Currywurst and Church
Up to now I’ve only seen that in Berlin! Beneath the bell tower of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtniskirche you can buy souvenirs but as well savour the famous Berliner Curry Wurst (a sausage cut in pieces, served with a spicy tomato sauce) and Reibekuchen (potato pancake). To the chimes of the bell many tourists take a quick lunch while inside the church people just sit down in devotion. The blue window glasses create a very appeasing atmosphere and some of the visitors probably send a petitionary or thanksgiving prayer to the enormous angel hanging over the altar. Outside a part of the church looks like a large department store crowned with the top of church tower. The assumed store is a scaffold made to protect the visitors at Breitscheidplatz.
Close to this wonderful church people may visit several further temples where they indulge mammon and consumption. I’m talking about the buildings of Commerzbank, Europe Center and the KaDeWe (Kaufhaus des Westens,very famous and luxurious department store). In the last ones tourists are looking for bargain buys or souvenirs for those who stayed at home. From here most of the visitors start walking along Ku’damm, rambling through all the precious boutiques. Maybe you dont’t want to live in this noisy and bustling part of Berlin but as a tourist you can’t get enough of all the exciting impresions. That’s why you should always leave a suitcase – at least mentally – in Berlin. (This refers to a song of Marlene Dietrich: There’s still one of my suitcases in Berlin, that’s why I have to go there again. All happy moments of the past are still inside this little case….)
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