Eduard Hau - Empress Alexandra Feodorovnas Sitting Room, Cottage Palace, St. Petersberg, Russia (1855)

Grand Princess Maria Alexandrovna's Bathroom, 1850s,

Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia,

Water color by Eduard Hau,

Height: 35.3 cm (13.8 in); width: 24.2 cm (9.5 in)

Courtesy: Hermitage Museum

The Winter Palace's Grand Church by Eduard Hau

20 - 21 June 1998 - A weekend in Salzburg - crazy pretzels and sliding down in the Berchtesgaden underground salt mine

21 June 1998

Hi everyone

Today and tomorrow, twenty years ago, I was in Salzburg, in kangaroo-less Austria, and the Berchtesgadener Land in southeasternmost Germany.  Because I would not be paid until a week or so later, I had to spend a night in a hostel and eat cheap.  I found a good hostel just southeast of downtown Salzburg, called the Eduard Heinrich Haus.  I reserved my room by phone, on Friday on a payphone. (Payphones in 2018 are hard to find anymore)

Originally I was not supposed to go to Salzburg the weekend of the 20th/21st June, but rather on the 19th my work colleagues were supposed to go mountain climbing (actually hiking which could as well be climbing!) south of Holzkirchen. That was postponed until the 26th because of the weather forecast for the 19th – in the mountains of Bavaria, the weather can change unexpectedly, and it is hard to find shelter, so we made the safe decision to wait until the 26th.

From Munich to Salzburg, the Schönes Wochenende ticket that cost 35 DM, was valid all weekend on the slow trains.  I took the Regional Express from Munich Ostbahnhof via Rosenheim and Freilassing. The train was not air conditioned, as were many Regional Express trains at the time, so it was an annoyance to some passengers, to slide the window down when going over 50 mph, particularly between Munich Ost and Rosenheim.  I think I arrived around 10:30 AM in Salzburg Hbf.  As I noted from 7th June 1998, there was no longer any formal customs between Germany and Austria as a result of the Schengen Agreement, so the station customs at Salzburg Hbf I remembered in operation in June 1997, for 1998 it was completely unmanned.  It was still standing in December 2001/August 2002, and I think also in August 2004 when I returned for a day visit, but sometime in 2005, it was demolished to make room for more train platforms and was complete around February 2012.

I went to the ticket hall, and then bought a day pass for the Salzburg Verkehrsbetriebe for the city and also for the zones including Lamprechtshausen and also Trimmelkam, as I was curious about riding the Lokalbahn, which is now the S-1 line.  In today's money it would be EUR 13.60, now 190 Schilling if today's exchange rate of ATS 13.9 = EUR 1.00 were to be used, but it was cheaper 20 years ago.  It was a good ride up to Lamprechtshausen.  I bought myself a big bottle of Almdudler (it is herbal and tastes like fizzy iced tea) at the Billa grocery store, of which I posted a photo of it while waiting for a bus in Wildshut.  From Lamprechtshausen I took the "shuttle line" to Bürmoos in Oberösterreich.  There was not much to see or do, and I was not quite thirsty enough to drink any of the Almdudler while waiting for the train to return to Bürmoos and on to Salzburg, so somehow I walked to Wildshut.  I think I took an hour to get there.  It was sunny and I think about the 90s.  I caught the bus that went on to Oberndorf where the S-1 would take me back to Salzburg.  I was starting to get a headache so I drank some of the Almdudler but it was not much use.  I went back to Hbf to fetch my clothes bag and headed for the hostel.  I had to take trolley bus 51 and exit at Egger-Lienz-Straße and walk a half mile towards the Salzach bank more or less.  My bed in the room was ready, and I took a nap for about two hours, and listened to the former "Blue Danube Radio" station.  The station is now part of the independent channel FM4.  I remember a story about the Empress Sisi mentioned on the broadcast.

I could not stay at the hostel for so long, as I did not come to Salzburg just to sleep all day.  I had to go back to the Altstadt to see what was going on.  As the 1998 FIFA World Cup was still in group stage, there were two matches.  One was Belgium vs Mexico, and the other was Netherlands vs South Korea.  I did not have any internet at the time, even a "smart phone", so back in 1998, there would be internet set up and probably 50 people or so would wait in line, waiting 15 to 20 minutes to get a turn.  I think I waited a whole hour.  Grumpy-Old-Man would say "That's the way it was, and we *liked* it!"  Now everyone can just skip that and use their smartphone.  I thought of going up to the top of the castle but I decided it was getting too late for that.  I think I had a "Käsekreiner" and can of Stiegl beer for dinner, took a bus to the Parsch district, I guess for sentimental reasons, and when it was dark, I went back to the hostel.  Back then I did not know that the Sacher Hotel was across the Salzach from the Altstadt, until I saw an ad sometime in July 1998.  It was out of my price range at the time anyway.

Sunday morning the 21st was as sunny as Saturday.  That was the day I was going to go to the Schloß Salzburg by cable car.  I had breakfast at the hostel, washed up, checked out, then took bus 51 to Salzburg Hbf to leave my clothes bag.  I went to the castle by cable car.  At the top, there was a very good panoramic view, not just of the , but also towards Maxglan, Hallein and even a little bit of Tirol.  And also the Berchtesgadener Land which I would visit later that day.  After I took the cable car down, I walked around and found a pretzel seller.  They had so many kinds of soft pretzels that I chose three, all of them about 10 inches wide.  One with ham and cheese, one with just salt, and the other split and filled with chocolate.  I took them along and then after taking the bus to Maxglan, I ate the ham and cheese pretzel, maybe one more.  By that time I think I had seen enough of Salzburg.  I was not much of a fan of Sound of Music so I did not go on that tour.  It was time to leave Austria and then return to Germany.  

I boarded, I think 1:30 PM, the train at Salzburg Hbf, for Berchtesgaden via Freilassing.  It arrived in Berchtesgaden, the end of the line, at 3 PM.  I thought of going to Kehlsteinhaus / Eagles Nest (would do that on 19th July 1998), but I settled on the Salzbergwerke, the salt mine.  It is basically a 10 minute train ride inside the mountain, a walk through the tunnels, sliding down and also a boat ride through the salt pool.  Everyone is required to wear a rented salt mine overall (somewhere I have a selfie!) and stay with the guide at all times.  In comparison to the upper 80s temperatures, the inside of the mountain was about the low 50s.  It is constant year round, as I would find out later, namely in February 2012 when I visited another salt mine in Bad Dürrnberg near Hallein.  Coming out of the salt mine was not so fun, after it being so cool inside.  Oh no it's so hot!  The walk back to the rail station was not pleasant but I had a surprise going back to Munich.  The train that arrived in Berchtesgaden as an Intercity train, was returning to Munich as a Regional Express, it was air conditioned and my Schönes Wochenend Ticket was also valid at no extra charge. What was the catch?  It had to make its scheduled stops.  But I did not mind.

I think I arrived at München Hbf about 8:30 or 9 PM, went to work the next day.  The weather forecast for Friday 26 June would be mostly sunny, for my colleagues, excellent weather for mountain climbing.  I will tell about that sometime next week, what that all entailed.  No one got hurt (badly), everyone survived.  And I even had a chance to see a pre-production BMW Z3-based E36 series coupe - probably the coolest car I saw all that year.  

Well, have a nice rest of the week, everyone.  There were no "foreign" journeys - in relation to Germany - expected until Friday 10th July 1998.

Stippvisite Hamburg II: im Jenischpark

Unweit der Elbe erstreckt sich das Naturschutzgebiet Flottbektal. Der Jenischpark mit seinem großen Baumbestand und seinen weitläufigen grünen Feuchtwiesen ist ein Teil davon. Er liegt in Hamburg-Othmarschen am Geesthang über der Elbe bei Teufelsbrück. Mit dem Jenisch-Haus, dem Ernst-Barlach-Haus und dem Eduard Bargheer-Museum liegen drei Museen direkt im Park. Wahrzeichen des Parks ist das weiß…

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As part of my research to create my own Winter Palace in the Sims 4 I used the water colours of Eduard Hau that were commissioned in the 1860s. I have crossed referenced them with the current rooms of the State Hermitage. Sometimes I could only identify rooms from their ceilings as most of the rooms have been stripped of their furnishings or altogether altered. Here is a reference to the Second Reserved Apartment that occupy rooms 281-276 located in the southeastern corner which were formerly the private apartments of the young Grand Dukes Aleksandr, Vladimir, Serge & Pavl Aleksandrovitch.

Room 281 - The Drawing Room (Acted as a receiving room for guests)

Room 280 - Dining Room (in this room was another room called The Room with the Bay Windows which sits atop the portico of the Commandant's Entrance. You can still see the door which led into this room on the right window.)

Room 279 - The Drawing Room

Room 278 - Small Cabinet

Room 277 - Bedroom

Room 276 - Study

I will be publishing more pictures and screenshots so everyone can appreciate the former beauty of the Imperial Winter Palace.

Interiors of the Small Hermitage . The Winter Garden. c. 1865

Eduard Hau, (German from the Baltic, Reval, 1807- 1888 Dorpat).

the cathedral of erotic misery da B.S. Wise Tramite Flickr: * Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures. . . . Alongside his collages, Schwitters also dramatically altered the interiors of a number of spaces throughout his life. The most famous was The Merzbau, the transformation of six (or possibly more) rooms of the family house in Hannover, Waldhausenstrasse 5. This took place very gradually; work started in about 1923, the first room was finished in 1933, and Schwitters subsequently extended the Merzbau to other areas of the house until he fled to Norway in early 1937. Most of the house was let to tenants, so that the final extent of the Merzbau was less than is normally assumed. On the evidence of Schwitters' correspondence, by 1937 it had spread to two rooms of his parents' apartment on ground floor, the adjoining balcony, the space below the balcony, one or two rooms of the attic and possibly part of the cellar. In 1943 it was destroyed in a bombing raid. Early photos show the Merzbau with a grotto-like surface and various columns and sculptures, possibly referring to similar pieces by Dadaists, including the Great Plasto-Dio-Dada-Drama by Johannes Baader, shown at the first International Dada Fair, Berlin, 1920. Work by Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann and Sophie Tauber, amongst others, were incorporated into the fabric of the installation. By 1933, it had been transformed into a sculptural environment, and three photos from this year show a series of angled surfaces aggressively protruding into a room painted largely in white, with a series of tableaux spread across the surfaces. In his essay 'Ich und meine Ziele' in Merz 21, Schwitters referred to the first column of his work as the Cathedral Of Erotic Misery. There is no evidence that he used this name after 1930, however. The first use of the word 'Merzbau' occurs in 1933. Photos of the Merzbau were reproduced in the journal of the Paris-based group abstraction-création in 1933-4, and were exhibited in MoMA in New York in late 1936. The Sprengel Museum in Hanover has a reconstruction of the first room of the 'Merzbau.' Schwitters later created a similar environment in the garden of his house in Lysaker, near Oslo, known as the Haus am Bakken (the house on the slope). This was almost complete when Schwitters left Norway for England in 1940. It burnt down in 1951 and no photos survive. The last Merzbau, in Elterwater, Cumbria, England, remained incomplete on Schwitters' death in January 1948. A further environment that also served as living space can still be seen on the island of Hjertoya near Molde, Norway. It is sometimes described as a fourth Merzbau, although Schwitters himself only ever referred to three. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Schwitters

Die Töpfchenhexe

Am Mittwoch, dem 22. November 2023, feiert um 15 Uhr das diesjährige Weihnachtsmärchen „Die Töpfchenhexe“ in der Regie von Jasmin Sarah Zamani im Eduard-von-Winterstein-Theater Premiere.

Die Töpfchenhexe trägt ihren Namen nicht von ungefähr, ist sie doch eine leidenschaftliche Sammlerin kleiner Töpfchen, die sie auf einem Regal aufbewahrt und jeden Montag liebevoll putzt. Im Haus des Lehrers Lummelbuck hat sie auf dem Fensterbrett ein Töpfchen gesehen, das ihr ausnehmend gut gefällt. Es wäre das hundertste Exemplar in ihrer Sammlung. Sie muss es haben! Doch dazu braucht sie die Hilfe des Zauberers Suseldrus. Nur er kann das Schlüsselloch der Haustür des Lehrers so groß zaubern, dass sie hindurchschlüpfen und sich das Töpfchen holen kann. Das muss natürlich nachts geschehen. Am besten heute Nacht. Die beiden treffen sich im Wald. Zunächst läuft alles nach Plan. Aber als die Töpfchenhexe in das Zimmer kommt, auf dessen Fensterbrett das heiß begehrte Töpfchen steht, sitzt dort ein weinender Junge mit einem kaputten Füllfederhalter auf dem Bett und überall sind Tintenflecke. Statt zur Diebin, wird die Töpfchenhexe nun zur Helferin in größter Not. Und was bekommt sie wohl als Dank dafür?

Mit ihren Geschichten von der Töpfchenhexe hat die 1939 in Berlin geborene Autorin Vera Ruoff viele Generationen von Kindern begeistert. Nun ist es höchste Zeit, sie auch für das Theater zu entdecken.

Als Töpfchenhexe steht Anna Bittner auf der Bühne, Benedict Friederich spielt den Schluribumbi, Fridolin Lummelbuck, Sohn des Lehrers und den Polizisten Tapferling. Als Suseldrus und Räuber Balduin ist Marvin Thiede zu erleben. Gisa Kümmerling gibt die Räuberin Blasia. Mira Sanjana Sharma ist als Oma Beegenbiel zu erleben. Das Bühnenbild entwarf Aylin Kaip und die Kostüme Jasmin Sarah Zamani. Die Musik zu den Liedern von Asia Schreiter hat Peggy Einfeldt komponiert, in ihrer Hand liegt auch die Musikalische Leitung.

Premiere: Mittwoch, 22. November 2023, 15.00 Uhr

Weitere Familienvorstellungen: So, 26.11.2023, 15.00 Uhr | So, 03.12.2023, 15.00 Uhr | So, 17.12.2023, 15.00 Uhr | Di, 26.12.2023, 10.00 Uhr | Do, 28.12.2023, 10.00 Uhr | Fr, 29.12.2023, 11.00 Uhr | Sa, 30.12.2023, 10.00 Uhr | So, 07.01.2024 15.00 Uhr

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@kuenstlerhauswien KUNST HAUS WIEN MINING PHOTOGRAPHY DER ÖKOLOGISCHE FUSSABDRUCK DER BILDPRODUKTION Eröffnung: #opening Mi 08.03.2023 | 19 Uhr KÜNSTLER:INNEN Ignacio Acosta, Eduard Christian Arning, Lisa Barnard, Hermann Biow, F & D Cartier, Klasse Digitale Grafik – HFBK Hamburg (Mari Lebanidze, Miao ‘Cleo’ Yuekai, Leon Schweer und Marco Wesche), Oscar und Theodor Hofmeister, Susanne Kriemann, Honoré d’Albert de Luynes und Louis Vignes, Jürgen Friedrich Mahrt, Mary Mattingly, Charles Nègre, Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio (Lauren Bon, Tristan Duke und Richard Nielsen), Madame d’Ora, Lisa Rave, Hermann Reichling, Alison Rossiter, Daphné Nan Le Sergent, Robert Smithson, Anaïs Tondeur, James Welling, Noa Yafe, Tobias Zielony @tobiaszielony KURATOR:INNEN: Boaz Levin @levinoboas und Dr. Esther Ruelfs, @esther.ruelfs Leiterin der Sammlung Fotografie und neue Medien am MK&G. Ausstellung: #exhibition 09.03.-29.05.2023 ÖFFNUNGSZEITEN: Täglich 10 -18 Untere Weißgerberstraße 13, 1030 Wien https://www.kunsthauswien.com/de/Ausstellung (hier: KUNST HAUS WIEN. Museum Hundertwasser) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpheLpPsgga/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Peter Hacks: Der vergleichende Zoologie-Song

I An jeder Ecke jeden Zooes Sitzt irgendein verrücktes Tier; Im ersten Haus sitzt gleich ein rohes Geschöpf: ich meine den Kassier. Ich geh ganz artig durch das Gatter Mit Eduard, dem jungen Mann; Doch der Kassier macht noch Geschnatter: Nun geht mal rein Hier fängt es an. Oh oh Im Zoo Genau wie anderswo.

II Im zweiten Haus wirbt der Gorilla Um die Schimpansin, schön und hell, Und er posaunt wie einst Glen Miller Und trommelt auf sein Busenfell.

Da wird der Eduard lebendig. Er zeigt mir seine Muskeln her; Auch sei er reich und sehr verständig - wie der Gorilla Prahlt auch er. Oh oh Im Zoo Genau wie anderswo.

III Im dritten Haus die Stabheuschrecke Liebt ihre Männer nur bedingt, Weil sie sie alle um die Ecke Und dann in ihren Magen bringt.

Dem frechen Eduard indessen Mach ich das wütendste Gesicht, Ich hab die Männer längst gefressen: Wie das Insekt; Ich mag nicht. Oh oh Im Zoo Genau wie anderswo.

IV Im vierten Haus hört die Wildkatzen Man ganz verschiedentlich miaun, Weil sie, wenn sie verliebt sind, kratzen Und, wenn sie bös sind, zärtlich schaun.

Der Eduard spürt meine Krallen- Ob ich wohl gar in Liebe bin? Er faucht, ich beiss. Die Hiebe fallen Wie bei den Katzen Her und hin. Oh oh Im Zoo

Interiors of the Winter Palace. The Boudoir of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna by Eduard Hau.

Views of the halls of the Winter Palace. Council room of Emperor Alexander I. Eduard Hau, Russia, Mid XIX century.

The Pavilion Hall, 1864. Eduard Petrovich Hau

House Schibli Lengnau, Bern, Switzerland; 1927

Eduard Lanz (plan and photography by Robert Walker)

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via "Mitteilungsblatt / Berner Heimatschutz"; Robert Walker (2004)