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Radio Hamburg and the myth of the water tower

N is un "Radio Hamburg" on not just the suspect to fulfill an educational mission. Rather, it is piping and shallow content stingy to himself. However, it irritated a bit, if the private channels calculated in the center of his district, "the most beautiful city in the world," namely, how the Elbe on "Radio Hamburg" refers to a preference, a not inconsiderable knowledge gap revealed.

This happened on the third of August this year. In shops or at the station looking to get sometimes can not help but to deal with this transmitter. As the third of August was a Sunday, so it was looking for a station, as the auto-scan and stopped suddenly drowned the good old "Ray Charles" in the own four walls inside. In his usual Barmbek-Ba (r) sh-moderated tone of the musicians on his way, apparently not at all unsympathetic new program "Radio Hamburg rocks," which takes on Sundays 18-20 clock run its course.
It must have been about 19:10 clock, as a "lottery" began to read a text that has been drawing attention to the happy hour cocktails in a Hamburg bar, because this time is, according to program schedule for "our tips for your leisure time" reserved . Whether this is pure event information is or may order as event announcements advertorial is another question. Now then O-Ton "lottery":

And if you want the better to make a little cozy tonight, then goes to the best in the "Tower Bar".

Up to this point is nothing wrong. But now came a sentence, which sounds almost like a historical background information:

Earlier here, the water flowed, today there are beer and cocktails.

Before "lottery" is now explicitly to - certainly unconscious - uplift reinterpretation of historical facts, yet he clarified the benefits of the bar:

Make yourself comfortable on the rattan palms between and is still to 20:30 clock happy hour, which means that everything is [sic]'s cocktails at half price as for example a Strawberry Daiquiri for 3.75 €.

Finally, informed "lottery" the listener exactly where the climb sauce and fed them at the same time with a disinformation:

The bar can be found in the water tower on the moor pasture in the second Rothenbaumchaussee

This address is found and actually known to the "Tower Bar". So what's the problem? This is that it is in the walls, which is located in the bar, by no means a "water tower", but rather a former air raid shelter is - 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 stood a much hermachendes Karstadt department store, is now the ugliest monumental shopping complex, the mind could conceive of a human brain - an inhospitable, seemingly endless concrete jungle. The memorial stands between the police station and erwähntem CPB. Those coming from the subway station Mundsburg to make purchases in the shopping center, passes the memorial. If the pedestrian lights red just shows some of bored gaze wanders around and sometimes remain hanging on the memorial. Who takes the time to look more closely, the anxiety that it conveys is, can hardly escape. The sculpture was created in 1985 by the Hamburg-Huza sculptor Hildegard Schneider on behalf of the City of Hamburg.

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With Charon into the realm of shadows

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

"[...] Are under four broad, cross-shaped mass graves here 36 918 victims of the Hamburg firestorm of bombing raids in July and August 1943. The wooden cross beams carry the names of the districts from which the dead were transported to this place of rest.

The square central block and the relief in the interior were designed by Gerhard Marcks in 1947 and 1952 opened. He served in a monumental scene and oppressive acts of the Greek myths. Shown is the dead boatman Charon, a charming couple, a husband, a mother with a child and an old man is on the Acheron, the river that 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, over the unaffected humanity '. With the resources of art is an attempt to maintain dignity in the face of the terrible ordeal for the city of Hamburg. " 1

By the way, Marcks is also a bronze sculpture of the Bremen Town Musicians, as it stands since 1953 to the left of the Bremen Town Hall. Comes from the Bremen Town Musicians turn the statement: "something better than death you'll find anywhere." Zuckmayer has picked up this phrase in his Captain of Koepenick to clarify that may be drawn from even the most hopeless situation to force a new start. If the bombed not apply to the Hamburg ...

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

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