I’m busy with the final preparations of my trip to Australia. A college of me an I will visit the Mount Stromlo Observatory in Canberra for two weeks, giving talks on our research on Satellite / Tidal Dwarf Galaxies and discuss with the local...

I don’t use to write about issues of my personal health in the blog. But as there are so many panic-making reports about the swine influenza, but also about the vaccination against it, I make an exception today. I got my vaccine about an hour ago. The...

It is starting all over again. Drunken, obtrusive people in silly dresses are roaming the streets of cities in the Rhineland. The carnival season starts now, so I have to put on my “Anti-Carnival-Button” again. At least the street-carnival is still...

This is one of my favorite photos in my series on vacant tourist spots and towns. I did most black and white pictures of this series last year, at the end of summer. They are all shot on my preferred black and white film, the Fuji Neopan Acros 100, to...

The following teasers are from a film by my brother (yes, we are a creative family). He is working on a end-time movie, called ‘Endzeit’ in German. Even if you do not understand German, the teasers give you a good impression on what the finished film...