Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Gesellschaft

  • Toni Erdmann – A Must See

    Toni Erdmann, which has just opened in Germany, is a bizarre independent film that will make you embrace Romania with all you’ve got, and which also manages to lampoon the trappings of corporate life just the right amount. (The impossible loneliness, the ridiculous helplessness of wrestling with a dress that’s too tight amidst the barren luxury…

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  • Quote of the day

    The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. Vaclav Havel – Letters to Olga (1988), p. 237

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  • The invisible pane

    the sun is hanging in the fir trees by the collar of its wintry coat. old people have come out into the park to walk their dogs to its skirt. the dogs prance and snoop. the people themselves walk at an angle, slanted, like leaden-limbed mimes on a running belt that’s running in the opposite…

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