Part 95: The Ties That Bind I went anyway, expecting disciplinary action. All hell broke loose at the construction site.
Part 94: Survival and Resilience After my wife had coldly degraded me to a failure out of unfulfilled vanity, there could be no question of a harmonious marriage.
Part 93: Love and Loss In A Changing The plan to avoid joining the combat group did not work, of course. The combine management even had its own hundred-man squad with everything from three personnel carriers to a goulash cannon.
Part 92: Find New Meaning In Life I did not dare go to my parents. I was still afraid of my father’s wrath, and I didn’t want to do that to my mother.
Part 91: The Power Of Grit During the trial, even complete strangers ruthlessly trampled the last intact piece of porcelain. Dirt and malice made reconciliation with my wife impossible.
Part 90: Shattered Dreams And Broken Lives At the institute, I looked for Uta. I wanted to apologize to her for the embarrassing incident and, above all, to know how she was. But I did not find her.
Part 89: A Trip To Prague Has Consequences The idea of taking a car trip to Prague was probably due to the political unrest that was brewing in our neighboring country.
Part 88: A Forbidden Love Story At some point, our seminar group was given the task of organizing an evening at the student club. Jürgen, our group spokesperson, suggested the theme ‘Jazz and Poetry.’ Everyone agreed, and the tasks were distributed. I was responsible for the musical part. When I stowed the record player, the vinyl records, and my guitar in …
Part 87: What A lifeguard Experiences One morning at the start of my shift, I thought I saw a swimmer far out with my binoculars. It was either a man tired of life or a daredevil, well-trained long-distance swimmer.
Part 86: Summertime Beyond The Band Siggi, our musical prodigy, later studied dance music and played for over 20 years in the successful big band led by Fips Fleischer. With this band he toured half of Europe.
