Juste a
nice piece of life...
...but
I hope there'll be a little bit more*,
for <A man with
white hair is like a house in winter: The
snow on the
roof does not prove that there is no fire in the chimney...>
(Maurice Chevalier) |
Life is like a book.
A fool leafs
it through without attention.
The wise man reads it deliberately because he knows
that he can read it only once.
(Jean Paul)
Born
on 11th of October, 1941 -
in one of
Europe's most beautiful towns - in INNSBRUCK
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...in the
Holy Land of Tyrol - grandson of a protestant vicar
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Early
state of emergency in garment? - No,...
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Grown up in
Innsbruck, after1945 in the small village
of
Mils near Hall in Tirol
(four people in one room in a farmer's house): The French occupying
forces had confiscated our home.
1949 back to our home, now abandoned by the French, in the marvellous
picturesque old town of Hall in
Tirol (it's a
must to visit this town which will probably soon be part of UNESCO
world heritage!!!)
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Primary school in
Hall - day after day, a 3 km walk, even at 15 degrees below
zero,
often accompanied by Christel - where may she be now?
In summer 1948, Dad comes back after 3 years of imprisonment in an
American camp - my book "Gutes und Schlechtes mischen und
Zucker
drauf" (To mix up good and bad things and to
sprinkle sugar
over it...) tells about these years.
From 1951, Federal
Grammar
School for Boys in Innsbruck until 7th grade)
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Little
farmerboy in the village of Mils
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No
employment for my Nazi father in Austria, therefore move
to Essen
to become rich
- unfortunately not very successful... Helmholtz-Grammar School,
Graduation 1961
(pretty good, except maths),
Studies
at
Münster and Berlin Universities, no financial help
from my
parents, financed by private lessons and different jobs during the
holidays.
Engaged with G. (teacher at a primary school)
1965/66 Assistant in Geneva - great year, but my fiancee leaves me
again - due to the distance between us. |
14
year-old boy in Essen
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Studies in Bochum (psychology
and
law; teacher
of German, French, English) graduation in the wild year of 1968
- publications in newspapers and magazines
Member of the staff
of Internationale
Essener
Song-Tage 1968 (looking after Frank
Zappa,
Julie Driscoll, Brian
Auger, Julie Felix, Bob Davenport, Blossom
Toes, The Fugs, Family, Tangerine Dream a.m.o.)
My book "Zappa,
Zoff und Zwischentöne" tells the story of this huge
festival
of popular music.
Speaker
at the Olympic Games 1972
in Munich
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First job
as a teacher in Oberhausen - liaison
teacher , adviser for drug addicts. Much music, much
sport...
- and wearing
a beard in many
variations
Many
visits in
Essen Youth Center (JZE) - music in the cave, with baguette, cheese,
red wine ("Edler von Mornag" - cheap tunisian red
wine)
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And there I
met Annette... I had known
her before, she'd been a friend's gf - but now it was
different:
marriage on
June 20th, 1969
Zum
Vergrößern bitte anklicken!
In the beginning, all
our thoughts deal
with love.
Later, all our love deals with thoughts...
Albert Einstein
A
happy marriage:
if the woman is half blind
and the man, half deaf
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Zum
Vergrößern bitte
anklicken!
Annette Mahnert
* 20.01.1947
There are two phases in
which a man
does not understand a woman: Before the marriage
and after the marriage.
(Robert Lembke)
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Young
teacher in Oberhausen
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On the 21st
of July,1971
Jens
Christian,
was born.
On the 23rd
of March,1977
Kai Frederik
was born
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Many voyages
in the Seventies, many parties, many
concerts , but also ...
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...hard
work: instructor for teachers, examiner at Duisburg
University, author of some books,
lecturer and speaker
at many
scientific
conferences.
Teacher at Gymnasium
Erkrath, Essen (an der Gareisstraße),
Essen-Überruhr, Gustav-Heinemann-
Gesamtschule
Essen...
...sport
(football, handball,
table tennis, some tennis)...
... and sometimes
on radio and
television
...and for 2 years now fromtime to time extra in
movie
productions |
Kai 2000
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..voyages (Cuba,
USA, Africa, Australia,
Mexico, Russia, Turkey, China,
India, Caribbean).
Midlife-crisis overcome, children have left home, (Kai in Australia, Ireland, now back
in Essen.)
From 1992 to
2006 in
Duisburg (Mercator-
Gymnasium), and at Duisburg university as a lecturer for
French
language (Uni
Duisburg)
...table
tennis
at DSJ
Essen / now TTV DSJ Essen- Stoppenberg (not really
successful, but still well motivated)
Also working for TUSEM
Essen, Premier
League-Handballclub
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...and
now
retired
and proud grandfather of Jan
Frederik
and Marie Sophie
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Who,
at a
certain age, does not realize that he is nearly completely surrounded
by idiots doesn't realize it because
he himself is....
Curt
Goetz
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My Family
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