Europe Archive

Weather: Fickle. Emotions: set on storm

1. April 2020 Silke Porath Columns

A book must make you think. It must change your view on life.” Silke PorathSilke Porath lives together with her French husband in their home of choice in Balingen, on the border of the swabian

Vintage Style: The Spice Girls combined with the Andrew Sisters

18. March 2020 Thomas Matterne Arts & Culture

The Spice Girls were icons of the 1990s, the Andrew Sisters’ music career lasted several decades. And today, the two come together. If you compare the boy groups of the 1990s with the Beatles, you

“Wherever you go, do what you see.”

27. February 2020 Juan Carlos Tajes Essays, Top Topic

I hear voices stating that art cannot change anything and other voices responding that technique helps alter human beings. I read phrases like “surely that’s art…” and cynical comments like “art, art… what’s art?…” Juan

Giulia Bernardelli turns coffee grounds into art

5. October 2019 Redaktion Arts & Culture, Top Topic

Don‘t play with food. But the Italian artist Giulia Bernardelli does not play, she transforms coffee grounds and other foot leftovers into art. RedaktionAs editors behind PonderingTime we work for you to provide an interesting

Cosplay – From Japanese Youth Culture to the Comiccon

31. May 2019 Redaktion Arts & Culture, Top Topic

What was still part of Japanese youth culture a few decades ago has established itself in the West as well: Cosplay RedaktionAs editors behind PonderingTime we work for you to provide an interesting and informative

HH – Hostel of Scariness – The tyranny that’s hard to believe

26. May 2019 Arthur Pahl Essays, Top Topic, Topic of the month

Anyone who enters “Tour Guide” in the registration form at the hotel reception when checking in and even spends the night in about 100 hotels a year can tell a lot. Yes, dear readers, I

Monika Detering: Sisters

1. May 2019 Monika Detering Stories & History, Topic of the month

I came from the Dokkumer market, had fetched fish, took the basket from the bicycle and put it down. The merchant had wrapped it in odor-proof wax paper with herbs for the sauce on top.

RRC instead of RR – Ruffian-Retiree-Cyclist

30. April 2019 Arthur Pahl Stories & History

The logo “RR” stands for the brand “Rolls Royce.” A trademark that represents quality, reliability and good style worldwide. The “icon” of good taste, that’s what needs to be said, and that’s all there is

“Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani”

19. April 2019 Bernhard Schlafke Arts & Culture

In how many different languages are people still calling every day again and again? Bernhard SchlafkeAs an artist Bernhard Schlafke travels in many fields. At PonderingTime he presents his pictures from the most diverse directions

Masks – Carnival in Venice

25. February 2019 Thomas Matterne Arts & Culture

We all wear a mask, only sometimes it has become so familiar to us that we may not even notice it anymore. Thomas MatterneThomas Matterne writes stories since he can write. His first professional path,

The longing to travel

24. February 2019 Soledad Marquez Arts & Culture, Topic of the month

In Europe, it is normal for young people to move throughout the European Union. School classes arrange trips at a young age going beyond the borders of their own nation, and it is widespread for

Allie Barrera: Paths

17. February 2019 Allie Barrera Stories & History

The story I’m about to tell you is true. Please remember that when you get to the end. I say that because I’ve sometimes questioned if my recollection of the events that took place is

A long way

13. February 2019 Nicole Frischlich Stories & History, Topic of the month

Nicole FrischlichNicole Frischlich was born and raised in the region of the German Ruhr area. She began her first professional steps in the travel and tourism industry, before she was 30 years old, starting her

The long road of a small pocket book

1. February 2019 Arthur Pahl Stories & History, Topic of the month

Paths are laid in our cradle at birth. They are the blueprint of our destiny. Just as we have a blood group, genes that determine our hereditary factors or have inherited physical characteristics from our

Mr. B. by Monika Detering

29. January 2019 Monika Detering Stories & History, Topic of the month

Mr. B. scolds muttering into himself. “Elevator broken. The fucking thing’s always broken.” He stomped up the stairs. His apartment was on the third floor. Under his arm he carried a grey cardboard box. He

De Strippkes Trekker

25. January 2019 Monika Detering Stories & History

An autumn day that I didn’t expect like this in November. Luminous. A sky as if painted with sea blue. A drive from Düren, further through villages never seen. Road villages. Green, there is a

Families: Journey of life

21. January 2019 Nicole Frischlich Stories & History, Topic of the month

As a child, you don’t realize the value of a family. The family is usually a matter taken for granted. Nicole FrischlichNicole Frischlich was born and raised in the region of the German Ruhr area.

The lost F. Scott Fitzgerald

18. January 2019 Thomas Matterne Essays

After Tod Browning surprisingly shot an early blockbuster for MGM in 1931 with the film adaptation of “Dracula,” the studio owners gave him a free hand for his next film. A decision they have been