Category Archives: Germany

Stretch for it!

Posted on January 29, 2014 by henrycarey

. Something symbolic about an elephant in Berlin Zoo trying to get across to the other side. It’s a stretch to the green stuff, the good meal, but hasn’t it always been ? What do we ever do but stretch … Continue reading →

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Whose holocaust ?

Posted on August 11, 2013 by henrycarey

.. Twenty-two and backpacking across Europe, I stopped at Dachau, for a sad rainy day, then plunged on onto the Black Forest. In my thirties I went to Bergen-Belsen, and I remember nothing. Living in Vienna, in my forties, I … Continue reading →

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Recycle! Berlin Prenzlauerberg

Posted on March 29, 2013 by henrycarey

Reuse is the theme. Stay in a hostel or apartment that has been renovated. Eat in a restaurant in a former air raid shelter. Dance and listen to music in an old factory. Feel yourself a bit rehabilitated. Meet up … Continue reading →

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Sissy

Posted on December 13, 2012 by henrycarey

Six months before I took this photo she was a Bavarian girl in pigtails. She had gone to Belfast to learn English, so she spoke it with an Irish accent. Then she went to Grenoble to learn French, which she … Continue reading →

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The Democracy of the Gym

Posted on November 8, 2012 by henrycarey

When I went to the gym in Beirut, I was usually the only Westerner and by far the oldest person. I didn’t speak Arabic, but I managed to fit in: guys shook my hand when I entered, and the Beiruti … Continue reading →

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Fasching in Ulm, Bavaria, Germany, 1987

Posted on November 2, 2012 by henrycarey

So I was getting impatient with this much ballyhooed Fasching-fest and complained to my friend. “Just be patient,” she said, and then these guys danced out – very somber and serious, like killers in tutus.

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Fasching in Ulm, Bavaria, Germany, 1987

Posted on November 1, 2012 by henrycarey

And then they started to dance, the older people that is, for they were the most moved by the memory, the spirit of this tradition. Something got dusted off in their souls and as you will see in tomorrow’s pictures, … Continue reading →

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Fasching in Ulm, Bavaria, Germany, 1987

Posted on October 29, 2012 by henrycarey

The kids seemed … kind of angry. Germany is a complex culture, no part more so than Bavaria, which for a prosperous region acts strangely put upon. The Bavarians seem to say “We’re Catholic and Greens and traditional,” yet everyone … Continue reading →

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Carnival (Fasching) in Ulm, Germany, 1987

Posted on October 28, 2012 by henrycarey

It begins at 11:11 ate.m. on November 11. The weather isn’t great that time of year in Bavaria, but the tradition of talking back to rulers, the parody of pomp, the election of the Lord and Lady of Misrule have … Continue reading →

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Krista

Posted on September 6, 2012 by henrycarey

Krista introduced me to geese. “Choose a male,” she said, “they are quite cheap in the Hungarian countryside. You cut the neck at the moment of your ecstacy, giving you the most delicious orgasm. It is sodomy, bestiality and, for … Continue reading →

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