In one week’s time we are going to have elections in the state of Bavaria, and unlike for many other elections here in Europe, the polls don’t predict a landslide towards the right. Instead the (conservative) party, the CSU, that had invented the ‘Beautiful Bavaria’ and for decades had all reasons to think itself being…
When I came across this scenery, I was reminded of the old Christian carol “Es kommt ein Schiff geladen” (roughly “there comes a ship, loaded”). Looking up if there would be any reasonable translation of the lyrics, I found the term “navis gaudiorum”. In the original sense this is a metaphor for Mother Mary as God Bearer, but here – the words match in a different sense: The hull of this ship was placed on an unused bridge here in Munich to become a pub and party location. A “navis gaudiorum”, a ship of joys, in the truest sense of the words now.
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