“Is it really possible to whisper in German? The language seems so naturally loud and boisterous that even intimate coos exchanged with my little Fraulein when I visited the country rang in my ears more as Sturm und Drang than pillow talk. Fricative whispers came out like menacing hisses, and pleasantries to "have und gute nacht" became jackbooted commands. That Barbara Morgenstern, by her voice al”
