Kirchner is discussed interestingly in Florian Ilse book “1913” -great posting!
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These look worth investigating further:-
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BERLIN´S TWILIGHT, BERLIN´S DAWN
Nice combination of imagery!
H.G. Wells, the author of “The Time Machine”, once said that “the past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”
Look at those two astoundingly detailed aerial maps of Berlin published by a popular local newspaper, “Der Tagesspiegel”: those interactive images of city from 1928 and 2015 respectively contain both Berlin´s twilight and its dawn. Or paraphrasing Karl Scheffler and what must be the most popular Berlin quotation, in those two maps you can see Berlin´s “never being” and “forever becoming”.
Please click the image below and enjoy travelling in time!
Another indication of an escalation-very concerning.
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Austria photo gallery
Some great photographs from Vienna!
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L’Angoisse (Verlaine)
Been discovering Verlaine
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Austrian Election 2.0
Another election needing to be carefully watched. Thanks for posting
Hillary Clinton is all over the news, with the occurrences at the 9/11 memorial.But as I’ve mentioned I’m also following the Austrian election very interested.
Some days ago the next failure in this never ending election led to a postponement, and again the postal vote is in the center of the events. This time it happened before they even voted.
The glue that sealed the envelopes of the postal votes failed. Several voters noticed opening envelopes and that would mean invalid votes. And a number of invalid votes because of irregular envelopes would make the whole election invalid.
Because the part of the postal voters was over 10%, a legally correct election would not be possible, and so the election was moved back two month. Alexander Van der Bellen, the candidate from the “Greens” supported this, while his opponent Norbert Hofer was against this decision, because he believes that…
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I have seen much of this fascinating collection in the Literaturhaus in Munich. Zweig continues to fascinate and been the subject of an excellent film this year. Thanks for posting!
I had started my collection in an amateurish way as a boy of fifteen, and in all these years, thanks to a great deal of experience, more money than when I first began and even greater passion, I turned a mere assortment of separate items into an organic structure, transforming it, I think is fair to say, into a genuine work of art in itself.
– Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), despite being somewhat forgotten today, was in his own time one of the most widely read authors in Europe. During his short career, which tragically ended in suicide in 1942 after he had escaped his native Austria and beloved Europe to exile in South America, he authored dozens of novels, short stories, biographies, plays, and one work of memoir, The World of Yesterday.
Stefan Zweig. The Reed Library, State University of New York at Fredonia. http://fredonia.libguides.com/archives/zweig
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ERIKA STONE
Great pics!
A great man subject of two recent books and a film-I think!
Here´s a man who needs no introduction. In fact, it would be far easier to name the things Alexander von Humboldt did NOT do than to properly quote all of his achievements. He was “the last universal man” whose death in 1859 is often said to have marked the end of a great era of science, curiosity and of open-minded intellectual pursuit.
Born in Jägerstraße in Mitte (the house does not exist anymore), he and his equally famous brother, Wilhelm, spent their childhood in Tegel: Schloß Tegel with its beautiful park located on the northern shore of the Tegel Lake was Wilhelm´s and Alexander´s playground and their first site for curious exploration. The park is home to an approximately 800-year-old oak tree – the oldest tree in Berlin – which the boys named “Fat Mary” (Dicke Marie) after the family cook.
Alexander von Humboldt´s travels and the accounts…
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