The Osteiner Hof at the head of the Schillerplatz has a bit of history. Even for Mainz The Osteiner Hof (“Court of Ostein”) is one of several Baroque-era palatial mansions…
A quote from Heinrich von Kleist‘s letter to Adolphine von Werdeck stretching through the shrubbage on the Schillerplatz and advertising the 3rd SWR Literature Night (tomorrow night), one of the…
> Oh, OK then. But I did warn you… Allegorical thingies clustered around Fastnachtsbrunnen. Answers on a $20 note, please…
> Good thing it’s winter. Thinks: Even if the water WERE turned on, it would have frozen to ice, so there’s no danger of my getting wet… So a good…
Shill (n): a person who helps another person or organization to sell goods or services without disclosing their relationship with the seller Schiller: Bloke on a pillar on the eponymous…
>Presenting my darling nephew Ben and my dynamo niece Sarah doing their best impersonation of the Carnival statue (behind) in Schillerplatz. Their 3 week visit unfortunately coincided with 3 weeks…
>Schiller is one of the towering figures in German literature and philosophy (and they certainly don’t have a shortage of towering literary figures over here). This statue is in Schillerplatz…
>A late summer evening – threatening sky included – looking across the Schillerplatz down the Schillerstrasse, with the Carnival Fountain silhouetted acroos the night sky.
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