Jessica Goes to Berlin 2012: Marbach & Schiller

Some photos of Marbach!

Here is the altstadt (old city centre):

They still have these hanging outside their businesses:

Gaby and Andrea --> This is when Gaby treated us all to lunch!

Negar and Sara look like sisters sometimes.

Schiller statues everywhere. Even within statues!

Gaby:

Some flowers we got from the Sparkasse (a bank). They were having their 150th anniversary! Scotiabank should hand out roses too. We walked ours down the street and then gave them to the Deutsch Literature Archive.

We could see manuscripts there in the literature archive of some pretty famous people.

Another Schiller statue! He was constantly afraid he would die, so he had busts carved of himself and sent home to his parents all the time. He was a narcissist, but you can see that other people thought he was a big deal too.

The Modern Literature Museum in Marbach contained manuscripts, and other goodies, from famous German authors over the last 150 years.

Franz Kafka

Walter Benjamin

Here is a book written in brail. It was huge.

Children stories that seemed familiar:

Heinrich Böll:

The famous Marlena Dietrich, the first bomb shell woman, sent a telegram! Here she thanks a famous children's writer for making her children laugh.

Hesse sent this package to a family member in 1937, and told them to not open the package until 2017. The package was donated to the museum, but never opened. I wonder what's in there.