[Photo shows Clara Zetkin -left- with Rosa Luxemborg in Berlin about 100 years ago - circa 1910- from Wikipedia]
In 1919 at the’ International Conference of Working Women’ in Copenhagen, Denmark, the groundwork for the first ‘International Women’s Day’ was established. This conference – attended by more than 100 women from 17 countries representing unions, socialist parties and working women’s clubs-agreed to [...] Continue Reading…
Angela Merkel -’OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog’ Personage of the Year 2011 It has been 3 months since a far-right terrorist neo-nazi cell was uncovered in Germany, and today the whole nation held a memorial service for the victims of neo-Nazi violence.
Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the Berlin memorial service in Berlin which was attended by circa 1,200 people, including the relatives [...] Continue Reading…
Now with spring slowly approaching it seems a perfect time to tip-toe across some of Berlin’s romantic cemeteries, of which there are plenty. You don’t have to embark on a trip to Berlin Weissensee, which translates into ‘white lake’ and which is home to Europe’s biggest Jewish grave-yard. Though, it’s well worth the visit.
But no, you can stroll around Prenzlauer Berg or Mitte and still find a plethora [...] Continue Reading…
The former home country of megalomania and kitsch has undergone a transition over the recent years that is a bit of a jaw-dropping affair, to say the least. The Krauts have gone from a nation of grumpy white-socked misanthropes with a world-domineering streak and ‘Lebensraum’-claiming towels to a people of cool and charisma.
Germany has turned into the promised land. How did that [...] Continue Reading…
Well over a third of the ‘Linke’ Party parliamentarians are currently actively being monitored by the country’s domestic intelligence agency the’ BfV’ -the domestic secret service or the ‘Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz’.
It has been reported and since admitted by the agency concerned that 27 of the Linke’s 76 MP’s it current considers ‘people of interest’ along with 11 Linke members serving in regional [...] Continue Reading…
Happy Birthday Frederick the Great – but you may well ask yourself also, who was actually Frederick the Great………and why …..’the Great’?
Today exactly 300 years ago a future enlightened ruler of what was then Prussia was born.
Frederick II – a brilliant military commander, a tolerant prince, a philosopher, a musician – and perhaps Europes first gay-monarch -take your pick- he [...] Continue Reading…
Epitaph 1919 – by Bertolt Brecht
Red Rosa has also now disappeared
Where she lies is unknown
Because she told the truth to the poor
The rich have hunted her out of the world.
Epitaph for Karl Liebknecht – by Bertolt Brecht
Here lies
Karl Liebknecht
The fighter against war
When he was struck down
Our city still continued to stand.
Epitaph for Rosa Luxemburg – by Bertolt Brecht
Here lies buried
Rosa Luxemburg
A Jewess [...] Continue Reading…
Frederick the Great by Anton Graff – from Wikipedia
Frederik the Great’, aka Friedrich der Große is justifiably almost synonymous with Berlin – he created his great palace with the baroque gardens ‘Sanssouci’ [no worries!] in Potsdam just outside Berlin.
This year 2012 will the 300th anniversary of his birth – his’ Jubiläumsjahr’- and there will be great celebrations in Berlin but especially in the [...] Continue Reading…
The picture above shows the 17 meter-high steel monument by night – illuminated by internal neon lights along its wavy silhouette on the corner of the Wilhelmstraße and the ‘An der Kolonnade’ in Berlin-Mitte. It stands proudly, defiantly and fittingly right in front of the old Hitlerite ‘Neue Reichskanzlei’.
The official inauguration of this timely monument took place 2 weeks ago on [...] Continue Reading…
Bust of George Elser by sculptor Kay Winkler - in front the Federal Ministry of the Interior Berlin – foto Wikipedia – source RUTHERFORD
Johann Georg Elser, the unsung German hero who paid with his life attempting to assassinate Hitler in 1938 was commemorated today in Berlin, the 8th of November – the same day in which he left a bomb at a Nazi rally 73 [...] Continue Reading…
For decades, nothing happened – now everything is proceeding very fast in deed.!
This above picture – taken today Saturday 5th of November – shows that the roof and the walls are now installed at what will eventually become the completely new S-Bahn and regional district trains station called ‘Ostkreuz’
Because of its ailing and rusty equipment had been held together only by rust, Berliners have [...] Continue Reading…
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