Literatur im Schloss - Archiv verworfener Möglichkeiten

Literature in Bad Mergentheim's castle - Matthias Brand read from the "archive of scrapped opportunities" from Naomi Schenck and Ulrich Rüdenauer.

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Heute Abend im Deutschordensmuseum des Mergentheimer Schlosses:

Matthias Brandt liest aus dem „Archiv verworfener Möglichkeiten“ von Naomi Schenck und Ulrich Rüdenauer

 

Die Fotografien von Naomi Schenck zeigen Szenerien für ungedrehte Filme: Meist menschenleere Räume, aufgelassene Gebäude, mit Zufallsrequisiten befrachtete Orte, die einst von Leben gefüllt waren und irgendwann verlassen wurden. Und die Orte, die einst von Leben gefüllt waren und irgendwann verlassen wurden. Und die doch „von Stoffen voll“ sind, die Geschichten beherbergen. Naomi Schenck und Ulrich Rüdenauer, der Herausgeber des Bandes "Archiv verworfener Möglichkeiten", haben 35 deutschsprachige Autoren, Essayisten und Publizisten gebeten, sich von den Bildmontagen anregen zu lassen. Der Schauspieler Matthias Brandt laß ausgewählte Geschichten aus dem Band vor.

The fabulous (German) artist and actor Matthias Brandt read essays, poems, dialogs and stories from the book "Archiv verworfener Möglichkeiten" / literally translated into: "archive of scrapped opportunities".

Naomi Schenck und Ulrich Rüdenauer beim Vorstellen der Idee hinter ihrem Buchprojekt "Archiv verworfener Möglichkeiten"

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Photographer Naomi Schenck and publisher Ulrich Rüdenauer introducing into their book project
"archive of scrapped opportunities".

35 German writers and essayists drew inspiration from and wrote stories to the photomontages of Naomi Schenck. Most of these montages show empty rooms, once filled with life and abandoned later.

The photographs of empty rooms were initially photographic storyboards for future shooting locations / filming spots. But all of them were scrapped.

Before buried totally in oblivion, Naomi and Ulrich had the idea to this book project.

Der großartige Matthias Brandt, der einige der Essays und Geschichten
zu Naomi Schencks Fotos lebendig werden ließ.

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Matthias Brandt breathed the stories, poems and essays into life with his eclectic way of reading.

SCHWARZWEIß zum Schluss, einfach weil ich's viel zu wenig mache...

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Finally monochrome photography - I do this far too seldom.

artists wanted || Pete Eckert portrait

Video about the blind photographer Pete Eckert.

Very inspiring, in my humbe opinion.

Even for those who are able to see.

http://www.peteeckert.com/

Somewhen somewhere at Langenburg

Drinking beer makes you see penguins... ;-)

It was raining cats and hens that day.
Dogs were temporarily not available at that time.

Mercury dwarfs or esoteric buddhas - make your choice.

Florets (but not Mike Floret) and kitsch-as-kitsch-can --> wonderful ;-)  !!!

Ommmmm...

Some of my favourite Plümschen / florets...

Focused man at work - unfortunately no time for a charming smile.

All in all it was a magic day.

The visit of ACB0702 in Bäd Mergentheim

Hi folks! Recent weekend we enjoyed a part of our leisure time at our favourite Espressobar Italia in our hometown Bäd Mergentheim. Unexpectedly we had a special visitor - a teenage window mannequin named ACB0702, that shows already some traces of appropriate, but intensive usage.

Nello sprang for an ice cream cone with a ball of chocolate ice cream and thereafter ACB0702 took place in our midst.

The pink shoes of H. look really gorgeously on ACB0702's feet, don't they?

The strawberry shake obviously hits the spot as well... 

  

...and a smile flashed over ACB0702's face.

Even the back of the head seems to smile... ;-)

Tree personalities on the island of Vilm

The Baltic Sea island and nature reserve of Vilm lies in the bay south of the much larger island of Rügen, it is one of Germany's most remote and tranquil spots. Covering less than 1 km², Vilm is the remnant of a moraine left as the glaciers retreated about 6000 years ago.

Although it is small, the surprising natural diversity and beauty of the Isle of Vilm has attracted hundreds of landscape painters over the last 2 centuries. Most of it is covered in forest that has been undisturbed for decades, and even centuries, with the result that its oak and beech woods are among the most untouched and impressive in Germany, and the island boasts a rich diversity of birds and small mammals. Part of the island – most of Middle Vilm and all of Little Vilm – is strictly closed to all human presence.

 One of the most spectactular and characteristic oaks in the northern part of Vilm - the "double branch oak".

View on the Middle and the Small Vilm with its beautiful, but inaccessible / "forbidden" beach.
Do you see the undulated sandy structures in the bay?

The "lightning strike beech"...

...still sprouting!

Oak and blooming cherry bush living in harmony near the north-eastern beach.

The elephant.

"Blick zur Insel Vilm", / "View to the island of Vilm", Caspar David Friedrich, 1809.

Lost without trace (?) / missed since 1945.

 View from the island of Vilm to the "white town" of Putbus, Ruegen, especially to the classicist market at the Circus of Putbus on top of the rise and its harbour Lauterbach on the waterfront.

Bäderstilarchitektur - Baltic Sea style architecture

Sellin, a seaside resort on the Isle of Rügen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

The municipality is known for its famous style of Bäderstil / Baltic Sea style architecture.

Especially the main road Wilhelmstrasse is flanked by perfectly refurbished white timber cottages.

In the same style they built up again the Sellin pier.
The Sellin Pier at the Baltic Sea was re-built in 1998 in the shape of its historical pattern from the beginning of the twentieth century which had been destroyed several times. Now it is more beautifully than ever before.