https://www.maag-moments.ch/maag/de/events/event/detail/2024/leonardo-da-vinci.html

Commuting from Berlin to Zurich by train takes approx. 8 hours, worth a visit again!
October 2024 showed https://www.maag-moments.ch/maag/de/events/event/detail/2024/leonardo-da-vinci.html

Brandenburg`s Stonegate Tower – der Steintorturm – stands for a 15th Century monument housing a museum landscape along the river Havel today. Fishing and crafts had been part of the local past, and remain such until today’s artisanal activities in a region employing more than a million out of 2.5 mid inhabitants in most diverse and innovative trades, see https://mwae.brandenburg.de/sixcms/detail.php/155705.

Great to learn that Theodor Heuss, 1st President for Germany back in 1949, spoke clearly and performed as a designer. He meant to convey a newly emerging democracy by the art of communicating, also by design.

Instead of throwing away things, there are always means and ways to get your tools repaired: this is why I took this picture passing by in my neighbourhood – test it out for yourselves!

Sad stories on the city of Solingen (Bergisches Land, NRW) around a seemingly knife-carrying potential assassin who had lived nearby in an Asylum location nearby: his quest for refuge had been rejected earlier. Such news appear like fire and oil for an obviously ill-informed German society that too easily jumps into generalisation of realities hardly being digested.

https://www.heute.at/s/kreta-naxos-griechischen-inseln-geht-das-wasser-aus-120050509

… ja, das können wir spüren und sehen auf Kreta: das Wasser in Brunnen bleibt weg – hier ein Bild einer befreundeten Besucherin:

Berlin visitors and friends, coffee at Cafe Einstein Unter den Linden, moving on to Motz-Strassenfest last weekend: summer is great :-)

Berlin finally: summer 2024 street in Kreuzberg with Audre Lorde

It has come true … after years of discussions and negotiations or, to put it in Audre Lord’s words:

‘Lyrik ist kein Luxus
… für uns ist sie überlebensnotwendig.
Sie bestimmt über die Eigenschaften des Lichts, in dem unsere Träume vom Überleben und unsere Hoffnung auf Veränderung Gestalt annehmen – zunächst im Gewand der Sprache, dann als Konzept und zuletzt als konkrete Tat.’

Und damit gibt die Geschichte Audre Lorde nun recht: selbst wenn Kreuzbergs Manteuffelstr. nur teilweise Audre Lorde Str. heisst, darf ich mich als direkte Anwohnerin in der Nachbarschaft doch überaus freuen über diese konkrete Tat!

< … great idea just to go visit the FUNKTURM nearby RBB and S-Messedamm: in walking distance with fabulous views from top. The restaurant gives pride to unique wooden indoor views of the 1960s: Retro-in-Style :-). Food is decent, cooks will leave again by tonight ‘for good’: sorry to see the Tower Restaurant standing idle again: this is June 2024. By the way, reading about Berlin dogs in ‘Leinenlos duh die Stadt’ (@biorama.eu: Spezialausgabe Wien – Berlin, p.36/37): December 31, 2023 – Berlin counts 3.878.100 inhabitants, thereof every 10th owning a dog (or 131.440): this must be an indicator for employing a so-called ‘Einsamkeitsbeauftragte’ with Annabel Paris, Berlin – Reinickendorf. As an official dealing with people’s loneliness, she cares for those being alone or lonely which accounts for roughly one in ten, here in Berlin.