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Marcel Krueger

@kingofpain666

9 Nov

I don't have a #Stolperstein in Ireland that I can clean today, but I can remember Expressionist poet and painter John Höxter, who has one on Hardenbergstraße 28a in #Berlin, in front of the new Romanisches Café. #KeinVerblassen

Born 1884 in Hannover, he went to Berlin to study arts but soon immersed himself fully in the café scene around Ku’damm. Höxter became a permanent fixture of the Romanisches Café and was friends Else Lasker-Schüler, Renee Sintenins and Erich Mühsam.

He painted and composed lyric, had affairs with men and women (among them actresses Spela Albrecht and Emmy Hennings), and soon developed a lasting morphine addiction. Leo von König painted Spela and John together in 1909 under the title ‘Boheme-Café’.

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Marcel Krueger

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8 Sep

I just spent 2 weeks on beautiful Crete, from where I watched the Berlin “anti-Coronavirus” protests & middle class Germans happily mingling with Neo-Nazis. Here’s a small story from Greece in WW2 for all who think that the #Wehrmacht “really wasn’t that bad”. #NeverAgain #Thread

In May 1941, after occupying mainland Greece, the German army attacked #Crete. They staged a massive airborne invasion with the Fallschirmjäger paratroops who were opposed by British and Greek troops and Cretan civilians.

After two weeks of bloody battle, the #Fallschirmjäger defeated the defending troops, but sustained losses so heavy that Adolf Hitler forbade any airborne landings for the rest of World War 2. Over 4000 of them were killed or lost in action.

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Marcel Krueger

@kingofpain666

2 Apr

Given that it's #FolkloreThursday, I thought I might tell you a story about witches and fart runes (yes, fart runes) from the #Westfjords of #Iceland. THREAD

The Westfjords are a large peninsula in northwestern Iceland, one of the truly remote regions of the country. Only 7,000 people live in an area roughly half the size of Scotland. No wonder that this remote region has for centuries been associated with dark arts and witchcraft.

The main attraction here is the solitude and breathtaking scenery: the cliffs at Látrabjarg comprise the longest bird cliff in the northern Atlantic Ocean, and the uninhabited and dramatic Hornstrandir peninsula is a hiking paradise for those seeking solitude in summer.

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Marcel Krueger

@kingofpain666

19 Mar

"Iceland - A Literary Guide for Travellers" is out! Getting there now is not easy, so I humbly suggest it for armchair travellers. Those need excellent book purveyors, so here's a list of ace bookshops that will safely order & deliver it. An icy THREAD: #indiebookshops #Iceland

Let's start with the Icelanders: IÐA Zimsen is a lovely bookshop cafe in downtown Reykjavik, and I'm planning to launch of the book there soon - we planned to have it in April, but, you know... Ring ahead to check if they are open. facebook.com/IdaZimsen #indiebookshops

Just up the road on Laugavegur 18 is Mál og Menning, an Icelandic institution and one of my favourite shops in Reykjavik. Please also ring ahead, I could not find any details about opening hours online. facebook.com/malogmenning #indiebookshops

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