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That's the old Tempelhof airport building in the background; hoeflichkeit=politeness
(waste bins in the street are very entertaining) |
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Clean=happy?
There are also tiny orange streetcleaning vehicles are called Lilliputz (putzen=cleaning) |
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There's an U-bahn station called Onkel Toms Hutte, named after a housing estate
that was named after Harriet Beecher Stowe's book (pommes=chips/french fries) |
If German puns are your thing, have a look
here. Let's move on...
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Flowery street in the sky... |
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"Farbe muss gesehen werden", said Walter Benjamin, "colour must be seen"
... would he have enjoyed this "farblosigkeit"? |
Some enlightenment for walkers along
Am Kupfergraben ... can't find out how or why they are there...
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"If anyone can do it, it's not art, and if one can't do it, then it's definitely not art."
Karl Valentin also said "Kunst is schoen, aber macht viele Arbeit" - art is lovely, but makes a lot of work |
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"The eye is the best tool for finding out the questions one must ask" - Peter Hauser (who he?) |
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"No one in the world gets to hear such rubbish spoken as the pictures in a museum" - Jules de Goncourt
and "One waits and one always arrives late" - Peter Hauser again |
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