the beginning of 2010.

one of my resolutions for this year is the one of trying to increase my blogging content. i'm a photographaholic and didn't upload a lot of my shoots last year. i miss uploading my photos on a regular basis ( internet's just too slow... ), but i will try really hard!

the year ended with a nice party ( raclette eating, talking, and watching fireworks from a balcony, remember? ), which resulted starting 2010 with going dancing and being quetsched up in the tiniest club ever! ( i don't recommend going in such clubs, you can't dance, you just drink and wait for guys to grab your ass - that, my lovelies, was not very nice, haha ).

it was always tradition back home in thuringia, that my family and me would be doing our annual new year's walk. i'm holding this tradition dear and so i was off to my favourite place in wiesbaden: la fasanerie! it's a small animal park with a lot of charme :D but first i woke up to this idyll:

new year's walk:

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november: kickelhahn, himmelblau & weimar cemetery.

i had a week off in november and visited my parents ( as i often do on my vacations ). on a sunday morning we headed to the thuringian forest to climb onto the peak of the kickelhahn mountain. the kickelhahn mountain is the landmark mountain of the city of ilmenau . johann wolfgang von goethe , the famous writer & philosopher, often visited ilmenau and also climbed the kickelhahn. oftentimes he stopped at a little hut in the woods to relax for a while and on one of these stops he wrote one of his most known poems. our little adventure didn't last the whole day, though, as we had a little date with the weimar cemetery to look after the grave of my grandparents and then to visit my cousin and his family. tiny peek onto the kickelhahn tower. thuringian woods - deep dark green. at the goethe hut. this plate shows the german version of the poem goethe wrote here. inside the hut. and here's the english translation. i love this poem so much, as ...

in the forests.

it's that time of the year again.

july '20: lake petersdorf discoveries and a plea against genocide.

the green wild meadows of malchow's sandfeld. in the west of malchow there is a big chunk of forest that spans towards plauer see, a widely 'uncultivated' area these days, but it hasn't always been this way. in my last post i mentioned the nazi munition factory that had been built in these woods, away from prying eyes of their enemies and where they also built an external subcamp for the concentration camp ravensbrück. exactly these woods we explored on a pretty sunny day, betraying the darkness that happened around these parts. isn't it weird that there are places in this world that were built or used by dark forces and horrible regimes and you vist them 80 years later and they are the most peaceful places you can imagine? sometimes my brain can't cope with the contrast of knowing what was in the past and what the present looks and feels like. it definitely leaves me with a strange impression often, kind of like a little sting in my heart and brain that is not ...

ghost of nature.

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