Having a passport of two different countries (not by choice, to be honest, but not sorry about the fact either), I offer two different collages: German and South African The Black, Red and Gold of Germany. The rainbow colours of South Africa. When it was … Continue reading A Tale of Two Nations
This statue of the goddess of the hunt in the local park is in dire need of some tender loving care. All editing was done with Photoscape.
One-to-Three Photo Challenge in December
.
.
.
.
.
.
This is where the Frankfurter Verein is housed, a society that offers housing for disadvantaged people. With a facade like, this fancy windows would be too much. Hence the windows are very simple and straightforward – yet not in a straight line. The whole house, or rather the two buildings, are covered in an iridescent sheeting which changes colour depending on the light and one’s position.
Monday Window: Frankfurter Verein
.
.
Frankfurt suburb Sachsenhausen as seen from the 22nd floor of the hotel we were staying over the weekend – at 10 pm and at 10 am the next morning.
In the 18th century, the Bavarian regent Karl Theodor ordered a placard to be mounted on this promenade in Munich asking strollers not to annoy by permanently greeting each other. I wonder what he would have thought about our newly developed meeting and greeting rituals … Continue reading Meeting Etiquette
A poignant trio this Thursday. These stolpersteine (literally: stumbling stones) can be found in front of apartment or business houses were people used to live before they were deported and killed by the Nazi regime. I came upon these particular three in a town to the south of ours, as part of a remembrance campaign on 9 November, 83 years after the November pogroms in Germany. The English Wikipedia still calls it “Kristallnacht” (or “night of broken glass”), a term no longer used in Germany as it is considered a euphemism that does not do justice to the events.
Nevertheless, if you are interested in stolpersteine wikipedia is a good start to get information.
Most people know Johannes Gutenberg as the inventor of the movable-type printing press in the 15th century. He had a collaborator in Peter Schöffer, an alumni of the Sorbonne in Paris where he studied either law or theology. He improved on Gutenberg’s invention and was critically important in establishing the idea of copyright. Today he is considered to be one of the best printers, editors and booksellers of Europe who pushed the artistic boundaries as well as the economic possibilties of the book trade.
He was born in Gernsheim on the river Rhine where in 1836 they put up a monument in his honour.
He lived in Mainz and his estate was known as the Schöfferhof where later somebody established a brewery. To this day, Schöfferhofer is a well-known wheat beer brewed in Mainz.
