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75th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation

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Near Scharitzkehlstr. (OSM)

Born a long time after the end of WWII, this past has still a grip on me, and it became tangible on a warm summer day in 2012, when I stepped away from the main street near Obersalzberg in Berchtesgaden for a short stroll. The concrete remnants of what most certainly were soldier’s barracks before…

Moonlit Night

Moonlit Night, My Garden, Bad Reichenhall, Landscape, Urban
My Garden, Bad Reichenhall

“It was as though HeavenHad softly kissed the Earth,So that she in a gleam of blossomHad only to dream of him.” This is the first verse of Joseph von Eichendorff’s poem “Moonlit Night”. The German original and a translation you can read here: oxfordlieder.co.uk. And you might listen to it on youtube, sung by Dietrich…

Anticipated Nostalgia XIX – Blue Hour

Anticipated Nostalgia IXX - Blue Hour, Blumenstr., Munich, The Seven, Urban
Blumenstr., Munich

There are probably 10 Weeks left until I have to leave my office with that wonderful view. The new one is on the 2nd floor with a perspective on a narrow downtown street plus a huge construction site when they finally replace Munich’s old central train station. Not a convincing exchange value.

Appropriate Christmas Tree

Appropriate Christmas Tree, Poststraße, Bad Reichenhall, Christmas, Climate Change, Politics, Urban
Poststraße, Bad Reichenhall

Merry Christmas and Peace to all Mankind At least for some of us (certainly not nearly enough), 2019 meant the goodbye to a unconscious lifestyle abusing the resources of our planet. Not that we had not known it before, but it was all too easy to ignore and continue our business as usual. We have…

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