ghost of nature.

amazing street art in erfurt's old town. every once in a while, when i am visiting my parents in thuringia, we make our way to erfurt , thuringia's capital. i used to spend a lot of time there during my apprenticeship and also throughout the first 20 years of my life - as erfurt was basically the nearest 'big city' for me. if you wanted to go shopping, you'd go there, if you wanted to go to the cinema, you'd go there, if you wanted to experience big cultural events, you'd go there. i never liked erfurt much when i was younger, it was too big for me, too loud, it felt charmless, cold even. by the time i was finishing school and started my apprenticeship in erfurt i didn't really care about it much. i decided that my favourite city in the whole of thuringia was weimar, because it had more 'class', had lots of palaces, more important history, had a much more appealing size and people seemed to be more creative. the first 2 years of my appre...

bahnhofsbrücke ( train station bridge ) in dessau - it led us over the train tracks towards the part of the city where the bauhaus university was situated. in may 2019 my parents and i made a trip to a place i had longed to visit for quite some time. when you are interested in bauhaus architecture you are bound to come across  dessau  sooner or later, a city in which  walter gropius , the founder of the bauhaus university, built a new teaching facility after he was basically kicked out of weimar. the bauhaus university building is the figurehead for the whole architecture style gropius and his colleagues brought to life. but bauhaus isn't only found there, the whole city has several projects to offer that gropius and other architects realized during their short time there ( dessau's bauhaus university only lasted from 1925 to 1933 ). it is a treasure trove of bauhaus paraphernalia!  but dessau isn't only bauhaus either, there's more to it than modern archite...