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  • A Letter to Helsinki

    by fraumorena

    Dear Helsinki, visiting you made me thoughtful. You surprised me with your Street Art District, you frightened me with your massive buildings in Katajanokka and you touched my heart with your peculiar language. All these long words and names that I was unable to keep in mind and every time Aleksi* asked me where I’d spent the day I had to describe the place...

    22. September 2017
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    Architecture, Culture, Featured, Finland, Helsinki, Travel
  • Kuala Lumpur and the Batu Caves

    by fraumorena

    When I woke up the first morning in Kuala Lumpur there was a heavy thunderstorm passing by and I could hear an alarm bell from the inside of the hostel. I quickly jumped into my pants and opened the door of our female dorm. The hostel’s courtyard, a wonderful open-air common area, was flooded and the staff was trying to keep the water from...

    18. April 2017
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    Culture, Featured, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Travel
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    The beauty of Cologne (Part 1: Nippes)

    by fraumorena

    (English text below) Der Geruch von verbranntem Holz liegt in der Luft und erinnert mich an die Eifel, an den Holzofen meiner Großmutter, der im Winter immer noch zum Heizen der Küche benutzt wird und als zweiter Herd dient. Ich kann förmlich das Knacken der glühenden Holzscheite hören. Mit dem Rad fahre ich durch die Hartwichstraße, vorbei an einem kleinen Spielplatz und an mehreren...

    1. May 2016
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    Featured, Heimat
  • Reykjavik’s impressive architecture – Part 01: Harpa

    by fraumorena

    There are two buildings in Reykjavik that deeply impressed me. Both with a unique character. In this first part of impressive Icelandic architecture I will show you the wonderful HARPA – a futuristic concert and conference hall at the old harbour of Reykjavik right beside the sea. HARPA concert hall Inspired by Iceland’s exceptional landscape and its diverse lightning atmosphere HARPA was designed by...

    7. December 2015
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    Architecture, Art, Featured, Iceland, Travel
  • The Venetian Ghetto

    by fraumorena

    Did you know that the word “Ghetto” arise from Venice? It comes from the old Venetian dialect word “geto” which means “foundry”. In the 16th century Jewish people were forced to live in an isolated area within the Venetian district Cannaregio – an abandoned site of a former foundry that produced canons. The Jewish life was full of restrictions at that time: They were...

    29. November 2015
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    Featured, Italy, Travel, Urban Studies, Venice
  • PROPORTIO or “The art of curating”

    by fraumorena

    As a Graphic Designer I’m always looking for interesting exhibitions on my travels. In Venice I found a very special one: PROPORTIO. The exhibition was located in an old impressive Palazzo close to the Canal Grande in Campo San Beneto – The Palazzo Fortuny. The special thing about the Palazzo as a stage of art is that the rooms and structures of and within the...

    22. November 2015
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    Art, Culture, Exhibition, Featured, Italy, Travel, Venice
  • Street Art Who’s Who: Alice Pasquini

    by fraumorena

    Alice Pasquini is an Urban storyteller. A female street artist who wants to change the world by bringing some hope back into the streets. Her warmly colorful artworks show strong independent women, playing kids and intimate moments. Often she also uses short text passages within her artworks to deepen the message. Her work is an expression of being alive, of appreciating the single moment...

    7. November 2015
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    Featured, Streetart

Topic of the month

Winter blues

by fraumorena

The wide mountain scenery is spreading out its gentle green hills and brown woods before my eyes. The cloud-covered heaven rarely reveals some rays of sunshine. But the birds in my mothers garden doesn’t seem to care about this uncomfortable cold weather at all. I had come here in the hope of seeing the landscape covered in glittering snow but like most times around christmas there is no snow at all. Nevertheless I’m enjoying my little end-of-the-year-retreat. Over the years it had become my personal ritual to spend a week at my mum’s place on the countryside before starting into a new year. Often the time together didn’t turned out to be as peaceful and relaxed as I had hoped it to be like and in many years I packed my backs earlier than planned and was happy to be back in Cologne, the city, my own place. But this year we somehow managed to pull ourself together and so I can enjoy the time here and even find some time to finally finish...

27. December 2017
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Heimat, Topic of the month

Recent Posts

22. September 2017

A Letter to Helsinki

Dear Helsinki, visiting you made me thoughtful. You surprised me with your Street Art District, you frightened me with...

by fraumorena
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18. April 2017

Kuala Lumpur and the Batu Caves

When I woke up the first morning in Kuala Lumpur there was a heavy thunderstorm passing by and I...

by fraumorena
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25. September 2016

Malacca – a multicultural seaport with a rich history

The air was still full of haze when the bus to Malacca entered the Malaysian state. I had never...

by fraumorena
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nippes wilhelmplatz
1. May 2016

The beauty of Cologne (Part 1: Nippes)

(English text below) Der Geruch von verbranntem Holz liegt in der Luft und erinnert mich an die Eifel, an...

by fraumorena
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I'm Anna, a 35 years old graphic designer based in Cologne, Germany. This Blog is about the never-endling journey of life. It's about reminding myself to stay awake and curious, of seeing things from another perspective. Feel free to take part of my journey and be inspired! :)

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Global friendship

The heartache antidote

by fraumorena

What to do, when your boyfriend suddenly breaks up with you? Well, for a travel soul like me the answer was clear: Jump into the next plane and go somewhere you’ve never been before. ICELAND seemed to be the perfect destination for this plan – a lonely island far away from the European mainland, far away from home and from my everyday life. So I packed my bags and jumped into the next plane to Reykjavik in Juli this year. By approaching Iceland I became aware of one thing immediately: I’m entering a world where natures rules. As far as the eye could see the ground was covered with black lava rocks.

1. December 2015
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Featured, global friends, Iceland, People, Travel, Words

Street art Love

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Street art in Reykjavik

Published by fraumorena

WALL POETRY Urban Art Festival | Collaboration of Iceland Airwaves and Urban Nation Berlin | Every year in november Reykjavik is the stage for a huge music festival called...

31. December 2015
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Featured, Iceland, Streetart, Travel

Street Art Who’s Who: Alice Pasquini

Published by fraumorena

Alice Pasquini is an Urban storyteller. A female street artist who wants to change the world by bringing some hope back into the streets. Her warmly colorful artworks show...

7. November 2015
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Featured, Streetart

Venice Street Art

Published by fraumorena

Street Art in Venice is a lot more subtile than in other cities. You don’t have huge murals here (at least I didn’t find any). The artworks are often...

5. November 2015
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Featured, Italy, Streetart, Venice

Urban Studies

Reykjavik: The Coocoo’s Nest

by fraumorena

By closing the door behind me I’m entering another world. A world wrapped in Warpaint music. I’ve never heard a Warpaint song in a café before. The slightly melancholic tones suit my inner conception of Iceland, correspond to its winter-melancholy, to the Northern Lights and to the vast of its ice landscape. But right now it’s summer and the street in front of the Coocoo’s Nest is full of people eating ice cream. There is an ice cream shop next doors where you have to draw a number to get your desired scoops of ice cream. Icelanders are addicted to ice cream! Even in cold winter days. At least this is what Ragi, a 59-years old Icelander told me.

6. December 2015
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Featured, Iceland, Travel, Urban Studies

The Venetian Ghetto

by fraumorena

Did you know that the word “Ghetto” arise from Venice? It comes from the old Venetian dialect word “geto” which means “foundry”. In the 16th century Jewish people were forced to live in an isolated area within the Venetian district Cannaregio – an abandoned site of a former foundry that produced canons. The Jewish life was full of restrictions at that time: They were not allowed to leave their area at night-time and all access points were controlled by guards. When they wanted to leave the Ghetto at daytime they had to wear distinguishing clothes. Moreover they were only allowed to work in certain fields such as bankers, money-lender, tailor or tinker and had to pay extraordinary high taxes.

29. November 2015
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Featured, Italy, Travel, Urban Studies, Venice

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