meet me in meiningen.

meiningen was a town i didn't visit before. i knew that there was a well known theatre there, but i didn't know this small town had so much more to show. firstly, it's situated in a very idyllic landscape. and it's a very historic place. and it's all so wonderful to look at! there are so many white spaces on my personal sight seeing map that i haven't seen...

the elisabethenburg. it needs renovations here and there, but it's a real gem!

her physical appearance put me off a bit... looks like her intestines are on her body, not in her.

a wonderfully decorated trabant!

queen victoria.

i already forgot who made this picture. i only remember that the pictured girl is the daughter of the old man and it had to do with greek or roman mythology. damn my brain for forgetting stuff.

and some religious motives.

there was an exhibition about georg II. he was also called the 'duke of theatre' because he was very involved in building up the meiningen theatre. they showed ancient musical instruments and his illustrations for some of the plays he was responsible for.

random breasts hanging around.

a poem about sales women.

all in all, this small town is really charming!

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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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