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 E.T.A. Hoffmann house and
museum in Bamberg by Nemorino
His position as music director of the theater didn't last very long, so he soon had to make his living by giving music lessons to the daughters of well-to-do Bamberg families. One of these girls, Julia Marc, was only thirteen when Hoffmann started giving her voice lessons, and by the time she was fifteen he was hopelessly in love with her. Unfortunately he was twenty years older, and Julia's mother had already arranged for her to marry a rich merchant from Hamburg. Also Hoffmann was a rather small and unattractive man, and in any case he was already married to someone else.
Julia liked him well enough as a teacher and fatherly friend, but that wasn't what he wanted, and the whole thing turned out very badly, as do most of the love affairs in Hoffmann's stories and novellas.
In this house Hoffmann began writing his opera Undine, which was first performed in Berlin in 1816 and can still occasionally be seen in German opera houses. In fact, it was performed several times here in Bamberg last April, in a guest production by the Theatr Wielki in Poznan.
Nonetheless, Hoffmann is best known today as the hero of an opera, not as a composer.
Hoffmann's house is now a museum, which is open Tuesday-Friday from 16.00 to 18.00, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10.00 to 12.00 (from May to October). Admission is EUR 2.00 (EUR 1.00 for students). Leave a Comment
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 Right arm of the Regnitz River
in Bamberg by Nemorino
This photo shows the right arm of the Regnitz River, which at this point is also part of the Main-Danube canal. The yellow and light brown building in the center of the photo is the Bamberg Adult Education Center, which is in an old (remodeled) electricity plant.
A short ways below Bamberg the Regnitz River comes to an end, because it empties into the Main.
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 E.T.A. Hoffmann Theater in
Bamberg by Nemorino
The most recent one was a performance by the Coburg Theater of Tales of Hoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach, which of course is highly appropriate because the protagonist of the opera is the man the theater was named after.
This opera was written long after Hoffmann's death and was based on stories he had told in several of his novellas. In the opera (which I have seen in New York, Frankfurt am Main, Regensburg and Leipzig, but not in Bamberg), the character Hoffmann tells the stories of four women he has loved and lost. At least one of these was perhaps inspired by the real Hoffmann's hopeless Bamberg love affair with Julia Marc (see previous tip). Leave a Comment
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 Crailsheim by Nemorino
In 1945 the center of Crailsheim was almost completely destroyed by air raids and ground battles at the end of the Second World War. From 1952 to 1993 soldiers of the US Army were stationed here, in McKee Barracks.
I only spent one afternoon in Crailsheim, to do a presentation at the Adult Education Center. (It went fine, thanks. Nice group of teachers). Leave a Comment
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 Site of the former main
Synagogue by Nemorino
The Synagogue was built here in 1874 and was destroyed by the Nazis in October 1938, even before their nationwide pogrom and terror night on November 9, 1938.
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 the moat and townwalls by globetrott
On my picture you may see "Fetter Turm" (fat tower) and the moat that was onces filled with water and makes a perfect area for walks and partly even to park cars.
The moat is around 4 meters below the level of the ordinary streets.
This picture was taken from the bridge leading from the trainstation to Handwerkerhof. Leave a Comment
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 Site of the Synagogue "Adas
Jisroel" by Nemorino
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 the medieval walls of Nürnberg by globetrott
You may walk along these walls for quite a long time and you may even still see the big corridor, where the armed soldiers could run to and fro, when defending the town.
At many places there will be additional towers and only at a few places you have a possibility to get outside of the walls, where you mostly will get to recreational areas inside the moat.
You certainly need a whole day to entirely explore all of these walls. Leave a Comment
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 "Rock at the Park" by Maria250
"Rock at the Park" is one of the big events for rock fans and takes place every year at Pentecost. About 90 bands give their shows on those two days, performing on three different stages. Tickets for "Rock at the Park" enclude parking and camping!
Back on July 6-8, 2005 about 130,000 fans have rocked along to 80 bands. We really had a blast! Those bands I liked the most among the 80 that performed: Metallica, Mudwine, Disturbed, Silverchair, Evanescence, Within Temptation, Reaman, Limp Bizkit*, Pappa Roach, Xavier Naidoo, Him*. *These ones the heck had canceled!
"Rock at the Park"
Zeppelinstrasse
Nuremberg, 90480
Germany
ph 01149-699-74640
info@rock-im-park.de
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Erlangen has just over 100,000 inhabitants and is located about twenty kilometers north of Nürnberg. It takes thirteen minutes to get there from Nürnberg on an ICE train.
I've been to Erlangen twice to do presentations, once in January 1998 and again nearly ten years later in September 2007.
Second photo: Back side of the Egloffstein'sches Palais. This is one of the buildings where the adult education center has its classrooms.
Third photo: Erlangen railroad station.
49°35'44.39" North; 11° 0'25.76" East Leave a Comment
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