DE: Sometimes all it takes is an evening, a good meal, a few glasses of wine – and suddenly a time long past is back. I recently had a visit in London from an old acquaintance from Berlin. D. and I have known each other since the 1970s. What binds us is a shared experience that has left a lasting mark on both of us: the alternative educational project, the ‘School for Adult Education’ in Berlin. He worked there as a chemistry teacher whilst I was a student taking my A-levels.

(DE) ‘I have mourned my whole life, just as I do now,’ I said spontaneously to a friend who asked me how I was doing after the death of a...

(DE) It was a sunny early summer's day, and my brother-in-law was visiting; the idea of devouring ice cream quickly came up. At...

Growing up in a Catholic world My big sister (left) and I. In my memory, my first six years of life, although fatherless, seemed cheerful...

-Munich 1939 to 1945 - (DE) When I was born in Munich on 23 May 1939, the world was on the brink, and very few people were aware of it. ...

-Munich 1945 to 1953- (DE) "For God's sake! That can't be! It's gone! Just gone!" I, a mere six-year-old, was standing on Guldeinstraße...