Main hall | Haupthalle

Main hall | Haupthalle

This is the main hall at Berlin Ostbahnhof. I had half an hour to spare before getting going on my business of the day, so I sat down at McDonald’s with a cuppa and sketched the view. Das ist die Haupthalle in Berlin Ostbahnhof. Ich hatte eine halbe Stunde Zeit,...
Endings | Enden

Endings | Enden

My time in Berlin is slowly coming to an end. Was it a good time? It was. Am I glad it’s coming to an end? I am. Here is a little impression of a sunset at the main train station accompanied by some thoughts of mine in German on the beauty of the city, the...
Old Chapel | Alte Kapelle

Old Chapel | Alte Kapelle

This week, I happend to travel deep into the Berlin hinterland. I was shown (by a very friendly research participant – this was a work trip) to this little wooden chapel. It is tiny, measuring barely 10 x 15 m or so. In the past it had been used for worship and...
Thuringia | In Thüringen

Thuringia | In Thüringen

Many years ago, in my first research post actually, I conducted a survey in psychiatric clinics. Only a few clinics were sampled, and one of them was situated in the hill country of Thuringia way in the South. I had driven for hours, administered the survey and was on...
Autumn birch | Herbstliche Birken

Autumn birch | Herbstliche Birken

On my way to work two days ago: we had just left a train station in the middle of nowhere when the train came to a sudden screeching halt. Nobody knew what was going on. The guy with the coffee cart came by, we got coffees, everybody waited patiently, sipping their...