Und es begab sich, dass der Kaiser, Sohn einer Konkubine, zu seinem Volk sprach. Zwar sei die Welt außerhalb der Gestade Nippons barbarisch, aber man müsse auch von Barbaren lernen, damit die gottgewollte Überlegenheit von Dauer sei. Und obwohl es Widerstand gab, und obwohl die Samurai der Provinz Satsuma rebellierten, weil sie um ihre Privilegien […]
Schlagwort: carnival
A Kind of Routine – Carnival 2018 in Cologne
This time I was’t in the mood. At all. To join the masses of drunken youngsters, already heavily poisoned with alcohol at noon. But I had to. This is my annual routine. Carnival in Cologne is sometimes touching and sometimes funny. But in the Zülpicher Strasse it’s always hell. And so I went, took my […]
Opening of the Carnival Session in Cologne
Yesterday was the 11th of November. The beginning of the carnival session. This year on a Saturday. Myriads of visitors had been announced, and when I left home I saw them: thousands of mostly young people, some of them in gorgeous colorful costumes, a lot of them already drunk. I took quite a long walk […]
Feast of Emotions – Cologne Carnival 2017
I hadn’t been in the mood to go out. Weather was shitty and there was that pain in the back. But then I thought: there is that opportunity once in a year. To grab emotions of a vast variety at one spot, so compressed, that your camera is too slow to grab them all. Rage, […]