Alter St. Matthäus Kirchhof (Old St. Matthews’ Churchyard)
A monumental stone gate with a cross split in the center and two urns to each side lead into the…
Category: In Berlin with the Poet
Fragments of Berlin – Copyright
All texts from Fragments of Berlin are protected by copyright and property of the Publisher L42 AG, Wittenbergplatz, 1 10779…
Fragments of Berlin – Editors’ Preface
At the beginning, the series “Fragments of Berlin” was only a very vague idea born in a Roman trattoria, which…
Berlin is a Modern Capital
Berlin is the modern, law-abiding, dynamic, and multi-colored capital of a large, modern, law-abiding, dynamic, and multi-colored state (with all…
Bismarck, Roon, & Moltke and the Big Star
Große Stern or Big Star is quite an important name and the poet enjoys visiting this huge square at the…
The Sophienkirche
The Sophienkirche is a place of the soul. The poet silently points to the building on the right side of…
The Fernsehturm and her father
With its 368 meters (circa 1,200 feet) this very slim Valkyrie is the highest tower in all of Germany, not…
Ahmadiyya Mosque
In a little bourgeois street of houses and stillness arises the white mosque of Ahmadiyya, built in 1924 in an…
Stadtbad Charlottenburg, or rather, the public baths
Berlin has an impressive number of both public and private swimming pools of every kind and taste. There are unreal…
The Brandenburg Gate
After a lot of wandering about lonely places the poet at long last guides us within the light of the…
