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The pre World War II Berlin was collected on the other side of Tiergarten. Its heart had been resuscitated in the Brandenburg Gate with its Pariser Platz.
Michael Jackson’s antics, however, could not be kept out. From the reconstructed venerable Adlon Hotel next door, the entertainer caught the attention of the world in 2002, by dangling his infant son out of the window of his room.
I was struck by the speed that the moon moved on. When I told Steve about this, he nodded thoughtfully. “Time flies,” he said. He was now talking about himself: “It is now 35 years that I have been in Berlin.”
The crown jewel of Ku’damm (as locals called Kurfurstendamm) was the KaDeWe, which was an abbreviation for Kaufhaus des Westens (Department Store of the West). With “60,000 square meters of sales space,” it is continental Europe’s largest store. On its 6th floor, I strolled in its legendary food hall, comparable with the Harrods’ basement in London. I sat at the sea-food counter for dinner and shared a conversation with a man visiting from the suburbs.
... The bombed-out tower of Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church has been left standing, nicknamed “Hollow Tooth.” I recorded the moment on the camera ; I was struck by the speed that the moon...
When I came out, the moon was peaking through an iconic reminder of that War, just a few blocks away on Ku’damm.
...on one of its side streets of residential buildings where the refined lifestyle of earlier times still lingered.
Bismarck (Otto von) would have approved. I was staying near Kurfurstendamm, the boulevard he commissioned (in late 19th century) to rival the Champs-Elysees...
There was a note on my pillow, a twelve line poem, “Verklarter Herbst” by Georg Traki, about how the year ends in the “Transfigured Autumn.” One line was especially appropriate: “Mit goldnem Wein und Frucht der Gärten (With golden vine and fruit in the garden).” There was a bowl of fruit on the side table in my room next to a window that overlooked the exquisite garden courtyard of this hotel, Brandenburger Hof.
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