Over the top and over the moon

 In case you should be wondering what it is I do for a living, the days:I´ll be back in the studio in a couple days to work on new songs! And there´s surprisingly many of them, given that...

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Hello? can you hear me? Errrm, no.

Do I want to to write about Adele, you´re asking? Well, hello! Of course I’d like to write about Adele. When nobody’s home I stomp through the living room, lustily belting out “Hello–oooooh!...

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Cats on cleaning robots and silverbacks with wine glasses – a report from the Frankfurt Book Fair

So that was the Book Fair! My first as “author” or “poet”–I was repeatedly designated as such, amicably and respectfully, and it delighted me and made be blush a little–but...

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SLEEPLESS IN TÓRSHAVN (the complete saga)

Part 1: Teitur, Catherine, Jonathan and II’m flying to the Faroe Islands! I’ve only known about it for five days, so my brain is still catching up as I cross the little taxiway to the tiny...

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I’M A-STARTIN’ WITH PARTON

As many of you know, I am a fervent admirer of Dolly Parton. And since she’s releasing a new album this week, Die Zeit has happily entrusted me with a detailed Parton-portrait! Yeah. Yeeehaw....

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I’VE REASON TO BELIEVE WE WILL ALL BE RECEIVED IN…

GRACELAND … PAUL SIMON(The nice people of the editorial office at Visions asked me to write a piece about my “Favorite Album of All Time.” After around three months of tearing my hair out...

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NOTES FROM KREUZBERG…1980: CHILDREN OF THE CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION

I wrote this text for the Taz, the subject was, umm, my own sexual revolution, or some such thing. Maybe it was something completely different, something like… “Your opinion on the Grand...

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NOTES FROM… FREIBURG (1985): DO I GET BARBIE?

“Neeeelia, do I get Barbie?” ……. “No idea, do you?” Frustrated child-silence, aggravated child-eye-rolling, barbie-thin child-lips pressed together. But yes, obviously, that was the...

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THE TAMING OF THE TRUCULENT HAMMOCK

The Süddeutsche Zeitung is publishing a particularly lovely special edition today, on the subject of women and freedom. What a beautiful topic, don’t you think? And one that I’ve regularly...

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NOTES FROM KREUZBERG/THE PAST (1980): TO PEE IN THE DEVA’S SHOES

A Deva is an angelic creature, a higher life-form, which surrounds us with its light and supportively accompanies us. In India there’s one on every corner, cordially close at hand of beady-eyed...

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