4+ hour, 15+ min ago   (899+ words) When I worked for TV, during my apprenticeship, I learned a maxim that truly impressed me. I am even teaching it to my children. The maxim is: Entschuldigungen werden nicht mitgesendet. That roughly translates to: “Excuses don’t air,” or: “We…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (807+ words) Sagt der eine Hund zum andern — Says the one dog to the other: »I am conducting an experiment here! My thesis is: every time that bell rings, I am served food.« The other dog pricks up his ears. He asks:…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (572+ words) A video from the 1980s is currently making the rounds on social media. And people – myself not excepted – are shocked, are wistful, are at a loss. It is the barely one-minute-long commercial from the razor-blade company Gillette. Here it is, via…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (728+ words) When did you… no, wait, I should ask myself: When did I last publicly confess my own failure? Certainly, some mistake or other annoys me privately. And in confession I confess my failure. But would I dare confess publicly to…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1024+ words) »The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly roll a boulder up a mountain, from whose summit the stone would roll back down of its own accord,« writes Albert Camus, as is well known, and: »They had thought, with some justification,…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (610+ words) I am writing this text on the morning of Easter Sunday, half-asleep. We attended the Easter Vigil. We held candles, sang and prayed. (Interesting detail: A guest who was present, who apparently struggled with himself and yet was there, flew…...