Public Address | Cafe | Muse: Postcard from Cologne: Willst Du Mich Verarschen? https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258110#post258110 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258110#post258110 I'm sure someone somewhere is suffering for the sake of DDR kitsch, but I did sit in one at the Deutsches Technikmuseum and take a magical mystery tour to Stasiland… It smelled of damp, rust and futile resignation but the kids loved it. Weird little sods.

More amusingly still, the…

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 10:49:17 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258103#post258103 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258103#post258103 Sat, 12 May 2012 09:26:37 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258102#post258102 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258102#post258102 Anyone still driving the notorious Trabis?

I'm sure someone somewhere is suffering for the sake of DDR kitsch, but I did sit in one at the Deutsches Technikmuseum and take a magical mystery tour to Stasiland… It smelled of damp, rust and futile resignation but the kids loved it. Weird…

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 09:20:53 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258101#post258101 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258101#post258101 Sat, 12 May 2012 09:19:48 +1200 jb https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258097#post258097 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258097#post258097 Sat, 12 May 2012 06:25:09 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258058#post258058 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258058#post258058 Berlin can be almost exaggeratedly international and multicultural, to the extent that I've heard other Germans half-jokingly expect a car with a "B" license plate to be driven so "differently" that a cop will wave them down, only to hear "But that's how we always drive in Berlin!" and then… ]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 17:57:58 +1200 Thomas Goodfellow https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258056#post258056 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258056#post258056 and then… ]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 17:51:04 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258002#post258002 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=258002#post258002 May dire things happen to her
54. Menopausal. Doomed to writing worthless pulp fiction.
Is that nothing?
Could be 35 and cleaning toilets. Know who I would rather be.

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 12:53:50 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257963#post257963 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257963#post257963 in translation. And not just the quote-unquote “classics” and transnational pop trash.… ]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 06:32:08 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257955#post257955 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257955#post257955 Sarah Lark
Born Christiane Gohl 1958 in Bochum.
Aka Ricarda Jordan and Elisabeth Rotenberg. Studied history and literature (Ph.D) Worked as a journalist, advertising copywriter and tour guide. Which is how she fell in lurv with NZ "magically drawn to its magical countryside" (that's what it says here, anyway) and…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 00:10:21 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257954#post257954 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257954#post257954 Ye godlets!
Thanks jb!

+1 one on that. I find this fascinating.

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 00:06:52 +1200 jb https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257953#post257953 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257953#post257953 May dire things happen to her

54. Menopausal. Doomed to writing worthless pulp fiction.
Is that nothing?

]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 23:47:52 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257926#post257926 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257926#post257926 Ye godlets!
Thanks jb!
(And I takiaue on behalf of the many many hundreds who died in the Land Wars ,either in fighting or from starvation or introduced illness. "Sarah Lark" is a no-nothing & a nithing insofar as Maori history is concerned, exploiting our land for her erroneous romances. May…

]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 19:44:29 +1200 jb https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257924#post257924 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257924#post257924 Sarah Lark
Born Christiane Gohl 1958 in Bochum.
Aka Ricarda Jordan and Elisabeth Rotenberg. Studied history and literature (Ph.D) Worked as a journalist, advertising copywriter and tour guide. Which is how she fell in lurv with NZ "magically drawn to its magical countryside" (that's what it says here, anyway) and…

]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 18:58:39 +1200 Ray Gilbert https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257871#post257871 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257871#post257871 Thu, 10 May 2012 12:25:13 +1200 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257866#post257866 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257866#post257866 Too late to edit grrr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACkmg3Y64_s

]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 11:53:50 +1200 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257861#post257861 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257861#post257861 And if you get to Hamburg I am sure David will relish this Miniatur Wunderland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ACkmg3Y64_s

]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 11:34:30 +1200 Stephen Judd https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257860#post257860 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257860#post257860 High grade Mills and Boon. Don't have time for an extensive translation of the blurb at the moment, but think historical family saga in multiple volumes.

Apparently "Sarah Lark" is the pseudonym of a German author who is a former tour guide. She has a line in medieval historical novels…

]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 11:21:36 +1200 Thomas Goodfellow https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257859#post257859 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257859#post257859 Thu, 10 May 2012 10:39:34 +1200 Matt Perot https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257853#post257853 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257853#post257853 Thu, 10 May 2012 09:44:14 +1200 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257846#post257846 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257846#post257846 Thu, 10 May 2012 08:22:49 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257844#post257844 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257844#post257844 Thu, 10 May 2012 07:23:12 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257843#post257843 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/muse-postcard-from-cologne-willst-du-mich/?p=257843#post257843 Discussion from blog post.

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