Four hours can be a long time – or it can be a short blink: when all of them are coming like in a slow motion picture from your memories. And I wondered – in Augsburg – why I would not stay longer in Munich.
At the birthday party
We met next day in one of Munich’s well known kayak club – founded in 1912. The backside of their house lead directly to a confluence of the river Isar with a small runway to the water.
I did basically know everyone – except for his sister’s family and an old friend of him that I never met in person but who was kind of ‘around’ in many of Christoph’s stories. I knew Christoph from our common studies in philosophy – nearly 30 years ago. And there were two other surprises…
Two other women that were for me completely by surprise: Astrid, who I had met several years ago and I felt a shame running through my heart, because it was my laziness not to keep in touch (sorry for that) and Susan (the granddaugther of a German-Jewish officer) which
Christoph and Susan
Christoph met in the US after his second book was published and he had still a letter that explained somehow the connection line – based on a true story – and who had felt a close connection through the story of the book and through their common ideas, in the way they tried to untangle a small part of the private histories that were hidden in WW I.
That Friday evening before the party we met at Christoph’s and Daniela’s apartment for a small get-together and that was the time I saw Astrid again and met he acquaintance of very sweet Susan who were for a couple of month working in Berlin.
So I decided to stay one night longer in Munich, where Susan and a couple of friends, Christoph and Dani and me had a very nice but – with a blistering sun – hot walk through the gardens of Schloss Nymphenburg and took my train back that evening.
One thing I learned in those two days: True friends stay forever – no matter what happens. And that is why I also can say: I gfrei mi narrisch.
Here is Christoph’s site: poschenrieder.de and his publisher’s site: www.diogenes.ch
This is the Kajay where we celebrated: DTKC Deutscher Touring-Kajak-Club München 1912 e.V.
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