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Homage to Samuel Beckett

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt There is a myth from Ancient Greece – containing a well-known proverb that reverberated in Greek thought. It involves the creature Silenus, the teacher of the wine […]

Check Point Charlie Berlin

January 4, 2021January 11, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Carl Kruse During the Cold War, Checkpoint Charlie was a border between East and West Berlin or more appropriately, the ONLY border where you could legally cross between the […]

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30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

December 1, 2019October 25, 2020 Carl Kruse

  By Carl Kruse The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago and with it the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Today only fragments remain after much of […]

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Wings Over Tempelhof

November 30, 2019March 1, 2020 Carl Kruse

A winged bicycle soars over the miniature golf course at the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin. Just past the fence is housing for five-thousand asylum seekers recently arrived to Germany. […]

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