THIS IS A COMPLETELY UNRELATED REPLYgethenianOctober 12 2011, 06:31:54 UTC
...because I don't know how else to contact you. ^_^
So hey, conveniently German pal, I'm doing a video essay about a movie set in Berlin and wondered if you happened to know anything about a big golden angel statue there called the Berlin Victory Column. Specifically, I've read that this statue is viewed by Germans as representing war victories and is therefor sometimes controversial because it has ties in people's minds to Nazis. Do you know if this is true or if this statue has any other particular cultural importance other than its historic origins and meaning?
Re: THIS IS A COMPLETELY UNRELATED REPLYyakalskovichOctober 16 2011, 13:39:36 UTC
Yes.
Siegessäule, it is called.
Cultural relevance is as follows: around the Siegessäule is the Tiergarten (as known from the Rufus Wainwright song), which is a park, not a zoo (even though 'Tiergarten' can be used for zoo in German). In that park, the world's largest techno event, the Love Parade, used to take place in the nineties and early 2000s. Siegessäule was the centre. 'Siegessäule' is also the name of Berlin's oldest gay magazine, as the Tiergarten is (or at least used to be) popular as a cruising area. See Rufus Wainwright's song...
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It's really very fun.
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P.S. Look, it's me. I don't think I have looked at my LJ friends page in 2012.
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So hey, conveniently German pal, I'm doing a video essay about a movie set in Berlin and wondered if you happened to know anything about a big golden angel statue there called the Berlin Victory Column. Specifically, I've read that this statue is viewed by Germans as representing war victories and is therefor sometimes controversial because it has ties in people's minds to Nazis. Do you know if this is true or if this statue has any other particular cultural importance other than its historic origins and meaning?
Thanks lots. ^_^
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Siegessäule, it is called.
Cultural relevance is as follows: around the Siegessäule is the Tiergarten (as known from the Rufus Wainwright song), which is a park, not a zoo (even though 'Tiergarten' can be used for zoo in German). In that park, the world's largest techno event, the Love Parade, used to take place in the nineties and early 2000s. Siegessäule was the centre. 'Siegessäule' is also the name of Berlin's oldest gay magazine, as the Tiergarten is (or at least used to be) popular as a cruising area. See Rufus Wainwright's song...
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