July 2007
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Empfindsam
empfindsam would be sensitive in english, but it is not. empfindsam is like empfangen, to receive, finden, to find. empfinden, to sense to receive, to find, to sense, to react to a given trigger, a sense for the human nature. It took a while to realize, maybe four years. You remember the words of your mother, how she described you as a child - at these moments where you hide behind her. She...
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bike
It was the first sunny sunday since weeks, everyone was one the streets and walking on the waterside of the river. After the arcades comes a row of banks and the entry to a tunnel, to pass the wide and busy street.
A old woman stands up from one of the banks, slowly, she waits there for a second, watching nowhere and walks away leaving a open box on the bank. Everbody is relaxed, happy about...
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The Tree
Germany does not allow outsiders, it is not the U.S. or south america. So you walk around at night, and you walk and walk and you don’t see anyone for quite a while. It is in the middle of the city, at day it’s full of people. But now, the night from sunday to monday, they all sleep.
The police and the taxi drivers, the drug dealers, the kids from the food shop that has open until 4...
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the cemetery and the second hand store
you get used to so many things. walls around cemeterys for example, only in the city of course, since here it is all crammed, house by house, cemetery by second hand store.
would you like to be buried here? you can find good books in the store, a diplom work about gender studies, sorted in between the art books because of the cover. culture, sex, gender.
you learn to ignore, to accept it as it...