Bare trees and icy cold. For many people, Winter is an unpopular Season of the year. Not so for Barbara Schaefer. Without the cool months you would be missing something. Where others see only Wasteland, and darkness, she sees the beautiful landscapes. So you along walking in the Winter through Berlin’s Parks or at the Bent Lanke, even when the trees have lost their Green. “I find that a tree has, even in the Winter its beauty,” says the journalist and book author who also writes for the daily mirror. It is not that easy, only the leaves were missing: “You can see the Branches.” In the Winter I have something very Graphic.

In the ideal case for you in the Winter of course the snow. With snow much of what you know look quite different. The snow could have something very Clear, but he could also be nebulous and shapes are blurred. “I live in Kreuzberg and if here the old cemetery is in the miner road in snow, I find the insanely beautiful, about to walk,” says the 57-Year-old.

Schaefer has a Declaration of love to the Winter

Barbara Schaefer, written in the Winter is so great, that she has written a book about him. It is a Declaration of love, in which she describes personal moments of happiness in the cold Season, and the reader, by the way, interesting facts about the Winter. In addition, they can be Locals from snow areas, and the joys and sorrows of Winter to tell.

With the book, Schaefer doesn’t want to do just like Winter, but also the importance of the point. That the climate could change in the long term, the Winter of disappearance, is of concern to Schaefer. “In our climate zone we are in need of the Winter,” she warns him. A biologist explained the obvious: “If it thaws a little snow and early, to catch the flowers used to sprout.” You think maybe for the first time, that was nice, “but then the bees are not ready yet, and to come, are withered the plants. Then what’s missing where.“

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For the Research, Schaefer was among others in Greenland, and Norway. “The Winter is incredibly fascinating,” she says. “North light is great, and then around a closed, deep snow-covered landscape.” Snow landscapes remind Barbara Schaefer of her Childhood. Grew up in the Swabian Alb, she learned from the age of four to Ski and does so still today. Particularly beautiful it is to walk through a freshly snow-covered surface. “Then you can no longer feel like a discoverer, like the first man who enters this place, that you experienced otherwise.”

Admittedly, the Berlin winter weather with a drizzle in the past few weeks, liked Schaefer. “A rainy Winter is just as ugly as a rainy summer. The want to have none,“ she says. In principle, however, it can also be of such a weather not stop you from going out. Even a walk in five degrees and drizzle can make you feel loaded again afterwards energy.

“In our climate zone we are in need of the Winter,” says the Berlin-based author Barbara Schaefer.Photo: Claudia Little

as soon As it’s icy cold, Schaefer, who has been living for 20 years in Berlin, in the Winter, but really great – whether with snow or without. Minus degrees you don’t mind. “There are Jackets and hats.” As long as it was well wrapped and the next Café not too far away, was cold but a pleasure. In addition, the sky was at such temperatures is usually clear, so you can experience even in the Winter the sun.

The perfect Winter for Barbara Schaefer a “short and crisp”

Last February, it had become in Berlin, also once again really cold, she recalls. The Schlachtensee was frozen over, people were Skating. “The ice has been sound, that was scary, but also very beautiful.” Even in the Berlin Winter of 2011, you can still remember. “At the time of the Landwehr canal was frozen over.” The people simply went on the ice walk. “It looked like in the paintings of Pieter Bruegel of the canals in Holland. This had been something Enchanting,“ she says.

With the winter images from Greenland or Norway, this is not to compare of course. A Panorama of a snow trip in Northern Norway has burned you in particular: By a mountain, you have looked on the sea, which was in the midst of a white snow landscape as a black surface in front of her. “It was clear that nothing now for quite a long time and at some point, Greenland.” At the sight of her had risen the heart. “This is me in other perhaps on a beach.”

Nevertheless, from Berlin to Norway or Greenland, don’t pull, you would: “I am a committed urban dweller.” Without the many people, cinemas and theatres you would be missing something. And she enjoys the changing of the seasons. Eternal Winter, that wouldn’t be for you. The perfect Winter for Barbara Schaefer a “short and crisp”. At the latest in mid-March, she also wants to summon the spring.

Barbara Schaefer: Winter – A Declaration of love. Noble Books, 224 pages, 18 euros

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