A warm Sunday afternoon in
Berlin. A little late Indian lunch – tasty linsen curry – at my local, a couple
of streets away ..And then a small stroll…
through the pretty little walled cemetery opposite. The Friedhof der Sophiengemeinde …
I really didn’t expect to find anyone I knew in
my ‘local’ graveyard. But, suddenly, there I was standing opposite a large
memorial to Walter Kollo. A stone bearing his name and his wife’s … and his
musical and theatrical credits!
Not exactly. A nearby cross
commemorated the last survivng grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach…
A mausoleum was the last
resting place of Mr and Mrs Bechstein, of keyboard celebrity ….
But it wasn’t all music. A
dramatic looking stele, with a brass relief, commemorates one Johanna Stegen.
‘The heroine of Lüneberg’. Born 1793. Which war was that? Who was she…
Well, turns out to be the
Napoleonic wars, and Johanna was a sort of Grace Darling girl who brought the troops
bullets in her apron.
1 comment:
Gosh that's quite an amzing resting place! The headstones look well maintained Quite comforting that they are all resting close together ~ It's a bit like the cemetery in St Petersburg wherea famous musical or dramatic person lies at every other grave stone. How amazing that you've only just discovered this place!
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