BTW Grafitti is not a bad stuff I consider it ART noone is going to Graffiti the prvate property but if its some wall which is just blanc having art on it instead makes it look better but that is my opinion. Noone is going to disrespect cultural monuments in Europe with Grafitti they know what is off limits.
Greetings and Love from Köln/Cologne, Germany. Hi, James..its so great to see that you wrote a comment here. I wanna thank you too for creating your content. I watched nearly every of your videos. Hope you gonna visiting 'Phantasialand' in Brühl and in Hamburg the 'Minature Wonderland'. Have a peaceful weekend, buddy & stay safe 🤘
@@Pjalphareactingand to you PJ the same..please keep it up. You're such a kind dude, just like James. Serious, i was very touched bout the way you were happy for James. For James being happy doing the things he wanted to do. Guy's like you, PJ and James, are rare. And lovely to watch. Hope you understand me..cause of my bad englisch.😅 Stay safe, buddy & have a peaceful weekend, my friend 💚
Oh, wait, PJ..you asked bout the Graffiti here in Germany. Well, i remember in the eighties it was more kind of vandalism. Mean things like ' I Hate all...', Motherf.. ' were sprayed wild all over the place, at houses, trains, busses. It was illegal, and if police caught someone Red Handed..ugh, he had to pay alot of money for the cleaning. But later it became really an Art. And it gets more accepted. The artist's were given bilboards by the city. They were hired by owners of factory's to paint their huge buildings. To make the cities more beautful. And that was legal. Nowadays the hype of Graffities isn't that big anymore. As far as i know, of course.
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Nice how he managed to go full circle.. He went from reacting to content about the country to producing the content people react to. ❤ What a lovely journey.
privacy laws in Germany (or Europe in general) are pretty strong, so you can't just film anywhere. Public places are ok, but as soon as you film someone specifically or you enter private property, you need permissions.
@Nangijala-rr2bd This is complete nonsense! People used to take pictures in public, and sometimes there was a stranger in the background. Did that hurt anyone? No! Nur Pflachpfeifen regen sich über so etwas auf. Kleinkarierte Erbsenzählern, nenne ich sowas!
@@Pr0vidence555 Exactly and everyone ONLY wants to see your face! No one is interested in seeing anyone in the background! Nobody knows you and nobody wants to get to know you! It's just your own arrogant ego! 20-30 years ago you could still take photos or videos in public and nobody minded. But there always has to be an idiot! If, as a photographer, I have to ask every moron for their permission because I take photos in public, I won't be able to do anything else for the next 10 years except ask morons for permission! That's BS!
@@Pr0vidence555the laws are pretty sensible.. the problem is the people who think they can yell at you because you took a picture of the cologne cathedral while they were walking in front of it.
7:10 That kind of garden is typical for the structure of a (former) abbey. The surrounding gallery is called a "Kreuzgang" (or cloister in English); many cathedrals will also have such a garden, which in former times often served also as cemetery for the "cathedral chapter" (the clerical staff of the bishop and the cathedral). Nowadays they are mostly open to the public.
In Germany we are always in biking distance from some nice nature spot, a creek, a lake, a park, something like that. The perfect sunny saturday: go there, make a fire (where allowed), put tasty German beer in the water to stay cool, tasty German sausages on the grill and enjoy with some tasty German bread! Doesn't cost much and is great for teenager groups as well as families with kids.
The same reactions would I have as a German when walking the streets of NYC, San Francisco or Seattle - just to name 3. No matter where we come from, we should explore and expand our horizon.
Graffiti are a thing all over Germany and have been for a long time. But it is usually very localized. Mostly around back alleys and near railways and bridges, as those have the biggest concrete surfaces.
yeah, graffiti is a pain.. no problem with pictures.. thats art. but man.. those tags ans stupid phrases everywhere,...if they catch the people they should give them a toothbrush and a bucket and they should have to clean their bs that way.
Hi! That was very funny! I saw James` video when he was in Cologne (german: Köln), my hometown! And now I watched James on his second germany trip this year. Crazy to watch this now with you, as you can say. That`s nearly double fun! Thank you!
James has some great videos! It's worth to check out more of his content! :) A long time ago, the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn was my daily ride for about 20+ years, as I was born and raised in Wuppertal. I know Düsseldorf very well, too, as this is a nearby city, where I used to work for several years and went to the clubs at the weekends to party, when I was young. It's also know as the "Längste Theke der Welt" (aka. "longest bar counter of the world") as there is a discrict with 260 (!) pubs, bars, restaurants, etc. which are in like one place/street. The weekends are wild there! *party&fun! :)
You might hear of the DSGVO - Datenschutzgrundverordnung | Basic Data Protection Law. It applies in the European Union and regulates the rights to all data related to you, so generally if you get filmed without consent for instance it is against the law. The DSGVO therefor is its very own pandoras box/can of worms
At the example of the Schwebebahn, a little physics lesson: if u'r going into a curve, the forces [nur weil ich hier nicht mit "eigene Trägheit" und so anfangen möchte ^^] resulting in u to be forced to the outside of the curve. In a normal train the floor is staying static, so everything just follows this force ... by hanging the train from above u now tilt the floor by the same forces and introduce an incline in the direction of the sum of all forces, resulting in "nullify" the sideways forces with gravity -> "be a bit heavier for high ride comfort" should be their slogan ^^
It is interesting hearing you pointing out that Germans have that cultural pride Americans lack of. There are loads of reaction videos stating Germans have no pride of being who they are. Yes, maybe we don't have that national pride like Americans seem to have with all this showing the flags and “America first“. You would get really strange looks if you would say “Germany first“ in public because of our dark history, WWII and so on. But yes, we do have pride at least in cultural and technical achievements. You are the first one I heard saying this.
Essen isn't that small either. Essen has almost 590,000 inhabitants and is located in the middle of a conurbation where one city follows the other, with a total of 5.1 million people (Ruhr area). I think the big difference to the USA is that no matter where in Europe, you will come across centuries or even millennia-old buildings everywhere in the cities. The city of Cologne, for example, is 2000 years old .
If you are ever in vienna: we have the danube tower (donauturm). It,s 260m (853 feet) high. The top is rotating with a restaurant inside. And it's not super expensive to eat there.
As much as I can see why James was impressed by the tower, his Düsseldorf experience could be even more interesting next time. Visit the tower, but do not eat at the restaurant. If you like Japanese food, you are lucky in Düsseldorf. There is a big Japanese Community and lots of good Japanese Restaurants. Visit the Düsseldorfer Altstadt later in the evening and enjoy the special Düsseldorfer nightlife in this beautiful old town - if you can handle to meet many drunken people. 😉
He is in the US Air Force and actually deployed to South Korea .... i think that is his second trip from SK to germany and the next one to Hamburg is close ahead.....
In America, nobody is prepared to do more than they have to. That's why things are simply left lying around. An example: in a car accident, the police clean up small parts. So that there is no danger for the other cars. The vehicle is taken away. The road service takes over the cleaning. The costs are sent to the insurance company. Unfortunately, this is not possible in America. The police have to organize the towing. The company then has to claim its money. The garbage is left lying around. The car is insured, according to the law. Why are the costs not covered? Then the road would be clean and safe.
You are not allowed to film other persons even in public. It is only allowed, if they are not clearly visible. For example, if you film a church and the persons are only visible as a crowd. This is called "Recht am eigenen Bild" (right of your own image) in german. Privacy is a big thing in Europe. See for example the EUs GDPR legislation.
I'm not an expert when it comes to the topic of graffiti, but it has been present in Germany in the form that we know since the early 1980s. I can still remember that during my childhood in the 1990s, graffiti was at its peak everywhere. Trains and walls were covered with it, even in smaller towns. Today, it seems to have become less common. There are still hotspots in Berlin and other major cities, but apparently, today's youth is no longer interested in it. New surfaces that used to be painted immediately now remain clean for a long time. You can still occasionally see it on trains, but there is much stricter surveillance, and the graffiti is quickly removed. The heyday seems to be over. Probably only a few people are still engaged with it, but they are deeply immersed in the graffiti culture.
I also remember there was an initiative where cities have graffiti artists places, where they can legally spray, in the 90s or early 2000s. When I go through my city, which isn't really big, just about 80k population, I rarely see grafiti nowadays. There is an occasional tag here and there, mostly in hidden and hard to reach areas. But that's pretty much it.
Raspberries and blackberries... one of THE most resistant bramble bushes you can find. Once they've settled in somewhere... or rather ANYWHERE... you just won't get rid of them unless you excavate the ground several meters/yards deep and sterilize it. They grow damn deep roots and they recover so fast. But its awesome if you like picking fruits in the wild. Obviously they have to be ripe, otherwise both are quite sour/tangy/tart. The whole area, Dortmund, Essen, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, is called the Ruhrgebiet. the Ruhr is a small, shipable river that connects all of these cities. It was Germany's iron, coal and natural gas mining central back 120 years or so. The underground is riddled with deep mines, with hundreds of kilometers/miles of mine shafts that have virtually all been closed down. However, this made the entire area very unstable, and it happens relatively regularly that houses settle down quite a few inches as the ground slowly, or even almost instantly, may give way. Not that it happens constantly, but sinkholes do open up at a fairly high rate when compared to many other areas around the world. The Schwebebahn (literal translation: Floating Train) is a regular public transport in Wuppertal. Just like light rail, steet cars, trams, subways, busses, etc in other cities. But it definitely is iconic. It is also quite old, and the very first such public transport system built in the world. It has been refurbished multiple times. It has an incredible track record (pun fully intended) as there has been exactly ONE tragic accident when one of the trains got derailed. It resulted in 5 deaths and 47 injuries. But that's the only accident during its entire existence with any deaths. In over 120 years.... that does seem like an incredible track record, if I may say so.
I understand you completly. A city without old buildings and places to sit around are without soul. We have very few cities in Germany that do not have an old city center and nobody wants to stay there.
I get u. I'm living in Würzburg which is a franconian tourist hotspot in germany. We got a castle and a palace, as well as mountains and vineyards. To me its just an everyday mundane thing. Even after working in the castle and palace it did just not impress me since it felt so everyday. But it's always fun to see people experiencing the sights for the first time with wonder and awe. It's sad the feeling gets lost on us natives that see them everyday.
According to the last things you said, people overseas tend to say EUROPE. Its a continent and every single country couldnt be more different to the other. Bulgaria, and most of eastern europe is much more poor and underdeveloped. It cant be compared to Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands and the scandinavian countrys. Germany is the 4th largest economy in the world and ofc we are much more well off as the eastern and many southern countrys. And you feel it, you see it. Iam glad to be born in the blackforest southern region of germany. We are wealthy compared to the very most parts of the planet, we are safe compared to the very most parts of the planet and nature and technology are going beside each other, not sacrificing nature for modernity. I have a fucking forest behind my home and still have a 1 gigabit internet connection, an IMAX cinema, Lasertag and VR Arena and stuff... Yes even subway, mcd and bk if you wanna conider them modern. I prefer the local brewery restaurant ;)
You don't need a permit to film in Germany. This person was a "Karen". You have only to respect the privacy of people by not directly filming them or by blurring out their faces before you publish a video. In some special cases you would also have to respect architectural copyright rules. You could however need a permit if you are making a professional movie with a whole crew, at the one hand for the authorities to be informed what's going on, at the other hand to avoid e.g. traffic disturbances or generally disturbance of public peace.
You can record everything and everyone in a public space in Germany too. It's just that we have a "right on your own picture" law, which is a copyright law, that prevents you from publishing pictures or videos of people without their consent. You have to blur peoples faces out then. But there are exceptions of course. You don't have to blur peoples faces if they are just part of the background or scenery when taking pictures of a church or something for example. People also have no expectation of privacy and a right on their own picture if they are attending a protest or are doing something that could be categorized as a "document of history". And you don't have to blur peoples faces if they are putting themself in front of the camera. Like when you are filming in the corner of a restaurant without bothering anyone and then suddenly a Karen walks up to argue with and shout at you. You are then allowed to document that and publish it.
@@PropperNaughtyGeezer Aus den von mir gennanten Gründen. Die Letzte Generation dokumentiert Straftaten an Protestierenden und die Protestaktionen selbst sind schon zeitgeschichtliche Ereignise. Bei James ist das nicht der Fall und deswegen muss er die Leute unkenntlich machen.
There's a lot of graffiti in Germany and for many decades. We even have some Roman buildings here with thousand years old graffiti scratched into the walls. That's super cool of course. Older people hate modern Graffiti but I'm a fan as long as it's decent and not on historical buildings. But some idiots scribble ugly nonsense on centuries old buildings. That's sad of course but on plain grey concrete walls for me personally it's an upgrade. And many cities even allow street art on certain walls because they rather have actual art on the walls instead of ugly scribbling.
@@AP-RSI I lived in Essen and the Main Station area is not the friendliest. Another RUclipsr made the same experience in Essen Main Station. Maybe it was the same guy. 😅
I would like to point out as Czech - mideuropean - my town (Hradec Králové) is just 100k people. But! The first settlement was established at cca 800 bc. We just count the time differently. It is about perspectiv. Great video ❤ I love another viewpoints and sincerely you guys are so pumped by "every day things" that it makes makes me to step back and appreciate where i live.
Here some facts: Essen means in german eating, but the city of Essen was called after Esse (chimney or forge). Essen is a city in the so called Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr area), there where coal mining and steel factories. It's also called Kohlenpott (coal pot). Wuppertal is in a small valley, they could not install a tram. They build the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn instead. Düsseldorf is the capital of the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen (Northrhine Westphalia).
Also something special about Düsseldorf, it has the highest Population of Japanese of any City in Germany, so there's a part of the City that feels like you are in Japan, with even Street signes both in German and Japanese.
What a joke. Essen means eating in german. So essen in Essen is funny. But we have something even funnier in german. Essen is the hometown of iron works Krupp, you know the guy who made all the cannons. So there is that saying in Germany: "We are in drinking, what Krupp ist in Essen". That is funny.
dont even think its amaricans them self who dont have pride in their place its cary lovvyists and polititians and city planeers lot of old amarican town that where build the european way where bulldozed flat for highways and parkinglots instad of at least preserving the city center an building the speed ways around everything was torn down and that is incredibly sad
Filming in public is allowed, but there is a constitutional right (sth like fourth amendment) of all citizens to control pictures of them. You don't need to ask to film in puiblic, but who have to have consent with the persons vou might film, to be filmed.
Hi im from wuppertal...since the 1980 is graffiti a thing...today not so much and more controled and with the town leaders or house holder...greetings from Wuppertal 🤘
The Schwebebahn my Friend is from 1901 so nope it isn´t new. But we Germans wheren´t Germans if we didn´t had something similar with slighlty diffrent technology wich is newer. The Düsseldorf Airport Skytrain Shuttle. But wait heres more because everyone here knows that we germans also are idiots. The Shanghai Maglev Shuttle is the former German Transrapid wich we ditched after one single accident at the Test Loop. By the way fault by the maintenance Crew.
Since we have tougher data protection laws in Germany, and especially laws that are supposed to protect privacy, pretty much everything that involves taking pictures or filming in public has been banned or severely restricted. Some people go completely crazy in this respect. As a photographer in Germany, it's just a horror. Control and prohibition state we have become, because of some morons!
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BTW Grafitti is not a bad stuff I consider it ART noone is going to Graffiti the prvate property but if its some wall which is just blanc having art on it instead makes it look better but that is my opinion. Noone is going to disrespect cultural monuments in Europe with Grafitti they know what is off limits.
Also Graffiti was normal also at the time of fall of berlin Wall so it is for a long time.
This whole trip was incredible man! I’d heard so much about each of these places before BUT visiting them in person was magical as fuck! ❤
I bet ! I enjoy watching your content man! Keep it up !
Greetings and Love from Köln/Cologne, Germany. Hi, James..its so great to see that you wrote a comment here. I wanna thank you too for creating your content. I watched nearly every of your videos. Hope you gonna visiting 'Phantasialand' in Brühl and in Hamburg the 'Minature Wonderland'. Have a peaceful weekend, buddy & stay safe 🤘
@@Pjalphareactingand to you PJ the same..please keep it up. You're such a kind dude, just like James. Serious, i was very touched bout the way you were happy for James. For James being happy doing the things he wanted to do. Guy's like you, PJ and James, are rare. And lovely to watch. Hope you understand me..cause of my bad englisch.😅 Stay safe, buddy & have a peaceful weekend, my friend 💚
Oh, wait, PJ..you asked bout the Graffiti here in Germany. Well, i remember in the eighties it was more kind of vandalism. Mean things like ' I Hate all...', Motherf.. ' were sprayed wild all over the place, at houses, trains, busses. It was illegal, and if police caught someone Red Handed..ugh, he had to pay alot of money for the cleaning. But later it became really an Art. And it gets more accepted. The artist's were given bilboards by the city. They were hired by owners of factory's to paint their huge buildings. To make the cities more beautful. And that was legal. Nowadays the hype of Graffities isn't that big anymore. As far as i know, of course.
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Nice how he managed to go full circle.. He went from reacting to content about the country to producing the content people react to. ❤ What a lovely journey.
It's funny that James described Essen as feeling like a small City when it's in the center of a Metropolitan Area with 13 million inhabitants.
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privacy laws in Germany (or Europe in general) are pretty strong, so you can't just film anywhere. Public places are ok, but as soon as you film someone specifically or you enter private property, you need permissions.
Yes, it has become crazy and stupid!
It is good to know that most Tourist attractions are Public and not Private , or just watch for a Sign which allows or forbidds you filming^^
@Nangijala-rr2bd This is complete nonsense! People used to take pictures in public, and sometimes there was a stranger in the background. Did that hurt anyone? No! Nur Pflachpfeifen regen sich über so etwas auf. Kleinkarierte Erbsenzählern, nenne ich sowas!
@@Pr0vidence555 Exactly and everyone ONLY wants to see your face! No one is interested in seeing anyone in the background! Nobody knows you and nobody wants to get to know you! It's just your own arrogant ego! 20-30 years ago you could still take photos or videos in public and nobody minded. But there always has to be an idiot!
If, as a photographer, I have to ask every moron for their permission because I take photos in public, I won't be able to do anything else for the next 10 years except ask morons for permission! That's BS!
@@Pr0vidence555the laws are pretty sensible.. the problem is the people who think they can yell at you because you took a picture of the cologne cathedral while they were walking in front of it.
7:10 That kind of garden is typical for the structure of a (former) abbey. The surrounding gallery is called a "Kreuzgang" (or cloister in English); many cathedrals will also have such a garden, which in former times often served also as cemetery for the "cathedral chapter" (the clerical staff of the bishop and the cathedral). Nowadays they are mostly open to the public.
The TV Tower in Berlin turns the restaurant around 360°
So does the one in Düsseldorf.
and the "Schwebebahn" in Wuppertal is more than 100 years old :-)
When there is less noice around us, we feel less inclined to try to talk over it. I'm glad Bray made that experience.
In Germany we are always in biking distance from some nice nature spot, a creek, a lake, a park, something like that. The perfect sunny saturday: go there, make a fire (where allowed), put tasty German beer in the water to stay cool, tasty German sausages on the grill and enjoy with some tasty German bread!
Doesn't cost much and is great for teenager groups as well as families with kids.
The same reactions would I have as a German when walking the streets of NYC, San Francisco or Seattle - just to name 3. No matter where we come from, we should explore and expand our horizon.
Graffiti are a thing all over Germany and have been for a long time. But it is usually very localized. Mostly around back alleys and near railways and bridges, as those have the biggest concrete surfaces.
yeah, graffiti is a pain.. no problem with pictures.. thats art. but man.. those tags ans stupid phrases everywhere,...if they catch the people they should give them a toothbrush and a bucket and they should have to clean their bs that way.
The feeling of sitting under a tree next to a +800 year old cathedral is quite difficult to describe to an American.
Hi! That was very funny! I saw James` video when he was in Cologne (german: Köln), my hometown! And now I watched James on his second germany trip this year. Crazy to watch this now with you, as you can say. That`s nearly double fun! Thank you!
Just subscribed cuz u are just a chill guy with lots of positiv energy keep it up
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James Bray started in America in the military with videos about germany A year ago he was leaving for Korea so he can live in Germany.
Exactly ❤! Totally worth it!!
@@JamesBray3 I hope so! 😎😂Of course!
The "Schwebebahn": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn
The Sound thing... 15:08 he is loud bro I mean if he starts laughing you can here it miles out :D
James has some great videos! It's worth to check out more of his content! :)
A long time ago, the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn was my daily ride for about 20+ years, as I was born and raised in Wuppertal. I know Düsseldorf very well, too, as this is a nearby city, where I used to work for several years and went to the clubs at the weekends to party, when I was young. It's also know as the "Längste Theke der Welt" (aka. "longest bar counter of the world") as there is a discrict with 260 (!) pubs, bars, restaurants, etc. which are in like one place/street. The weekends are wild there! *party&fun! :)
You might hear of the DSGVO - Datenschutzgrundverordnung | Basic Data Protection Law. It applies in the European Union and regulates the rights to all data related to you, so generally if you get filmed without consent for instance it is against the law. The DSGVO therefor is its very own pandoras box/can of worms
At the example of the Schwebebahn, a little physics lesson: if u'r going into a curve, the forces [nur weil ich hier nicht mit "eigene Trägheit" und so anfangen möchte ^^] resulting in u to be forced to the outside of the curve. In a normal train the floor is staying static, so everything just follows this force ... by hanging the train from above u now tilt the floor by the same forces and introduce an incline in the direction of the sum of all forces, resulting in "nullify" the sideways forces with gravity -> "be a bit heavier for high ride comfort" should be their slogan ^^
It's weird that americans just can film you and put it on the internet.that's crazy.
4:38 The other People can also be filmed and this is the Problem with the data protection (GDPR) !
It is interesting hearing you pointing out that Germans have that cultural pride Americans lack of. There are loads of reaction videos stating Germans have no pride of being who they are. Yes, maybe we don't have that national pride like Americans seem to have with all this showing the flags and “America first“. You would get really strange looks if you would say “Germany first“ in public because of our dark history, WWII and so on. But yes, we do have pride at least in cultural and technical achievements. You are the first one I heard saying this.
Essen isn't that small either. Essen has almost 590,000 inhabitants and is located in the middle of a conurbation where one city follows the other, with a total of 5.1 million people (Ruhr area). I think the big difference to the USA is that no matter where in Europe, you will come across centuries or even millennia-old buildings everywhere in the cities. The city of Cologne, for example, is 2000 years old .
If you are ever in vienna: we have the danube tower (donauturm). It,s 260m (853 feet) high. The top is rotating with a restaurant inside. And it's not super expensive to eat there.
Thank you for your content^^
As much as I can see why James was impressed by the tower, his Düsseldorf experience could be even more interesting next time. Visit the tower, but do not eat at the restaurant. If you like Japanese food, you are lucky in Düsseldorf. There is a big Japanese Community and lots of good Japanese Restaurants. Visit the Düsseldorfer Altstadt later in the evening and enjoy the special Düsseldorfer nightlife in this beautiful old town - if you can handle to meet many drunken people. 😉
18:39 its a magnetic monorail located in a City in the middle of germany
He is in the US Air Force and actually deployed to South Korea .... i think that is his second trip from SK to germany and the next one to Hamburg is close ahead.....
In America, nobody is prepared to do more than they have to. That's why things are simply left lying around.
An example: in a car accident, the police clean up small parts. So that there is no danger for the other cars. The vehicle is taken away. The road service takes over the cleaning. The costs are sent to the insurance company.
Unfortunately, this is not possible in America. The police have to organize the towing. The company then has to claim its money. The garbage is left lying around. The car is insured, according to the law. Why are the costs not covered? Then the road would be clean and safe.
Düsseldorf ist the Capitol City of NRW (Nordrhein-Westfalen) the Tower ist a Part of the Parliment area. But Colone have 300.000 Citizens more.
Ty for your Content 😅
28:25 he is in the military airforce stationed in south korea
You are not allowed to film other persons even in public. It is only allowed, if they are not clearly visible. For example, if you film a church and the persons are only visible as a crowd. This is called "Recht am eigenen Bild" (right of your own image) in german. Privacy is a big thing in Europe. See for example the EUs GDPR legislation.
I'm not an expert when it comes to the topic of graffiti, but it has been present in Germany in the form that we know since the early 1980s.
I can still remember that during my childhood in the 1990s, graffiti was at its peak everywhere. Trains and walls were covered with it, even in smaller towns.
Today, it seems to have become less common. There are still hotspots in Berlin and other major cities, but apparently, today's youth is no longer interested in it.
New surfaces that used to be painted immediately now remain clean for a long time.
You can still occasionally see it on trains, but there is much stricter surveillance, and the graffiti is quickly removed.
The heyday seems to be over. Probably only a few people are still engaged with it, but they are deeply immersed in the graffiti culture.
I also remember there was an initiative where cities have graffiti artists places, where they can legally spray, in the 90s or early 2000s. When I go through my city, which isn't really big, just about 80k population, I rarely see grafiti nowadays. There is an occasional tag here and there, mostly in hidden and hard to reach areas. But that's pretty much it.
Raspberries and blackberries... one of THE most resistant bramble bushes you can find. Once they've settled in somewhere... or rather ANYWHERE... you just won't get rid of them unless you excavate the ground several meters/yards deep and sterilize it. They grow damn deep roots and they recover so fast. But its awesome if you like picking fruits in the wild. Obviously they have to be ripe, otherwise both are quite sour/tangy/tart.
The whole area, Dortmund, Essen, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, is called the Ruhrgebiet. the Ruhr is a small, shipable river that connects all of these cities.
It was Germany's iron, coal and natural gas mining central back 120 years or so.
The underground is riddled with deep mines, with hundreds of kilometers/miles of mine shafts that have virtually all been closed down.
However, this made the entire area very unstable, and it happens relatively regularly that houses settle down quite a few inches as the ground slowly, or even almost instantly, may give way. Not that it happens constantly, but sinkholes do open up at a fairly high rate when compared to many other areas around the world.
The Schwebebahn (literal translation: Floating Train) is a regular public transport in Wuppertal. Just like light rail, steet cars, trams, subways, busses, etc in other cities. But it definitely is iconic.
It is also quite old, and the very first such public transport system built in the world. It has been refurbished multiple times. It has an incredible track record (pun fully intended) as there has been exactly ONE tragic accident when one of the trains got derailed. It resulted in 5 deaths and 47 injuries. But that's the only accident during its entire existence with any deaths. In over 120 years.... that does seem like an incredible track record, if I may say so.
Like there is no idiots in the US acting stupid. Just because one dude ask for permit
I understand you completly. A city without old buildings and places to sit around are without soul. We have very few cities in Germany that do not have an old city center and nobody wants to stay there.
I get u. I'm living in Würzburg which is a franconian tourist hotspot in germany. We got a castle and a palace, as well as mountains and vineyards. To me its just an everyday mundane thing. Even after working in the castle and palace it did just not impress me since it felt so everyday. But it's always fun to see people experiencing the sights for the first time with wonder and awe. It's sad the feeling gets lost on us natives that see them everyday.
Das ist völlig normal!
Meine Güte, wie aufgeblasen
According to the last things you said, people overseas tend to say EUROPE. Its a continent and every single country couldnt be more different to the other. Bulgaria, and most of eastern europe is much more poor and underdeveloped. It cant be compared to Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands and the scandinavian countrys. Germany is the 4th largest economy in the world and ofc we are much more well off as the eastern and many southern countrys. And you feel it, you see it.
Iam glad to be born in the blackforest southern region of germany. We are wealthy compared to the very most parts of the planet, we are safe compared to the very most parts of the planet and nature and technology are going beside each other, not sacrificing nature for modernity. I have a fucking forest behind my home and still have a 1 gigabit internet connection, an IMAX cinema, Lasertag and VR Arena and stuff... Yes even subway, mcd and bk if you wanna conider them modern. I prefer the local brewery restaurant ;)
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Greetings from germany, loved your reaction ❤
Thank you for tuning in ! Greetings!
A lot of Germans are crazy, but i think a lot of Americans too 😉
But over all i think you would love Germany and Austria (and Switzerland)
You don't need a permit to film in Germany. This person was a "Karen". You have only to respect the privacy of people by not directly filming them or by blurring out their faces before you publish a video. In some special cases you would also have to respect architectural copyright rules. You could however need a permit if you are making a professional movie with a whole crew, at the one hand for the authorities to be informed what's going on, at the other hand to avoid e.g. traffic disturbances or generally disturbance of public peace.
You can record everything and everyone in a public space in Germany too. It's just that we have a "right on your own picture" law, which is a copyright law, that prevents you from publishing pictures or videos of people without their consent. You have to blur peoples faces out then. But there are exceptions of course. You don't have to blur peoples faces if they are just part of the background or scenery when taking pictures of a church or something for example. People also have no expectation of privacy and a right on their own picture if they are attending a protest or are doing something that could be categorized as a "document of history".
And you don't have to blur peoples faces if they are putting themself in front of the camera. Like when you are filming in the corner of a restaurant without bothering anyone and then suddenly a Karen walks up to argue with and shout at you. You are then allowed to document that and publish it.
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Aus den von mir gennanten Gründen.
Die Letzte Generation dokumentiert Straftaten an Protestierenden und die Protestaktionen selbst sind schon zeitgeschichtliche Ereignise. Bei James ist das nicht der Fall und deswegen muss er die Leute unkenntlich machen.
There's a lot of graffiti in Germany and for many decades. We even have some Roman buildings here with thousand years old graffiti scratched into the walls. That's super cool of course. Older people hate modern Graffiti but I'm a fan as long as it's decent and not on historical buildings. But some idiots scribble ugly nonsense on centuries old buildings. That's sad of course but on plain grey concrete walls for me personally it's an upgrade. And many cities even allow street art on certain walls because they rather have actual art on the walls instead of ugly scribbling.
yes we say über den tellerrand kucken
Funfact: Essen is the City and essen is eat.
Actually the Berliner Fernsehturm is the more popular one which also have a restaurant.
Permit: He is on privat property (Train stations are owned by the Train Company) and so he needs (theoretically) a permit from the property owner.
Yeah, that nonsense. But then not a complete stranger can snap at him because of it, but only someone who works there!
@@AP-RSI I lived in Essen and the Main Station area is not the friendliest. Another RUclipsr made the same experience in Essen Main Station. Maybe it was the same guy. 😅
I would like to point out as Czech - mideuropean - my town (Hradec Králové) is just 100k people. But! The first settlement was established at cca 800 bc. We just count the time differently.
It is about perspectiv.
Great video ❤ I love another viewpoints and sincerely you guys are so pumped by "every day things" that it makes makes me to step back and appreciate where i live.
Here some facts:
Essen means in german eating, but the city of Essen was called after Esse (chimney or forge). Essen is a city in the so called Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr area), there where coal mining and steel factories. It's also called Kohlenpott (coal pot).
Wuppertal is in a small valley, they could not install a tram. They build the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn instead.
Düsseldorf is the capital of the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen (Northrhine Westphalia).
Also something special about Düsseldorf, it has the highest Population of Japanese of any City in Germany, so there's a part of the City that feels like you are in Japan, with even Street signes both in German and Japanese.
What a joke. Essen means eating in german. So essen in Essen is funny. But we have something even funnier in german. Essen is the hometown of iron works Krupp, you know the guy who made all the cannons. So there is that saying in Germany: "We are in drinking, what Krupp ist in Essen". That is funny.
dont even think its amaricans them self who dont have pride in their place
its cary lovvyists and polititians and city planeers
lot of old amarican town that where build the european way where bulldozed flat for highways and parkinglots
instad of at least preserving the city center an building the speed ways around everything was torn down and that is incredibly sad
Filming in public is allowed, but there is a constitutional right (sth like fourth amendment) of all citizens to control pictures of them. You don't need to ask to film in puiblic, but who have to have consent with the persons vou might film, to be filmed.
Hi im from wuppertal...since the 1980 is graffiti a thing...today not so much and more controled and with the town leaders or house holder...greetings from Wuppertal 🤘
Tach auch aus Wichlinghausen nach wo-auch-imner-in-W
@@trassentante Tach zurück aus Langerfeld.😁👍
The Schwebebahn my Friend is from 1901 so nope it isn´t new. But we Germans wheren´t Germans if we didn´t had something similar with slighlty diffrent technology wich is newer. The Düsseldorf Airport Skytrain Shuttle. But wait heres more because everyone here knows that we germans also are idiots. The Shanghai Maglev Shuttle is the former German Transrapid wich we ditched after one single accident at the Test Loop. By the way fault by the maintenance Crew.
Essen is near from my City, go to the train Station at night, than u See the ugly side of Essen 😂
I am from Switzerland. We don’t like the way you do this, I can barely see the Video..
Hey man this is how I do things. Thank you for your comment
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Since we have tougher data protection laws in Germany, and especially laws that are supposed to protect privacy, pretty much everything that involves taking pictures or filming in public has been banned or severely restricted. Some people go completely crazy in this respect. As a photographer in Germany, it's just a horror. Control and prohibition state we have become, because of some morons!
The Schwebebahn is more than 120 yrs old and it's unique. More informations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn
Thank you !
The shown ones are the new waggons...Build in 2015... The young female elephant Tuffi jumping out of the Schwebebahn into the Wupper happened in 1950.