Continue Reading Being Jewish in Germany I’ve been on the road so much that regular blogging has fallen behind. Part of that was access to the net, but…
Continue Reading Update on Refugees In 2015 close to 1.000.000 asylum seekers arrived in Germany. Those numbers decreased to 280.000 in 2016. This decrease was caused by the closing…
Continue Reading Elphi Alfie? Why is everyone talking about Alfie, I wondered. It turns out I misheard. The topic of the day is Elphi, short…
Continue Reading Going Underground The river Elbe separates the Hamburg harbor and industrial sites from the city proper of Hamburg. Every day 10.000s of workers had…
Continue Reading Bremen Between the 14th and the 17th century European merchant guilds formed a loose confederation to protect and enhance their commercial interest -…
Continue Reading 24 hours later and finally here…. I read somewhere that the most looked up word in on-line dictionaries for 2016 was “surreal.” I assume that was…
Continue Reading NYC Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was a woman who defied expectation. Founder of the Whitney Museum she was a progressive and unflappable patron of…
Continue Reading Travel Report # 1 I first came to New York in 1978. A time were I was still able (and willing) to jump turnstiles in moments…
Continue Reading SAVE THE DATE! The Refugees’ Dreams If you are interested in seeing my work on paper rather than on the computer screen and would like to…
Continue Reading An Exercise in Strength “Just see your servant’s suffering and misery. Just see his soul, a vulture in a trap.” This self- description by Ibn Gabriel, one…
