Amrei Walkenhorst

News by Amrei Walkenhorst

Declaration of Love to my Temporary Home Country

Long queues; shop and railway assistants that make me regret I was born; sun set view from the 15th floor of a Plattenbau; slow trains; slow bar tenders; lack of efficiency; people who help me learn their language; long talks in which people who associate my country and me with the crusaders from Grunwald 1410; the ability to improvise; ketchup on everything; being reminded by Polish friends that the beautiful architecture in my surrounding was built by Germans, my co-nationals; ability to party until morning in the middle of an exam session; to write cribs on the hand;