(De) “Do a nice curtsy!”, I was regularly asked as a child when visitors came to our house or when we visited distant relatives or...

(DE) It’s a hot summer’s day in 2019 as a group of elderly ladies are led, laughing and chattering happily, through their old...

LL: UK/DE: Whenever I am in a non-European country for a few weeks or months, whether on holiday or for work, I have this impending...

(DE) “Life is not a radio request concert” is often said when wishes are denied. But in our lives in the 50s and 60s, the weekly radio...

(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...