Two countries

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it…

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Writing in Paris

Oh, Paris in the 20s! When Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald were around! What a life this must have been, sitting in the cafés, writing, drinking, writing, talking. Around 90 years later – or one month ago – Jen and I were in Paris and followed literary traces: We visited the…

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Paris for best friends

Paris war ein langer, wunderschöner Spaziergang. Wir liefen breite Straßen entlang, die Sonntags still und leise waren, und picknickten im entspannten Trubel von Sacre Coeur und vor dem Eiffelturm. Wir schlenderten entlang der Seine und von Café zu Café, hielten an, um Kleinigkeiten zu fotografieren, tranken Kaffee in Hinterhöfen, schauten hoch zu den Balkons und…

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