It was with much excitement that I learnt from Toby (who is mapping/jogging what seems to be every street in Berlin) that just up the road from where we live is the 'turnplatz' where the 'turnvater' invented 'turnverein'. The excitement was mine. And is probably mine alone. Friedrich Jahn is the creator of mass gymnastics, which happens to be the subject (or one of them) of my solo work Opening and Closing Ceremony and I can't quite believe I'm living almost round the corner from such historical events. Berlin, huh? Its impossible to escape history here.
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