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Munich, Germany.
Day Two. In the evening we headed in a different direction in search of two other Christmas markets. The first one was at Sendlinger Tor. Then we wandered up and down that area looking for the Pink Market. Which we found eventually!
In the summer of 2000 the city council of the Bavarian capital Munich decided to raise a monument in remembrance of people who died from AIDS since 1981, and in solidarity with their friends, families and people living with HIV. As a location for the installation of Germany’s first AIDS Memorial they chose Sendlinger-Tor-Platz, in downtown Munich, a much frequented business area - one of the most important public transport hubs and at the same time the “gate” to the gay and lesbian neighborhood Glockenbachviertel.
13 artists were invited to take part in the international competition for the realization of the monument. Wolfgang Tillmans‘ concept was endorsed for implementation. Tillmans re-created one of the blue tiled columns of Sendlinger Tor subway station and provided the inscription ...
'AIDS
to the deceased
to the infected
their friends
their families
1981 till today'.
Two small benches invite passers-by to stay. The inauguration of the Munich AIDS Memorial took place on July 17, 2002 – about twenty years after the first AIDS-related deaths.
Munich, Germany.
Day Two. In the evening we headed in a different direction in search of two other Christmas markets. The first one was at Sendlinger Tor. Then we wandered up and down that area looking for the Pink Market. Which we found eventually!
The Pink Market is exactly what it says ... very pink! It's wild and has a fun atmosphere, with a DJ playing Christmas music loud. The gluhwein comes in rainbow glasses, and the food was delicious.
Munich, Germany.
Day Two. In the evening we headed in a different direction in search of two other Christmas markets. The first one was at Sendlinger Tor. Then we wandered up and down that area looking for the Pink Market. Which we found eventually!
And then back through Sendlinger Tor, where we stumbled on another little Christmas market. Time for one last gluhwein!
Siegfried "Sigi" Sommer (born 23 August 1914 in Munich ; died 25 January 1996 in Munich) was a German writer and journalist.
At the age of 81, Sigi Sommer died after a long period of suffering in the Rinecker Clinic in Munich and was buried in the Neuhauser Winthir Cemetery in Munich (grave no. 4-5-5). In his hometown of Munich, he was honoured with a life-size bronze statue by the sculptor Max Wagner, which shows him as a stroller with a newspaper under his right arm. The statue, donated by the publishing family RS Schulz, stands in the pedestrian zone at Roseneck in Rosenstraße and was unveiled on 28 July 1998. In 2009, the square in front of his parents' house at Bruderhofstraße 43 in Munich was renamed " Sigi-Sommer-Platz " by the city of Munich on the initiative of his cousin Helga Lauterbach-Sommer.