Month: July 2019

Willi was worried about his shop. For thirty years he led the small shop for art supplies. It contained everything that made artist’s and especially painter’s hearts beat faster: paints, brushes, easels, crayons, blocks of paint … Nevertheless, fewer and fewer customers came. “You have to keep up with the […]

Tuesday was always Opatag for Felix. After school, the twelve-year-old did not go home as usual, but took the tram to the other end of town to spend the afternoon with his grandfather. For the pensioner, widowed for three years, the visits of his only grandson were always a pleasure, […]

David had a tick. It almost caused him bodily pain when his fellow human beings made grammatical mistakes, and most of all he suffered from omitting the ‘n’ in the dative plural. Therefore, the student in his environment was called only Dative-David. In many restaurants in the city he already had a […]

“What does hell mean?” “Stupid question! The opposite of dark, of course. “ “But if you read the word somewhere, without context – how do you know that it is the German word and not the English? That means hell! “ “Well, you can not know that without context. But […]

Along with other motorcycle hooligans, Sigi made the environment unsafe. By double murder and bank robbery he comes to a stake money. For a rundown company he does the dirty work. For this purpose, he is to get thriller, the sister of the CEO left sit. He in turn has a crush on a […]

I remember the steps in our attic very well. My wife and I were already in bed when we repeatedly heard footsteps over us. We live in a detached family house and the attic is not developed and only accessible via a trap door. Accordingly shocked we both reacted. I carefully lowered the trap […]

My memories of this fair go back very far, until the beginning of the 50s. The Wertheim Fair was already something special for my parents and “one” went there every year, that was part of the annual program. Since my ancestors came from Bettingen and also relatives and uncles and aunts, and cousins ​​were there, the Wertemmer Mess was a […]

The cat with the three tails Our son went to a Catholic kindergarten in Würzburg, where fully-uniformed nuns looked after the children. One day our son came home from the kindergarten a little disturbed. “Are there ghosts, Mama?” he asked my wife. “No, they do not exist” was the confident answer. […]

I was a young primary teacher at that time. It was a visiting day. Along the walls sat many mothers and also some fathers. All pairs of eyes were looking forward to me. The parents knew me above all only through the statements of their children. In the language lesson I had the compilation of […]

now I wanted to know it and while I still winked at the hangover, without being interested in it, watt possibly watching neighbors might now think, the beam crept back to me, turned the familiar round and disappeared behind the house , i stayed seated until i checked that it […]

I came one morning into the kitchen and found the fridge open and completely iced before. Probably spent half the night trying to cool the kitchen. There was also some of the content before that. Of course I was mad at me because I probably had not closed the door properly. The next morning […]

I would like to say that my wife and I are classified by our environment in the category “rational people” and sometimes suffer from it, because it always has the connotation “they are missing something”. But we are in fact quite of the opinion, fantasies and dreams to be able to […]

It was Easter. In the already described cottage in the Hinterer Steinbachtal it had a wonderful dining room with full length windows on three sides and a wonderful view of the garden and forest. Once again the kinship was invited, “full house”. The round dining table was not enough, we […]