Wortakrobatin / Wordsmith
Some quick reviews of books I recently read. Consider this a book club where only I get to speak. Ali Hazelwood: The Love Hypothesis. “Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man!” Okay, so I read this because we have this thing at work where we read books that are related to our…
By a five-year-old who loved whales and loves space and was sad the former would never encounter the latter. I was very proud of what I had come up with and when I showed it to said five-year-old, excited about his reaction, I got a very stern “Das hab ich mir aber anders vorgestellt. /…
From Wikipedia: Folie à deux (French for ‘madness of two’), also called shared psychosis or shared delusional disorder (SDD), is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are “transmitted” from one individual to another. Folie à deux is also the subtitle of one of the most anticipated movies in 2024: The Joker…
A remake. For the original and the story behind it, click here!
The Whoniverse is full of nonsense and quirky stuff, but also full of very moving moments and great quotes. I experimented with black ink and crayons and since this quote is from an episode featuring Van Gogh, I wanted to do something reminiscent of the great painter. If S05E10, Vincent and the Doctor, doesn’t make…
…were starring in the New Years Concert on Jan 01st 2020. And realized they didn’t have a proper bio for the program notes. Since most of them are professional orchestra musicians, they are very verpeilt, sort of tsk tsk tsk in a loving, adoring but also Hände-über-dem-Kopf-zusammengeschlagene way. So since we were already past the…
I have played in various orchestras, mostly in Freiburg, and helped out in even more. For two semesters, I played in a chamber orchestra, das Junge Kammerorchester Freiburg and because usually I am all in, I wrote the program notes for those two concerts, in 2012 and 2013. Enjoy!
The English Drama Club of the University of Freiburg. Since my former roomie was quite involved, so became I and since I lacked the self-confidence to try out on stage, I took over house management and offered to write texts for the program notes. These are my two contributions. Enjoy!
…on her side and was already on the point of falling asleep. Was she tired? Probably. Was that why? Nope. It was because she made the mistake of reading a book that sounded a m a z i n g in theory – yet was a complete fail in practice. Sandra Newman’s JULIA, based on…
…that tattoos aren’t cheep. Sometimes it feels like I’m carrying a bird, ehm, a burden of course – clearly a Freudian slip because as you might have guessed from the title, bird is the word and isn’t the English language so fascinating considering these two words rhyme? #englishpronounciation I take it you already know the…