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.
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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