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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Martha-Luise Lessing</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Traditions" 2009.04.16 (04) [E]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hello Fred,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
while I was a student at Hamburg University, I was an excessive visitor
of Hamburg's many and excellent theatres, because students could get
unsold tickets, even the best seats, for 11 DM (DM then!) 1/2 hour
before the performance began. (Some students even went so far as to
reserve tickets by telephone, so that they would not be sold otherwise,
and then have a fine evening for 11 DM :-) A little unfair...)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Well, in the theatres it was quite usual to rise while applauding a
very fine performance. Rhythmic applause and Bravos were common, too,
when people were really pleased. These are the "stiff" people of
Hamburg. You may say that with so many students in the audience,
everything must be a little more easy. But when a performance was bad,
the audience was not as free in their expression of displeasure. Even
Hamburg's students then used to leave with only a shrug of the
shoulders. I hardly ever heard any Boos.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
These were the DM-days. I suppose things have not changed so much in Euro time :-)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Hartlich!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Marlou</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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