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Willy the Great

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Statue of Willy Brandt at the atrium of the Willy-Brandt-Haus (the party headquartes of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) which was designed by Helge Bofinger and built between 1993 and 1999) in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Willy Brandt (born on 18 December 1913 as Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm in Lübeck; he died on 8 October 1992) was the leader of the SPD from 1964 to 1987, the fourth chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1969 to 1974, and the first social-democratic chancellor since 1930. From 1957 to 1966 he also was Governing Mayor of Berlin (West).

Fearing prosecution by the Nazis because of his socialist work and publications during the time of the Weimar Republic and his membership of the SPD and later (from 1931) the SAPD (Socialist Worker's Party of Germany), which was banned by the Nazi regime, he fled to Norway. There he took on the pseudonym of Willy Brandt to avoid detection by Nazi agents, and formerly adopted that name in 1948. Brandt returned to Germany in 1945 as a correspondent for Scandinavian newspapers to report about the Subsequent Nuremberg trials; in 1948 he officially regained the German citizenship. In 1971 Brandt received the Nobel Peace Prize for his "efforts to strengthen cooperation in western Europe through the EEC and to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of Eastern Europe" (Wikipedia).

The 3,40 m (11,1549 inches) high statue of Willy Brandt was created by German musician and sculptorist Rainer Fetting (*1949) who lives in Berlin and New York. By the way, "Gerechtigkeit" (the word in white capital letters) means justice.

HWW and Happy Hump Day, Everyone, and have a great rest of the week ahead!

Willy der Große

Diese 3,40 Meter hohe und über 500 kg schwere Statue von Willy Brandt, geschaffen vom Musiker und Bildhauer Rainer Fetting (*1949 in Wilhelmshaven), steht im Atrium des Willy-Brandt-Hauses in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Da das Laowa seine Stärken besonders bei extremeren Blickwinkeln auszuspielen scheint, hatte ich hier mein kleines Tischstativ mit, um halbwegs bequem und verwacklungssicher Fotos aus einem möglichst tiefen Blickwinkel machen zu können. Fotografiert als Drei-Aufnahmen-Belichtungsreihe. Sabine.R und ich waren vor unserem jüngsten Stammtischtreffen (siehe vorheriges Foto) noch einmal dort gewesen, nachdem wir das Willy-Brandt-Haus bereits im Juli bei einem Flickr-Treffen mit A_Peach, --Conrad-N--, preze, mmsig, Moni E, marionrosengarten und Heiko Röbke besucht hatten.

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Taken in: Germany / Land Berlin / Berlin, Stadt / Hallesches Tor (show map)

Taken on: September 21, 2019

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