Strange Days. A feeling of numbness in the brain, as if one had stood too long on the skull. And as if the head had gone to sleep like a jammed leg. The day after the election. Three days after the autumn funfair in Cologne Deutz. The sky couldn’t decide wether to turn into a […]
Schlagwort: cologne
Cologne – Melatenfriedhof II
I’m not visiting the cemetery every weekend, I am really not. Actually I wanted to go to the forest. But the weather just wasn’t stable enough to risk the long drive. So it had to be the cemetery, just a 15 minutes distance with my bicycle. It was rather cold, the first weekend of autumn. […]
Cologne Photokina 2016
Photography – there is no other art form, where the instrument of creation seems to be even more important than the creation itself. I spend at least as many time visiting websites which analyze old or new photography gear as reading photography books or visiting websites of great photographers. Maybe in the hope of achieving […]
The Art of Disappearance – Cologne Gamescom 2016
‚Escapism‘ most probably will be the first word you associate with the gamer-scene. But what ’scene‘? Video games already moved the masses long ago, and masses also moved to the ‚Gamescom‘ in Cologne. Boys and Girls, and fairly grown-ups, squeezed in the costumes of their beloved heroes in role playing games. They paint their faces, […]
Death is no Egalitarian – Melatenfriedhof in Cologne
Birds are singing, squirrels are jumping over tombs, just a few people are walking around on ‘Melatenfriedhof’. The name of Cologne’s most central graveyard derives from the french word ‘malades’, because already in the 1100s there was a asylum for the invalids and lepers right on that spot. Nowadays the most splendid graves can be […]