Wer Lust hat und des Englischen mächtig ist, kann auch den sehr lesenwerten Artikel im "Telegraph" lesen:
The reluctant hausfrau: being a German mother
David Cameron says Britons should be more like the Germans. Bee Rowlatt set out to discover just what that entails.
Justin and Bee Rowlatt attempt German life with two of their children
'Well I’m not putting on a dirndl, if that’s what you think.” Rash words, spoken too soon. I’d been sent to Nuremberg, along with my husband and two of our four children, to make a documentary called Make Me a German, which shows on Tuesday Aug 6, as part of BBC Two’s German season. The title has no hidden meaning: we had about two weeks to undergo full conversion. As far as drinking beer and eating sausages goes, count me in. But I was in for quite a shock about life as a German mother. And despite my doubts, I was acting the hausfrau, and even getting laced into a big flouncing piece of Bavarian lady-wear. What was going on?
It was an experiment. Germany is a place the rest of us can learn from: it’s the world’s third-largest exporter, behind China and the United States. Even David Cameron says we should be more like the Germans. They work fewer hours, but produce more than we do. Germany alone creates a quarter of the eurozone’s annual GDP. How do they do it? To find out, we “became” German, and this meant ticking off as many averages as possible. We rented an average flat in Nuremberg, drove an average car, and did an average weekly shop to feed our average family (1.4 children, so we took two along and left the other two behind with my mother). We ate, slept and relaxed according to national averages. Justin, my husband, a BBC reporter and presenter in London, got an average job in a Mittelstand pencil factory. (...)
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