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25T69 Vienna: Schottentor station has eyes

E68, V16.

Vienna’s Schottentor station serves the city’s U-Bahn U2 line, located close to the University of Vienna’s main building and the Votive Church. Next to the escalators from the University side of the station down to the train platforms are two “eyes” staring and blinking at each other.

Austrian artist Hofstetter Kurt installed “Einen Augenblick Zeit” (Just A Moment) in Vienna’s old Südbahnhof from 1994 to 2009. Towards the end of 2024, the sculpture got its new home in Schottentor station.

It’s a little unnerving to see a couple of metal eyes to and from the U2, but I’ve come to anticipate seeing at least 1 eye at Schottentor.

11-seconds on the up: 1258pm, 15 Jul 2025.
11-seconds on the down: 131pm, 15 Jul 2025.

I made the stationary image on 7 July 2025 and videos on 15 July 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

Siegessäule, Grosse Stern, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, fotoeins.com

My Berlin: 30 tracks for the German capital

Above/featured: Siegessäule & Grosse Stern, at night – 13 Nov 2012 (HL).

I compiled a list of songs accompanying my travel, a soundtrack that’s full of meaning and memories. This is another set, a listing of tracks I associate with Germany’s capital city. Music is always about personal selection, and every track fires a specific memory of time and place within Berlin. For example, watching “Lola rennt” (Run Lola Run) in a movie theatre in Toronto in the fall of 1998 planted the seeds for a move to Germany three years later. My first visit to Berlin soon after marked the beginning of a deep love affair with the “grand lady of BAER’leen.”

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