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...

 

Design all the way

Yes indeed...On Monday I visited from Basel on the German side, and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein.

It was really a nice experience. You can enjoy there not only Vitra design but also design from the world wide known designers (kind of a showcase), as to mention here the famous Finnish designer Alvar Aalto or Eero Saarinen.

And you can get an overview of the history of design, the different decades of design.

My design week went on, I thought, with a visit in the Design Museum of Zürich....

But I could not do it as the museum was closed because of the renovation. But something nice happened to me instead. I could take apart in an one-hour-visit to the basement of the Zürich University of the Arts (Hochschüle de Künste -  HDK), the storerooms of the Design Museum of Zürich. 

 
And what we could see and here there! I will remember it always and for sure visit the museum when it reopens!

These suggestions of design for the Swiss were not accepted by people. The black one was called "The Cave".

The poster collection was super! Until 12 or so years ago they collected every poster made in Switzerland.

If I remember right these are the collages of Herbert Matter.

The Dada Dolls. Splendid!

Bye-Bye. 

Design Museum of Zürich reopens in the beginning of the year 2018. 

So they inform and I will be there!
....

And in the beginning of the year 2019 I was there.  To see really interesting objects about the housing culture in Switzerland. But almost the most interesting issue this time was the Photo exhibition "Genesis" of the Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado . Go to see the exhibition if you ever have the possibility!

 

Heavy Arts, Heavy Music and though at the end a peaceful mind

Today I visited Gruyères for the first time. That visit was already for some years in my mind...

Do you know HRGiger? 

If not you for sure know the film "Alien". He has designed "Alien". And his arts...Well you should check it yourself. Some like it, some maybe not.

Anyway, I checked it now. As well as the Giger Bar there....I think now we could listen to a Swiss Folk Metal and "Eluveitie". Here for you! And if you are interested in Finnish Folkmetal groups here info for you!

 ...and in couple of days I will visit Chur where Giger was born. Just wait for some photos...

In Gruyères you can also find a Tibetan Museum. Visit it if you need some rest after Giger Museum.

But do you know? I just found in internet a Swiss band, which plays Tibetan rock. The band is called Porok Karpo  and here for you a nice piece from them! Do you like it as I do? I was also very pleased to find out that here in Switzerland the Tibetans nowadays sell Tibetan momos, which I find very-very tasty...

Bye-Bye...Au revoir...Auf Wiedersehen

und bis bald.

 

Little bit of Openairing and Tips about Swiss Popular Music

Speaking about Swiss popular music...

As I saw that one of my favorite Swiss groups, "Die Aeronauten" are playing in the Openair Hallau. Hallau which is situated near the German border and only 20 minutes or so from Schaffhausen.

 

I at once changed a little bit my plans...I will go and see them live. Finally I will see them...And it was worth it. Here you can listen to them. Not bad at all or what do you think?

By the way Hallau is situated almost in the middle of nowhere. Take a look of these photos about Hallau Openair.

 

Other my Swiss favorites are Linard Bardill and Stiller Haas. Finally I saw them, but it was already 5 years ago.

What was new to me...I heard also that Balkan-type of music is now IN in Switzerland. Or at least between Bern and Biel. Another friend of mine mentioned me by name Kummerbuben. Yes, nice melody and indeed, they also play Balkan-type music!

For those, who like festivals and every kind of music, try Paléo Festival in Nyon between Lausanne and Geneva. On the shore of "Lake Geneva". I will try it some day for sure.

Thanks to my Swiss and Austrian friends about the Tips!

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