A visit to the Emigration Museum in Bremerhaven

It had been on my to-do list for a long time and this summer, I was finally able to visit the Emigration Museum in Bremerhaven, the Deutsches Auswandererhaus. Ever since I listened to a podcast interview with the museum’s director, Simone Blaschka (see my last blog...

German emigrants – a brief summary

When, in my last blog, I wrote about how I continue to develop my professional skills, I thought it might be an idea to report in a little more detail about the most interesting activities. Let me begin by talking about German emigrants over the centuries. The German...

My CPD 2021-22

Are you a freelancer? Do you feel a bit overwhelmed at times when you’re juggling work, your own PR, bookkeeping, your tax return, and on top of all that, you’re asked to further develop your professional skills? It’s tempting to use a pause in the workflow to relax...

Happy Christmas and best wishes for 2022

… to all my past, current, and future clients, and to everyone else who happens to read this. As yet another challenging year comes to an end, it’s time to reflect and to look ahead to the immediate future, but it’s also a time to celebrate what went well and what...

Sudeten Germans

If there’s one thing I learned from my work, it’s that I never stop learning from it. During the course of this year, I’ve come across some historical facts that I’ve never been aware of, in particular, those of the so-called “Sudeten Germans”. Previously, I’ve worked...

CATHERINE THE GREAT AND HER GREAT MISTAKE

The recent screening of the TV series Catherine the Great has left me a little bit disappointed. Helen Mirren is, of course, a fantastic actress, but there would have been so much more to say about the Russian Empress. A while ago, I wrote a blog about Catherine the...