Perhaps, just perhaps, it has something to do with flagging libido but more and more I am starting to read Bild from back to front. That is, beginning with the sports section rather than the logical method of admiring half-naked Melissa,21, (“hat sich für die Beach-Party extra zurecht gemacht”) and worrying about Killer-Sprossen on Seite [...]
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For a terrible moment I was worried that Klaus Wowereit would be stranded in Moscow by the ash cloud. Alone, without journalists, in the strategically critical month before the start of the summer election campaign. A cruel interruption in his dialogue with the electorate.And then I realised: there is no campaign. [...]
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Here is something that should interest unshockable Berlin – based readers: on Sunday April 3, I shall be reading from and chatting about the works of my old mate Martin Amis at the English Theatre (Fidicinstrasse 40,10965 Berlin, 20:00 Uhr). Come along if you have nothing better to do. It’s got to be better than [...]
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Terrible pictures from Japan, blood in the Middle East. But good news for Berlin!
A new study by Californian sociologists shows that grumpy people live longer. Complain about the S-Bahn, kick your neighbour’s dog, show your back if a customer asks for information– and you can be sure that you are adding a [...]
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Some years ago I was in a bookshop in Rostock as part of a reading tour. I like the rawness of the town, its energy, its rough humour, its dourness. So I wasn’t really bothered when only eleven people – immerhin enough to make a football or cricket team– turned up to listen to me [...]
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” Yesterday, that was a day, Mr Boyes! I had a fantastic(tolle) Super-model in the car. A real Augenschmaus.” The taxi driver was excited. I was sitting up front, ausnahmsweise demokratisch, and so I could see how the vein throbbed on his forehead. Nothing stirs the red-blooded Berlin taxi driver [...]
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Most foreign correspondents in Berlin know this experience: in the middle of a German crisis, any sudden collapse of national self-confidence (Is Lena good enough to win? Why are we Germans obsessed with Prince William?), a young Redakteurin from a newspaper or a radio station rings up and says: Herr Boyes, we need the Blick [...]
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Who would want to be mayor of Berlin? Sure, there are worse jobs. Salesman in one of the sex video shops on Adenauerplatz, perhaps. Night manager of a Tankstelle, making sure that no one steals a can of Red Bull. That kind of thing. But to be mayor of Berlin is to live a lie: [...]
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It happens to all of us, doesn’t it? You get out of the bath – in my case after playing with red plastic ducks – and you feel dizzy. Perfectly natural: hot water, cold air, Kreislauf, blabla. But here’s another possibility – your bath salts, called perhaps “Bonsai Citrons” or “Forest Green”, contained artificial marijuana [...]
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I am of the age when ginseng manufacturers put me on their mailing lists so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised to be offered a free trial of something called the Uroclub. At first glance it looks and feels like the stem of an umbrella; in fact it is a [...]
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