Pretty soon now, my first novel, “In Search of Achilles” will be published. It is a novel that has been long in the making, as I structured its basic framework as early as 1990. Incidentally, that is the year in which the story is set. So now, 33 years later, that same framework is coming into being as a 360-plus paged, red-blooded novel. What is fascinating to me is the fact that after all these years, the basic structure hasn’t changed. When I restarted writing the book in the winter of 2021, the plot hardly deviated from its original skeleton […]
The release of my debut, “In Search Of Achilles,” is quickly approaching, and I’m thrilled to share that my publisher, Köehler Books, has unveiled a page featuring two potential book covers. Your valuable input in selecting the final cover would mean the world to me. Please take a moment to vote and help us decide which one best represents the essence of the story. Your support is greatly appreciated as we count down to the book’s release! Please visit Köehler Books and vote!
Being: we are the “thinking animals”. But what does it mean to be thinking? First of all, we need to trace the impetus of our very thoughts: where and when do they arise? How do they come to be? Are they born inside-out? Perhaps to raise the question: does individual agency create thoughts? Very important: I don’t pose these questions from within a scientific, measurement-compulsive frame. At least I hope I don’t. I try to steer free of prepositioning myself. I simply try to be, let my body breathe, sit still, and observe. This is very difficult. But I try […]
Livingindividuality What then, is our task in these times? Surely, we must help a hand in trying to find ground again on which our finite humanity can flourish and relearn the speak of the earth. This is the language of a circular breath, of the in-and-exhale, silently breezing all beings towards their birth, quieting them gently and reorienting their horizon towards what it is to be alive. What is this then, to be alive? And has this changed throughout history? For sure, our cultural fathers and mothers used different words, different symbolons. But scratch the symbol, which is a bridge, […]
This is a novel about trying to make sense of life after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It will be on the market on October 3, 2023. Everyone wondering where all current confusion came from should give it a try. 1990 was a pivotal year in the history of the Occident, and many foundations for the present day were laid -or strengthened- without anyone truly noticing them.
