The John F |
The AA-Block |
E pluribus unum will ring a bell for my American friends. While rocking the chair, I surely missed a selfie stick for the first time.
While in Berlin, I visited two new museums: the Spy Museum Berlin and the Deutsches Currywurst Museum. Both museums are run privately, so entrance fees are relatively high; therefore, fellow visitors were scanty.
During the Cold War, Berlin was the capital of espionage. Naturally, the exhibition of the Spy Museum on Leipziger Platz concentrates on this period; although entering the building, you pass some kind of historical display. Intelligence services and spies are as old as when people started living in communities.
Father Joseph was Cardinal Richelieu's chief of intelligence who knew everything about the German emperor's commander-in-chief Wallenstein during the Thirty Years' War. Joseph went to the Imperial Diet at Regensburg in 1630 and succeeded - with the help of some jealous German princes - in maneuvering the Generalissimus out of office with all the military consequences.
Father Joseph reports to his boss, Richelieu. |
Joseph Fouché |
The Great within the Minuscule and Antichrist |
Here are some display items. The classical place for hiding material is the heels of men's and women's shoes.
A Trabbi transformed into a source of an infrared spotlight. The Trabant, made from reinforced plastic, with its two-stroke engine, was GDR's Volkswagen.
The GDR served as a retreat for West German terrorists of the Red Army Faction in the 1970s.
One year ago, I blogged about Glienicker Brücke, Berlin's favorite site for exchanging spies.
The exchange of top KGB spy Rudolf Abel and U2-pilot Francis Gary Powers on Glienicker Brücke on February 10, 1962, is of high topicality with actors Tom Hanks and Sebastian Koch in the US-German Spielberg movie Bridge of Spies. The German title is Der Unterhändler (The Negotiator).
As an ultima ratio, secret services eliminate people. Here are two well-known persons killed by radioactivity in the form of administered alpha-emitting radionuclides. Once incorporated, there is no remedy. The moribund is wasting away to a slow and sure death.
For adult visitors' entertainment and keeping kids interested, the Spy Museum operates a Topkapi-like system of laser beams you should cross without being caught.
Needless to write: Old Red Baron failed pitifully.
Shortly after the border sealing between East and West Berlin on August 13,
1961, just some obstacles were on the street, narrowing the traffic.
The facilities were upgraded until the summer of 1989, culminating
in a fully roofed checkpoint, an unnecessary expense given the border
opening on November 9, the same year.
Herta Heuwer, the inventor, is everywhere.
A quarrel between Hamburg and Berlin about the creator's rights ended soon ...
... granting the Hanseatic city the intellectual priority of a novella: The Discovery of the Currywurst.
Here is HM on television interviewed by the nation's one and only late-show moderator, Harald Schmidt. However, from the beginning, Dirty Harry's laudable performances were troubled by the few late viewers. Soon and not later, Germany's Letterman - as he frequently called himself - became the late latter man. We Germans going to bed early don't dig what is so prevalent in the States.
Luckily, my day did not end with the Currywurst in the Cup.
I saw a remarkable performance of Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) by Jean-Paul Sartre at the Deutsches Theater ...
... famous for its former stage director Max Reinhardt.
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August 19, 1961 |
May 3, 1965 |
May 1974 |
April 10, 1986 |
Deserted checkpoint on November 15, 1989 |
The
Currywurst Museum
is located on Schützenstraße. The entrance fee to the Currywurst Museum is
partly "reimbursed" in the form of Currywurst in a cup. So, you have to earn
your snack by visiting the displayed items.
Herta Heuwer, the inventor, is everywhere.
A quarrel between Hamburg and Berlin about the creator's rights ended soon ...
... granting the Hanseatic city the intellectual priority of a novella: The Discovery of the Currywurst.
Here is HM on television interviewed by the nation's one and only late-show moderator, Harald Schmidt. However, from the beginning, Dirty Harry's laudable performances were troubled by the few late viewers. Soon and not later, Germany's Letterman - as he frequently called himself - became the late latter man. We Germans going to bed early don't dig what is so prevalent in the States.
Luckily, my day did not end with the Currywurst in the Cup.
I saw a remarkable performance of Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) by Jean-Paul Sartre at the Deutsches Theater ...
... famous for its former stage director Max Reinhardt.
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