The Hölderlin Path
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 Read More …
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Buddenbrooks House
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 Read More …
Light and shadow in Weimar
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 Read More …
Massenet’s Werther in Freiburg
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 Read More …
Opera in Würzburg
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 Read More …
Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier
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 Read More …