In Memorandum Hans Kosanke, *12.02.1936 +19.11.2009
Yesterday evening, after a long time of fighting against his cancer, my uncle Hans Kosanke finally had to give up. Twice he defeated him, but now his body didn’t had the power to do so again, he couldn’t fight anymore.It was like a release for him. The worst about death is not the fact, that he takes a beloved one away from us, but rather that he leaves us alone with our memories.

20th Anniversary
At this evening twenty years ago I was just starting my shift at the MCC in the USMP-Station, when the phone was ringing and Marie told me that the Berlin Wall is down. First I thought that she made a joke, than I asked her if she is tipsy. She only told me that I should switch on my TV. And speechless I saw the reporters with their live coverage from Checkpoint Bornholmer Strasse at the wall. This day not only changed Germany, it changed the whole world. For twentyeight years the east germans where prisenors in their own country. Only allowed to travel into east-block countrys. No free speech. If they tried to escape they risked their lifes. Over 160 people got

No Vacancy
Well, it seems that the damn dictator didn’t find a place to sleep in NY. All hotels are saying: No Vacancy ! I love that!