It’s a veritable minefield out there. There are sexiness-loaded babes, mobs of ex-boyfriends, enforcer-style rituals and sharks… everything you’d expect from a quest fit for an agent. Here’s your fail-proof, safe-house-friendly guide to getting your hands dirty, and then getting down. Whether you’re single, stupid or single all over again, this is all the ammunition…
Herta Müller, the Nobel Laureate in Literature of 2009, is not only writing gripping and poetic prose, but her life itself sounds like a post-war novel. Maybe that is why she is not solely writing for a living, but truly lived what she writes.
A martyr who dies for his fellows, a mother who does everything for her newborn child, and all the Gandhis and Mother Teresas on this planet have one thing in common: supposedly, they act selflessly. The only problem is: selflessness does not exist.
The exhibition, “The lost I” (Das unrettbare Ich), will display Egon Schiele`s paintings in Munich’s Kunstbau until the 04th of March 2012.
* Maybe you kiss your beautiful wife good-bye and accompany your four-year-old daughter to her first day of school, before you leave for work and stroll down the waking morning streets, where you get blown up. Or you cross the street thinking about the beautiful sunrise, before one of the Blueline buses kills you like…
Both platonic as well as the physical part of love — defined as what we encounter on a daily basis — are important components for a normal human being. This was my argument in an article published in these columns, ‘Platonic Love Versus Physical Love’ (October 30, 2011) and a substantial number of seekers responded…
