A representative of a company producing cookware stands behind a curtain showing a photograph of the Sauerland landscape (some 150 kms [90 mls] north of Frankfurt) where his firm is based, taken at the Ambiente trade fair in Frankfurt, Feb.13.
Category: germany
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Landscape at a Trade Fair (1)
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The Old Opera House
Frankfurt’s Alte Oper (Old Opera House), built between 1873 and 1880, is seen from above on a gray and hazy day, Feb.12. In 1937, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana was performed here for the first time. The building was almost completely destroyed by allied bombs in 1944. In the 1970s it was slowly rebuilt and eventually reopened in 1981. Alte Oper is now a concert hall. -
Over the Abyss
A worker leans over to talk to his colleagues who are cleaning the windows of one of Frankfurt highrise buidings, Feb.12. -
Knot Forgotten
A rotting plastic rope with a knot that long ago was fastened to the metal pole of a fence in Friedrichsdorf, Feb.10. -
In the Role of Anne Frank
German actress Mala Emde stands in front of a poster showing herself in the role Anne Frank during a photo call following a first screening of the docudrama “Meine Tochter Anne Frank” (My Daughter Anne Frank) at Hesssicher Rundfunk, the regional public broadcaster, in Frankfurt, Feb.9.
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt in 1929 and died at the concentration camp of Bergen Belsen in 1945.
She later became one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust after he wartime diary “The Diary of a Young Girl” (origianlly written in Dutch) was published.(Canon 7dII, Sigma 50mm 1.4 A, ISO400, f1,8, 1/125 sec)
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