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Votta
The Next Generation, Revisited
Ouch
Tram Line 1 | Linie 1
A story about a strange tram ride. – Dedicated to my friends in Freiburg whom I’d have loved to visit over Easter if Deutsche Bahn hadn't failed me.
Ex Libris
Hmong
As a stand-in for a type of memorials that’s sorely lacking: a harangue prompted by a documentary on the civil war in Laos.
Means and Ends
A sally into day-to-day politics – on why the absence of dispute need not be something soothing.
Playing Robot
Carnival
Songs in Ink (20)
My 2024 Reads
Vampires and Stalin; magic, dull or cool; itchy feet; great writers revisited; and a good deal of surrealism.
Jana
About someone in need of help.
Angels and Fools
Hegen
Artless
Trying to bring a lunch-break discussion to a conclusion. Caves, temples, loudspeakers, and lots of paint.
Inventory
How Gojko Mitić and Pierre Brice could have made the reunited Germany a happier country.
Extraterrestrial Shootout
Powered By Csillag
Five
Live
What the heck does »Odradeks literarische Butterfahrt« mean? – Well, it means: four friends and yours truly live on stage in Cologne.
A Kid’s Kurious Kareer Kraze
Why the blog author, had he a liking for plaster busts on his desk, wouldn’t opt for Goethe or Schiller, but for one of Mr Litfaß.
By the Pond
Tenyears
Songs in Ink (19)
On Good Terms
Norton
One Rule
Klondike
Hiker’s High
My 2023 Reads
Paul and Jesus remade; the first century of the Turkish republic; surrealism galore; some short fiction, some more not-so-short non-fiction – and a book for the paper bin.
Folded
Par Avion
Mermaid (Intergalactic)
Bodmer
Pebbledon
A tale of the modern city dweller’s troubles. Demonstrating that the contrary of lack of beauty is not necessarily just beauty.
Lexi & Pi
Club of Duellists
Treats
Asteroid Pity
The intensity of relief and joy at leaving the cinema well before the end of the movie is proportional to the critics’ praise of said movie.
Noo
Clothes Make the Man
Janda
Riding the Lion
Let There Be Images
Trying to figure the drained net weight of what the internet has given us since it went pictorial.
Songs in Ink (18)
Electro
For once, the blog author goes musical. Well, sort of …
One Small Beach Towel
Way Up North
About one who loves winter and blogs on it.
Kayaks and Umiaks
Letter to the Unknown Mobber
To all the mobbers out there. And to all of us who mix up words and appearances with thinking and acting.
Miller
My Best (and Other) Reads in 2022
Cycling; AI, big data and the implications; two novels that provided mixed or no pleasure; and a motley pile of more non-fiction books about this and that.
Riposte
The Next Generation
Being (Very) Serious
The Appliance
A narrative that might be read as a cautionary tale (though the humble author, regrettably, could not spare the time to further elaborate on the lesson to be learned).
Hilleman
Still Life
Copykid
The blog author looking back on the only time in his life when he held an office. His tenure, though, was similarly successful as his career as a precocious novelist.
Connected
Arcalís
17 June
On the Street
Judging the Past
After having read this little article the reader might feel inclined to say: »OK, blogger« – or not.
Quietude
Selenicereus Grandiflorus
Non Scholae …
Songs in Ink (17)
Sid
Another Seventy
My Best Reads in 2021
Short novels; the world of fungi; a glance into the human mind; and on mudsills, crackers, and rednecks.
Ecce Homo
Rae
Wintry Sketch
The Teacher – A Novel
Math and Myth
The very true account of a business trip, demonstrating why a businessman should not be swayed by legend.
Egner
Righter (Than You)
Sacapuntas y Azulejo
Toning Exercises
Musing on a very beneficial kind of mediocrity.
Giro del Mondo Dantesco
DJ Wurstmeister
PS
Songs in Ink (16)
Beam-o-Matic
Photo Session
Reading is …
Roaring Again?
Some musings on history: in what way it will most probably not repeat itself. Or will it?
Seventy
Le Savoir-Faire
B.
Cuckoo!
My Best Reads in 2020
A literary discovery, a couple of modern classics (or novels that should be considered so), three lives, and just a small dose of pure history this time.
Music in the Air
Seven
Space Port
Donné par Maman
Job Opportunity
Inches
An edifying and instructive conversation between two persons not to be further specified which was transcribed with due diligence and accuracy and with deep-felt reverence for the art and tradition of Socratic dialogue.
Lupus
Popper
Bull
Sparks
Summer is nearing its end. A good time to sit down with a cup of coffee for a casual minute of contemplation and retrospection. – On what makes us and what draws us close to each other: not our opinions …
Just Routine Work
Gilgi
Raving about a novel from 1931 that has blown me away.
Update
Para o Brasil!
Polyglot
The blog author rambling on languages, »miracle learning«, the joy of real learning, and on smiles versus emojis.
The Amnesia Project
Hallstein
Resurrection
There are things you like and things you love. The author has put a thing he loves back online.
Musical
Spring, Revisited
Roth
Mr Kratz
Should you consider yourself a person without problems, chances are that you just haven’t yet met the right man.
Hip Quarter
Vanity
Spinoza copied the blog author’s thoughts. – Or did he …?
Failed
Certified
Fold Me Now
My Best (and Other) Reads in 2019
My favourite books in 2019 – the story of a ship and two classics, a novel and a philosophical essay. And other books I want to mention.
Rock’n’Roll
Paraphrase Lost
Trying to rescue one’s language from the limbo of poor variance – supposed or real – might land us right into the middle of hell proper.
Henriques
What has a seafarer of Sephardic origin to do with the famous Spanish treasure fleet? And how do these two relate to a discussion on stereotypes (of the friendly kind)? – Article ahoy!
Córdoba
Autumnal
Catherine
Future
The blog author lets his thoughts ramble from old sketches over his earlier predilection for science fiction to the question what has become of Utopia.
Come and See
The Barton Fink Feeling – A Lullaby
Lest we forget
The humble blog author is being in a philosophical mood. Looking back to a former colleague, to the old days of kopozky.net, and … – well, old things.
Perspectives
A golden age might look not quite as bright for someone viewing it from a different angle …
Connolly
Dicktenstecker
For Michael, 1963 – 2019.
Crowman Outside
Things Tangible
Another post card from my collection triggers another fulminant written speech. On friendship and why as a society we should aim for the attainable.
Gabi
Light
Ease
How art can profit from absence of mind.
Exultation
Bummi
How can a little yellow bear be political? And what does it have to do with May Day and Bratwurst?
Ria-Rumpelbein
Life’s too short for being shy about singing and kidding around.
In the Garden'
Songs in Ink (15)
On Zealots
Pondering on the good and the seemingly good. About zealots, sticklers and bigots.
Through the Smokehole
White
A wintry childhood memory of the author.
Nunavut
Explorers
My Best Reads in 2018
My favourite books in 2018 – a brand-new novel, a classic from 1930, and two eye-opening non-fiction books.
Retrospection
Yet Another Book …
Rest
Songs in Ink (14)
A Change
A gruesome tale exemplifying how abruptly and totally »isms« can affect hard-working people’s lives.
Scribble for the Kale Trip Strip
The Kale Test Trip
My Best Reads in 2017
For lovers of literature and lists.
Thrill of Christmas
A highly topical mini-drama illustrating circumstances that can make it advisable to skip a holiday. Involves yoga, artificial fragrances, and liquor.
Traces
Songs in Ink (13)
Geiger
An Autumnal Co-Production
A Short Story
»TDL« – The Last Kopozky Strip
Twain & Bierbaum
잠비나이 – Live
잠비나이
Beans & Brandy
Churchill
The Coach
Songs in Ink (12)
Songs in Ink (11)
Songs in Ink (10)
Songs in Ink (9)
Songs in Ink (8)
Songs in Ink (7)
Bigwigs: Friedrich Ⅱ
Bigwigs: Екатерина Ⅱ
Bigwigs: Napoléon
Bigwigs: Victoria
Bigwigs: Wilhelm Ⅱ
Bigwigs: Louis ⅩⅣ
Calligraphy
Coffee
In the Morning
Thou shalt not ponder in the morning …
Songs in Ink (6)
Songs in Ink (5)
Songs in Ink (4)
Songs in Ink (3)
Songs in Ink (2)
Songs in Ink (1)
Houdini
About a flatmate into whose shoes you could hardly put yourself.
Sand
My First Lightbox
Praha
Spring
First Kopozky Sketches
