I had one of those weird dreams last night. One of those strange dreams you only dream when you are not at home. When you’re asleep in your old bed in your old home at your parents’ place where the past is always present. I was in Berlin, sitting on a hill overlooking the east [...]
Category Archives: Stories
Großglasige, goldumrandete Brille & schwarze Mokassins
Montag, September 5, 2011
Am Dienstag feierte eine Kollegin und Freundin aus meinem Verlag ihr 13. „Dienstjubiläum“. Sie feierte das nicht wortwörtlich, wir saßen einfach in ihrem Büro beim Kaffee zusammen, und sie fing an von den Jobs zu erzählen, die sie in ihrer langen Arbeitskarriere schon hatte.
Speaking of boredom…
Donnerstag, August 11, 2011
For a few moments you are locked in a sort of time vacuum that is completely devoid of any sense. Nothing is literally happening. You stare into the void until the stupid noise of a printer or fax machine suddenly gets you out of it.
David Foster Wallace as Religious Experience
Sonntag, Juli 24, 2011
I’m reading quite a lot of David Foster Wallace’s essays lately. Why his essays and not his fiction, you might ask yourself while enjoying a nice cup of tea, my dear reader? Well, his wife, the painter Karen L. Green, said in an interview with the Guardian, that in the months and years before he took his life, he actually felt that writing novels was becoming more and more of a strain, and that he wasn’t enjoying it anymore.
Against all odds
Sonntag, November 21, 2010
Wenn man Kunst macht, dann stellt sich irgendwann die Frage, was man damit eigentlich erreichen will. Sollen möglicht viele Leute das Buch lesen oder die Platte kaufen? Will man Geld verdienen? Reich und berühmt werden? Oder geht es darum, etwas auszudrücken und dafür anerkannt zu werden. Etwas zu schöpfen, das bleibt? Gerd Grauer gründete 2005 [...]
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