These signs near the Goethe House, in the center of Frankfurt, show the beginnings of the Hölderlin Path (22 km) and the Goethe Trail (11 km). From here, the Hölderlin Path goes off to the left and the Goethe Trail goes off to the right — which is appropriate considering Read More …
As of 2020, the Buddenbrooks House in Lübeck is closed for renovation and expansion. It is scheduled to re-open in 2023. The expansion is possible because the Lübeck Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung Hansestadt Lübeck) has acquired one of the adjoining houses, which will be used to double the amount of space Read More …
My recent visit to Weimar was ‘between the years’, as the Germans would say (meaning in the week between Christmas and New Year’s), so the square in front of the German National Theater (Deutsches Nationaltheater = DNT) was filled with an ice-skating rink and some remaining stands from the Christmas Read More …
Freiburg im Breisgau is a pleasant university city at the edge of the Black Forest in the southwest corner of Germany, near the borders with France and Switzerland. In other parts of Germany, Freiburg is envied for its relatively mild climate, since the daily weather maps in the newspapers and Read More …
Würzburg is a city of 130,000 people, located on the Main River not quite 220 kilometers upstream from Frankfurt. There are fine bicycle paths all along the river, so it’s no problem getting here. And if you’re in a hurry, there are about thirty-seven trains per day in each direction, Read More …
Since the name of this theater means ‘Theatre of the Old Pigeon-House’, I used to think the theater building was just that, an old pigeon-house (dovecote) that somebody decided to re-purpose after a sharp decline in the demand for pigeon meat. Considering the size of the theatre, I thought it Read More …