i am working the nightshift – for the second time by my own. the day was pretty easy-going, just had to change a couple of things, but it was really about details. just had a second to breathe through and once again figure that i probably have the best job in the world. creating those…
Read moreabout goodbyes
today someone that used to be very close to me said good bye, in a very unusal way but a goodybe nevertheless. it was a harsh, an unfriendly goodbye. but then in a way i chose to accept it. because i had to, because in this case i felt there was no way out either….
Read morefreedom
there is a song by david gray called freedom, to me life seems to be a series of recurring events. not that they wouldn’t evolve in some way or another, but recurring nevertheless. explaining what freedom means really is diffcult. probably to be free to decide, what i want to do. there’s a beautiful story…
Read moresometimes we all are cubans
imagine you are a bank. not any bank but the bank managing all your little country’s monetary transfers. imagine that after – let’s call it a little crisis in your owner’s organization – a big investment fonds takes over. not just any investment fonts but one of the largest in the world. an investment fonds…
Read morealone in the dark
this year easter was different. for the first time in a long time, easter felt like it should feel. it all came together in a single moment, when the easter fire was lit around a friend’s place where astrid and i went. sometimes feelings last only for a split-second but during that short moment, i…
Read moreAnd Volvo calls..
Heute der lange ersehnte Anruf von Denzel Klagenfurt, ab kommenden Montag (also knapp zwei Wochen nach meinem ersten Anruf) könnte ich den Volvo C30 probefahren. Dazwischen liegt eine Messe, da würde das Auto gebraucht. Natürlich werde ich mir das Auto trotzdem anschauen. Ob ich ihn dann allerdings bei Denzel kaufe (als Konkurrent hat sich ein…
Read moreThe Volvo C30 story continues…
Es ist faszinierend: Mittlerweile habe ich wirklich einige Mails zu untenstehender Geschichte über meinen Doch-Nicht-Probefahrt mit dem neuen Volvo C30 und deren Umstände bekommen. Wahnsinn: Bei Google wurde das Blogpost gestern an erster (!!!) Stelle (siehe Screenshot) bei einer Suche nach den Keywords “Volvo, C30, Verkauf” gefunden. Kein Wunder, dass die Zugriffe explodiert sind. Zu…
Read moreWarum ich keinen Volvo kaufe
Es lebe das Web, mein Blog-Eintrag zum Thema Volvo ist erst genau einen tag alt und schon wurde ich von drei Leuten darauf angesprochen(-gemailt). Ich bin gespannt wohin die Sache führt, aber noch einmal zur Erklärung. Zu Wochenbeginn habe ich bei Volvo Denzel in Klagenfurt angerufen – nicht irgendjemanden, sondern den Verkaufsleiter, Herrn K. Simple…
Read moreWhy I won’t buy a Volvo
I hardly ever blog about what I consider “trivial” things, but this one is just too perfect: As my tough little Skoda is running near the end of its lifecycle I’m slowly starting to think about working on a replacement. So the new Volvo C30 (I’ve always been fond of Scandinavian cars..) seemed to perfectly…
Read moremy world, your world
“ihre geschichte und meine geschichte, das ist etwas völlig anderes. wenn sie ihre familienfotos ansehen, dann sagen sie, dass ist der onkel soundso, der hat immer bonbons mitgebracht und das ist die tante, die zu weihnachten immer bei uns war. bei uns heißt das, ausschwitz, treblinka, ausgewandert nach caracas, verschollen” aus: “ein ganz gewöhnlicher jude”…
Read morenorth korea in pictures
it took me some time, but then again i wasn’t so sure if i should put my pictures from pyongyang oline (for simple copyright reasons) – but then again here they are. enjoy. i believe.
Read morethe wasteland of your mind
sitting on my kitchen table in the evening, writing an article for a magazine. the year passed so quickly and what a year it has been. a year ago i was getting ready to fly to new york. and then i moved to belgium, travelled to the netherlands, england, saw canterbury, waterloo and last but…
Read moreus, longing to be heard
it’s been some time since i was in a live concert (söhne mannheims in brussels to be precise) but it was well worth the wait: naked lunch were back in their hometown (my hometown, our hometown!) klagenfurt yesterday, small smelly smoky location but then great great great music. little more than 90 minutes of great…
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