There was a time when I enjoyed August in Berlin. Sleepy drinks next to Kreuzberg canals, the city is on low metabolism. Comatose but in a positive way, a kind of opium slumber that brings enlightenment in your dreams. But August is also the month that I was born and it is the time when [...]
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There are times when I become quite nostalgic for the Sass brothers, Franz and Erich. Not because of their profession obviously – it would be difficult to make a Plädoyer for bank robbery in such a respectable newspaper – but because of the precision and intelligence of their work. They were Meistereinbrecher and frankly: it [...]
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When I first came to Germany many years ago, nobody outside Bavaria trusted his father or grandfather. Certainly, there was no question of asking an old man for advice. The 1968 generation was of course, not specific to Germany ; in America , it was World War Two and Korea veterans who planned the military campaigns [...]
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Dentists are a barometer of economic crisis. Thanks to the corrosive effect of sugar, dentists are never short of a euro. And they are always on the lookout for safe investments.
So obviously I paused for reflection recently when I saw a dentist acquaintance in Berlin loading up his car. His wife, formerly his assistant, was ticking [...]
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Just to show you that I am not infallible…
I am not a violent man but whenever I see Dieter Bohlen’s face I feel a powerful urge to hit him on the nose. It is not just his grillhähnchen face or his nasal voice; I think rather, it is that permanent sneer.
Instead of stalking him at [...]
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Let no one tell you that the Berlin economy is stagnating. Across the city, shops have been opening up, offering to buy and sell gold. Some have bodyguards treading the pavement outside( they are discouraged from standing inside, because of their strong body odour–carrying a gun makes you sweat), some only open their doors if [...]
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I like restaurant owners, in the same way that I like public relations managers; they are friendly and remember the names of your children but you never quite know who else they have been flattering. At the upper end of the business, they have a hard time. It’s not just a matter of keeping [...]
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Quite honestly, I don’t know if Jesus Christ is going to return to earth, but if he does he’s going to be pretty upset(sauer). The Catholic Church must be the worst-managed organisation in the world. The Vatican has become captive of its own fear of public embarrassment.Papal secrecy, designed to protect the church from state [...]
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I am too young to watch ARD morning television (Rote Rosen, episode 763 ) too heterosexual to be excited by Desperate Housewives, too old for Die Simpsons, too bored by SOKO Wismar (it would take more than a murder mystery to get me interested in Wismar). But Günter Jauch’s millionaire show, now that’s something I [...]
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The one piece of good news in a week that was not full of joy came from, where else?, Deutsch Bahn. Not only is DB boss Rüdiger Grube going to get rid of Flyers, Hotlines and Call a Bike, he also ordained that the kissing has to stop. More precisely the “Kiss and Ride” [...]
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