Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin was born 250 years ago in Lauffen am Neckar, i.e. just outside Heilbronn, almost two hundred years before my wife.
At home in Europe and at home in Heilbronn.
Friedrich Hölderlin was born 250 years ago in Lauffen am Neckar, i.e. just outside Heilbronn, almost two hundred years before my wife.
Cautious time criticism | Caspar David Friedrich, Moonrise at the Sea
The sun is shining and the city seems to stand still.
Suddenly torn from the dreams
The story of the bronze statue that fell from the pedestal reminds me of a poem by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer.
I've always liked poetry, but I'm definitely not alone in that, because there's hardly anyone who doesn't like poetry.
My current mood calls for a poem, one that was written by Andreas Gryphius in 1637.
There is a renewed debate about which is worse: a Nazi or a Stalinist? In fact, one can only distinguish between democrats and anti-democrats.
Albert Einstein wrote this quip as a kind of tip for a Tokyo hotel employee in November 1922.
Today it just has to be a poem again and one that I always enjoy reading myself.
When many today still think of big cities, they refer to a definition of the International Statistics Conference from 1887, which then and still validly stated that all cities with at least 100.000 inhabitants are also big cities.
Anyone who has ever read anything by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry will know immediately from the title of this article that I am referring to his book Terre des Hommes, published in 1939.