Eisenhüttenstadt, 21 November 2009, I went to Eisenhüttenstadt once again this weekend but didn’t get a chance to see more than the incredibly vast reaches of the brand new paper mill that flanks the railroad from Frankfurt an der Oder. However, there was another interesting perception unintentionally resuming a thought that arose Thursday night in [...]
Eisenhüttenstadt 21 October 2009 If I would be a serious deltiologist (i.e. someone who collects postcards) the topic of urban renewal would be one of my favorites. Cards are as rare as exciting as they record a development which is very momentary and dynamic. Yesterday I found this piece in a small stationary shop here [...]
Eisenhüttenstadt, 28 September 2009 So I took a Sunday train, filled with hikers and bikers on their way to the calm lakes east of Berlin, and arrived in a placidly sunlit Eisenhüttenstadt around noon. The trees already wore the seasonal style of leaves, starting to undress and drop leaf after leaf into this mild wind [...]
Urban Dream Management presents a new series of postcard-based blogging. In this series, German blogger Ben Kaden depicts moments and changing scenes from places that used to belong to East German territory, and which 20 years ago shifted from the socialist East block to the Western market economy – yet at the same time dismissing its [...]