Staabi Zeitungsabteilung
Cappuccino machine?
NO!
Cafeteria/place to eat lunch besides outside on the loading dock?
Of course not.
Located in a former Nazi army base?Nope, but located next to the train tracks they used to deport Berlin's Jews.
Accursed, unfathomable microfilm?
Yes.
Yelled at by librarian?
Strongly spoken to; offenses
included using a reader-printer machine for which I was not properly registered.But, I have to thank her for the time when I was using the microfilm machine and the film was sideways, and I couldn't figure out how to turn it, so instead I turned my head sideways and read it like that for a while. Then came over and said that even though I seemed comfortable, did I know that it was possible to turn the film right side up?
Fun stuff to read?
Well. Newspaper articles. I mean, it's not un-fun. But it takes so long to order a film, spool it to the one article you need out of the whole half year of the paper, read the tiny, Gothic font, etc.
Most fun thing read so far?
I guess my favorite is an article from the early '30s about the Cameroonian/German actor Lewis Brody opening an theater revue in Berlin to showcase black and African history and combat negative stereotypes.
Special powers?
Did I mention it's on the edge of the city in a giant old harbor complex complete with ships and five-story-tall cranes and that, when darkness falls, lights up it's huge tower bright green for reasons inexplicable (unless it's to do with eeeeeevil).
6 comments:
I don't like this archive as much. I bet the staff would be nicer if they had an espresso machine.
But the pictures are better. I also think tilting your head sideways to read the machine is something Mr. Bean would do. The Germans better appreciate your comic stylings, otherwise... you know... they're jerks.
I tried to be impartial, but I don't like this archive either. It was hard to just present the facts.
I too enjoyed the character of the photographs in this post. Rock on YSA!
And of course it's evil. They're freakin Nazis!
Way to encourage that socialist competition, comrade. As a devoted reader might I request some commentary on the adorably cute Knut and the man who wants to kill him?
Oh wow, a reader request! Fabulous. I will get right on it. Who is this Knut?
Hmm, ok, after some research (consisting of glancing at newsstands as I walk past), I have discovered that Knut is a now-famous baby bear who lives somewhere in Berlin (at the zoo, perhaps)? But someone wanted to kill him? Maybe the person only wanted to sterilize him.
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