I write novels, stories, poems, magazine articles, film scripts and plays. I write what I want to read myself. If you happen to have the same taste... Welcome to our world!
I write in Swiss German, English and the Swiss form of written German. In my head I think (when I think) probably half of the time in Swiss German and half of the time in (broken) English.
Ласковый май (Laskoviy May / Tender May is the mind-boggling story of Sergey Kuznetsov and Vyacheslav Ponomarev who 1986 started in Orenburg near the border of today's Kazakhstan a teenage musical group together with thirteen years old singer Yuri Shatunov, a runaway from Bashkortostan.
Baby Gang is what the boys listen to when they sit at night on the stairs below my house in Volterra. The buildings Le Vele di Scampia in Napoli feature in Baby Gang's video for the song Arma Italia. A genius singer the gente per bene [the nice people] prosecute identifies with buildings the gente per bene [the nice people] want to blow up.
Das Boot ist leer
Von der andalusischen Atlantikküste aus sind die westlichen Berge und Hügel Marokkos zu sehen. Die Küste dort wird dann weiter südlich nach Mauretanien führen. Am breiten, langen, eher verlassenen Strand liegt ein grosses, altes Fischerboot, ohne Takelage, kein Wrack, aber jegliches Zubehör ist entfernt. Es ist bemalt, wie dies solche Fischerboote oft sind. Wir gehen näher und werfen einen Blick über die hohe Reling, das Boot ist leer, ein bisschen Lumpen und sonstiger Abfall liegt darin. Oben an die Wanten sind Worte gesprayt, die wir jedoch noch nicht genau entziffern können..
I don't believe humans have rights. The German Constitution proclaims "Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar" [Human dignity is inviolable]. Are migrants no humans?
All humans are created equal but there are a few exceptions... Thou shalt not kill but there are a few exception...
Architektur als Psychogramm einer Nation
In memoriam Shaban al-Dalou. He was a software engineering student at Gaza's al-Azhar University [Courtesy of the al-Dalou family]
In Memory of a Comrade
What was I doing then? Tying sheaves,
Or maybe weeding,
When you were also crawling across the field,
Where every meter was scarred by shrapnel.
Anne Blocher "Malika"
"Anne Blocher was the daughter of a Mr. Blocher said to be once a superintendent of police in Calcutta. She adopted the poetical appellation of Malika. She is reputed to be a great beauty and well versed in Indian music. She was an adept in playing the Indian Sitar. She was probably born in England but she spent her life in India.
Why did nobody tell me I looked smart? 1979?
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"Fastnacht ist der angenommene Namen der Hugenottenfamilie Fairlin. Als sie in Muntelier eine neue Heimat fanden war gerade Fasnacht. Sie nahmen diesen Namen [1685-1687] an, um der Verfolgung zu entgehen.