In Berlin you can go to East in many ways...

 ...Yes, and we began this time in seeing Berlin from below...Amazing.

 

The Society for the Exploration and Documentation of Subterranean Architecture (Berliner Underwelten e.V.) has organized guided tours of different kinds to the underground structures of the city. And we went under the former Berlin Wall, to one of the escape tunnels from East- to West-Berlin.

There are lots of memorials in Berlin as in Berlin as many things have happen here during the history. Among them many memorials from the time of West- And East-Berlin. Well, during the past 30 years I have visited them all....

I remember when I for the first time visited East-Berlin. It was the year 1984 and us making an Interrail, one of the 6 Interrails I have made during my life. Yes, we crossed the border at Friedrichsstrasse S-Bahn, the memorial place now called "Tränenpalast"or the "Palace of Tears".

And the year 1995 I was once again in "Tränenpalast" during my 1,5 years stay in Berlin. But this time it was not a border crossing, not any more but a concert of in east popular rock band "Silly" in "Tränenpalast". A very memorable concert for me! 

And couple of days ago and now being the year 2016 I visited "Tränenpalast", of course and it now having an exhibition telling of border-crossings and destinies of border-crosses.

But you maybe begin your Berlin-visits with Checkpoint Charlie, with DDR-Museum and with the Museum of Everyday Life in East-Berlin. To get an overview, I mean...

By the way, the Berlin Wall Museum originates from the year 1962 when the Berlin Wall was built. I visited this museum already in the times as East- and West-Berlin. When they still existed...

Well, when I return to home I will look for you some photos from the past...

Architecture and Design: From Jugendstil to Bauhaus

In 3 years the Bauhaus has a centenary, so 100 years of Bauhaus! 

You can check here what happens then. And well, Jugendstil-Art Nouveau is already older than that.

If you visit Germany there is plenty to see if you are interested in "Bauhaus". 

You should visit Dessau and Weimar, of course. And up to that the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin. I myself only now visited it and will visit in incoming years once again. Weimar and Dessau were in my programme already 20 years ago.

If you think about Jugendstil or Art Nouveau it is interesting to compare those. How Jugendstil/Art Nouveau manifests in Germany vs. France...According to which one you like the most indicates also you character. Try it and you will notice.

You can check it in Berlin in the Bröhan-Museum.

Espionage in Berlin?

Have you already visited the new Espionage Museum of Berlin existing from the year 2015 on? If not, you should.

Issues for the Bond-movie fans.

Issues from real life from gadgets to stories of animals as spies...Enigma machine of course too. 

The museum in Berlin as Berlin being the centre for east-west espionage. In the history at least. From these shoe-cameras above into my mind came also  "Get Smart" TV agent serie from the 60's. Have you seen it? Other very good agent TV series from that time are for example "The Man from U.N.C.L.E" and "Avengers". Check them!

Thanks to my husband we have watched them as well as many Berlin espionage movies. Here for you a short list of Berlin spymovies given to me by my husband.

Genre Eurospy:
For Eyes Only / Streng geheim (1963, János Veiczi)
Spy In Your Eye / Bang You're Dead / Berlino appuntamento per le spie
(Operazione Polifemo) (1965, Vittorio Sala)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965, Martin Ritt)
Funeral in Berlin (1966, Guy Hamilton)
The Quiller Memorandum (1966, Michael Anderson)
Torn Curtain (1966, Alfred Hitchcock)
Dead Run / Geheimnisse in goldenen Nylons (1967, Christian-Jaque)
Tiffany memorandum (1967, Sergio Grieco/Terence Hathaway)
A Dandy in Aspic (1968, Anthony Mann)

Newer ones:
Octopussy (1983, John Glen)
Bridge of Spies (2012, Steven Spielberg)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E (2015, Guy Ritchie)

Well, some more photos when back at home...

To Berlin once again, and more adventures soon (Photo)

Kennst du schon die finnischen Emojis und die tollsten Festivale in Finnland?

Ja, die finnischen Emojis...Hat man die ja am 1.Dezember 2015 veröffentlicht...

...and Fame grows for FINemojis with yet another award...

Hier bekommst du über die landesprezifischen Emojis mehr Informationen.

Finnland war global das erste Land, das landessprezifische Emojis publiziert hat.

Es gibt schon 31 und ab Sommer noch 17 weitere dazu...

Wie "Headbanger"

oder

 

oder "Perkele" (Gottverdammt) oder "Handschütteln"

Wenn du finnland bescuchen möchtes, findest du hier weitere Informationen. Und hier Informationen über die Festivale in Finnland. Insbesondere im Sommer gibt es eine ganze menge von sehr interessanten Festivale. Auch während des Jahres.

Geographica, Landeskarten: Suomi(Finnland) - Venäjä(Russland) - Ruotsi(Schweden) - Viro(Estland) - Norja(Norwegen)

Ja, wir werden hier jetzt über die interessantesten Festivale in Ostfinnland sprechen, woher ich komme. Du musst unbedingt diese Festivale besuchen, wenn du was tolles erleben möchtest. 

 

Ilosaarirock in Joensuu, ein Rockfestival - ein unter den ältesten in Finnland.

Ilovaarirock in Joensuu - Rock für die Leute älterer Generationen...Rock von den Jahren 60 und 70

Rock Film Festival Rokumentti in Joensuu 

Eukonkanto - The wife carrying (World Championship)

Suopotkupallo - Swampsoccer (World Championship)

Savonlinnan oopperajuhla - Savonlinna Opera Festival

Kuhmon kamarimusiikki - Kuhmo Música de Cámara

Sommelo in Kuhmo(Finnland) y Viena Karelia(Russland) - Folk, modern und traditionell

Kihaus Folk in Rääkkylä

So visit Karelia -  the eastern part of Finland! It rocks you!

In Karelia wirst du Leute kennenlernen, die gerne mit dir sprechen - The most talkative ones in Finland!

Zum Schluss für dich - melancholischer Tango aus Finnland -  die östlichen Traditionen...

Der sehr bekannte Komponisten Toivo Kärki: "Siks' oon mä suruinen" für dich...

Ist dir bekannt das Finnland sein eigenes Tango hat, der viel ruhiger ist als der Tango aus Argentinien?
Und vor einigen Jahren haben wir "Cumbre Mundial del Tango" in Finnland organisiert. Finnland war das erste Land, in dem als Landessprache kein Spanisch oder Portugiesisch gesprochen wurde, das das Festival organisiert hat!!!

...und möchtest du jetzt gerne ein Schnapps? Gewiss "Vodka" und gesungen von Korpiklaani...Korpiklaani ist ein Metalband, der aus Lappland kommt. Lappland ist ja auch ein obligatorisches Ziel für Touristen.

Kippis - Salud!

Helsinki in Zürich, und...and other interesting Spots in Zurich...

Helsinkiklub in Zürich

In Helsinkiklub bekommt man auch ein finnisches Schnaps namens "Salmari"! Super! Selbstgemacht wie es üblich auch mal in Finnland ist...Probier mal..

Zürich Hardbrücke -Zürich5 - Zurich4 - Zürich1 oder Niederdorf im Zentrum. 

Da findest du all die interesantesten Ecken fürs abend...

Check the above mentioned districts in Zurich...

Freitag and its products are super, but expensive

RecRec, a very interesting record shop

Kino Xenix, independent films and has a nice bar

   El Lokal, superbar with superfood, live music and drinks for happy people - of course

 

 

 

And then it was Goodbye - European Football Championships 2016, watching the games waited for me in Finland...

The first game I watched in Helsinkibar in Zurich and it was a very-very nice evening indeed...

Nice atmosphere!

DADA in Switzeland and in Germany

Did you know that is DADA-year?  
100 years of DADA.

DADA Manifesto byTristan Tzara 23rd March 1918.
100 anniversary of DADA in Zurich.

Here you can read about DADA in Germany.

   DaDa&Cabaret Voltaire & Music Cabaret Voltaire

 

Architecture all the way

I visited Jura, the very western part of Switzerland a city called La Chaux-de-Fonds. The city with endless streets, you could put that way...

That is a city where a world known architecture Le Corbusier was born. And also a city belonging to the network of Jugendstil or Art Noveau. In the Art Nouveau Network you can find quite a lot of cities around the world.

Villa Turque. La Corbusier.

By the way, have you visited already the Pavillon Le Corbusier in Zurich? Also worth visiting as I noticed today.

I found out that there is also in Zürich ZAZ Bellerive - A Story about the Swiss Defence Bunkers. Really on the opposite site of the Pavillon Le Corbusier...To visit the Bunkers I did not manage this time. As you must reserve in beforehand through internet. Next time I will do it for sure!

Anyway - in the museum you can see  read  short stories and see a film about Switzerlands' ways of national defending. Quite interesting. I also noticed that there is in Zürich a Museum of Civil Defence. That for sure I also will visit next time.

Talking about the architecture...If you are interested in Art Nouveau, you should visit Finland. And the capital of Finland, Helsinki is then the place to visit. 

 
It is really worth walking around in Helsinki as you can see here. For you here the info and maps in different languages. So welcome to Finland and Helsinki. Above all in the summer Helsinki is also a party town all those white nights of the summer along...And you can find there a wide variety of interesting restaurants nowadays.

In continuing with the architecture I visited the Vitra Museum in Weil in Rhein, I found there in the museum premises lots of architectural findings as well, as the Vitra buildings are designed by global known architects as...

 

So if you are interested in Swiss Architecture...Visit the Architecture Museum in Basel.

And I checked it now in the beginning of the year 2019. Very little to be seen there...unfortunately. They told me that in the museum combining 2 museums that they have only one exhibition about the architecture at a time...Well...