Wanja talks to his children, today about… a visit to the earth One day, the eldest came home unusually late and the brothers also thought they had not seen him outside today, on their favourite football pitch. His shoulders sagged a little, his gaze was lowered, he seemed slightly depressed. So the father asked what…
A Champions League FinalWanja talks to his children, today about… A Champions League Final Of course, one had to wonder if Wanja could not show his children all that he told them, which was mostly very convincing, in moving pictures. Of course he could. You could watch individual scenes now and then and evaluate them…
Wanja talks to his children, today about… The audience It happened that Wanja just gave a topic like that and wanted to hear, firstly, what his children thought about it, knew about it, understood about it, and secondly, because in the many years of his passion for and devotion to football, he himself had always…
Wanja talks to his children, today about… The rules These rounds of conversations happened again and again. The children were somewhere fascinated and at the same time alienated. But they also wanted to understand the history of their own planet and its founding ideas. A kind of “Heimatkunde” of the highly modern kind. Of course,…
Wanja talks to his children, today about… The rules in Putoia Not that much had changed on our cosy little planet. Whereby “small” was as relative as everything else. Because the Earth-like conditions also referred to the size, of course. Whereas the possible travel through the gigantic universe had changed the proportions and the perception…
Wanja talks to his children, today about… the media Wanja sat with his children again, after dinner. They were sufficiently exhausted today, as they had spent the whole afternoon on the football field. So he didn’t necessarily have their attention, but neither did they have any “bumblebees in their butts” today that would make them…
Wanja talks to his children, today about… the successful action “When would we call an action ‘successful’ here?” asked Wanja to the group that had gathered again today. A perplexing question, it seemed. Surely the answer was obvious? What would there be to think about, in the end even to philosophise about? One of the…
Wanja talks to his children, today about… The rule of three points “Maybe there were people on Earth who seemed to have noticed something from time to time after all,” Wanja opened today’s round. “You mean there was something wrong with the rules?” asked one of the boys. “No, well, this time I meant more…
Football today – like the emperor’s new clothes Football has the potential to be the greatest sport in the world. In large part because of its simplicity. Anywhere in the world, the game can be played with virtually no effort. A ball is all that is needed. No other equipment required. Whether barefoot or in…
Wanja talks to his children, today about… The luck of the Germans and their bad luck? It was wonderful living in Putoia and a little reminiscent of “The Truman Story”, although one was allowed to wonder if it could all be true? Whenever there was a football match – and there were many, big, small,…
