Wehwalt (talk) 09:41, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

2401 (hits yesterday for the inspirational people under oppressive conditions), --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:24, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Passion: He was despised --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:43, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Easter: eggs and peace --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:18, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

And to you. We seem to be getting some article work done amid the drama!--Wehwalt (talk) 12:01, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing the eggs! - Did you see who also got article work done? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:08, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

That is good. I've got books open and ready to go!--Wehwalt (talk) 12:12, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Article work: Vier ernste Gesänge, more on Kathleen Ferrier than what you could read on the Main page on her day, 22 April, seriously. Not as serious, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:47, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

• "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold", seeing these words of reason in TFA makes me think you should consider to change your name, awesome Wikipedian of 20 September 2009, 4 December 2010 and 16 February 2012 ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:37, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Zhirinovsky's ass

This is entertaining; makes a nice section header, too. Don't miss the talk page, with 3, count'em, 3 requested move discussions. (noticed this on WP:Great Dismal Swamp. Best, Alarbus (talk) 05:11, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, made my day! (I found out just yesterday that who did that first here did it the day after my first year. I try to follow the example, you know, also makes a nice section header.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:04, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Best wishes, Gerda. Buck 11:35, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Happy Easter --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:45, 7 April 2012 (UTC)