How to fall in love with Cologne -A Guide

  The city and I had a rather rough start in 2008. In my first winter here the heating system broke just when temperatures started to drop below -10 degrees. As a consequence, I had to heat my apartment with the 4 cooktops of my stove. Fortunately by that time my apartment had the manageable size…

I should have left you

I should have left you When I told you about my sexual abuse and your first question was if I would use that story to impress people. I should have left you When 2 years later you told me, that I should finally get over it. I should have left you When you were mad…

London, Rickman and broken glasses

In the year 2002 I took a quite rickety overland bus drive to London, just to see Alan Rickman in the award-winning British production of Noel Coward’s play „Private Lives“. Having just developed a huge crush on the actor after seeing him in „Sense and Sensibility“, nothing was going to stop me from this live experience….