Erfurt – Where Two Faiths Rest Beneath the Cathedral Light
Erfurt meets me in the glow of the cathedral night. The Catholic cathedral rises above the city like a guardian from another age, its grand staircase a…
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Berlin – Between Awe and Asphalt
My relationship with this city is complicated. Berlin challenges me every time—loud, brash, dirty, and yet so irresistibly alive. It’s not a city one…
Mainz – Between Majesty and Mainzelmännchen
Mainz greets me with grandeur—not the fleeting kind, but the heavy, stonebound majesty of centuries past. The cathedral looms like a monument to…
St. Peter-Ording – The Rainbow at the Edge of the Sea
Here, everything is wide. The sky stretches endlessly over dunes, and the wind clears the mind like a broom through thought. St. Peter-Ording is a…
Schwerin – A Promise in Passing
Sometimes, a city offers only a glimpse – a trace, a whisper, a “nearly.” That was Schwerin. The business trip left no room for discovery. I arrived…
Hohenstein – Where the Landscape Outshines the Grudge
The path to Hohenstein feels like a stage set. The Malerweg winds through sandstone gorges that look sculpted for a film—light falling in careful…
Freital – Among the Tired Faces
If Oskarshausen is a cross-section of society, then it is a sobering sight. Here, perhaps, is everyone—unfiltered, uncurated, unposed. And yet: too many…
Kerpen – Retreat in the Shadow of Eyesores
Kerpen does not greet me with beauty. Everywhere the eye turns: the hard edges of 1970s planning, grey and careless. Only two things stand out: the kart…
Finningen – Beneath the Onion Dome
Finningen is little more than a breath of a village, tiny, close to the Danube, still just within Bavaria before Württemberg begins. A threshold, a…
Kleinmachnow – Silence Between the Bells
Kleinmachnow feels like a place where space was made for life, and life never quite arrived. Wide streets, but hardly any people. The air is tidy…