White and red roses flourish in the garden of the Literatur Haus. People are sitting at the tables sipping wine, enjoying each other and the idyllic view. I feel tempted to join them for a while but pay the bill just in time not to be late for one of the wonderful events of the LH itself. Its charmingly profound program varies from exhibitions to movies and from poetic readings to lectures. It is something above the ordinary entertainment. Accordingly the public is over 40, which is a pity, because the events are everything but boring.
Today I went there for the pleasure of watching “A Foreign Affair”, the 1948 wonderful classic by Billy Wilder with peerless Marlene Diethrich, Jean Arthur and John Lund. Filmed in the ruins of Berlin this brilliantly funny story is all about life, love and risk. When I then went down the Q-damm I could not believe it is the same street I have just seen on the screen: bright lights, happy idlers and the strong scent of jasmine where shouting that the spring is there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mDSWCfIy4Y
http://www.literaturhaus-berlin.de/
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2 comments:
I like the the way you spell "Q-damm" :-))
Oh, my illiteracy borders with creativity and vice versa :-))
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