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25T80 Vienna: her name was Evelyn

E79, V27.

It’s one thing to mourn the loss of family, and to know where they are laid to rest, all in the city where I was born. Echoes of the extended double-stage grief have lessened in frequency and intensity over the years. It’s another thing to mourn the loss of a friend, one whom I had just begun to know and one whose final resting place is on the other side of the world. This grief is renewed when I return again to Vienna’s Central Cemetery.

Section 26 of the cemetery is a not only a place to pay respects to all who rest here, but also to recognize their sacrifice as all in this section made their wish to donate their bodies to science after their last breath.

Evelyn Brezina (1977-2024) was a disability rights advocate, saw the world from a unique perspective, and lived her life with purpose and with joy. Having seen her online presence, I met her in person briefly in the summer of 2023. She died unexpectedly in January 2024.

Fast forward to the present on a breezy cloudy day, I walked across the length of the cemetery towards its eastern wall. Rows of graves and trees clear with an open field and the appearance of an octagonal structure. I look for wall board number 110, and locate the name plate. As the only one person present on this afternoon, I’m sat on a bench for some time, with only the wind and rustling of trees for company.

“See you next time.”

Section number 26, Vienna central cemetery.
Dem Andenken jener Menschen, die ihren Körper nach dem Tode in den Dienst der Wissenschaft und medizinischen Aus- und Weiterbildung gestellt haben. // In memory of those people who, after death, placed their bodies at the service of science and medical education and training.
There are several boards and walls, each with several hundreds of names.
At centre here is the nameplate for Evelyn Brezina.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 14 July 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

25T79 VGH Michelbeuern: around Vienna General Hospital

E78, V26.

Where the 9th district meets the “inner belt”, the present-day location of Vienna’s Allgemeines Krankenhaus (General Hospital, VGH) with its two dark brown 22-floor towers has been a city fixture since the 1970s. VGH has almost 9-thousand on staff and, as teaching facility, an additional 8-thousand students at the Medizinische Universität Wien (Medical University of Vienna). After moving locations, the first site of VGH became the primary campus for the Universität Wien (University of Vienna).

Since 1987, VGH has its own metro/subway station “Michelbeuern – Allgemeines Krankenhaus” on the U6 U-Bahn line. The new U5 line in extending west to Hernals on the “outer belt” will include a brand new station at VGH.

MUW: Medizinische Universität Wien – AKH: Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien.
Bridge over tracks and Währing Belt Road, connecting the U6 station with the hospital (background).
Covered bridge concourse, facing west towards the station; VGH is behind me in this image.
To the north are “Revisionhallen” or halls for regular inspections. The working U6 tracks are at far-left, as a southbound U6 train approaches the station.
To the south is the U-Bahn Betriebsbahnhof Michelbeuern (service depot and facility at Michelbeuern).
U6 station Michelbeuern – Allgemeines Krankenhaus, with a partly obscured tower of VGH.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 25 July 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

Mehringplatz, Hallesches Tor, Berlin, Deutschland, Germany, Shepard Fairey, Make Art Not War, One Wall

Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (4): Make Art Not War

Up from the north exit to the U-Bahn junction station Hallesches Tor, the piece of art on the east side is this piece by Shepard Fairey for the One Wall project in 2014. Pieces like this, big on building walls or small in dark little corners, are found everywhere in Berlin: some will stay for awhile, some will disappear quickly.

I made the image above on 19 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/500-sec, f/10, ISO1000, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vsP.

Berlin, Deutschland, Germany, Berlin U-Bahn, Nollendorfplatz, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (3): lalala Nollendorfplatz

I’m drifting around the U-Bahn junction station at Nollendorfplatz, before I head inside the Urban Nation street- and urban-art gallery and museum. So, why not: it’s about the “lalala” to (possibly) counter the grim gritty underbelly of the city. Or maybe not.

I made the image above on 18 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/60-sec, f/8, ISO1250, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vsH.

25T67 Vienna: a sunny summer Sunday

E66, V14.

After a couple of cool cloudy and drizzly days, the sun came back, along with solid summer temperatures reaching +30°C. I had a few goals in mind, from the 1. to the 19., with the 9th district in between.

Ringturm tower (1.): 2025 wall mural titled “Verbindende Geschichten” (Stories and connections), created by Polish artist Marcin Maciejowski.
“The best”, 2nd district (2.)
Next to the Ring Road this Neo-Gothic Votive Church (9.)
Shop locally-sourced produce (19.)
Hohe Warte neighborhood (19.)
Hohe Warte, served by tram number 37.
Casino Zögernitz (19.), heavy with the presence of both Johann Strauss I & II in the present-day House of Strauss.
Rail bridge for today’s U-Bahn U6 line, near Nussdorfer Straße station (18.)
Arboreal intervention into local architecture, originally in 1981 by Friedensreich Hundertwasser (9.)
South tower, St. Stephen’s Cathedral (1.); somewhere in this image is an embedded cannonball from the 1683 siege of the city by the Ottoman Empire.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 13 July 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.