Mind Cake

Josephine Baker und Marlene Dietrich

Over in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin is the super-cool Deutsche Kinemathek Film and TV Museum. Since my knowledge about German cinema is woefully lacking, I was enraptured with all they had on display.

Rummaging through the gift shop, I found these picture postcards of Madame Baker and Frau Dietrich that I've never seen. Thought I'd share.

Checkpoint Charlie

Back in 2008, we visited Berlin, Germany and took the tour of the Checkpoint Charlie museum. Really fascinating stuff and deeply emotional. I recently discovered in one of my infamous unmarked storage bags, that I bought some nifty postcards from the museum. I'm posting them here.

This was the sector sign at Checkpoint Charlie.

The back of this postcard reads: "Conrad Schumann, the GDR border guard, escapes to the West."

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Bowling

Monday, December 3, 2012

Birthplace of the Nutcracker Seeks New Recruits

A reprint of an interesting article in "Spiegel Online" about the loss of craftsmen in Germany to make nutcrackers. Ok sure, who needs a nutcracker? But any time a hand-made art form dies out, it's pretty sad. Yes, a machine can make them too, but it's just not the same.

You can read the entire article here: SPIEGEL ONLINE