The Holocaust Memorial
The Berlin Wall
The American Embassy
Subway Escalator
Downtown Scenes
(The statue is by Alexander Polzin who was born in East Berlin in 1973. It is a memorial to Giordano Bruno who was burned at the stake for supporting Copernicus and denying the divinity of Christ. The statue appears to be melting in flames and is intended to disturb the observer and cause them to contemplate using reason to improve the human condition.)
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Are those sections of the walls put together?
No they are free standing concrete boxes of different sizes and many of them are not straight. I have more photos of it and will post 1 or 2 tomorrow. Cheers to you my friend~
You are certainly putting in the miles!!!! I learned a word a few days ago: Fernweh. And another: Wandertrieb.
hmmmm….I know what fernweh means because I have a serious case of it!!! Wanertrieb nope, but possibly similar. I run into trouble when I cross a lot of borders. I start combining languages in sentences by mistake and come up with some real doozies!! This was no problem in the Czech Republic as I spoke not one word!!!
Maybe I left out a letter. Wandertrieb. Bet you can translate that, easily. I have the fernweh, myself. German has some lovely words that don’t exist in English. Or that take a whole paragraph to translate. American English does have the advantage of being dynamic and evolving, incorporating bits of other languages to fill gaps. So if you have an eclectic mix of words, you’re allowed to still call it English. I give you permission. Is not Czech Indo-European?
My goodness, you get around! Have you calculated how many miles you have traveled since you took that first step out the door?!
No, that would probably be intimidating……I just get on planes, boats or trains and sleep! 🙂
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Sure not Prague, is it, Cindy? Definitely not as pretty.
Paul
Just a very sharp contrast.
Really interesting photo tour.
Thank you. Berlin is really interesting in many ways.
You must have a ton of frequent-flyer miles.
Liking the black and white ones.
Yes we do! Jim loves these! I tend to to dislike them but he loves them because he can get free tickets, but really bad flight times and really bad seats! LOL! Honestly, I will post some colors of Berlin but they may as well be B/W. It is not a super colorful city especially with grey, cloudy skies.
Thank You Cindy for liking my Vegetable & Fruit Basket Drawing !! *Cynthia
Beautiful!
Very interesting. A friend of mine was teaching in Germany when the Wall came down. Exciting times. I still have a chunk of it in my desk. There may be other cities that have embodied, for good and ill, the history of changes in Europe over the last 100 years as deeply as Berlin, but none more so. Ken
Yes. Very much so. The impact of history still affects the city. I am posting more about Berlin today. The former East Berlin is incredible. It is an interesting city.
Haunting! I was there before the wall came down when people were still risking their lives to cross over.
Incredible isn’t it!
Yea. great photos. Cheers! 🙂
Thank you!!
Nice pictures of Berlin. We visited in 2007 and I remember being very impressed by the Holocaust Memorial. We absolutely loved Berlin – a fascinating city. (Suzanne)
The city is haunting and very modern since much of it was rebuilt.
Quite a contrast from Prague but impressive all the same.
Yes impressive and different. This is what makes travel so fascinating.
Hear, hear!
what’s the meaning of that upside down sculpture?…
I think it is open to interpretation but it is disturbing isn’t it.
Amazing miles you travel, it’s exciting seeing the world through your eyes. I was in Berlin and at the wall several years before it came down – your post immediately brought back memories of the guards, towers, fences. I loved your shots of Prague, such a contrast.
How intimidating that must have been I found it very interesting to explore what used to be East Berlin. Amazing!
More great shots from Europe. I am pleased that you are not following your six-picture-rule. Thanks for the tour of Berlin.
Oh good! I try but lack the discipline and sometimes photos belong together in a series!
Thanks for the tour, Cindy. I’ve never been to Berlin.
Neither had I and it is fascinating!
Very interesting city — a few odd things as well, but that’s what makes the world interesting! This is the first time I’ve seen you use the B&W (I’m still THAT new to WordPress), and it really gave the photos depth. The upside-down lady statue was really unique, to say the least!
Yes Berlin is very interesting. I tried b/w for the first time in Vienna and I like it too. So Berlin was the second time. Loving your photos as well. Cheers to you & thanks~
I love the photos. I haven’t been to Berlin for many years, and the use of black and white here reminds of Berlin before the wall came down. Do you know who did that upside down sculpture? It bears resemblances to the upside down alien I featured a little while ago (http://travelwithintent.com/2013/05/08/an-alien-has-landed-in-london/) which was by an artists whose father fled to the UK to escape the Nazis.
The statue is by Alexander Polzin who was born in East Berlin in 1973. It is supposed to be a memorial to Giordano Bruno who was burned at the stake for supporting Copernicus and denying the divinity of Christ. The statue appears to be melting in flames and is supposed to bother the observer and cause them to contemplate using reason to improve the world.