(DE) In the spring of 1953, seven adults reportedly cheered, “A Deandl!” (That’s Bavarian for “a girl.”) Well, the jubilation among my...

Family hierarchy DE: One day in summer, when I was still a kindergarten child, I decided not to announce my early return from...

(De/UK) Radio and Television in the 50s and 60s. When I was a child, in the 50s, we didn’t have a television. We listened to the radio....

Telephone and communication – changes over time LL-DE/UK: Last year, an overanxious mother in England called her son on his mobile phone...

LL: DE/UK: Illness turned my life around It was the 26th of April 1976, the day after my friends C. and H. got married. I woke up with...

LL: De-UK: Guiding messages from my early teenage years that impacted my adult life decisions Becoming a teenager is tough. When you’re...

LL-De: When I was a child, my mother sometimes complained that I was never satisfied with what I had. It wasn’t about toys, but mostly...

LL-UK: It was a drizzly November afternoon in 2009 when my siblings and I were admiring the Wembley Arena in London, the site of the...

(DE) “Oomaa!”, I cry out in panic, as always, as I pass the front door of the rental apartment block where we live. “I have to go to the...

(DE): In the 5th grade, in 1964, we were asked by our teacher to write an essay about how we imagine the future. I went into the thick of...

(DE) If you travelled from Germany to Italy in the mid-1960s, there was no broadly built motorway. No. One drove more or less comfortably...

(DE) When I think twice, then I am a Percival, yes, yes, quite right, Percival, but female. Perceval, the young fool, who after an...