Tag: germany
A culture of sorrow
Orhan Pamuk describes a collective sorrow that permeates his native city but this cultural meme seems to have taken root everywhere.
Trier
Germany’s oldest city, Trier was an important centre of the Roman Empire and sometime home to the Emperor himself.
Köln and Bonn
Thirtieth birthday treat: a weekend by train to two German cities and a marvellous art exhibition.
Stasimuseum Normannenstraße
The banality of evil: a Stasi boss who ate breakfast while down the corridor prisoners awaited their fate.
Monschau and Vogelsang
Enchantment and evil: a fairytale town and a Nazi training camp in Germany’s Westwall.
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
The walls have ears: a painful look at the methods of the former East German regime shines a light on the darkness.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Bus 174 (Ônibus 174)
A fascinating documentary tracing the circumstances that led one young streetkid to take hostages on a Rio bus.
- Originally published: 28 Mar 2007 in Film
Third Eye Foundation and Matt Elliott
Music for ghosts played by ghosts: in concert with Matt Elliott and Third Eye Foundation
- Originally published: 21 May 2011 in Concerts
The End of the Affair
Greene’s quirky take on the silent suffering of the English middle class.
- Originally published: 17 Jan 2010 in Books
Les Poupées Russes (Russian Dolls)
Though it could never live up to its predecessor, Russian Dolls is pretty pleasant in its own way.
- Originally published: 20 Mar 2007 in Film
Rounding up to 2006
We’ve been a bit busy lately, what with our jetset lifestyle and everything.
- Originally published: 17 Jan 2006 in Personalia
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.