Essays & Art
Ollie didn’t have any of it. Little Ollie paused, had a long sniff at presumably another dog’s pee, meandered coolly around the sidewalk, looked after other dogs passing by and didn’t give a toss about what Ollie’s accompanying lady shouted at him. “Ollie, come here. Ollieee, over here. Ooolliiee, move. Ooooolllliieeee, no, don’t!”
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It was a perfect summer. I was staying at an extraordinary abode in South France, at the holiday-house-slash-mansion of a friend.
We had met at work. She used to be my boss when I was working at a London based software company. It was a girls-only weekend away and we discussed every little bit of our lives. What we admitted to be uncovered, that was.
Continue reading “The Age of Vulnerability”
Of course, one knows Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The musical genius and society eccentric. And for sure, you have hummed along some of Mozart’s songs from “Eine kleine Nachtmusik” or “The Magic Flute”. If not in the opera, then while on the phone listening to music on hold in a waiting loop.
Yet, most likely you haven’t heard of his sister Maria Anna Mozart. And most likely, you don’t know either that Maria Anna Mozart was the original musical prodigy.
Continue reading “Who is Maria Anna Mozart?”Power is not given to you. You have to take it.
– Beyoncé –
My eyes firmly fixated on the buildings around me, I am usually walking through London ready to discover this fascinating city’s quirks along the way. On one of those days, I ended up in Primrose Hill, in a 1920s villa housing a cultural temple for English Folk Dance.
Continue reading “A Love Story ❤️”
I quit my corporate job in London in March 2020.
Corona hit. I bought an old camper van together with a friend. We started our journey from Berlin to Southern Europe in search for inspirational places to live and to work remotely. And to maybe start a business hosting digital nomads. All was open and in the air. Exciting times!
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Did you see what Brad Pitt did with his perfect home-slash-villa in the Southern part of France at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat? Yes, exactly that spot where the pink coloured serene and arty Villa “Ephrussi de Rothschild” and its lush gardens are located. Extraordinarily beautiful!
What an amazing home, isn’t it?
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I was raised in a Catholic environment. A small village in Southern Germany with a church forming its centre and a chapel with a mysterious crypt as eternal deathbed for our gentry. Those feudal countryside masters left our village in the 19th century and if I remember correctly, their heritage line died out shortly after. Almighty God’s will or random coincidence?
Continue reading “Beyond The Seven Deadly Sins”
Who hasn’t dreamt of living a different life? Having a break from the same old same old. Living other daily experiences. More adventure. Or just dipping a toe into a parallel world. I think about it all the time. That’s why I started my initiative I have called “SWAP YOUR LIFE”.
Continue reading “What happened on my Life Swap in Lisbon”
When volunteering at an Octavia foundation charity shop in London’s Kentish Town, I stumbled across the name giver of this organisation: Octavia Hill.
Octavia was living in 19th century London. She was a prominent figure in the fight against land developers who were as early as the 1830s planning to build townhouses and villas on London’s famous green lung “Hampstead Heath”. Yes, the Hampstead Heath. This amazingly vast forest so close to the city.
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