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In Berlin, opposite the monument for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, there is another monument, just across the road, for the gays and lesbians killed in the Nazi-regime because of their sexual orientation. It is a granite cube incorporating a video screen showing a film of two guys kissing (the film is supposed to be changed [...]

Dear Dam Chhoi Lama,
Meeting you in Italy in that weird spring of 2001 has changed my life forever. Probably you do not know that and being a Buddhist monk (even though a very worldly one) you would certainly deny it and make a joke about your own insignificance and say that it was all there [...]

… I have space to listen what is going on inside me.

Basically, I feel always alive when I am in a “flow” of doing something, not necessarily something I find enjoyable as such but something that I do well. I do not particularly enjoy all the tasks that my job consists of, but [...]

When my girlfriend and I were together for two months she had to undergo heart surgery because of a birth defect - a problem with the mitral valve that was not opening and closing correctly. Her problems were severe. She could not bear even the smallest physical strain, she had sometimes strong pain or a [...]

…impossible! My grandfather I remember always in the garden of our family mansion. So what would I say if I had the chance to be with him once more in the garden? Somehow I have the feeling we wouldn’t talk that much. We’d just plant, weed, water - side by side. Once in a while [...]

About Christmas as such I do not have any reservations. There’s only one negative thought I connect with Christmas and this is the burial of my grandfather, nine years ago shortly before the Christmas of 1996. He had died very suddenly of a condition later described as heart insufficiency (I don’t know if that’s the [...]

I am working as an HR-Development manager in a multinational company. That’s my day job. My passion is writing. Simple as that. Ever since I’m actually able to write.
Balancing the two is increasingly difficult as the day job responsibilities are growing and I feel that my job becomes ever so much more demanding and [...]

Instead of citing once more why I admire the Dalai Lama I think I will say why I admire my friend Petra.
I know her since 20 years. Before starting university I took a one year course in foreign language correspondence – a language focused secretary training basically that my Mum insisted upon before I [...]