Standing in Patience and Patina
To mourn the victims of Paris and to fight hatred
… is the commandment of the hour. Unfortunately the very first reflex from the supraesophogeal ganglion of some politicians here is to shift to the right, to blame the influx of refugees and in that way preparing the grounds for right-wing radicals and new national socialists, instead of analysing how many wrong decisions of the…
Beuys Quote
“The only revolutionary force is the force of the human creativity, the only revolutionary force is art”. But the over-30 party (German “Über” means over) nowadays probably yields more attraction than Beuys’ thoughts.
Street Light
Needles of Triumph
Seen from the same space, merely by turning around, are two, no three, symbols of power and victory: The Brandenburg Gate, here only its columns providing the frame for the victory column, and the TV tower of former East-Berlin Alexanderplatz. Interesting and reassuring (or disturbing, depending on the point of view) is that none of…
Power Pipes
As I’ve found these pipes in the center of our capital, it must be sheer power that gets pumped here. But then, maybe it’s just sewerage, consisting of half-baken press releases that nowadays seem to become the core of the political business. At least the pipes are blue, a color not assigned to any political…
Tinsel and Glitter / Glass and Steel
Freeclimbing Graffiti
Keeping a sense for placement when acting in immediate proximity to a wall certainly needs quite some skill and training on the side of the sprayer, but the same thing while (most probably) hanging from a rope seems to be really extraordinary for me.
Communication
The more appropriate title might be ‘Communication or the lack of the latter’, but then… Anyway, this photograph was made before I discovered that Sony’s behavior can border to the fraudulent when it comes to delivering services that were concludently sold as part of a package, in my case the internet radio streams to be…
Utilities Corridor
Trees and Glass
Colorful Portal
While the center of Berlin feels like a continuous stretch of construction sites, interrupted mainly by new glass-and-steel buildings, gentrification proceeds at a slower pace in quarters like Kreuzberg, where I found this entrance. For a dyed-in-the-wool Bavarian, Berlin still is quite an outlandish experience (I mentioned the number of traffic lights already some days…
Kennedy / Lennon / Cartier-Bresson
Turandot
Kreuzberg Dreamscape
My natural habitat is a small town on pre-alpine meadows in Bavaria. Quite the contrary of Berlin of course – one sub-quarter there sports more traffic lights than my hometown can muster up. And so the impressions of a very diverse space have an almost unfiltered impact, especially after an exhausting 10h drive. But I’ve…
Shelf Mural
Handrail Decoration
Once upon a time, forming of the immediate environment was important, even in the common grounds of a 5 story tenement probably inhabitated by middle class citizens. It is a small wonder that this handrail decoration has survived the modernization phases of the last century.
Tenement Windows
Starting a new series in the ‘blog’ section, Berlin will be place of choice for this one. As my eldest daughter joined Charité University there, I had the pleasure not only to haul her belongings over 800km of highways, but also to carry them 5 floors up to her flat in the rear building. (Thanks…
Goodbye Florence
Rectangularissimo
The blog is almost back to normal, so I hope, with the notable exception of the ‘Blogs I read’ section, which depends on a piece of software the webhoster has not (yet) installed. The decision to switch to another hosting company was confirmed by the number of service tickets I had sent because of problems…
Upmarket Garage
MORS HENEK STYLES
L’arte sa nuotare II
Wham!
H&M
