75 Years – 75 Memorials – Stage 5: The Oderbruch Soviet memorials

Stage 5 of the photo project “75 years – 75 memorials” leads me to the very important Soviet memorials of Oderbruch region, where Red Army crossed Oder River for the first time back in the beginning of 1945. I start this ~90 kilometres ride in Küstrin-Kietz, cycle on the Oder dike Oderdeich to Kienitz, Groß Neuendorf and Letschin as well as Manschnow, Reitwein, Lebus and Booßen, to finish in Frankfurt (Oder)… Read More

75 Years – 75 Memorials – Stage 2: Berlin’s Southeast

Stage 2 of the photo project “75 years – 75 memorials” on May 9th, the Russian Day of Victory, that is Den Pobedy, the memorial tour leads from Blankenfelde-Mahlow via Glasow and Zeuthen to nearby Wildau, then up to Erkner and Grünheide as well as to the memorials in Woltersdorf and Schöneiche… Read More

75 Years – 75 Memorials – Stage 1: Berlin’s Northeast

Stage 1 of the photo project “75 years – 75 memorials”, on May 8th from Berlin-Buch via Bernau, Seefeld and Blumberg, to Ahrensfelde and Berlin-Marzahn, as well as Alt-Hohenschönhausen, Berlin-Lichtenberg, Berlin-Rummelsburg to Berlin-Treptow, where main celebrations take place… Read More

Shaft Furnace Battery and World Heritage – The Rüdersdorf Museum Park

The Rüdersdorf Museum Park is home to a couple of worldwide unique witness esof industrialisation as well as limestone procession. One of them is the shaft furnace battery, a building made of 19 chimneys. The picturesque construction already was backdrop and stage of music videos, Hollywood blockbusters as well as music festivals.… Read More

Minsk – Refuge of Socialist Modernism

Belarus unclenches itself towards the rest of Europe and welcomes meanwhile visitors, landing at the Minsk International Airport, with a visa on arrival. Beside a typical Soviet style metro inviting me to continue my European subway photo project, Minsk boasts with an urban architecture telling from pre- as well as post-war Socialist times, the so called Socialist modernism… Read More

Scottish golden Autumn Days

Scotland is much better than its food-based reputation. Meanwhile the notorious Scottish-English weather even excels our Berlin mix of clouds and rain. No matter if in the Highlands or in east coast cities and villages, there’s always a break in the clouds permitting the light of low standing October sun to push through and to stage the mountainous landscape between Edinburgh and the lovely Isle of Skye.… Read More