Tag «‘Lautarchiv’ (sound archive; ‘Laut’ = awaz) of Humboldt University»

Rediscovered Sound File of Tagore’s Speech in Berlin

Rabindranath Tagore visited Germany three times: 1921, 1926, 1930. On 1st June 1921, he gave his lecture “The message of the forest” in Berlin’s Friedrich Wilhelm University, today’s Humboldt University, for the first time. Because of the overwhelming interest of the public, Tagore had to repeat his speech in front of several thousand listeners at …