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Radio Hamburg and the myth of the water tower

N ow is "Radio Hamburg" not just suspected of wanting to fulfill an educational mission. Rather shallow and droning content stingy to himself. However, there a little irritated when the private channel in the center of all of its mining area, "the most beautiful city in the world," namely, how one refers to the Elbe "Radio Hamburg" with fondness, a not insignificant knowledge gap revealed.

This happened on the third of August this year. In shops or at the tuning one can not help sometimes to deal with this transmitter. Since the third of August was a Sunday, so it was looking for a station when the auto-scan stopped and suddenly the good old "Lotto King Karl" drowned in the four walls inside. In usual Barmbek-Ba (r) sch-tone moderated the musician on his way, apparently not at all unsympathetic new show "Radio Hamburg rocks", which takes its course every Sunday 18-20 clock.
It must have been around 19:10 clock, a "lottery" started to read a text in which the happy hour was noted in a Hamburg cocktail bar, as this time is, according to program schedule for "our Tips for Your Leisure" reserved . Whether this is pure event information or to possibly disguised as event announcements advertising, is debatable. So now O-Sound "Lotto":

And if you want to make this rather a bit cozy tonight, then go to some of the "tower bar."

Up to this point there is nothing wrong. But now came a sentence that almost looks like a historical background information:

Previously the water flowed here, now there are beer and cocktails.

Before "lottery" for now explicitly - sure unconscious - reinterpretation of historical facts uplift, he specified nor the merits of the Bar:

Make yourself comfortable on the rattan palms and still is Happy Hour until 20:30 clock, that is, everything [sic] there's cocktails at half price such as a strawberry daiquiri for 3.75 euros.

Finally informed "Lotto", the listener exactly where they climb the sauce and served it along with a disinformation:

The bar can be found in the water tower on the moorland pasture in Rothenbaumchaussee 2

At this address is actually known, and the "tower bar". So what is the problem? This is that it is the walls, in which is this bar, by no means is a "former water tower", but rather a former air-raid shelter - a not entirely insignificant difference after all. So if it was flowing water, then perhaps in the form of sweat and tears, but certainly not for the purpose of water storage and water pressure generation. More>

Hamburger Strasse memorial

© www.espritdescalier.de - Stefan Fix, 2007 D place where once a much hermachendes Karstadt department store stood, now stands the ugliest monumental shopping complex that a human brain can think up - a barren, endless concrete jungle. The monument stands between the police station and shopping center erwähntem. Those coming from the mouth of Castle underground station to make purchases in the shopping center, the memorial happen. When the pedestrian light is red just, wanders some bored look and will sometimes hang on the memorial. Anyone who takes the time to look more closely, the anxiety, it conveys, can hardly escape is. The sculpture was created in 1985 by Hamburg sculptor Hildegard Huza-Schneider on behalf of the City of Hamburg.

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Charon the shadow realm

© www.espritdescalier.de - Fix Stefan, 2007
"Memorial for the victims of the bombing" (Hamburg Cemetery Ohlsdorf)

"[...] Under four broad, cross-shaped scale mass graves here are 36,918 victims of the Hamburg firestorm, the bomb nights in July and August 1943. The wooden cross beams carry the names of the districts from which the dead were transported to this resting place.

The square central block and the relief in the interior were designed in 1947 by Gerhardt Marcks and inaugurated in 1952. He served in a monumental scene and oppressive acts of the Greek myths world. Shown is the dead ferryman Charon, who is a graceful bridal couple, a husband, a mother with a child and an old man on the Acheron, the river, which separates the upper world from the realm of shadows. He has solidified and symbolizes the indifference of organized mass death. The other characters seem listless and wear, such as the sculptor explains, the human untouched over '. With the means of art is trying to preserve the dignity in the face of the terrible visitation of the city of Hamburg. " 1

Marcks also comes from the way the bronze sculpture of the Bremen Town Musicians, as she stands next to the Bremen City Hall since 1953. From the Bremen Town Musicians in turn quoted as saying "something better than death you'll find anywhere." Zuckmayer has taken this phrase in his Captain of Köpenick to clarify that for even the most hopeless situation, power can be drawn for a new beginning. If that does not also apply to the bombed Hamburg ...

  1. The text is taken from the memorial located at the billboard. [ ]

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