State Museum Behind Ägidien: A Place of our own

State Museum Behind Ägidien: A Place of our own

Was it pure coincidence or destiny? Friday evening, I was scrolling through the internet, thinking about what I could do on the weekend. Then I remembered, didn’t I read something about an exhibition? At the Landesmuseum Hinter Ägidien? I visit the museum’s website and bingo! On the opening weekend at the end of March, the museum is offering not only

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Book review: Otto Tutschke’s journey to Palestine

Book review: Otto Tutschke’s journey to Palestine

Otto Tutschke from Friedersdorf at Zittau may not be very well known, other than personalities like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alexander von Humboldt or Friedrich Schiller. Still exactly this Otto Tutschke did something extraordinary at his time: he travelled from his home Oberlausitz to Palestine in the year 1895. The book “Reiseerinnerungen aus drei Erdteilen – insbesondere aus Palästina” tells

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