Winterfeldtplatz, March, Saturday between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
From Nollendorfplatz U-Bahn station we cross the stretch of Maaßenstraße in large strides, the rich mixture of the typical smells…
Month: September 2018
Comrades Sibylle & Ludmylle from Frankfurter Tor
Frankfurter Tor, Berlin, January 27, 2013, 14:51 Recording nr. 8752 Ludmylle: [sings] …Es war ‘ne lange kalte Zeit, du wohntest…
KaDeWe on a Saturday afternoon
People often compare it to Harrods, to the Galeries Lafayette, and to other great modern temples of commerce and…
Clara and the Reichstag
Dome of the Reichstag they call me here in Berlin (and throughout the rest of the world, too), for only…
Isabelle, Gendarmenmarkt and Classicism for Young People
Herzlich Willkommen auf der Baustelle der Welt! Welcome to the construction site of the world! Yes, yes, you’re still…
Berlin is a Modern Capital
Berlin is the modern, law-abiding, dynamic, and multi-colored capital of a large, modern, law-abiding, dynamic, and multi-colored state (with all…
Bismarck, Roon, & Moltke and the Big Star
Große Stern or Big Star is quite an important name and the poet enjoys visiting this huge square at the…
The Sophienkirche
The Sophienkirche is a place of the soul. The poet silently points to the building on the right side of…
The Fernsehturm and her father
With its 368 meters (circa 1,200 feet) this very slim Valkyrie is the highest tower in all of Germany, not…
Ahmadiyya Mosque
In a little bourgeois street of houses and stillness arises the white mosque of Ahmadiyya, built in 1924 in an…
