With this beautiful picture under a fantastic evening sky, I bid farewell to my Blue Port 2025 series. It was a pleasure to see the Rickmer Rickmers illuminated above the tops against this turquoise evening sky, with the Blohm & … read more or write a comment …
It was so beautiful to look down the Elbe from the new waterfront promenade at Vorsetzen—the Jan Fedder Promenade—and see the glow of the setting sun behind the blue-lit cranes of Blohm & Voss. Far in the background, the container … read more or write a comment …
The old cargo sailing ship Rickmer Rickmers, moored at the Landungsbrücken in Hamburg Harbor, is always specially illuminated for Blue Port. The water around it also turns deep blue. This perspective also allows the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in the background to … read more or write a comment …
HHLA (pronounced HALA), Hamburg Hafen und Logistik AG, celebrated its 140th anniversary in 2025. This was one of the reasons why Blue Port lasted 10 days this year instead of just a long weekend. The company’s internal celebration took place … read more or write a comment …
To see the blue-lit Köhlbrand Bridge, I drove to the Altonaer Balkon and the underlying Altonaer fish market. It is always nice to look down on the harbor from the high banks of Altona. The Köhlbrand Bridge spans the harbor … read more or write a comment …
The last time I was in 2015 at the Blue Port in Hamburg, at the musical theaters on the south bank of the Elbe. I like the view of the Elbphilharmonie from here. At Blue Port, the Hanseatic Trade Center … read more or write a comment …
Like a lighthouse, Hamburg’s Michel rises above the museum ship, the white swan of the South Atlantic. The ship itself is not illuminated in blue, but the tall ship Rickmer Rickmers downstream is illuminated in blue right up to the … read more or write a comment …
Sunset at the Blue Port event in Hamburg The first buildings and ships were artificially lit up in blue, all the photographers were looking at the Elbphilharmonie, which was crowned with a blue wreath of lights, and I looked west … read more or write a comment …
As part of the SUNDAY S.O.U.L. TALK, Kat Wulff was a guest of talk host Achim Griesel on September 29, 2024. Why is the title of this special talk format spelled with dots in SOUL, I asked myself. S.O.U.L. = … read more or write a comment …
I don’t know what the architect had in mind when he designed the Alster swimming pool. Formally, it says that the roof is made of two hyperbolic paraboloid shells. But from this perspective, I see a butterfly swimmer (some people … read more or write a comment …
The Alster Swimming Pool in Hamburg was built in 1968 and has a striking supporting structure consisting of two hyperbolic paraboloid shells. It was renovated between 2020 and 2023, with the striking roof being retained. Since the Alster swimming pool … read more or write a comment …
A morning in the flowering heath landscape in September. As there was fog that morning, the many spider webs in the heather bushes were wet with dew as we walked into Fischbeker Heide. Everywhere you could see the white webs … read more or write a comment …