Secret: The Locked Theatre

Once upon a time, long ago, a great Eastern Berlin Orchestra came to town. I was a young reporter and my boss sent me to interview the conductor who was a Yugoslavian. It was at the beginning of the eighties. Then, Eastern Germany endured one of the harshest...

Impossible Iron

Some weeks ago, there was a medieval fair  in my neighbourhood and a group of men came to show us how do they worked at the old forging. They brought  a furnace to melt the iron, an anvil and a huge collection of hammers and tongs and mesh gloves , leather aprons, and...

Bridges and flies

We all have that one eccentric relative who always says and does the strangest things. In your family, who’s that person, and what is it that earned him/her that reputation? I cannot think of anyone. We are a very normal family, with a pretty eventful history, and...
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