Showing posts with label Berlin Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Berlin Germany. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Roman God-Like Man.

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"A monument is not a descriptive account of history, but instead a historical artifact that tells a story about power." I ...
Saturday, August 31, 2019

Did I pass Victor Grossman on the street in East Berlin in August, 1989?

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East Berlin, 1989. I've heard of Victor Grossman, recalling his name from the period in the late 1980s when I abstracted geopol...
Saturday, March 09, 2019

Berlin is doing something about public transportation, bicycling safety and housing.

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Berlin is a special case; it's a place near and dear to my heart, a capital city, and boasts a population of 3.5 million. By comparis...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

At Deutsche Welle: "A two-part documentary uses criminal cases to paint a picture of Berlin during the Weimar Republic."

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I'm not a devotee of the "true crime" genre. Appropriately, this two-part documentary by Deutsche Welle provides broade...
Friday, September 07, 2018

Berlin looks to Communist-era "slab buildings" to alleviate a housing shortage.

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If I seem to be a tad fascinated by the topic of post-WWII communist times in eastern/central Europe, it's because I've never bee...
Sunday, June 03, 2018

Melancholy reflections: "Celebrating Berlin’s Typography, Before It Vanishes."

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From Atlas Obscura's article. Perhaps we all harbor selected minor fascinations, all the while knowing we'll never gain more t...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

Even as we foresee the Champs-Ély-Jéffrey, Berlin "contends with street names of a brutal, overlooked past."

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As we know, it isn't about street names alone. The recent trials and tribulations of Confederate statuary in Louisville are well docume...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

ON THE AVENUES with THE BEER BEAT: Getting in tune with the straight and narrow.

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ON THE AVENUES with THE BEER BEAT: Ge tting in tune with the straight and narrow. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. Really, has it bee...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

From Berlin to Budapest to New Orleans: "Historically, Confederate symbols have appeared at times of racial discord."

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A concise, yet comprehensive essay about symbolism. ‘They were not patriots’: New Orleans removes monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. ...
Friday, May 05, 2017

As "Berlin's Streetcars Go West," we've been going south.

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Photo credit. It's what we're missing in this desolate, auto-centric idiocracy . Except that once upon a time, we had it. Enj...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

"Ms Liimatainen’s documentary is an absorbing journey through the present and past of the conflict zones of the Cold War."

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The classic photo of Roger & Jammin' Jeff. Kirsi Marie Liimatainen's ID card from the Free German Youth (FDJ) shows her ter...
Sunday, April 03, 2016

Finally, some love for Karl-Marx-Allee: "Berlin's Best Street Is a Communist-Era Boulevard."

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(Wikipedia) We've all had experiences that define us, whether for better or worse. They generate instant snapshots in the memory. ...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Lenin's head finally is located, and will be displayed in Berlin.

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The story of the toppled 60-foot tall statue of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin that formerly stood in East Berlin where the Volkspark Friedrichshain ...
Friday, July 17, 2015

The correct decision: "Berlin Saves the Communist-Era Buildings of Alexanderplatz."

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The photos above were snapped around Alexanderplatz during our visit to Berlin last fall. 2014 Euro Reunion Tour, Day 4: To Lenin...
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

"The Berlin Wall in the cold war and now - interactive."

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The Guardian's "Photography then and now" is the perfect vehicle to chronicle the city of Berlin, then and now, as depicte...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Of ghost stations and other subterranean public spaces.

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On the day of our visit to where the Wall was, and isn't , Diana and I discussed this very phenomenon of ghost stations. I remember them...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

2014 Euro Reunion Tour, Day 4.5: Where the Wall was, and isn't.

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Without planning to visit, we stumbled across the Berlin Wall Memorial  on Bernauer Strasse. When the Berlin Wall was erected, th...

2014 Euro Reunion Tour, Day 4: To Leninplatz and the Imbiss, 25 years later.

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From 2014 back to 1989. Throughout our two days in Berlin, I was unable to break the habit of referring to "East" and "We...

Pilsners with Putin: 1989 Revisited (Part Four).

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In 1989, Dresden was the sort of destination that merited two days of sightseeing before rejoining the train for Prague or Berlin. Before Wo...