A German folks song asks whether I need to leave the town and go away. And the answer is: Yes, I have to go to Bienenbüttel. A friend of mine told me about the nature-oriented hike alongside the river Ilmenau from Bienenbüttel to Lüneburg. During that walk different dependent seas like the Dieksbach, the Hasenburger Mühlenbach and the Göxer Bach
My first opening this year! Oh I was thrilled when I discovered the announcement for this event last saturday during our foray across Braunschweig art festival. The artist Angelika Soluk displays her photos of “Lost Places” since last friday at the public library of Salzgitter. And we are live at the event! Art, sparkling wine and snacks, therefore we even
Two journalists tried to analyze the latest US-election campaign in all its facets in a book called: “Im Wahn. Die amerikanische Katastrophe” (being mad. The American catastrophe). The journey of Klaus Brinkbäumer and Stephan Lamby from June 2019 to August 2020 produced a book of almost 400 pages and it is about nothing less but the end of the truth.
Art and history are on the programme this weekend. Since wednesday there is “Sommerkunstzeit” in Braunschweig. The art exhibition takes place at different locations and places. Also on this saturday the Arbeitskreis Andere Geschichte offers one of its city walks, this time around the “östliche Ringgebiet”. And last but not least the Schlossmuseum Braunschweig attracts with is special exhibition on
Hannah Arendt wrote in essay in the seventieth from her American exile: The freedom to be free. The article gives a precise definition what freedom is and is not. It is more than the absence of fear and constraints. It is the possibility for political determination and the forming of social conditions. A fact that may have been observed with
It is mystical and legendary: the ridgeway of the Ith at Coppenbrügge. But there is more to the low mountain range between Hameln and Prymont. On the one hand a lot of insects are srimmaging here. On the other hand one can enjoy poet’s romance on some benches impressing by names such as Ringelnatz, Busch Storm or words of Albert
This saturday we are heading for the Börde-Kreis to Flechtingen. Next to the interesting moated castle the place has to nice coffeehouses with an outside terrace and a golden cow symbolizing the change from a one-horse town to a health resort. Prior to the hike we visit the baroque style garden and castle at Hundisburg. Together with the hike on
Latest news from Turkey are hard to follow from our Western democracy point of view. The information about journalists and intellectuals, who either are thrown into prison or are leaving the country, are diconcerting. What makes matters worse is a commercial crisis capturing the country. With the help of military intervention within area of conflicts president Recep Erdogan tries to
After continuous rainfall on friday luck is on our side again on sunday. We decide on the hike Otterpfad Wahrenholz-Nord and thus walk on the traces of the otter alongside the river Ise. The flora and fauna at the river fascinates us. It is a true dragonfly dream we come across. Both, beautiful demoiselles and Grüne Flussjungfern are on parade
Even though Peter Maffay is singing about