Well. It’s really hard to even say anything meaningful about this. I went back and forth on what to write about it and ended up deleting it all. It’s been a year of missing: people, above all, and connection, places, and opportunities. It’s also been among the years of my biggest growth so far, personally… Continue reading Twenty-twenty
Category: what’s true
On practice (and perfect)
Six months ago, I had my first piano lesson. That’s the easiest way to put it. The much truer, and, as always with that, more complicated version of the one sentence above is: I’ve been wanting to play the piano for a very long time: at first, mostly because I found the instrument beautiful, in… Continue reading On practice (and perfect)
Twenty-Eighteen
This was quite something. Thinking about it and going over last year’s events, I’m not quite sure how all of it ever fit into one year. As I’m writing this, I’m sitting on a red couch with a piano nearby while the wind is blowing outside, I just had some tea and mini pizzas, and,… Continue reading Twenty-Eighteen
Eleven rainbows: Melbourne in Winter 2017
This is a diary of my time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, containing musings, thoughts, notes written down in June and July 2017. Edited in August 2017 and February 2018. The number of rainbows is true and something else; everything else is as true as you need it to be. Day 1 A bird on a… Continue reading Eleven rainbows: Melbourne in Winter 2017
Berlin, Winter (October 2017-February 2018)
There’s always this one day in the year when it shifts, the day when all of a sudden, the subway station is warmer than the outdoors again. That’s when you know. This is the fifth month of winter. There’s not enough sun for all the sad people here anymore. We try to stay close to… Continue reading Berlin, Winter (October 2017-February 2018)
January 2018
Found The dog A better understanding Shells Stones Sticks Not what I was looking for Wrote About 2017 What are you so afraid of? – In Pastry Box Project Postcards Half a notebook full of late-night & insomnia notes Overheard or said “I accidentally hit him with my pineapple.” “Are you fighting the coconut again?” Read… Continue reading January 2018
Bats
I grew up in a small village somewhere in the countryside, in an area of rivers, hills, small forests, and castles. Scattered all over the region around the small village were even smaller villages, often made up of just one, two, three farms, some of them abandoned for many years already. Many hills around the smaller villages were… Continue reading Bats
A brightness, a view, a poem: Porto in Winter 2017
Musings, thoughts, music, notes. Written down over the course of a few days in December 2016 and January 2017, while meandering through Porto, Portugal. Prologue I get home to a freezing cold flat at 9pm. Two hours, some laundry, dinner, a phone call, one unpacked and another packed bag later, I go to bed. Six hours later,… Continue reading A brightness, a view, a poem: Porto in Winter 2017
12 Days of Summer – Melbourne in November 2016
Observations, music, thoughts, notes, written down under over the course of 12 days in November & December 2016 while meandering through Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Jetlag, maybe, and something about cloves When abroad, my general rule is: everything that’s within a distance I can walk, I will walk. So I walk to the place I want to… Continue reading 12 Days of Summer – Melbourne in November 2016
Für alle Leute, die schiefe Horizonte, Sonne und schöne Bilder mögen
… hätte ich da was. Lautsprecher an, Kopfhörer auf, und viel Spaß. Video description & credits: 11 cars. 21 drivers. 11 days. 2,400 miles east. From Berlin to Astrakhan: Silkroad 2013. This short german-russian fairytale is based on scenes shot in August / September during the first 11 days of Land Rover Experience Tour 2013… Continue reading Für alle Leute, die schiefe Horizonte, Sonne und schöne Bilder mögen