Hello friends, back to Berlin again. This is a dedication to CHIPKA, a man with a special relationship to the writer and poet Franz Kafka from Prag, the capital of the Czech Republic.... "Only a half year Franz Kafka lived in Berlin, without a profession, without important friends and partners, he had very heavy diseases and was not able to work at his writing projects very often. He was very poor with all the resulting problems - many of his letters focus at this problems. Germany had a giantic inflation these days and his short pension was not enough. Kafka earned food packages from his parents. Kafka himself loved Berlin and called it "his medicine against Prag", because he felt free from his parents, a stadium he begged for his whole live. Berlin allowed him a short free time with his girlfriend Dora Diamant, which he met 1923 in Mueritz, a sea bath at the german Ostsee shore. From their first Berlin adress Miquel street No. 8 (destroyed in WW II) the couple went to this villa here in Berlin-Steglitz, Grunewald street No. 13. They lived in 2 rooms in the first floor. Kafka wrote: "This house has central heating and electric lights.(...)" Kafka's disease grew permanently, but he could finish his novel "Der Bau" (The Building) here in this house. In february 1924 the couple left this house and rented a flat much cheaper with ovens, where they lived for 6 weeks. After one and a half months later Kafka left Berlin and died 3 month later, at 3. june 1924, in Klosterneuburg near Vienna in an austrian hospital with tuberculose. He was less then 41 years old. Many of his works, under them his famous works "The Process" and "The Chateau" were published after his dead." from: "Who lived Where in Berlin?" My friend chipka, I hope you love this dedication to Franz Kafka, and I hope this pic here lightens some of his last months in his live. a very sad story! Friends, I hope you like this pic, too - only a house, but a house with a special story. Thanks for your comments for my older pics, and a special thanks to the member, who took my last pic as her/his favorite.... Bye for this day, billcody