6. Juni 2004, 23:59

D-Day

The 60th Anniversary of the D-Day was celebrated in Northern France. A big party with all queens, presidents and prime ministers. Well, a big party for the real winners in the long term. Maybe, they need it to cover, that this event wasn't as important as it might seem today. In my opinion. But I don't like when history is changed afterwards by politicians.

In my view, and in the view of most of the Germans, World War II is the war in the East and its end is connected with another place: STALINGRAD! I think of that place and Moscow, Kursk and Berlin, when it comes to decisive battles of Second World War - not Normandy or El-Alamein.

Sorry, but I think, the Western Allies opened the second front not because to free Western Europe from the Nazis - they just feared Stalin could conquer entire Europe. They came really, really late!

The Russians (and the Germans) really suffered the most victims. And I am thankful first the Russians to free Germany and Europe from the Nazis.

Well, all-in-all I am glad, that I don't have to shoot at any Russian or French any more. I don't have to march into war any more.

5. Juni 2004, 21:23

Horray!

Today my favourite football team has become second in the Regional League, the 3rd national league, and will now play in the next season in the 2nd Bundesliga!

26. Mai 2004, 16:27

An advice:

When someone gives you anything as a present and you know, that present is combined with true emotions or you know, you mean anything to him or he means anything to you - than NEVER ask for the value of that present or how much it has cost!

25. Mai 2004, 15:16

On Saturday I was at a big family-party. We were celebrating my nephew's so-called "Jugendweihe", a ceremony in which fourteen-year-olds get adult social status.

My German-Russian dictionary says it is called in Russian "праздник совершеннолетия". It is more an East-German tradition and a bit similar to the religious confirmation.

But actually it is just a party for the whole family, an opportunity to gather and to talk and to drink a lot. I am not such a fan of it, because I think, it has no sense anymore. Well, anyway - it is just once in life.

It is also a tradition, that day the "new" adult receives as presents some money from his relatives. I think this is more the reason why the kids like and want to celebrate it...



Do you wanna know, what I gave? He got from me a book about the tales of ancient Greece. and a green One-Hundred-Euro-Note.

18. Mai 2004, 14:50

Yesterday I was in a temporary exhibition of the Deutsche Guggenheim Museum.

I was first time there and it is not a very large exhibition room. There was shown an installation by the famous video artist Nam June Paik called "Global Groove". Three monitor walls with clips of dancing people, interviews with Duchamps and Cage and a Japanese Pepsi commercial, all combined with several visual effects.

The meaning of this? I don't know. But is it always necessary to ask for the meaning of art, particularly of modern art?

11. Mai 2004, 00:13

Yesterday I was in Potsdam. I was walking through the local parks. I like that places very much, the small palaces, temples and Italian-style-buildings. And first of all the gardens, of course, with all those sight-axises (if this is the right term), where you can see a statue, a fountain or a little palace.

It was raining almost all day, but this didn't really matter. This made it more romantic and not so many people and tourists could be seen.

I walked at least five hours through Potsdam and I could feel this at home, because my feet were aching a lot.

At evening I cooked for me a delicious meal (escalope with fresh asparagus), which was the right final for that beautiful day.

2. Mai 2004, 23:59

"Да здравствует 1 мая!"

The 1st of May already began on April 30th as every year with the so-called Walpurgis Night. Thousands of people normally have a party with fires, drinks and music at the "Mauerpark", which is right around the corner where I live. But this year the park was closed for glass bottles by the police and there wasn't seen any little fire. But policemen everywhere. Some little fights was the result - but not as dramatic and nothing compared with last year.

At next day's afternoon I was at the "Brandenburg Gate" at the EU-Party fpr the enlargement of the European Union. But this was more disappointing. Just some pavillions of the ten new members of the EU and a big stage with choirs singing mysterious folk songs. I looked, of course, at the Latvian booth, which wasn't as many people in like in the Polish or Czech one. But there wasn't so interesting things - just some Air-Baltic-information and a map of the Baltic states and information on Jurmala. Well, I took a postcard of last year's Euro-Song-Contest in Riga.

There was also offered some Latvian food, some kind of sausage with some salad or sauerkraut - but I haven't tried it.

At evening and night, after the traditional "revolutinary" 1st-May-Demonstration in Kreuzberg there were the normal fights and riots again. Stones and bottles were thrown, water canons, a lot of police at any corner and so on...

1. Mai 2004, 16:14

23. April 2004, 22:46

Yesterday I was in cinema again, in Tim Burton's new movie "Big Fish".

What should I say, if you have fantasy and if you like life then you will like that film. Although there is often mentioned death, but more to put emphasis on how beautiful life is.

It began rather typical for a Tim Burton movie - with a witch, dark houses and spooky forests. I like it, when he creates such a kind of atmosphere like it was in "Sleepy Hollow" and I also liked "Eduard Scissorhands".

But I also like the main actor in that movie - Ewan McGregor. I like him for his acting, for his attitude and I like the movies, he appears in. Often he can be seen in smaller productions in smaller roles as "Little Voice". (Well, I won't mention here that Star-Wars-Shit...)

Ok, back to the movie: You wouldn't be so surprised, if I say I liked most the love-story in it. Especially that picture with that field of yellow narcissuses. At that moment I really had to think of a field full of blue roses...

17. April 2004, 23:59

I was today to a political action, a kind of demonstration.

In Berlin is now an exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art of New York with the most famous paintings of the world - Cezanne, Monet, Liechtenstein, Warhol, Picasso and so on...

A political group demanded free entrance to that (and every) exhibition for all, because art and culture should be available for every person, no matter how rich or how poor. I joined that demonstration in front of the museum and hoped to get into it free of charge. But, unfortunately, a lot of policemen were in a different opinion.

So, I guess, I have to and will go there in the next weeks - of course with paying for the ticket.