The outdoor swimming pool
It is the summer of 1981 in the very small town of Kleingemund, which is opposite the town of Neckargemund on the other side of the river Neckar. The river then flows down the mountain and through Heidelberg, which at this time is in West Germany. The author Mark Twain stayed in Heidelberg in the […]
The bully
I’m a seven-year-old foreign boy, just arrived in Switzerland and don’t know the language. The decision to go to Zurich was made with a very short notice. Suddenly we are not home anymore but in a new country, I am put in the next elementary school with my sister. A new environment, a new language, […]
The steps to the castle
I travel back in my memories to the spring of 1980 in Heidelberg, where my sister Hekla and I are walking with our parents through the entire Hauptstrase, and have reached the town hall square next to the old church. The weather is warm, the sun is shining and we are all lightly dressed. Us […]