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meanwhile...
Feb. 10th, 2006 01:46 pmDue to my flight back to Munich being cancelled, I'm currently stuck at the airport of Vienna. Cross your fingers the alternate flight via Frankfurt (oh geographical insanity!) works.
Anyway: notable impressions of the week included meeting Lars "Son of Willy" Brandt, who wrote a book about his late father called "Andenken", which is an untranslatable pun in German, meaning both "remembering a dead person" and "souvenir". It's short and, very rare in German literature about one's father, especially of that generation, marvellously free of accusations. (But then Willy Brandt went into exile at age 19 when Hitler came to power and hasn't been forgiven for doing the right thing ever since in some circles. So, no Third Reich issues for Brandt Junior.) As a couple of years ago I came across the son of Günther Guillaume (aka the East German spy who was Brandt's attaché and hence contributed to his downfall), I found it interesting that Guillaume Junior did have all those issues, and raging anger etc, whereas Lars B. was placid and a bit bemused by life.
On a completely different note, as far as museums featuring Roman relics are concerned, of which I visited quite a lot in the last three weeks, the top price has to go to the one in Cologne. Most charming is probably the Antikensammlung in Leipzig, and coldest is the Ephesos-Museum in Vienna. Which is located in spectacularly beautiful rooms, all Austrian k.u.k. splendour, and the exhibits themselves, from Ephesos in Turkey as the name indicates, are beautiful, but they don't heat at all. Which is a problem if you have to walk around in evening wardrobe for several hours....
Hoping that I didn't catch a cold, I shall check once more on my replacement flight...
Anyway: notable impressions of the week included meeting Lars "Son of Willy" Brandt, who wrote a book about his late father called "Andenken", which is an untranslatable pun in German, meaning both "remembering a dead person" and "souvenir". It's short and, very rare in German literature about one's father, especially of that generation, marvellously free of accusations. (But then Willy Brandt went into exile at age 19 when Hitler came to power and hasn't been forgiven for doing the right thing ever since in some circles. So, no Third Reich issues for Brandt Junior.) As a couple of years ago I came across the son of Günther Guillaume (aka the East German spy who was Brandt's attaché and hence contributed to his downfall), I found it interesting that Guillaume Junior did have all those issues, and raging anger etc, whereas Lars B. was placid and a bit bemused by life.
On a completely different note, as far as museums featuring Roman relics are concerned, of which I visited quite a lot in the last three weeks, the top price has to go to the one in Cologne. Most charming is probably the Antikensammlung in Leipzig, and coldest is the Ephesos-Museum in Vienna. Which is located in spectacularly beautiful rooms, all Austrian k.u.k. splendour, and the exhibits themselves, from Ephesos in Turkey as the name indicates, are beautiful, but they don't heat at all. Which is a problem if you have to walk around in evening wardrobe for several hours....
Hoping that I didn't catch a cold, I shall check once more on my replacement flight...
