in the christmas mood.

a week before christmas i had 3 days off to visit my parents again and to partake at a family birthday party. here are some outcomings of this weekend that contained meeting up with my brother & girlfriend in erfurt; also meeting up with my cousin, his child & his wife. and additionally a few pictures from the birthday party village.

erfurt christmas market.

a very sophisticated tranny mannequin.

erfurt's city hall arches.

a very perverted food menu on the medieval market. such things as knight's schlongs & goblet's dicks ( which are in fact sausages).

booze menu. you could buy abbots on heat ( mulled wine out of black heart cherries ), lewd maidservants ( mulled wine with rum, cherry, vanilla ), apocalyptic cavaliers ( hot c. morgan rum with apple ) & spinster's terror ( original bombardino ). i thought it was very original :D

kraemerbruecke by night.

christmas pyramid & st. severus church.

my brother & me.

erfurt cathedral.

big wheel lights. this year we didn't ride it. it got more expensive than ever and it kind of put us off. i'm sad now, because our annual big wheel ride tradition was interrupted.

christmas star.

old city streets.

weimar christmas market.

mulled wine booth.

sign of the elephant's cellar ( elefantenkeller ) - a well known restaurant in weimar.

another pyramid - this time on the weimar christmas market.

loebichau.

castle loebichau front.

one of the many different castle buildings.

transition from ice to flowing water.

a winding tower. the area near loebichau was known for bismuth mining in the past.

winter sun.

icy lake.

copied roman architecture.

and i indulged in masses of tasty little cakes and tortes! my personal heaven.

and two selfportraits.

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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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