Posted in Kids, Prenzlauer Berg, The Others, tagged Bodenseefähre, ferries, Konstanz, Lake of Costance, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson is dead on June 30, 2009| Leave a Comment »
I just realised that my last blog entry was on June 7. Now it’s the last day of June. There was nothing special about the last three weeks – I just didn’t mange to write anything, and I was in
Konstanz with Anna vistiting the grandparants. We discussed how the look of Lake of Constance Ferries changed over the years – and now we’re back in Berlin and Michael Jackson is dead.
Posted in Prenzlauer Berg, Terror, The Others, tagged Autonome, class hatred, May 1 Berlin, militant left, Militante Linke, Revolutionärer 1. Mai on April 26, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Berlin’s militant left is preparing for May 1 demonstrations. And German press watches every step they do and predicts very bad riots:
“Berlin Police fear May 1 Demonstrations will turn violent” (easybourse online article, April 9, 2009)
“Ein Schritt zu spät” (Tagesspiegel vom 09.04.09)
“Autonome proben den 1. Mai” (Berliner Zeitung vom 09.04.09)
THIS is Revolutionärer 1. Mai-Hompage’s press review
” Der böse Tanz in den Mai” (Berliner Kurier vom 29.04.09)
“Rückzug aus dem Kiez – Innensenator Körting musste in Friedrichshain in Sicherheit gebracht werden” (Berliner Zeitung vom 30.04.09)
“Furcht vor Unruhen am 1. Mai” (Berliner Zeitung vom 30.04.2009)
“Kreuzberger Klassenkämpfer” (Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 30.04.09)
In a way it reminds me of how Italian press frightened the country before 2001 G8 summit in Genoa. What happened during the summit is to be seen here
Posted in Film, Politics, Prenzlauer Berg, Society, Terror, The Others, tagged 1. Mai 2009, Berlin, Berlin Mitte, DDR, DEFA, Frank Beyer, Linksradikalismus, Manfred Krug, militant left, Militante Linke, Rosenthaler Straße, SAP, SAP Gebäude on April 9, 2009| 1 Comment »
Trace of Stones / Die Spur der Steine
Look at the difference of the holes. Remarkable isn’t it? (Found at the SAP Building next to U-Bahnhof Weinmeisterstrasse two days after “the militant left” went by) See also Berliner Zeitung’s articles Autonome proben den 1. Mai (today) and Spur der Verwüstung (yesterday).
Posted in Politics, Society, Terror, The Others, tagged 11. September, 9/11 conspiracy, 9/11 Japan, Parlament Japan, Terrorism, Terrorismus, Verschwörungstheorien, war on terror on January 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »
9/11 questioned in Japanese Parliament in January 2008
Posted in The Others, tagged Bayern, Bestattungen, Friedhöfe München, München, Süddeutsche Zeitung on December 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Gleixner Therese, Hausfrau, 91 Jahre
Bauer Maria, Hausfrau, 71 Jahre
Flemisch Josef, Unternehmer, 88 Jahre
Moser Frieda, Hausfrau, 89 Jahre
Nothaft Lieselotte, Hausfrau, 70 Jahre
Eigner Annemarie, Bankangestellte, 78 Jahre
Huber Josef, Chemielaborant, 83 Jahre
Zierhut Anna, Regierungsangestellte, 79 Jahre
Czogalla Hildegard, Schneiderin, 93 Jahre
Dr. med. Greiling Gebhard, General-Arzt, 98 Jahre
Seitz Maria, Kindermädchen, 88 Jahre
Buchinger Anna, Schneidermeisterin, 94 Jahre
Schattmann Franz, Beamter, 84 Jahre
Erhardt Jakob, Gärtnermeister, 94 Jahre
Rehm Siegfried, Rohrnetzmeister, 73 Jahre
Huber Maria, Hausfrau, 84 Jahre
Gietl Margareta, Pelznäherin, 76 Jahre
Dr. der Wirtschaftswissenschaften Ditlmann Klaus, Diplom-Volkswirt, 98 Jahre
Fischer Josef, Rechtsanwalt, 61 Jahre
Kowalski Rosa, Hausfrau, 84 Jahre
Wetzel Ulrich, Bankkaufmann, 91 Jahre
Pilz Hans, Produzent, 69 Jahre
Kracklauer Adolf, Kranführer, 69 Jahre
Wohlmuth Maria, Hausfrau, 96 Jahre
Dr. Frey Josef, Diplom-Physiker, 94 Jahre
Schrott Elisabeth, Hausfrau, 79 Jahre
Nothas Konrad, kfm. Angestellter, 72 Jahre
Gebert Gabi, Mag. Päd., 51 Jahre
Mann Karl Heinz, Radio- u. Fernsehtechnikmeister, 53 Jahre
Ruder Cläre, Hausfrau, 88 Jahre
Degener Waldtraut, Hotelkauffrau, 82 Jahre
Schönberger Lucia, Hausfrau, 69 Jahre
Kellerer Charlotte, Hausfrau, 97 Jahre
Weiß Maria, Hausfrau, 72 Jahre
sind heute in München beigesetzt worden
Quelle: Süddeutsche Zeitung
Posted in The Others, tagged Che, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Guantanamo, Havanna, Kuba, Kuba-Fotos, Santiago de Cuba, Trinidad on November 27, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Beginning of October I came back from Cuba and today I finally managed to put some of my photos online… Enjoy! (Just cklick on my flickr account underneath the blogroll)
Posted in Kids, The Others, tagged Brandenburg, Neuruppin, Rainald Grebe, Tierpark Kunsterspring, tips-for-kids on November 3, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Brandenburg is special! We went to TIERPARK KUNSTERSPRING near Neuruppin last weekend. A nice thing to do with your kids. It’s only one hour from Berlin. Nice park, cute animals… and then you’re in front of two huge bison and the female one is called SPELUNKE (boozer, dive) – and suddenly you realize that you are in Brandenburg.
Posted in Italy, Politics, Terror, The Others, tagged Berlusconi, esercito italiano, Italia, Italian Army, Italy, strategia della tensione, Strategie der Spannung, strategy of tension on September 1, 2008| Leave a Comment »
I just came back from Italy. That’s why you’ll find some of my thoughts about it spread here on the blog. I know the country pretty well and I have to admit – especially after I talked to good Italian friends of mine – that I’m really worried about what’s going on there. If I talk about Italy with my German friends the reaction is more or less: “Well, it’s Italy, we shouldn’t take it too seriously.” I think that’s a big mistake. On the contrary: we must start to take it very, very seriously.
According to this blogosfere interview Italian citizens feel much better now since 3000 soldiers of the Italian Army started patrolling city streets on August 4. How could it be different? I mean – look at the guys:
Let’s have a look what the rest of the world thinks about it:
British Telegraph in its article “Soldiers to patrol Italian streets to stop crime” of July 24, quotes Italian defence Minister Ignazio La Russa saying: “If it was possible to recruit and train 2,500 police officers immediately than I would be delighted not to use troops in the cities.
And again British Telegraph on August 4 goes “Italian mayor bans gatherings of three or more people as soldiers hit streets” Massimo Giordano, a member of Italy’s anti immigration Northern League party and mayor of northern Italian city of Novara wants to ban gatherings in public, so if anyone is caught in a group of three or more they face a fine of 500 euro (£350). The article closes saying that:
The last time Italy put soldiers on the streets was to fight a crime wave in Naples in 1997, while they were also deployed in Sicily after a Mafia bomb campaign in 1993-4.
Troops have not been seen in Rome since the “years of lead” in the mid 1970s when the Red Brigades carried out a series of spectacular kidnappings, including the murder of Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro. (See also posts Aldo Moro and The Aldo Moro Case.)
eurotopics has collected reactions of Italian communist daily “Il Manifesto”, Spanish “El Pais”, French “Le Monde” and German “Die Welt” on August 6.
British Guardian closes its article with defence Minister la Russa:
On Thursday, La Russa astonished local authorities in the Sicilian holiday resorts of Taormina and Naxos by hinting that they too may get troops.
“Soldiers?” asked the mayor of Taormina, Mauro Passalacqua. “Have we gone mad?” He said the town had seen just one bag-snatch in the past six weeks, and that the last murder in Taormina was committed in the 1960s.
Beppe Grillo on August 23, pubished on his blog the letter of a Police Services trade union representative, saying:
We do not agree with the use of the military in order to ensure law and order and public safety. We are also against certain provisions that smack of “racism”, as we are against the introduction of the position of the mayor-sheriff, against a number of private, self-protection provisions, such as the vigilante patrols and absolutely against the unjustified and absurd cuts that have been made in the area of law and order. We are talking about three billion Euro in cuts! In addition, those cuts have come precisely at a time that is particularly disastrous for the Police Forces.
See Beppe Grillo’s whole article here.
Posted in The Others, tagged Erzählung, fairy-tale, Kids, Kinder, Kurzgeschichte, Literatur, literature, Mandarinfisch, mandarinfish, netzliteratur, Prenzlauer Berg, prenzlauer berg kids, short story, Tierpark Berlin, tips-for-kids on July 14, 2008| Leave a Comment »
What happened to the mandarinfish in Tierpark Berlin? When I was there with my daughter two weeks ago our favourite animal was missing: little mandarinfish. He wasn’t in his aquarium any more.
While trying to explain to my daughter what might have happened to the mandarinfish I did some research and found out that the mandarinfish behaves like a typical Prenzlauer Berger:
What the scientists have learned so far about the mandarin fish has surprised them. “We never anticipated the complexity of the social structure and mating system that we encountered,” said Mitcheson. “We also didn’t expect that individuals could be so distinctly different, one from the other, in terms of their habits and behaviors.”
As the researchers monitored mandarin fish populations, they found that each evening, within 20 minutes of sunset, groups of three to five females gathered. Each group had its own “street corner” to which its members returned night after night. Males visited the sites and displayed courtship behavior, hoping to attract females.
The official version of what happened to the mandarinfish – the one my daughter was willing to accept – goes as follows:
One day little mandarinfish felt lonely and sad and stared out of his bedroom window when he saw a mandarin (citrus reticulata) sitting on one of the tables of Tierpark-Restaurant right in front of his house, the aquarium. The mandarin said: “Hey, I’m the mandarin. Who are you?” Little mandarinfish said: “I’m the mandarinfish.” There was silence for a little while; they stared at each other, than the mandarin said: “Well, we look different, but nevertheless I think we belong togehter.” “I’m pretty sure about that”, said the mandarinfish, opened his bedroom window and left his house. From then on they were the best friends you can imagine and started to explore the whole wide world…
Reality, unfortunately, looks different: Dr. Falk Dathe from Tierpark Berlin answered my mail saying that the mandarinfish died in October 2007.
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