Stating the Obvious
Can philosophy make a difference? Here, with ‘philosophy’ I don’t mean what is usually labelled as such in Germany: some pompous shooting-from...
Author: Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer
Simple Pleasures
PS: With a slightly different garnish you step some degrees of latitude northward to a very different cooking tradition and produce what I had already mentioned...
Serving the Predators
One of the reasons I’m not watching more television, especially within german public TV programming, is their obsession with violent crime drama. And, aft...
Ordinary Nightlife
As long as I can think, I’ve been an owl. My natural waking hours, to which I’m always returning if nothing forces me otherwise, are from 11am until...
Digital Libraries
One of the pleasures of retirement consists in finally having the time for unrestrained reading. I’ve never been one for television, and apart from the oc...
Always Coming Home (to Ursula)
Now I need to hurry, because there are only a few minutes left to commemorate one of my absolute favourite authors on her birthday: Ursula K. Le Guin, who, hone...
Under The Blue Skies
After I had grumpily acknowledged about two weeks ago that Bluesky, not Mastodon, might be the platform to go after the destruction of Twitter, my timeline ther...
Plädoyer für einen Kampagnenjournalismus
Vorbemerkung: Diesen Text habe ich vor ziemlich genau acht Jahren, am 18.11.2014, bei Carta.info veröffentlicht. Der hochgeschätzte Martin Hoffmann hat ihn gera...
Die Bordelaiser Konsuln und die Revolution
Im letzten Beitrag hatte ich ein Bild meines Vorfahren Georg Christian Lorenz Meyer (1787-1866) gezeigt, der Anfang/Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bereits in dritte...
Die Tafeln meiner Kindheit
Meine Eltern hatten in den Nachkriegsjahren eine große Familie zu versorgen. Auch wenn es eher selten vorkam, dass alle sieben Kinder gemeinsam am Tisch saßen, ...