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...am 24.Dezember auf der Havel !
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Hurz!

Täglich zu beobachten: Viele Frauen gehen nicht etwa einfach nur spazieren, aber nicht doch, das ist doch sowas von gestern. Sie laufen in einem eingenartigen Stil, den Ihnen offenbar ihre Frauenzeitschrift (oder das TV) empfohlen hat. Es gibt sicherlich einen schicken Namen dafür, wie schon vor Jahren bei 'Ärobic' ...anstatt Gymnastik. Achja: die entsprechende Kleidung dazu wurde auch noch gekauft.
Jedenfalls sieht das immer sehr ulkig aus (ob mit oder ohne Skistöckchen). Wahrscheinlich glauben sie allen Ernstes, sie werden dabei jünger & schöner? Ach, man weiß es nicht, und die Welt ist auch hier wieder voller schöner Wunder...

...leider hatte er nie auf vertrautem Fuß mit der geheimen Bruderschaft des Menschenwerks gestanden, das unter dem Namen Technik läuft.(V. Nabokov)

Hinter dem Bilderfenster schwebt eine durchscheinende Straßenbahn wie ein bunter Fisch in einem Aquarium vorüber.(V. Nabokov)

Alle schauen nach rechts und merken nicht, dass sie linksherum geschlachtet werden.(H. Danisch)

... We humans are attracted to catastrophes.
. . . . For thousands of years people predicting the end of the world. If just ONE of them was right, we wouldn't be here. And it's the only field where you can be sure that you're 100% wrong to be a futurist predicting the end of the world.
. . . . BUT predicting a catastrophe: the newspapers love it, the television loves it, it's a wonderful selling tool for the media. (...)
(Ian Plimer ... https://bit.ly/2Y4vvwl )

... and I'm to blame
. . . . When I look from time to time into the (wonderful) booklets of the LA VIE ELECTRONIQUE CD series, I realize again and in retrospect that I was to a certain degree responsible for the visual image of Klaus Schulze, ...unconsciously and unintentionally.
. . . . Most of the many photos during the early heydays from 1975 on, and until 1981 (and a few beyond that year) were done by me, and they were also used by me, for the daily work with the other Klaus: for various releases on covers, for advertising and giving to magazines for their articles about KS. For many years I also have sent copies of these photos to fans, if they have asked for an autograph. During all those years and until the advent of the digital technique I have made those photos all by myself, in improvised dark-rooms, in Hambühren and later in Winsen; in the late eighties in Berlin. I produced hundreds of enlargements from the negative films onto photo paper. During many long nights I made the little (24 x 36 mm) b/w negatives as large, as dark, as bright, as soft, as hard, ...as I wanted, or as it was needed. I could also do dodging or burning (= abwedeln oder nachbelichten) or make a double exposure as the cover of LVE 16 shows: the face of Klaus plus a photo from a mixing desk.
. . . . And today, these images stick. If I look at the 16 covers of the LVE series, eleven are from original photos that I have made from Klaus since 1975; the most recent pic is on the front of LVE 13; it was made in my apartment, anno 1993, when Klaus signed a few hundred booklets for the early subscribers of the SILVER EDITION. Already over twenty years ago... Old times.