Kisses on the Bridge: Coming Home to Karlsbach

A New Year’s Eve encounter in 2003/04 pulls the narrator back to teenage nights on that same bridge,…

“You Do Not Exist”: My First Day with Oberstudienrat Götter

A chaotic introduction to a new school in 1960 lays bare the absurdities of postwar authority and the…

An Ocean Away: The Year-Long Escape Plan

Hemmed in by family and small-town expectations, Sacha turns an American exchange program into a bid for freedom…