Blog

I like to write about people, the places they live and the things with which they choose to surround themselves. Here are some of my favorite pieces that made it into Article.

Early Cinema in Karlsruhe

Preliminary Remark The following text is an expanded version of the text that was published in “A look at history – Contributions to Karlsruhe city history” (OT: Blick in die Geschichte – Karlsruher stadthistorische Beiträge), No. 135, on June 17, 2022. The text aims to depict the first years of early cinema in Karlsruhe; i.e. …

Looking for Fanny Carlsen

Preliminary remark: This text was mostly written in the course of 2021. Many references to the entries refer to this, e.g. B on filmportal.de etc. In the meantime, the level of information regarding Fanny Carlsen has changed fundamentally. The following text explains how this happened. I probably first became aware of Fanny Carlsen when I …

February 2022: Silent films in Köln

Some weeks ago one could attend a couple quite special cinematographic events in Köln: “Frau im Mond” (1929) and “Spione” (1928) by Fritz Lang have been screened at the Filmforum NRW, right next to the Dom, in the framework of the “Filmreihe Fritz Lang – Ikone der Filmgeschichte mit Livemusik”. The third and last …