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Twenty-five

Uneasy thought: This may be my last time leaving the United Kingdom with it being part of the European Union. (Or will Scotland remain?) Schwieriger Gedanke: Dies mag das letzte Mal sein, dass ich das Vereinigte…

Twenty-four

Thursday, November 22, the last day of my four weeks stay as a writer in residence at the University of St Andrews. Had to pack my things in the apartment, check my airport transfer for the next day, online check-in,…

Twenty-three

My busy last Wednesday in St Andrews started with a poster presentation with Tom’s students. I was quite overwhelmed by these updates on ongoing research on German Studies topics like Berlin Techno, femininity…

Twenty-two

Four Creative Writing workshops with students of Tom Smith, Petra Berner, and Elise Hugueny-Léger and me took place in the third and fourth week of my residency and turned out to be very rewarding experiences. Along my…

Twenty-one

The niches by daylight. (Where have the Catholic Saints gone? Most likely: They went to pieces.) Die Nischen bei Tageslicht. (Wo kamen die katholischen Heiligen hin? Am wahrscheinlichsten: Sie sind in die Brüche…

Twenty

Sunday afternoon, I attended the Choral Evensong at St. Salvator’s Chapel (which one of Tom’s students, Seb Robson, had told me about at a coffee shop) and was very impressed by the beautiful voices of the students’…

Nineteen

Walking one of Glasgow’s rich neighbourhoods the next morning (ALG 1). Am nächsten Morgen durch eine der reichen Gegende Glasgows spazieren gegangen (ALG 1). Ditto (18 ER). University of Glasgow tower in the…

Eighteen

Took a bus from St. Andrews bus station to Glasgow, checked into my hotel and crisscrossed through the inner city being led by the location of different record stores. Habe einen Bus vom Busbahnhof in St Andrews nach…

Seventeen

Wednesday 14 November, 7 PM, Byre Theatre: “Emotions and Gender in Electronic Dance Music Culture. An evening of electronic music and discussions on gender and emotions in the techno scene with Glasgow-based DJ and…

Sixteen

On Saturday, November 10, I took the 99 bus from St. Andrews to Dundee. On my route from one record-store to another I discovered a closed pub by the name of George Orwell. Am Samstag, den 10. November, habe ich den…

Fifteen

Bettina Bildhauer picked me up at the office and took me to a road trip to the beautiful  countryside. Hashtag: The Kingdom of Fife. Hashtag: The Firth of Forth. Bettina Bildhauer hat mich vom Büro abgeholt und auf…

Fourteen

View from my St. Andrews bedroom (to the right): Ocean. Blick aus meinem Schlafzimmer in St Andrews (nach rechts): Meer. View from my St. Andrews bedroom (to the left): Office. Blick aus meinem Schlafzimmer in St…

Thirteen

Day-trip to Edinburgh. First time in eight days to leave cosy St. Andrews. First time on wheels (bus to Leuchars, train to Edinburgh, crossing the magnificent historic bridge over the Firth of Forth, the red one of the…

Twelve

Two vintage LPs I purchased at St. Andrews’ Oxfam shop (the first records I’ve bought since I’ve been here): Joseph Haydn’s beautifully fragmented arrangements of Scottish folk songs. William Walton’s dedicated take on…

Eleven

Monument in memory of the Protestant martyrs of the Reformation. Denkmal für die evangelischen Märtyrer der Reformation. Hashtag: Christian Lehnert (one of my residency predecessors here in St. Andrews, see his own…

Ten

Started the second Sunday after my arrival off on my portable record player in the sun-drenched apartment with the 1953 US West Coast Album “Sunday Jazz” by Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars. Am tremendously…

Nine

Postscript to my conversation with Michael White about British country life: Roxy Music’s 1974 long-play album “Country Life”, in its original UK sleeve and the censored US sleeve. Postskriptum zu meinem Gespräch mit…

Eight

Buchanan Building closed on weekends. Took my workplace to the University Library. Buchanan-Gebäude an Wochenenden geschlossen. Habe meinen Arbeitsplatz in die Universitätsbibliothek verlegt.

Seven

After having been a guest at a reading group with Bettina Bildhauer, Dora Osborne, Elodie Laügt, Lydie Moudileno and Tom Smith (Sara Ahmed’s „Living a Feminist Life“) Bettina and I arranged to have lunch at Mitchell’s…

Six

Had an exciting conversation with Elise Hugueny-Leger at the Zest Café on my heroine Hélène Cixous (écriture féminine being the thing I’m trying to overcome the sovereign male ego in my writing with), Virginie…

Five

I have been provided with a personal office in the School of Modern Languages at St. Andrews University, Buchanan Building, Room No. 119, which makes me very proud to be not only a writer in residence but also a member…

Four

Exploring a town also means discovering grounds, motifs (and hidden subjects). Eine Stadt erkunden heißt auch Gelände, Motive (und verborgene Subjekte) entdecken.

Three

On my first day after arrival I am a guest in Tom Smith’s Master’s students’ seminar titled „Intermediality and Identity“. The students have been reading my novel „Musik“ and we have a rich two-hour conversation about…

Two

Found this enigmatic picture (students in their scarlet gowns) in the internet on my first evening in the apartment, and posted it on Facebook the following morning (received 200 likes). Took my first walk to the…

One

Sunday, October 28, 2018, late afternoon (turning into early evening). After a scenic car ride with Tom Smith who had picked me up at Edinburgh Airport I am opening the bedroom windows of my temporary apartment in St.…

Thomas Meinecke

Writer in Residence with an Instagram state of mind Mein Name ist Thomas Meinecke. Ich lebe in einem kleinen Dorf südlich von München im bayerischen Voralpenland. Ich bin Romanschriftsteller, Musiker und Nicht-Musiker,…