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 […]