Heidelberg Piano

Dear friends of piano music, I am a coward, I admit it unapologetically. For more than a year now, I've been hiding behind little colourfull  pictures and holiday photos. At least I was brave enough to show my hands in the context of finger exercises and a classic of student literature (Burgmüller's "Schwalbe"), which proves that I actually exist and am a piano teacher. And I had even - I hope you appreciate this - thoroughly cleaned the dust on the piano, which I don't do for everyone by a long shot. You also know my last application photo, officially taken by a photographer with the aim of applying for a job as a Latin teacher at schools. I remember that appointment very well, it was a few years ago - I told the photographer I was a Latin teacher and then had to laugh terribly because I thought it was really funny at that moment. I would never have thought of becoming a Latin teacher during my horrible school years - life really is full of surprises. And I love ...

  Dear friends of piano music, "you can read it", a friend said to me, "the reality is much worse". i don't know exactly what it is that i have been trying unsuccessfully for years to finish reading "1984" by George Orwell. It's a dystopia, the antithesis of utopia, the hopeful, positive blueprint for the future. For me, 1984 is the end of individual thought and action in a world that has also become ugly on the outside, caused by a totalitarian state. Perhaps it is a kind of family trauma that makes me put the book down again and again. Although I am already the third generation to have escaped from such a state, it is still burned into my thinking and feeling, the fear of losing this freedom. We have it - we can read everything, think everything, do almost everything. But what do we do with this achievement of intellectual enlightenment - "sapere aude", have the courage to use your intellect, think for yourself?   At the moment we a...