Ich gestehe etwas verlegen: vom Morgenmuffel bin ich zum totalen Frühaufsteher mutiert. Was macht man, wenn man 5 Uhr morgens aufwacht und unmöglich wieder einschlafen kann? Ich fotografiere schon mal aus dem Fenster direkt nach oben... Die "Unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins" und "Die Unsterblichkeit" - so die Titel zweier meiner Lieblingsromane von Milan Kundera. The first set mainly in Prague, the other in Paris. In both cities, if these novels, and I mean their action therein moved nearly impossible. The living conditions, people, conditions, limits - these cities seem to have gone through a too-rapid change in recent decades. On the line was perhaps the sensitive compound of the citizens of the past, the traditional culture of their city. One of the worst examples of this rift between the present and past, is in Athens and here can certainly not just a "plan" to talk, it is rather a fundamental disunity between Classical, Christian, to name only the least - European, Oriental, democratic and Byzantine tradition. One of my favorite Greek writer Nikos Dimou (a philosopher and advertising professionals) chose for it once the expression: "Graecus Ultimus confusus. In which city could house one of Torn, a Greek feel good about? - You guessed it: Berlin. Just as it is with perhaps the characters of Kundera's novels just mentioned. You need the simultaneity of past, present and future, the glue that holds together their wounds, their vulnerabilities, their faults and desires, their dreams. You would feel more comfortable in Berlin than in Prague or Paris ...
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