Tag: Germany
Dancing Feathers
Monday Portrait is not hosted by anyone – everybody can post a portrait on Monday.
I’m changing the name today to Monday Portraits, for obvious reasons.
He Needs Must Travel Through this Hollow Way
The title is a line from Friedrich Schillers drama Wilhelm Tell which is known by every German, I dare say (even if some might not know what the source is): “Durch diese hohle Gasse muss er kommen“. It’s quoted often, sometimes more or less appropriately.
A Little Knowledge
When I saw this sign at the entrance of an old inn I was wondering about the meaning of it.
An old fashioned beer mug. That’s self-explanatory.
Hearts, Diamonds, spades, and clubs. I have placed a few games of Skat in my youth, so I understand that as well.
A Star of David – here it unravels. What does it have to do with an inn?
That’s where research comes in. The hexagram may look like a Star of David but it is the symbol of the Guild of Brewers. And that makes sense, naturally.
That’s where research comes in. The hexagram may look like a Star of David but it is the symbol of the Guild of Brewers. And that makes sense, naturally.
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Twosomes by the Water
Water and two people. I included the mural because the curve of the net mimicks the rounded wave line of Cee’s photo. The mural is in Ladenburg and depicts fishermen in Bretagne because the twinned town of Ladenburg is Plouguernau near Brest.
Cee’s Midweek Madness: Pick a Topic from My Photo in February
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Godless and Immoral
“The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.”
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The architect and artist Hundertwasser was a well known adversary of the straight line, and hence the geometrical grid. The photos are of the Hundertwasser House in Bad Soden am Taunus, west of Frankfurt.
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Look Back
When I was ten years old there was a pageant in my hometown representing scenes from 1000 years of history. Participants would show up, were distributed to a scene where they might fit in best, then were dressed and made up and off they went.
I was judged a good Sinti or Roma (which were then still unabashedly called gipsies) and although I had short hair I was considered dark enough to go without a wig. They probably didn’t have enough wigs to go around and I was grateful because they were scratchy and smelled funny. I was also allowed to carry my own bag – that style was called shepherds pouch and was very fashionable then and seemed to fit with the costume.
So here is a photo from my past depicting the town’s past.
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