tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184911310505149512024-03-18T21:10:39.661-07:00Günter Schenk :: Music, Programming, Design, Lifehope my stuff is interesting or helpful to you guys.Günter Schenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583501764075550710noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491131050514951.post-736140234240269952023-05-24T05:34:00.033-07:002023-06-05T05:56:34.937-07:00Mein Leben als Musiker: Manfred Lemm & Ensemble<div style="float: left; margin: 0px;">
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<div class="imagesubtext">im Uhrzeigersinn:<br />Benno Schleich<br />Manfred Lemm<br />Johannes Schmidt<br />Michael Kempa<br />Günter Schenk<br />Achim Eckert
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<p style="margin-top: 0px;">Ein für mich sehr bedeutsames Kapitel in meiner Laufbahn als Musiker ist die Mitgliedschaft im originalen Ensemble des Wuppertaler Sängers und Gitarristen <a href="http://mlemm.de/"><b>Manfred Lemm</b></a>.</p>
<p>Zwischen 1984 und dem Beginn der 90er Jahre spielte dieses Ensemble vier CDs mit 69 jiddischen Liedern des bekannten jüdisch-polnischen Dichters und Komponisten <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechaj_Gebirtig"><b>Mordechaj Gebirtig</b></a> auf, der 1942 im Ghetto Krakau ermordet wurde. Darüber hinaus gaben wir in diesem Zeitraum eine stattliche Anzahl an Konzerten und waren an mehreren nationalen und internationalen Festivals beteiligt.</p>
<p>In dieser aus drei Musikern des Opernhaus Wuppertal und meinem langjährigen <a href="https://geschenk-webdatadesign.blogspot.com/2021/10/ivan-rebroff-kalinka-malinka.html" title="mehr Informationen zum Balalaika Ensemble Druschba...">Balalaika Ensemble Druschba</a> Kollegen Johannes Schmidt bestehenden Formation spielte ich mehrere Instrumente: Kontrabass-Balalaika, Konzertgitarre und Tenorbanjo.</p>
<p>Meine musikalische Zusammenarbeit und natürlich auch Freundschaft mit Manfred Lemm hat eine Vorgeschichte: im September 1981 gaben Lemm sowie die aus <i>Kai Balke</i> (Akkordeon), <i>Johannes Schmidt</i> (Balalaika und Klarinette) und mir bestehende Kern-Crew des Balalaika Ensemble Druschba in der VHS Wuppertal ein Konzert, das unter dem Titel <i>Nu - Me Lacht (Jiddische Lieder Und Geschichten)</i> auf Vinyl veröffentlicht wurde.</p>
<p>Letztendlich verdanke ich Manfred Lemm, dass es mir gelingen konnte, nach meinem Abitur eine Laufbahn als Musiker zu starten, denn er war es, der seinerzeit meinen strengen und misstrauischen Vater in mehreren Gesprächen überzeugen konnte, mich sozusagen "gehen zu lassen" und mir zu erlauben, mit ihm aufzutreten und auch fernab der Heimat zu konzertieren.</p>
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<b>Hungerik dajn kezele</b>
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<b>Klejner Josem</b>
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</div>Günter Schenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583501764075550710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491131050514951.post-63370094819280964082021-10-26T05:59:00.022-07:002021-11-18T08:12:19.467-08:00Being a musician: Ivan Rebroff: KalinkaWe - a quartet by the name of "Balalaika Ensemble Druschba", with Prima-Balalaika, Guitar, Accordion and me playing the Contrabass Balalaika - had already <a href="https://geschenk-webdatadesign.blogspot.com/2008/03/rip-ivan-rebroff.html" title="more info about how it was working with Ivan Rebroff"><b>performed with Ivan Rebroff</b></a> for several years and were asked to record this very track in a recording studio near Frankfurt in 1983.
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<p></p><a name='more'></a>When we arrived there, the sound engineer in charge told us that the maestro won´t be showing up, because he had his vocals recorded the day before and - go figure - even without any sort of "guide" track. This might seem surprising to you, but Ivan Rebroff was blessed with the very rare "perfect pitch" ability, and whenever he sang a tune "a cappella" <i>(solely or mainly without instrumental accompaniment)</i> he`d either grab a tuning fork or have our accordion guy play an "A" note to obtain a reference tone that helped him getting his vocal cords adjusted properly.<p></p>
<p>What was even more surprising to us, was the fact that we happened to just need one take to get our stuff on tape correctly.</p>
<p>As any fellow musician who has ever been tasked with contributing his stuff under such unconventional circumstances will confirm, adding instrumental tracks to an existing vocal track and without the singer being present for providing some clues or even guide you through the whole recording process will normally turn out to be a nightmare, because particularly with a tune such as "Kalinka", that isn`t bound to any 120 beats-per-minute kind of fixed tempo, but instead consists of various parts with a variety of different "tempi" plus some "ritardandi" <i>(in layman`s terms: when the music gets gradually slower, the opposite is BTW called "accelerando").</i></p>
<p>The bottom line is: under such circumstances there´s usually no way you`re able to guess what the singer will be doing next ... unless you have already been playing with him/her for quite some time and know his/her "habits" inside out, and that`s what we luckily did, and that`s why we happened to nail our stuff in just one take.</p>
<h3>Production trivia</h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>As I`ve been playing the bass balalaika on this track, I`m of course pretty happy about the fact that the producers decided to not just feature Ivan Rebroff`s vocals in the final mix, but my stuff as well. The louder you play "Kalinka" the better you can hear me adding some low-end "gravitas" to it and - towards the end - play some counter-melodies with the vocals, which is something I love to do when performing with vocalists.</li>
<li>Honestly said, if I had the opportunity to re-record my bass track these days, there`s one tiny thing I`d love to change: "Kalinka" is in D-Minor, and the very last note that I`m playing would now be a big fat "dropped D" note that simply goes BOOOM ☺ </li></ul>Günter Schenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583501764075550710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491131050514951.post-31535004741213644062008-03-02T11:56:00.001-08:002023-06-01T06:05:32.382-07:00RIP, Ivan Rebroff
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On February 27th 2008 the great german singer Ivan Rebroff <em>(real name: Hans Rolf Rippert)</em> passed away at the age of 76. This is going to be a personal commemoration, because I´ve been touring with Ivan from 1983 - 1986 and played the bass balalaika on stages all over Europe.</p>
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Not having met Ivan since then, I just heard of his demise in the news just like everyone else, and this certainly awakes some precious memories, all the more Ivan was someone who had a pretty formative and inspiring impact on my life, so to speak.</p>
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After graduating school and completing the subsequent compulsory community service, I was just about to take up some serious course of studies at university -- but then Ivan appeared out the blue and took me and three other young musicians <span style="font-style: italic;">(we, the "Balalaika Ensemble Druschba", were already quite well-known in Germany at that time...)</span> on an incredibly interesting joyride for 4 years. I´m very thankful for this opportunity and will always cherish an experience which many young musicians sadly don´t have.</p>
<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrifhR8OquW2eyuYPSBWM8DWk_g3vUBjiKDabZ4ox_JXYXGcNbmEe12rjVp3eNHQJ0dthc9JGctRiU9drdAK6NGzKZXF4ndbke0Za2WaDL2gp-kHFnYhVoqdbKOF9lMCMxSrUU6hwcmwo/s533/druschba.jpg"><img alt="Balalaika Ensemble Druschba - the cover of our own record" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrifhR8OquW2eyuYPSBWM8DWk_g3vUBjiKDabZ4ox_JXYXGcNbmEe12rjVp3eNHQJ0dthc9JGctRiU9drdAK6NGzKZXF4ndbke0Za2WaDL2gp-kHFnYhVoqdbKOF9lMCMxSrUU6hwcmwo/s320/druschba.jpg" width="240" /></a>
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<div class="imagesubtext">Balalaika Ensemble Druschba: the cover of our own record
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From left to right: Johannes Schmidt, Kai Balke, Günter Schenk, Andrej Romanoff</div>
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Working and performing with Ivan was nothing less that pure and unspoilt fun. When we met him, he was already a *big* star in this genre, however we soon got along with each other very well, because his fame didn´t bar him from being a warm-hearted and down-to-earth fellow towards everyone.</p>
<p>We certainly didn´t form a close friendship with Ivan, as he was the typical lone wolf who´d rather go his own ways after concerts, but I´d say that we have been pretty good comrades on and off stage. Ivan´s friendly and unreserved nature made it very easy to us, as he always treated us as partners, demonstrated respect for what we contributed, and allowed us being in the spotlight as well.</p>
<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpxUTmBbSXK6TG3rS7yYjulkna7P_997eEwjHSUT6kyXidM7eU-1TCO1QBf-x6u8z6q96DoA0tF7X6nfVqMwUM_whfOtJzVf_NbVDksGJ_lURAo-VF5paWvkru11wTo0WfI4Nbu4UX9Q/s400/druschba2.jpg"><img alt="Ivan Rebroff and us together on stage somewhere in Austria" border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="400" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpxUTmBbSXK6TG3rS7yYjulkna7P_997eEwjHSUT6kyXidM7eU-1TCO1QBf-x6u8z6q96DoA0tF7X6nfVqMwUM_whfOtJzVf_NbVDksGJ_lURAo-VF5paWvkru11wTo0WfI4Nbu4UX9Q/s320/druschba2.jpg" width="320" /></a></p>
<div class="imagesubtext">Ivan Rebroff and us on stage somewhere in Austria</div>
<p>Despite his success Ivan has never been conceited and never got big-headed, he was in fact equipped with an inimitable sense of <span style="font-style: italic;">(not always good natured :-)</span> humor which had a strong notion of making fun of himself and the "status" he achieved. He never took himself seriously, but he had the highest demands on his art and performance.</p>
<p>Ivan Rebroff was the archetypal "if I´ll ever have to die, let it happen on stage" artist; singing and acting was what he dearly loved and definitely knew to get across to a demanding audience which expected to get entertained with class and style and which always got just that.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d0PwTAEpDXM" width="320" youtube-src-id="d0PwTAEpDXM"></iframe></div><br /><div class="imagesubtext">Ivan Rebroff and us live in Bruxelles, 1986</div><br />
<h3>Need to get this off my chest after all this time</h3>
<p>Ivan even happened to be on good terms with the german tabloid press, all the more they <span style="font-style: italic;">(that would, regretfully, nowadays be quite uncommon...)</span> used to behave very well by never breaking one particular taboo:</p>
<p>Like so many artists <span style="font-style: italic;">(and non artists)</span>, Ivan was gay. Not openly, as this would have ruined his aspiring career in the <span style="font-style: italic;">(in regards to homosexuality notably more prude...)</span> sexties and seventies, but everyone who knew him, knew that -- however, I´m absolutely convinced that he would indeed have felt much more comfortable by living an openly gay life rather than trying hard to obfuscate this <span style="font-style: italic;">(at least in this "trade" an open...)</span> secret by telling nosey interviewers he considered himself an "confirmed bachelor", what´s in itself of course a a pretty broad hint and a common euphemism for gay men since the Victorian Era.</p>
<p>Gay folks, in particular famous artists who happened to be gay, never had an easy life in Germany those bygone decades. Thankfully the times have changed to some extent, as homosexual artists are nowadays at least tolerated and won´t necessarily risk their career, as long their chosen genre grants them a certain amount of latitude. Regretfully Ivan didn´t have this luck, as he happened to address an audience, which - at least in Germany - was an increasingly aging and rather conservative one, means they clearly wouldn´t have approved their hero to admit being homosexual. It must be said, that the "russian folklore" genre certainly makes it extra hard for gay singers to come out of their closet, as the western audience will require him to perfectly personify "russian" religious attitudes plus several pretty archaic clichés, and giving an impression of "masculinity" is expected from real and supposed russian singers not just since "Dr. Schiwago" was released.</p>
<p>Well, I don´t know if Ivan really had to struggle with this dilemma, but unlike other famous gay artists who really despaired of having to hide their disposition, Ivan apparently managed to come to terms with it by just living life the way he wanted and evade to his adopted country, the greek island Skopelos, whenever possible.</p>
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Dear Ivan, may you rest in peace -- and I´m absolutely sure you´ll bring some fun to heaven, same as you did on earth :-)</p>Günter Schenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583501764075550710noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491131050514951.post-27654415141475325712007-08-15T13:57:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:14:38.205-08:00website in the making : vesture couturierI´m currently building a website for a new customer, and this is how the site´s index page is <span style="font-style: italic;">(for the time being, you know how quickly things like that are going to change :-)</span> going to look like:<br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2xA6y6HGM5pvmeKmhFff5tehyphenhyphen4qVGhJGnH_KT1lfuu4NoWQwIZzWTO6c4KDuSEZT3ZkTxmOKpYzjPKtmFCsswBCmOkVM1oj3BH2Lz8frWGdLNzSE0gy5glTiwXYcIXLfo1dHWmMdV_T4/s400/gewand_index.jpg" alt="Die Kleidermacherin" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099035125337887986" border="0" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. About the project:</span><br /><br />Well, what´s a "Kleidermacherin" ? As you might guess from looking at the image in the middle, my customer is "producing clothes" <span style="font-style: italic;">(sort of literal translation)</span>, but this rather ordinary german label does by no means reflect the true gorgeousness and artistry of what my customer really does :: she´s an accredited <span style="font-weight: bold;">vesture couturier</span> producing high class and tailor-made theater costumes, historic robes and business fashion for women, men and children -- a craft which actually has already been practiced in the european medieval times.<br /><br />However, to me it´s a truly challenging task to "communicate" this very special craft respectively the associated "grandeur" via a website. But it must be said that <span style="font-style: italic;">(unlike other domains like e.g. real estate websites which are plenty in number and *must* provide a high standard for being taken seriously)</span> I now wouldn´t have to struggle with too many "reference values" for various reasons:<br /><br />1. very few german vesture couturiers do have a website<br /><br />2. those few couturiers who do, funnily enough have a very badly designed site using a, say, "90´s, frames, all sorts of font faces, sizes & colors" style<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Tools used:</span><br /><br />"Die Kleidermacherin" is actually my first project being designed "from scratch" with Dreamweaver CS3 -- something that´s giving me enough opportunity to compare it´s new features and improvements to previous versions, and I have to say :: it´s just great, and in particular the CSS handling <span style="font-style: italic;">(and internal display !) </span>is in many ways sooo much better than what´s been possible with previous versions !<br /><br />The provided "layout" variations are "CSS only", extremely well prepared and documented, and of course <span style="font-weight: bold;">valid</span> -- this makes it a breeze to build your own page design based on a certain sample, and the initial "Design" my customer decided on<span style="font-style: italic;"></span> during a meeting was the "1 column liquid, centered, header and footer" one.<br /><br />The current page design displayed above is certainly quite a "tweaked" and extended version, but Dreamweaver CS3 respectively it´s default Layouts truly "play" to you and your customer when it comes to choosing a draft -- just great !<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Approach</span><br /><br />This time my coding- & database related skills will be taking a back seat in favor of <span style="font-weight: bold;">design</span> -- something I´m innately not that great in, but when looking at my current draft I gotta say it´s not bad either, and I´m sort of proud of the top logo including the "scissors" idea :-)<br /><br />The pages will be mostly static, but of course I´ll be throwing in some custom-made PHP/MySQL based...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. Dynamic features</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4.1. Guestbook</span><br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAEQgR293UuNP0-hwLgxnQOIlel3Lw1E1EGIm0oPMZiYUji-CC5ef7mYW5FE6neRrp5roy1HTLwdhR8bgmXGl2aauMj1gx8tJO9dV3V218zFAMRYjnkkl6zSKrj6dsqhgxgHEeIDPXyUo/s400/guestbook_entryform.jpg" alt="Guestbook entry form" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103372867056512162" border="0" /><br /><br />As opposed to most prefabricated guestbook scripts available at popular script "libraries" like <a href="http://hotscripts.com/" target="_blank">Hotscripts</a> or elsewhere, this own development tries hard to meet one important need :: providing utmost security measures to protect the system against the "usual vulnerability suspects" such as fake entries by "bots". In addition to this the guestbook entry form displayed above contains heaps of validation routines <span style="font-style: italic;">(both client- and serverside)</span> and "data filters" to prevent inadvertently or intentionally submitted wrong or missing data.<br /><br />Custom programming is not just fun, but can add some value at times, because it´s *you* who´s supposed to "know your stuff" and to control what´going to happen with the data after submission ::<br /><br />a) I added another server side validation that´s checking the database for existing entries to make sure that no email address is getting submitted twice<br /><br />b) the new entry will first have to be approved by the site admin before being published on the website -- means, my customer will be receiving a notification about the new entry and then be able to revise the message respectively activate respectively reject/delete the entry within her guestbook administration area<br /><br />c) a certainly quite convenient feature to the visitor adding a guestbook entry is the option to receive a notification once the new guestbook entry has been approved and actived by the site administratorGünter Schenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583501764075550710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491131050514951.post-39379597829644671662007-07-10T12:44:00.000-07:002007-09-29T15:14:05.745-07:00my first Adobe Developer Center articlePhew, I just managed to finalize my very first specialist article/tutorial for the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/spry_php_images.html" target="_blank">Adobe Developer Connection</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">(link to the now published article)</span> -- it´s about something cool I recently developed using PHP, Dreamweaver and Adobe´s awesome AJAX framework called <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/">SPRY</a>, and I´m of course very proud of having been *allowed* to contribute something to this truly renowned developer resource.<br /><br />My "application" does all sort of stuff simultaneously and was put together using a somewhat adventurous mix of technologies :: have a database driven page <span style="font-style: italic;">(PHP of course)</span> pass some directory/file path information <span style="font-style: italic;">(a sequence of both static info and dynamic variables)</span> to another PHP script that´s reading the file contents of the specified directory and returns all image files plus several related file data <span style="font-style: italic;">(width, height, filedate etc etc)</span> to the very same page -- well yes, as dynamically created XML data which will "feed" a Spry Table that´s not just displaying the received data, but also allows for sorting the "image list" by all above mentioned criteria. SPRY is AJAX after all, means the sorting procedure will be done without reloading the page.<br /><br />However I´m not writing this in order to brag about being a cool developer, what I´m certainly not <span style="font-style: italic;">(err, to some extent maybe ;-)</span>. The point is :: as "first time article writer" I admit it has been unexpectedly tough <span style="font-style: italic;">(took me about 2 weeks)</span> to write a 24 page article about something I managed to develop in, say, 3 hours -- not because it´s written in my favorite foreign language English <span style="font-style: italic;">(what was comparatively easy)</span>, but because I ...<br /><ul><li>am innately a coder used to develop behind closed doors and without any "pressure of justification" -- that´s probably a harsh term, so let´s better rephrase it to "need to explain how you´re doing your work"<br /><br /></li><li>soon started struggling with an unpredictable insufficiency :: being a certainly somewhat skilled coder, but lacking any previous experience as writer who´s supposed to mediate his train of thougts so others will be able to follow you<br /><br /></li><li>soon observed that writing this article requires me to fabricate a greatest possible accuracy and "spelling style".<br /><br />Go figure, it´s not going to be published in your local newspaper <span style="font-style: italic;">(what probably would allow for some sloppiness)</span>, it´s being published under the Adobe hood, what starts to put you under a definitely appropriate pressure :: it has to be as *great* as possible, it has to be as *elaborate* as can be -- mind the demanding neighborhood !<br /><br />When starting to write, comparing your stuff with what´s already been published by others has been pretty scaring and stimulating at the same time :: you do note that the overall quality grade is *very* high, and your work should not be allowed to fall behind this level in order to avoid embarassing yourself in public <span style="font-style: italic;">(and your audience will be a huge one !)</span> -- but once you start accommodating to these circumstances, you´re getting to a "well, then let´s simply *do* it this way !" point. What´s sort of funny is :: after realizing and accepting all that, things suddenly started to "flow", and the article´s lion share was written in just 3 days.<br /></li></ul>Now that both the article and all the sample files have been submitted to Adobe for review, proof-reading etc etc, I´ll allow myself to lean back a little and say -- it has been a <span style="font-weight: bold;">great</span> experience after all, because it gave me the opportunity to learn something I wasn´t aware of before :: how to deal with a brand new set of personal limitations, and how to turn the related insecurities and casual "writer´s blocks" for the better after all.<br /><br />I´m truly pretty much indebted to Adobe´s George Fox !! George seems to be the main "Developer Center Article" - coordinator in charge over there and assumingly spends all his day with coordinating stuff and pampering a certainly huge amount of authors by <span style="font-style: italic;">(guess I´m not alone with this ;-)</span> caring for their own set of existential orientations -- but whenever yours truly struggled with stuff or simply needed advice, George was always there for skillfully guiding me through the whole process with a tremendeous amount of friendlyness, patience and "heads up !" encourangements. True mentorship !!<br /><br />It´s due to great folks like him why I´m not only proud of being an "Community Expert" -- this makes me sort of feel "at home", and this makes me happy !Günter Schenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583501764075550710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491131050514951.post-32260382415926546942007-04-20T16:01:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:14:38.279-08:00I´m now an Adobe Community Expert ;-)<div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055654994801081202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgFCIowOB0yRMno1XmWd9gOyhgTr-JD1gVhQ82hii7nsvDqu5duTv1671QspvA05UHpckv7Kmt7SGVzPxxZJgbF6CIl9OTY_fI70OpXzy4cW0eCaIsA2wKg-o1phrXE-6x2xzva2v4Q70/s400/Community_Exp_Logo_primary.jpg" border="0" /></div><br />WOW, this is truly tremendous news to start this blog with :: in march 2007 I was accepted as <strong>Adobe Community Expert</strong> in the "Dreamweaver & related" realm -- for comprehensible reasons this means a lot to me personally and of course my profession.<br /><br />I´m truly grateful for several reasons :: the nomination as such, the opportunity to exchange knowledge & fun with 199 other "Community Experts" plus Dreamweaver users from all over the world, and of course :: access to / participation with one of the most profound knowledge resources related to my "native" field of work and sooo many other areas of application ! Thanks Adobe !!<br /><br />Sounds unbelievable ? See my <a href="http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/members/GunterSchenk.html" target="_blank">Bio at the Adobe website</a>Günter Schenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583501764075550710noreply@blogger.com0