• weihnachten in berlin

    weihnachten in berlin

    Christmas market in Rixdorf, Berlin.

  • Time for nuclear sharing to end

    It is a little known fact: Germany (and four other European countries) host nuclear weapons as part of NATO “nuclear sharing”. This means that in a nuclear attack the US can load its bombs onto German (or Belgian, Italian, Turkish and Dutch) aircraft and the pilots of those countries will drop them on an enemy…

  • weissensee

    weissensee

    The Jewish Cemetery in Weißensee, Berlin

  • Afterwards

    Nights they break into our deepest sleep. A crack overhead makes us jump. Those summer storms. Glimpsing behind the curtain into the garden, we see the insistent gigantic drops splashing on the ground, churning soil to mud, blackening our carefully tended flowers. Then the drops merging to become a sheet, a waterfall, nothing like rain.…

  • Victory

    I want to live in a world of win-wins. But it seems that there is no chance, no chance at all. Like we are stuck in a never-ending boxing match in which only the opponent changes periodically. Only our strength is called for, not our love – that is our weakness. Who will be the…

  • klavierwelten – the world of the piano

    klavierwelten – the world of the piano

    Piano workshop in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin

  • coyoacàn

    coyoacàn

    Coyoacàn, Mexico City

  • gesellschaftshaus grünau

    gesellschaftshaus grünau

    Society House in Grünau, Berlin

  • Been there, done that…

    Looking through my old scraps from the eighties before going to the blockade at Büchel, I came across this newspaper cutting of me handing a letter to the duty officer at RAF Cottesmore. Not sure of the date of this action, but I also – digging deeper into my boxes – found a flyer for…

  • mull

    mull

    Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland