Category: Blog

  • Dütti

    Liebe Layla, wie geht es dir? Wir haben uns lange nicht mehr gesehen, und ich war zufällig spazieren im Duttmannkiez und dann bin ich zufällig an deine Wohnung vorbei und habe zufällig auf dem Klingelschild gesehen, dass du da immer noch wohnst.  Wie lange ist es her, dass wir uns gesehen haben? Zehn Jahre? Neun?…

  • The end of an era

    The end of an era

    Right. After eight years, this marks the end of my time at “In aller Freundschaft – die jungen Ärzte”, a weekly medical for German public tv, Thursdays 18:50. It was a wild ride. In eight years, we founded an in-house writers room, survived a pandemic, about four hundred episodes passed through my hands and I’ve…

  • A letter to my ent doctor

    A letter to my ent doctor

    Dear ent doctor, Wednesday the 14th of December, 2016, I found myself in a radiologist’s practice for a scheduled MRI. I personally had no idea why other than the fact that I had been suffering from significant hearing los on my left side. I had spent the entire year struggling as a floor writer for…

  • elhana

    Hey guys! One of my texts got featured on the elhana project website. For those not in the know: elhana is a big brother project in the Berlin area, where you help out a kid with problems at school. I sat with Yussuf (not his real name) twice a week, from 2010 to the end…

  • Opposites Attract, pt. 6

    Opposites Attract, pt. 6

    (The story so far: Alice and her caravan (Jack, Arbuck and Marie) were stranded on a floating rock with a dishonest guy named Brock. After Brock secretly stole their food, Marie turned into a gargantuan monster and Alice saved the day by crashing the rock down. But how did she do that?) Rocks don’t float…

  • Opposites Attract, pt. 5

    Opposites Attract, pt. 5

    (The story so far: Alice and her caravan (Jack, Arbuck and Marie) are stranded on a floating rock. A giant lizard lies in wait in the sand below, ready to eat them. When they find out Brock, the man stranded on the rock, has stolen their food, all hell breaks loose…) What goes up… Brock…