Part 115: Consequences Of The Interview But during a combat troop exercise in early April, of all times, I was reminded of the long-forgotten encounter with West German television.
Part 114: A Fateful Interview The room was sparsely furnished, but it allowed a magnificent view of the snow-covered ski slope and the first drag lift, only 300 meters away. It could not have been better.
Part 113: A Friendship Built On Adventure I hadn’t been a member of the club long before I met our sports doctor for the first time.
Part 112: The End Of An Era In the GDR, there were only a handful of water ski clubs. Therefore, the competitions and the subsequent ceremonial award ceremonies had an almost family-like character.
Part 111: Back In The Game To my regret, I had stopped doing sports after I finished my student days, because the changed living conditions did not offer any space for it.
Part 110: A Man Of Many Talents Similar actions were repeated again and again. Word had spread about my skill in repairing car bodies.
Part 109: Greetings from Wuppertal After the Second World War, the housing shortage in the bombed-out cities was so great that the first working-class families with many children and possibly also destitute refugees populated the house.
Part 108: The Villa’s Dark Secret In midsummer temperatures, the entire stairwell always smelled of slurry.
Part 107: Saving The Villa By the mid-1980s, the industrially prefabricated housing silos in all the larger towns had developed into satellite towns, while the old buildings, which had been neglected for decades, were becoming increasingly dilapidated.
Part 106: Hope In The Face of Adversity The pipe mill and the Volksgut, where Andreas worked as an agricultural technician after completing his military service, were in the same town, which was also called ‘the gateway to the Harz mountains’.
