(DE) After my heart attack, I got into the habit of taking a walk for at least an hour every day. I called this my "Nymphenburg Walks"....

November 2020 to November 2021 (DE) These twelve months, from late autumn 2020 to November 2021, blur my memory into a mush of infection...

(DE) "Come over here; he's talking now!" With these words, the coordinator of the refugees' shared accommodation calls me from the...

Spring to early summer 2020) (DE) It's the afternoon of 16th June 2021. Fifteen months after the Bavarian prime minister declared a state...

Spring to late autumn 2020 (DE) When the infection figures slowly fell in mid-April 2020, relaxations were granted. That shops beyond...

In the 70s, I had been working in London for a film equipment rental company called Lee Electric and was in-between jobs when a friend of...

Ecuador, May 1980 I was up to my knees in the water of the Rio Napo, washing my jeans. We arrived in Misahualli by bus in the early...

(EN) That night, I must have slept deeply and woke up very slowly. It is as if gentle waves were flushing me from the realm of dreams...

(DE) During my student days in Berlin, things often got very lively in one shared flat (Wohngemeinschaft – WG). I still have fond...

(DE) The winter of 1979/80 was freezing in Berlin. The city was beautiful that winter. The snow was high, and stomping through the...

(DE 1977) I found my first room in a communal flat (WG) with two classmates from our Berlin "Schule für Erwachsenenbildung e.V.", a...

(DE) Athens, May 2017. I am 63 years old, and I am sitting in the kitchen of a large 4-room flat in the middle of the Greek capital,...