London July 2016
Photography Berlin 2016
Wrocław, March 2016
How to make basmati rice in an OBH rice cooker
Rinse and soak 500 g rice as you would normally, till the water runs clear.
Put a little bit of oil in the bottom of the cooker.
Add the drained rice, salt and 800 ml water. Et voilà – the cooker does the rest.
Berlin Art Week and photography course September 2015
Saturday 12 September
Arrival. Spent a good part of the afternoon trying to find out what to do about my missing wallet which disappeared on the way from the airport to Bahnhof Zoo. Saw for the first time the less friendly and helpful side of Berlin that everybody talks about.
In the evening a self-indulgent dinner with two friends at Les Solistes by Pierre Gagnaire.
Sunday 13 September
Köpenicker Strasse, Engelbecken, Am Lokdepot, Park am Gleisdreieck
Monday 14 September
Tuesday 15 September
Day 1 of a four-day course in basic photography by Tomàs Correa @Pentaprisma. Highly recommended. Every day we met at a café for about an hour’s theory and then went out to practise and ended up having our photos evaluated.
Afterwards some more walking around Berlin, a.o. to the pomposity that ís Karl-Marx-Allee.
Wednesday 16 September
Day 2 of the photography course – Tempelhofer Feld (one of my favourite places in Berlin).
Later a gallery walk (posted as an event on internations.org) in the Potsdamer Strasse area.
Galleries visited during the evening’s gallery walk: Aurel Scheibler, Esther Schipper, Barbara Wien, Plan B, Nolan Judin, Guido W. Baudach, Blain Southern, Arndt, Tanja Wagner, and Exile.
Thursday 17 September
The photography course continued at Schöneberger Südgelände
Friday 18 September
Day four of photography course. Theory in Café Wahrhaft Nahrhaft, practice in RAW Gelände, an area which is soon to succumb to “development”.
Visit to Positions Berlin Art Fair.
Dinner in Tapas y Más.
Saturday 19 September
ABC Art Fair. Dinner in Greek restaurant Mandragoras.
Sunday 20 September
A meeting in a projektbau showroom in Stralau, and a walk around to see (again) if I might want to live on Halbinsel Stralau.
Berliner Liste Art Fair.
Dinner in Marinehaus Restaurant und Kneipe
Painting by Josef Petersen for sale
66 cm x 82 cm. From the early 1950s.
Josef Petersen was the grandson of the Norwegian Poet Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven and I don’t know much about him, nor the painting, except it was first given to Mr and Mrs Harremoes, Lundtofte, Denmark, for the silver wedding, by Mr Carl Castenskjold. Mrs Harremoes then gave it to my mother, Marie Møller, f. Skovmand, when she moved to Buegården, Bagsværd, in 1984. Contact me if interested.
A walk on Stralau peninsula
Water on three sides, so centrally located, such wasted opportunities. A lot of really nice flats built and being built, and very idyllic surroundings, but no character, no “personality”, not ONE café or restaurant or shop, apart from a small bakery. Not even any people to be seen, really, for that matter, despite the fact it was a Saturday and many people already live in the area.
A walk around Alt-Moabit and Wedding Süd 28 June 2015
Thomasiusstrasse, just north of Bellevue S-Bahn Station, is a very short stree, so judging by the number of Stolpersteine, it either housed a high concentration of Jewish residents, or one very zealous snitch:
Moving on:
Köpenicker Strasse – an area under development
The northernmost part of Köpenicker Straβe, starting from Heinrich-Heine Straβe U-Bahn Station, has received development funding till 2019. Here are some impressions from 2014 and 2015.
So central, so well-connected by public transport, so close to the Spree, such potential. In a few years’ time we won’t remember what it looked like.
Heinrich-Heine Straβe U-Bahn Station is one of the first stations in Berlin, and like many of them, designed by Alfred Grenander. It was one of the ‘Geisterbahnhöfe’ during the cold war and the main entrance levelled with the ground and covered up. I have not been able to find a photo of the main entrance as it looked originally.
South of Heinrich-Heine Straβe U-Bahn Station:
More impressions from walking around Berlin May 2015
