Unser Baku-Korrespondent Burger erklärt die Stadt:
When our Baku correspondent Burger was reporting about Baku´s most current changes, suddenly a UFO was landing in Azerbaijan´s capital. Luckily our cameraman could cover it:
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The population of Baku has probably doubled during the last days. People are coming back from the contryside filling and jamming streets and the city centre’s pedestrian zone. A constant hooting sound in your ear. Like a little melody even. Randomly swelling and discharging. It has never been that loud and busy before. Not since I came at least…
I feel intruded. In my familiarity. It seems as if people start staring at me again, as If the others had known me by now… Strangers in my Baku! Better: I feel like a stranger in my ‘own’ place.
Funny to say this as a non Bakuanian. But I truly feel that way.
First bad experience today, which really put me in a bad mood.. We were given a new assistant by our friend Attila and did some great Interview with her help in a very interesting part of the city. It went all very well until we got back to the city centre after having lunch.
I was interested in one of the houses at Malokhan Park, right in the city centre. They had pulled down everything except the front facade and some ground floor walls in quite a prestige-area.
I had always thought this kind of area was safe from being demolished but I must have been wrong. In fact this building dating back to 19/20th century is (apparently) going to be replaced by a highrise building as we heard later on from one of the builders.
We went inside and were soon stopped by an angry Lady who was probably one of the last inhabitants of these ruins. If she didnt hate us so much, she would have probably been a very interesting interview partner. Instead she kept on accusing us that we were the ones making her life hard, that we were coming to her country buying off the places, “Baku should be for Azeris and not for f… Americans…”
Continue reading ‘Angry lady makes me wonder’
By the ministry of culture Sebastian now received a precious A4 sheet which opens many doors and shuts up the troublemakers.
Therefore we easily got a permit by the construction firm Xezer for a shooting from one of their sites.
Lunchbreak on contruction site:
Stepping out of the improvised executive’s office in the carcass after our little talk, two men were just slaughtering a lamb on the fresh concrete slabs, while the head of the sheep was located some metres away already. The guys were smiling mischievously at us when we walked past. Picturesque..
Vom Kultusministerium hat Sebastian nun eine wertvolle DIN A4 Seite bekommen, die so manche Türen öffnet und Verhinderer verstummen lässt.
So gab es auch beim Besuch auf einer Baustelle der Firma Xäzär keine Probleme eine Genehmigung zum Fotografieren von einem ihrer Gebäude einzuholen.
Mittagspause auf Baustelle -
Beim Heraustreten aus dem provisorischen Chefzimmer des Rohbaus, schlachteten gerade zwei Männer ein Schaf. Der Kopf lag schon ein paar Meter weiter auf einer frisch gegossenen Betonplatte. Die Männer grinsten halb verschmitzt halb verunsichert, als sie uns sahen. Pittoresk..
Apart from the photos in the post “Moscow Kickboxing..” post you find some further photographs here!
Neben den Bildern des Blogeintrags “Moskauer Kickboxing..” , gibt es hier noch einige mehr zu sehen.
We are happy to present our new Sponsor:
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Sedus is involved in the Hamam-Project - blogentry August 11, providing ergonomic A-class office furniture for the new office building.
Thanks to Fikri Güven, Stefan Ziegler (SEDUS) and also Florian Schröder (DAWF) we could establish this mutual and hopefully lasting partnership.
Sedus also has an “Ofis Mebeli” showroom in Baku.
15, Sheykh Shamil str., Baku
Azerbaijan
Tel: + 994 12 492 97 45
Fax: + 994 50 560 66 06
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Glücklicherweise gesellt sich die Sedus AG, die erstklassige, ergonomische Büromöbel herstellt, zu unseren Sponsoren und unterstützt unser Schaffen und die Ausstellungen finanziell.
Danke an Fikri Güven und Stefan Ziegler von Sedus sowie an Florian Schröder (DAWF) für das Vermitteln des Kontaktes!
Sedus unterhält auch in Baku einen “Ofis Mebeli” Showroom.
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D: Helenendorf (Xanlar) ist eine hübsche Stadt mit alten deutschen weißverputzten Häuschen, sauberen Alleen und kleinen Bächlein, die die Straße entlang fließen. Alles in allem sehr idyllisch, eine entspannte Atmosphäre, fast wie Urlaub!
Continue reading ‘Moskauer Kickboxen auf Schwäbisch - Moscow Kickboxing in Swabian’
Zahit, a nice 27 year old taxi driver has a certain trick to avoid problems with the polis. Can you make it out ?
Ein 27 Jahre junger Taxifahrer Zahit hat einen kleinen Trick, sich Knöllchen und derlei andere Scherereien mit den Polizei vom Hals zu halten….
Instead of a parking disc (ok, this is a joke within the joke ;-) he puts some “Polis”-Magazins on the car dashboard which you can only own if you are related with any police man.
Anstelle einer Parkscheibe (die in Aserbaidschan freilich nicht existiert ;-) legt er “Polis” Magazine aus, die man nur besitzen kann, wenn man entsprechende Verwandte hat.
Continue reading ‘Polis Ladarrari’
As bad as things are for our 6 colleges in Georgia who are already evacuated to Turkey we are still fine. We have to see how the conflict developes…
Soweit gibt es für uns keine Probleme. Die Kollegen aus Georgien wurden bereits in die Türkei evakuiert. Man darf gepannst sein, wie sich der Konflikt entwickelt…
A glass self-made raspberry Mojito is excellent for brainstorming and philosophising about Baku’s future..
fresh mint leaves
thin lemon slices
sugar
crushed ice
frozen raspberries
light rum
soda
shake and – ready the “Baku Pirito”
Continue reading ‘Mojito à la Pirouz’
