#heinrich meyer

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"No one will be, in his own consciousness, free from the moral burden of his own sinful nature, which he has to bear."

Heinrich Meyer

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People who paid to speak to an AI girlfriend modeled after real life 23-year-old influencer Caryn Marjorie are distraught because the service they paid for, Forever Companions, no longer works. It appears that the service stopped working shortly after Forever Companion CEO and founder John Meyer was arrested for trying to set his own apartment on fire.  [...] On social media for the last few weeks, the official Forever Voices Twitter account has been posting bizarre videos and statements about the CIA, Donald Trump, and the FBI. According to Austin NBC affiliate KXAN, Meyer was arrested on October 22 for trying to set fire to the building where he lived, causing an estimated $360,000 in damages. In addition to those arson charges, 404 Media obtained an affidavit for an arrest warrant for charges of “Terroristic Threats” against the headquarters of a company called Cloud Kitchens, which provides software to restaurants. The affidavit states “On October 14th 2023 AT 9:06 PM John Heinrich Meyer posted on Twitter "@travisk get ready for me to literally blow up Cloud Kitchens." This post was posted under the twitter handle for John H. Meyer.” An employee for Cloud Kitchens sent this and additional tweets to the FBI, which is working with Austin police on the case. “Meyer has a history of being an emotionally disturbed person, which is consistent. with the behavior he displayed during this incident,” the affidavit notes.

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My professor gave me a zero on my essay for no reason! I did the work! When I asked him why he said that it was because I was a jock and jocks always fail his class. It’s time for payback!

Seriously, what do you expect from a professor of German studies named Dr. Kurt-Heinrich Schulte Obermeier? He's a Westphalian lateral thinker with Prussian discipline oozing from his every pore. Immaculate hairstyle, perfectly fitting suits, first-class pressed shirts. Handkerchief and tie always coordinated with great taste. A luminary in matters of German post-war literature. And an asshole as a professor.

I am a natural scientist. Sort of. According to my self-image as a support staff member. I'm of the opinion that the world isn't a worse place with one less Germanist in it. If he spends his time on meaningful things instead of Günther Grass.

When he wakes up the next morning, he feels fresh and rested. Dr. Kurt Obermeier is one of the youngest research assistants to have ever worked at your university. He is cool. He knows he's clever. But he's a good tutor and even if he's always dressed a bit stuffy, you can have fun with him. Rather atypical for a German studies student, you can even meet him in the sports bar in the evening. When the German soccer league is on.

Curt Meier is a WASP like no other. Although half of him is not Anglo-Saxon but German. That's why he decided to study business administration and German studies. Out of pure interest. He doesn't need to earn any money anyway, he lives off his parents' money. And he lives off the occasional modeling job. Curt is New England incarnate. Cultured, educated. And in his beauty, he is unfortunately also a little boring. But what do you expect from someone who plays cricket?

Yo, dude! Check it out, this Curtis Meyers guy, man, he's like, totally not fitting in at the uni, you know? Button-down shirts? Rugby shirts? That ain't his vibe at all. He's all about football jerseys, bro. But honestly, he only throws those on when he has to. In German studies? Forget about it. The professor thinks he's gotta dress fancy? Ridiculous, man! If they kicked him out for that, he'd be damn happy. He only picked this damn major 'cause he thought it was gonna be all about Thor and Wotan and all those badass demigods, you feel me? They're awesome. But Rilke and Heine? Hell no. And their language, man! Who the hell came up with that? Must've had a sunstroke that day, dude. Oh, and what's up with the sun? Time to link up with the boys and toss some balls on the field...

Mike Curtis hated university, man. Those snobby dudes there were just dumbasses and annoying as hell. Too dumb to take out the trash properly. Too lazy to clean up their own mess. Keeping the campus clean was a crappy job. He especially hated that German Studies building. Full of stuck-up know-it-alls. All a bunch of weaklings. Supposedly Mike had some German great-grandfather or something. What a load of crap! What kind of dumbass has two last names? Anyway, Mike supposedly got his German looks from him. Also bullshit! That was all sweat and hard work in the gym. Mike didn't inherit nothing. He earned everything he got. And he was damn proud of it!

Mike is not a jock in the strict sense of the word. But certainly more than Professor Dr. Schulte Obermeier. I don't think you have anything more to fear from him, Bro. As long as you separate the garbage properly.

[jessicalprice]

adventures in christian opinions about judaism

(reposted from Twitter)

So a while back I started writing a thing on the trio of parables that ends with the prodigal son (which I still need to finish) and like MAN OH MAN do Christian commentators insist that Jews hate shepherds.

Like, I can't even count the number of commentaries that insist that shepherds were "despised figures" for first-century Jews and the parables of the lost sheep and lost coin were designed to insult the Pharisees by comparing them first to a shepherd and then to a woman.

So, as is my wont whenever Christian commentators make a claim about what was normal for first-century Judaism, I decided to try to hunt down their source on this.

As I've said many times, when it comes to Christian parable interpreters' claims about what attitudes/beliefs/etc. were normal for first-century Jews, get used to the phrase "no sources are cited."

I mean, first off, as a 21st-century Jew, the insistence that 1st-century Jews hated shepherds rings odd, given that <checks notes> Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Rachel, all of Jacob's kids (the founders of the tribes), David, etc. were all sheep-tenders. The image of God as a shepherd is pretty consistent throughout the Tanakh. That image reappears in the Qumran texts, which as far as I know, are one of the few Jewish sources we have from 1st-century Judaea.

The term "despised" gets used a lot, so I decided to dig into that one.

When I was able to find citations, I traced them back to an 1882 commentary by a guy named Frederic Farrar.

Farrar cites Heinrich Meyer as a source for this, but when I looked up THAT citation, it's Meyer saying that shepherds were a "lowly but patriarchally consecrated class" -- in other words, poor, but with a distinguished history and status.

So that's why everyone's tossing the term "despised" around--because Farrar just made it up. But what about primary sources? I went back on the hunt.

Surprisingly, in a number of reference works, like glossaries and Jeffers's "Greco-Roman World of the New Testament," I found similar assertions about the common attitude toward shepherds, for which they cited...

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Aristotle. You know, the Greek guy who lived 300 years before Jesus? Definitely a reliable source for Jewish attitudes of the time.

Some people cited Philo's On Agriculture. Okay, Philo was at least Jewish and lived when Jesus would have, although he was a wealthy Hellenized Jew living in Alexandria rather than a Pharisee living in the Galilee. But okay, at least it's the right culture and time period. (The reference in Philo turns out to be talking about the section of Genesis in which Joseph's brothers come visit him in Egypt. It talks about how they were proud to be shepherds, and criticizes (gentile) kings who look down on shepherds.)

Then we've got Mishnah Kiddushin, in which a bunch of rabbis are having a debate about which professions make you trustworthy vs untrustworthy, and one rabbi lists everyone from camel-drivers to herders to barbers to shopkeepers as untrustworthy. Another rabbi comes back and is like, nah, all those people are fine upstanding folks; it's doctors and butchers you've gotta watch out for. So they're citing one cranky dude with a LONG list of people he doesn't like, who immediately gets shot down, as evidence of the normative attitude for Jews about a century earlier.

Oh, and we've got a citation of Midrash Tehillim which says that God-as-shepherd doesn't have any of the failings of humans-as-shepherds, which... sure. Also, it was codified in the 1300s?

The most compelling citation is from the Talmud (Sanhedrin 25b), in which the rabbis discuss who's qualified to be a legal witness. They exclude shepherds, because shepherds graze their animals on other people's land, which some of the rabbis see as a type of theft.

The Talmud is a record of debates, but this passage definitely makes it sound like this is a majority opinion. (It should be noted that the passage disqualifies all KINDS of people, from those who lend with interest to those who fly pigeons, as having conflicts of interest.)

But the important thing here is that the Talmud includes records of debates from as late as the 4th or 5th centuries CE (300-400 years after Jesus's time), and the passage makes a point of noting that the disqualification of shepherds as witnesses is a later development.

So in other words, the idea that the Pharisees hated shepherds and would have been insulted by Jesus telling a story in which the protagonist was a shepherd is based either on Greek attitudes that are 300 years too early or Jewish ones that are 300-400 years too late.

But people will twist themselves into citation knots (or just not bother citing a source at all) to insist that this was a common attitude so they can position the Pharisees as hating those charming humble shepherds and their fuzzy little lambs.

As to WHY this idea seems to be so important to them, well, you cannot read about Luke 15 without encountering the word "outcast" roughly 90 times per page.

The framing is Jesus was friend to The Outcasts while the Pharisees despised The Outcasts and the Lost Sheep, Coin, and Sons are all parables about accepting The Outcast.

Never mind that neither the sheep, the coin, nor either of the sons got kicked out of their communities. The sheep wandered off, as sheep are wont to do, the coin was lost by its owner, and the younger son decided to leave to go on a spending spree while the older son declined to attend the welcome back party for him after his dad managed to hire a band and caterers but never thought to let his own son know what was going on and he had to find out from a hired hand.

Moreover, the term "outcasts" gets used as a synonym for "tax collectors and sinners." Tax collectors were usually pretty well-off because they ran a protection racket for the Romans. Outcasts? I mean, I guess? But hardly in the "marginalized and powerless" sense.

As far as "sinners," the NT doesn't usually bother telling us what, exactly, they did to "sin," but on the rare occasions when it does offer that context, it's almost always wealthy people.

But why talk about that when they can present the objection the Pharisees had to Jesus's dining with "tax collectors and sinners" as the Pharisees despising lowly outcasts, and insist that the Pharisees hated the idea of such people repenting and returning, and so Jesus was tweaking their noses by comparing them to shepherds and women.

As if, you know, teshuvah wasn't something the Pharisees were ALL ABOUT. If you want to actually understand, consider that the iconic tax collector in the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector shows no inclination to STOP being a tax collector.

The objection wasn't you're having a friendly dinner with poor lowly outcasts for whom we have contempt. It was you're having a friendly dinner with people who are extorting their neighbors on behalf of the invaders who kill us for looking at them funny and have expressed no intention to stop doing that.

Now, there's a good discussion to be had about whether shunning Trump lawyers and Marjorie Taylor-Greene donors or inviting them to dinner and trying to win them over with compassion is more effective, more ethical, more compassionate (to whom?), etc.

But presumably we can see why people of intelligence and goodwill might disagree on which of those approaches is the right thing to do, and why such people might might object to the strategy they don't agree with.

But what really gets me is that Christians have the utter fucking NERVE to paint the Pharisees as inhumanly awful for not wanting to have dinner with tax collectors while viewing Corinthians as Holy Writ:

I mean, Paul's all YOU MUST SHUN ALCOHOLICS AND PEOPLE WHO ARE GREEDY and Christians are like yes, that makes sense, but if the Pharisees are like, no, I don't want to have dinner with that guy who narced on my cousin and got him crucified, Christians are like, they're monsters.

Cool, cool.

Anyway, this has been your weekly edition of Christians Need To Stop Just Making Shit Up About Jews And Then Citing Each Other Like It's Fact.

And there were a lot of "I've never heard anyone say Jews of Jesus's time hated shepherds..." responses: Maybe you haven't, but that doesn't make it uncommon.

Sources in which I've found it:

Craig Blomberg (Denver Seminary, Society of Biblical Literature, Tyndale House, NIV translation committee)

Jared Wilson (professor at multiple Baptist seminaries)

Stephen Wright (Spurgeon College (British evangelical college))

Arland Hultgren (Luther Seminary (ELCA))

Kenneth Bailey (Presbyterian/Episcopalian)

Joachim Jeremias (Lutheran, cited EVERYWHERE)

Bernard Brandon Scott (Disciples of Christ, the Jesus Seminar)

Klyne Snodgrass (Evangelical Covenant Church)

Barbara Reid (Catholic Biblical Association)

That particular trope spans denominations, decades, etc. It's not a fringe viewpoint.

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Guten Tag, ich lese gerade den s&g briefwechsel zum ersten mal und wollte fragen, gibt es irgendeine wissenschaftliche übereinkunft darüber was schiller mit all seinen Begriffen genau meint? Was er sich unter z b pathetisch, naiv, dem "ganzen" etc vorgestellt hat, was genau er einem trauerspiel abverlangt (schien beim lesen ziehmlich komplex)? Und Goethe hat angefangen, irgendwann meyer vermehrt zu erwähnen, schiller dann auch, als er nach weimar zog. Wer war meyer genau

Wenn das mit den begriffen bisschen schwammig ist kann ich später welche suchen und in einer ergänzenden ask senden

Hi !!

Erstmal: Alles Gute zum ersten Schiller-Goethe-Briefwechsel-Lesen, ich hoffe, du hast Freude daran !

Dann zu Meyer (weil den zu erklären nicht so komplex ist, wie Schillers Vokabular haha): Es wird wahrscheinlich Johann Heinrich Meyer sein, ein Schweizer Künstler, der Goethe in Italien kennengelernt hat und 1791 zu ihm nach Weimar gekommen ist. Er war gut mit Goethe befreundet, hat ihn und seine Familie gemalt und ihn was Kunstsachen anging beraten. Später war er auch Leiter der Kunstschule. Er wurde auch Kunschtmeyer genannt ('Kunscht', weil er 'Kunst' als Schweizer so ausgesprochen hat).

Und jetzt zu Schillers Begriffen: Schiller hat neben seinen literarischen Werken auch viele philosophische Texte geschrieben, in denen er genau diese Begriffe erläutert bzw. seine Theorie dazu. 'Naiv' z.B. in Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung, 'Pathetisch' in Über das Pathetische, Trauerspiele unter anderem in Über die tragische Kunst oder Über Egmont, Trauerspiel von Goethe. Unkomplex sind die Theorien nicht, einerseits, weil er eben selbst Philosoph war, andererseits, weil er schon seit seiner Schulzeit intensiven Philosophieunterricht hatte und seine Begriffe außerdem nicht nur in ihm entstehen, sondern oft auf eine lange Tradition zurückblicken und sich in den philosophischen Diskurs des 18. Jahrhunderts einreihen. Das schwingt da immer mit. Bei 'dem Ganzen' kommt es jetzt natürlich auf den Kontext an, aber wenn es im Sinne von 'Einheit' als Gegenstück zu 'Vielheit'/'Mannigfaltigkeit' verwendet wird, hängt zum Beispiel noch die gesamte Ästhetik, also Lehre von der Wahrnehmung und vom Schönen, seit Platon dran.

Ein Schiller Wörterbuch kommt (meines Wissens nach) erst Ende des Jahres raus, ansonsten werden seine Begriffe eben in den eigenen Texten oder in wissenschaftlichen Texten zu dem Thema erklärt. Wenn man zum Historischen Wörterbuch der Philosophie Zugang hat, kann ich auch das empfehlen, aber den kriegt man eben durch wissenschaftliche Institutionen. Viele Begriffe lassen sich auch im Deutschen Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm nachschlagen, das gibt zwar keine genaue philosophische Bedeutung, ist aber voll ausreichend für einen Überblick (auch generell was die Sprache der Zeit angeht). Für viele philosophische Begriffe gibt es auch eine Wikipedia-Seite, so z.B. für Naivität oder Pathos, das auch eine Sektion spezifisch für Schiller hat. Da kann man sich auch gut von einem Begriff zum nächsten klicken, damit die Theorie vielleicht klarer wird.

Falls es nicht klarer wird, bin ich gerne bereit, weitere Asks zu beantworten und zu versuchen, die Begriffe nochmal selbst zu erklären !

[eucanthos]

Stefan Heinrichs (DE, 21 March 1979 - 2023, 15 January)

Glamour France October 2014

Photographer: Stefan Heinrichs Stylist: Virginie Benarroch Hair: Philippe Baligan for Stiege Meyer Make-up: Cynthia Baligan for Stiege Meyer Article: Clementine Goldszal

Models: Frida Gustavsson + Alma Helgesson

part of original post by fashioneditorial7

[save-the-villainous-cat]

hi i have a little 18th century german boy oc and u r the only german person ik . i want to strike a deal . if u suggest German names i will give u cat pictures

A lil 18th century German oc? Oh boy oh boy those dudes had terrible names like Gerhard, Eberhard, Reinhard…lots of hard huh…

But here are a few German names (also a bit Nordic, cuz I’m a bitch living in the north and c’mon Hanse <33) which I believe to be rather timeless and free of the grandpa stamp:

-Hans

-Erik (also Eric)

-Anton

-Till

-Emil

-Mats

-Fiete

-Lars / Lasse

-Konrad (also Conrad)

-Fred

-Moritz

-Jannik (also Jannick, Yannic, Yannik, Yannick…)

-Gustaf (also Gustav)

-Arne

-Phillip (also Fillip)

-Finn

-Jakob

-Jan

-Nils

-Julius

(Not me searching through my followers on insta to look up my classmate’s names…👹)

Those would be a few that come to mind when I think of timeless names that guys had in the 18th century and today. When we think about 18th century people specifically, I just think of writers and artists of that time, like:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (<3) and his boyfriend

Friedrich Schiller,

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing,

Joseph von Eichendorff (<3),

Caspar David Friedrich (<3),

Heinrich Reinhold…etc. etc…

As most last names, Germany’s last names are an indicator for the occupation someone had (unless there’s a von, that means they’re nObLe), here are some examples:

-Schmidt

-Weber (hehe)

-Bauer

-Müller / Möller

-Koch

-Schneider

-Fischer

-Meier/Meyer

-Wagner

-Becker

-Hoffmann

-Schäfer

-Wolf

-Neumann

-Zimmermann

-Krüger

-Köhler

Etc. etc….

NOW GIVE ME THE CAT PICS 🔫

[simming-in-the-rain]

🕰 or 😳 !

😳A guilty pleasure book

Do plays count? I hope so, because this has to be Alt-Heidelberg!

It's cheesy, kitschy, sentimental, not all that deep, and the characters are... well, while I have some sympathy for both being trapped by their families circumstances and all, Prince Karl Heinrich is the whiniest manchild I ever read about, and Käthie is a bit too quick to tell the pretty prince all about how much she doesn't want her fiancèe and then spend the next months kissing and driving about with the prince . As you may have noticed I think about this play a lot, more than Meyer-Förster did probably. (here, I have to say a big thank you to @nexility-sims and @dancemachinetrait for tolerating my occasional derailing of conversations to go on rants about this play)

I read it looking for roles for a character of mine and found the idea for a whole new story as well (coming to my simblr soon)

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Katherine Anne Legge

Birthdate: July 12, 1980 Hometown: Guildford, Surrey, England Residence: USA Height/Weight: 5’8”/132lbs

Rookie Year: 2006

Team: Dale Coyne Racing (Indy 500)

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Champ Car 2006: PKV Racing - 16th Overall 2007: Dale Coyne Racing - 15th Overall Indycar 2012: 10 races with Lotus-Dragon Racing/Dragon Racing - 26th Overall 2013: Schmidt Peterson Hamilton HP Motorsports (Indy 500) - 26th 2023: Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (Indy 500) - 33rd

IMSA 2014: DeltaWing Racing Cars P class - 19th Overall 2015: DeltaWing Racing Cars w/ Claro/TracFone P class - 8th Overall 2016: Panoz DeltaWing Racing/Michael Shank Racing w/ Curb Agajanian P class - 10th Overall 2017: Michael Shank Racing GTD class - 6th Overall 2018: Michael Shank Racing w/ Curb-Agajanian GTD class - 2nd Overall 2019: Heinricher Racing w/ Meyer Shank RacingGTD class - 9th Overall 2020: GEAR Racing powered by GRT Grasser GTD class - 57th Overall 2021: Team Hardpoint EBM GTD class - 9th Overall 2022: Team Hardpoint GTD class - 16th Overall 2023: Gradient Racing GTD class - 11th Overall

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Katherine Legge’s motorsports resume includes experience in Formula 3, Formula Renault, a Formula One test, Champ Car, INDYCAR, A1GP, DTM, Formula E and sports car racing. Legge was the first woman to win pole in a Zetec race in 2000. One year later she won BRDC’s “Rising Star” award.

In November 2005 she became the first woman to test a Formula One car since Sarah Fisher in 2002. Legge competed in the Toyota Atlantic Championship in 2005, winning the series opener in Long Beach in her first career start to become the first woman to win a developmental open wheel race in North America. She finished the 2005 Atlantic season third in the championship with three wins and five podiums. She moved up to PKV Racing in Champ Car in 2006 and became the first woman to lead a lap in that series when she led Lap 12 at Milwaukee and went on to earn an Indy car career best finish there of sixth. She later had a massive crash at Road America but was largely uninjured and able to compete in the final two races of the season. She competed for Dale Coyne Racing in 2007 and matched her best series finish of sixth at Long Beach and earned her best Indy car start of eighth, twice, before returning to Europe to compete in the DTM touring car series from 2008-2010 where she was an Audi factory driver. After a one-year hiatus from racing, she joined Dragon Racing’s INDYCAR SERIES team in 2012 but a short-lived Lotus program led to the team only being able to secure one Chevrolet engine for two drivers and Legge only competed on oval tracks.

She moved to the Delta Wing sports car program from 2013-2015 and also competed in two Formula E races with Amlin Aguri in the 2014/2015 season. She spent three seasons with Meyer Shank Racing from 2017-2019 in a factory-backed Acura GTD program and earned four wins and 11 podium finishes – including the first win worldwide for NSX in Detroit in 2017. In 2020, she competed in the Rolex 24 at Daytona in a Lamborghini in the GTD class before switching her focus to a European-based racing program. She signed with Richard Mille Racing to take part in the 2020 European Le Mans Series and 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMP2 prototype category but was injured in a pre-season testing crash after a tire failure at the Paul Ricard circuit and missed the remainder of the season while recovering from her injuries. In 2021-2022, she returned to IMSA as lead driver for Team Hardpoint, driving a Porsche 911 in the GTD class and currently competes in an Acura NSX in the GTD class for Gradient Racing in 2023. She and her co-drivers recently finished fourth in class at the Rolex 24 at Daytona.

In her free time, Katherine is a Girl Scouts STEM Ambassador and enjoys skiing, cycling, training and competing in triathlons, yoga and is a vegan athlete. Legge is the second female race car driver to compete for RLL. Danica Patrick competed in the Atlantic Series with the team from 2003-2004 and in the IndyCar Series from 2005-2006.

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[devosopmaandag]

De wereld lag klaar

Ik rustte wat in de ochtend en voelde me zwaar en krachteloos. Er was het voornemen om in de middag naar Rotterdam te gaan voor een opening van een oud-studente en haar vriend. Ik twijfelde, maar besloot toch te gaan. Drie uur later liep ik door nietszeggende straten, en een oud gevoel kwam boven. De wereld lag voor me klaar om ervaren te worden. Dat begon al op de reis erheen.

De trein was overvol en ik kon met moeite een plek vinden op de trap van het balkon. Ik observeerde de mensen om mij heen. Een echtpaar van eind vijftig stond noodgedwongen in een hoek. Hij droeg een T-shirt met zo'n onnozele opdruk dat het zijn kleurloosheid nog pijnlijker maakte. Zijn vrouw haalde een zak met rijstwafels tevoorschijn. Zwijgend en deinend kauwden ze voort. 'De man verdient mededogen', zei Maaike Meyer onlangs in de krant. In de metro zat een vrouw van middelbare leeftijd schuin tegenover me. De tas van de Primark was tot de rand gevuld. Ze had een grote wijnvlek op haar keel, maar toen ik beter keek, zag ik dat het een flinke tatoeage was van de kop van een leeuwin. Ik stelde me voor hoe ze in de tatoeage-shop op de tafel lag, haar hoofd door een neksteun naar achteren gedwongen en hoe haar droom eindelijk uitkwam. Wij mensen verdienen mededogen van elkaar.

Daar verscheen de toren van de oude hervormde kerk in het Rotterdamse Sjaarloos (Charlois). De groene plek met de hoge bomen, het gras en de oude huisjes eromheen is een fata morgana in de stedelijke lelijkheid. Vijfendertig jaar geleden was ik er ook, op de begrafenis van de grootmoeder van R. Niet lang daarvoor was ik bij hem weggegaan. Ik huilde bittere tranen tijdens de dienst, om alles wat voorgoed voorbij was. Zij had meer dan zestig jaar getreurd om haar jong gestorven echtgenoot. Op het predikantenbord vind ik zijn naam: Heinrich Evert Beernink – Eerste Derde Predikant – beroepen van Elkerzee in 1920 – Overleden in 1926. In de kerk wordt de piano gestemd. Boven de ingang hangt een paneel van de Dood te paard. Het zag er wat hulpeloos uit. Van de helse kracht van die Bijbelse allegorie was niets over. Ik ging naar buiten, waar het warm was.

Weer wachtte mij een fata morgana. Een nauwe, begroeide doorgang bracht me naar het verborgen Japans cultureel centrum en een ommuurde tuin. Daar vond de presentatie van de twee jonge kunstenaars plaats. We spraken uitgebreid over het werk. Hun voorkomen, bescheiden en kalm, en hun kunst, precies en ingetogen, ademden een soort onnadrukkelijke ernst. Vanuit de tram zag ik later een oude bijbelse man met een goudkartonnen koker over zijn lange haren – beschermd tegen straling of gekroond in zijn eigen koninkrijk. De wereld ligt altijd klaar.

[rotterdamvanalles]

het Beursplein met onder andere de HEMA, de V&D en de Peek & Cloppenburg, 5 december 1987. 🆕️

Het Beursplein is vernoemd naar het nieuwe, in 1940 gereedgekomen, beursgebouw aan de Coolsingel, ontworpen door architect J.F. Staal. Voordien werd dit plein Spinhuisstraat genoemd. Tot 1942 bevond zich bij de Blaak een plein dat eveneens de naam Beursplein droeg.

Vroom & Dreesmann (V&D) is een voormalige Nederlandse keten van warenhuizen. Het was het grootste warenhuisconcern van Nederland, opgericht in 1887 door de zwagers Willem Vroom en Anton Dreesmann. Het eerste filiaal bevond zich aan de Weesperstraat in Amsterdam.

De Hollandsche Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Amsterdam werd opgericht door Leo Meyer en Arthur Isaac, directeuren-generaal van N.V. Magazijn De Bijenkorf. Op 4 november 1926 opende de eerste vestiging van de H.E.M.A. aan de Kalverstraat 168-170 in Amsterdam.

Peek & Cloppenburg is in 1869 opgericht in Rotterdam door de van oorsprong Duitse kooplieden Johann Theodor Peek en Heinrich Anton Adolph Cloppenburg. Een tweede winkel werd al in 1870 geopend in Utrecht, bemand door Johann Theodor Peek. De familie Peek was tot de jaren negentig actief in het bedrijf.

De fotograaf is Aad Boer en de foto komt uit het Stadsarchief Rotterdam. De informatie komt eveneens uit het Stadsarchief Rotterdam.

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Chapter Three

January 18th, 1942

A rusted truck honked, pigeons flew off in a panic. A drunk soldier stumbled and slurred. A sophisticated old woman clad in tatted fur threw her cigarette on the pavement, crushing it with the tip of her shoe. A young boy whirled through the streets on a rattling bike, wearing those high waisted shorts the children wore here, before their Holy communion. 

Diane had always thought there was nothing quite as gratifying as people watching. It was like squinting into the peep hole of a hundred other lives. She liked to forget all about the world for a second and invent a story for every passerby. He was late to his daughter’s wedding. She didn’t talk to her husband anymore. He just stole a loaf of bread from the market, and nobody caught him. If it hadn’t been for the cold press of her Walther on her thigh and the German words floating about the café, she likely could have stayed sitting in that chair for the rest of her life, just watching, sometimes taking a sip from her coffee. Paris still lacked the unexplicable character that seemed so omnipresent before the war. It used to feel like life was built into the very walls of the city, that music was painted onto the pavement and sometimes could be heard, when you sat on the quais of the river on a summer night with nothing but a bottle of wine and a friend. Now, an eerie emptiness had settled into the streets, and it seemed into every Parisian’s eyes, too. Every smile was kept subtle with the wrinkles of exhaustion, of fear, of hunger. 

Still, Diane felt more at home in an emtpy Paris than in a busy London. She brought the small cup to her lips, leaving a pink smear of lipstick on the rim. With a hand, she propped open the book she’d taken to reading, partially to maintain an inconspicuous front on this terrace swarmed by high-ranking officials, partially to keep her shaking hands from fidgeting with her handgun laying patiently in wait under her skirt. ‘Work wards three great evils away from us: boredom, vice and craving’, her book read in carefully printed French. She thought for a second that though her own work didn’t allow for any of the three, she was very often faced with the kind of person who made these evils their daily lives. 

Though her head was bent down over her book, dropping waves of auburn over her face like a heavy curtain, she could feel the burn of a stare into her cheek. She swiftly glanced through the screen of her hair, only to find the eyes of one of the officers sitting across from the terrace. Diane moved her hand to tuck her hair behind her ear, a demure motion that gave her a chance to assess the threat. He had taken his cap off, revealing a shock of gelled ginger hair, unusual for a German. He was Wehrmacht — the regular army, not political like the SS — and the insignia pinned to his lapel told her he was an Oberleutnant. The rank made her frown in the slightest; his unwrinkled skin covered in freckles seemed to belong to someone much too young to be of such high rank. When he guffawed at something another Nazi had said, it was easy to tell he hadn’t lost all of his baby fat. Unarmed, but his mates each had a handgun safely tucked into their holders. The description matched her mental checklist exactly: Oberleutnant Heinrich Meyer, her target. 

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