spring walks & medieval seasons.

it's so nice to look back in time. especially when hard times are around and things fuck up badly.

i have a water damage in my appartement for quite some time now and it's all very complicated because the woman living above me declined to open her doors for two weeks. yesterday evening the water came running down again. she witnessed it herself, i made her look at it. and the next morning finally someone came to see what was wrong. and it's all her fault. all the time. apparently she meddled with her shower drains and that was the reason why the water was soaking through my ceilings, putting my kitchen lights out & leaving ugly spots. now we'll see how well everything will dry out, so i can finally order an electrician & a painter. about the costs of it...i guess the woman above and her renter will have to sort this out by themselves. since it came from above all bills will be send there.

and looking at these pictures reminds me of nicer times & it kind of gives me hope for surviving this episode without losing my mind too much...

a bicycle lying around randomly.

stumbling blocks. these signs in the pavement can be found in front of various houses. in former times jews lived there, before world war II began. they are remembrance insignias.

timber-framed houses in idstein.

the weekend after easter there was a medieval market in idstein. of course i'd go and visit it! it was packed but still very nice.

beautifully dissected animals.

the tent of a witch.

tower of the witches.

a knight & his best companion.

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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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