„Are you sleeping?“ I ask carefully. Silence, crawl, as best we can, within ourselves. This bed is the bottleneck we cannot avoid. Escape is only possible in sleep, even if you only do so. So we lie, night after night, in the same bed, if possible at the very edge, not to betray us, to …
Deep rooted in the earth. They had time to spread out, under the earth, that they are power and support to the germinating trunk, there, on the outer wall of my castle, deeply rooted, that they can rise, expand, drive their trunk and grow, leaning against the wall, farther and farther up to the highest …
The fact that women earn a third less than men, that despite everything they are often victims of violence and still have to take on most of the domestic work, which is probably told and discussed again and again, but is now well known. Less well known is – and fortunately there is now a …
At the moment, I can identify two tendencies in the area of family policy: the increased deportation of children into their own spheres of life and the urge for parents to return to work as quickly as possible. The question is: Does this contribute to the well-being of those affected?
Oswald Spengler, influenced by events during the First World War, first predicted it in 1918, Friedrich Torberg in 1975 satirized with his aunt Jolesch, the downfall of the Occident, and yet it still stands. When the Occident finally sets, and the Orient with it, and also the midday- and midnightland, yes, then a world country …
„If we march together, yes, if we can, we can make a difference,“ Antonia thought as she set off for the morning walk to the factory. In droves the women and men, but also children, boys and girls, flocked to their workplace. It was bitterly cold, in this January 1912. Quite different than in her …
Tobias was one of those men the women did not seem to know were men at all. He was a confidant, soul comforter, helper in distress, but none could apparently imagine him as a lover or partner. They came to him when they needed something. „Tobilein“, they said then, because it had become natural, and …
